Chicago Bears: Madden disrespects rookies with low ratings
Can you imagine playing as yourself in the most recent Madden video game only to find out you do not like your score? How well were the Chicago Bears rookies ranked in this year’s version?
The Chicago Bears did not have many draft picks heading into the 2019 NFL Draft. That did not stop Madden from ranking their draft picks and even some of their undrafted free agents. Players who make it professionally should be happy that their hard work and talent paid off. However, as a rookie, players are flooded with emotions and events that can drastically affect their daily mental state.
Not that a video game ranking should matter, but the idea of being able to play as yourself in a game is exciting. We are not talking a “create your own player” likeness either. This game comes preloaded with you as an actual character. What if the game ranks you poorly though?
As a rookie, players are graded almost on a daily basis. The NFL Draft Combine, practices in the offseason, interviews with analysts, the list goes on when a rookie (and even most of their career) has to be on point 100 percent of the time or they will be viewed negatively. This has to be exhausting.
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As someone who will never know how it feels to have a video game manufacturer rank my skills and job performance, the best I can do is empathize. Us normal folk go through this to a certain degree during the annual review season. That said, an annual review hardly compares to the feeling of constantly being reviewed or the excitement of being a video game character.
As a player, you get ready to finally be in the Madden game and you find out that the overall score they gave you is not nearly as high as you rank yourself. You look at how the game ranks you on individual attributes and realize Madden disrespected you. Ouch. That had to hurt.
This is how Bears rookie running back, David Montgomery felt after seeing his scores. This made me wonder, how close did Madden get to ranking the Bears 2019 Draft Class correctly?
Before we begin, I will fully admit that I am by no means a Madden expert. In fact, I have not bought a Madden game since 2009 when Brett Favre was on the cover. I know…puke. I am not sure if Madden has a bunch of video game designers and tech people creating algorithms to determine these scores or if they use football minds to crunch numbers and break down film.
Either way, it should be fun to analyze the attribute ratings.