NHL 14 Top 50 Reveal...

[KJS14]

Besides the ones already pointed out, the ones that jumped out at me were:

- Toews 92 = Malkin 92 and Stamkos 92? Is there an intangibles stat?

- Nash 90 and Gaborik 90 > Tavares 89?

- Couture 89 > Hall 88, P. Kane 88 and pretty much every other 88?

It's almost like EA took last year into account for some, and then just took reputation into account for others.

 

[AvsFanJosh]

no Duchene ?!!?!?

 

[MTrangers]

Hmm if you actually look at the players detailed stats it makes a lot more sense.

Defenseman (looking at the skills-based stats)

Player|SS Accuracy|SS Power|WS Accuracy|WS Power|Acceleration|Agility|Balance|Endurance|Speed|Deking|Hand-eye|Passing|Puck control
Karlsson|85|89|85|88|92|92|80|90|92|93|93|93|93
Weber|80|95|82|90|85|85|92|90|85|75|75|88|89
Chara|80|95|80|93|83|83|95|90|83|77|77|86|86
Burns|83|90|84|89|87|86|90|85|89|83|83|87|87
Letang|80|88|82|87|88|89|85|90|88|85|84|90|90

Makes a lot more sense when you look at it that way.

EDIT: Upon further review...looks pretty accurate.

EDIT2: Looks like Subban got a bit short-changed though IMO

This makes it look a lot better. Seems to me they are much more accurate when breaking down each attribute than what the overall indicates. Therefore it's whatever their equation is to find an overall that's maybe questionable, not their player rankings. After all, overall isnt an attribute and doesn't reallyt mean anything

 

[Rolo]

Overalls don't mean much. Semin/St.Louis are as good as most of these players but their D/Physical attributes bring his overall down a lot. Those attributes also don't matter much.

 

[SimpleJack]

Its really embarrassing that EA doesnt put a genuine effort into properly ranking the players. Its just a joke.

 

[robsenz]

Karlsson's endurance should be 130...

 

[samsquanch9*]

As a habs fan, pac and price are both too high and subban is too low. How is he worse than burns seabrook kronwall and letang. Letang is apparently better defensively than subban in this game. 87 speed for subban?? Cmon

 

[jhoops89]

Players that are rated too high:
Max Pacioretty
Dustin Byfuglien
Jeff Carter
James Neal
Kris Letang
Logan Couture
Carey Price

 

[jhoops89]

I will say though it's not as bad as NHL 12, some 4th line grinders were rated 82-84 and weren't even the best 4th liners in the league. But still come on EA.

 

[samsquanch9*]

Players that are rated too high:
Max Pacioretty
Dustin Byfuglien
Jeff Carter
James Neal
Kris Letang
Logan Couture
Carey Price

Kronwall? Burns? Seabrook? Voracek?

 

[jhoops89]

Kronwall? Burns? Seabrook? Voracek?

Sorry, forgot Voracek. Honestly I think that's pretty close for Kronwall. Burns isn't as good as his rating says except for when he's playing with Big Joe. And I really really like Seabrook so I guess I'm being a bit biased. I'd say more like 87 for him. Good call there!

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

EA fails yet again, though I was expecting it this time.

 

[Killem Dafoe]

Just edit the players according to what you think they should be. That's what I do because there are always players who are way off than what they should be in my opinion.

 

[tsujimoto74]

I like how Nash is a 90 but Vanek (whose career stats are very similar btw), after posting the best PPG season of his career and scoring 41pts in 38 games to Nash's 42 in 44, while playing on a significantly worse team in every way imaginable, isn't even on the list.

Also, on what planet is Carey Price a 90? That's as bad as when they had Miller at 92 last year.

Just edit the players according to what you think they should be. That's what I do because there are always players who are way off than what they should be in my opinion.

That's what I do as well -- especially with prospects, since apparently only computer generated ones can ever be NHL ready out of the draft -- but it would be nice if EA could put out rosters that didn't take hours of fixing to make the game realistic.

 

[Hatfield]

Seems like Nicklas Backstrom should be in the top 50 at least.

 

[umad]

Overalls don't mean jack; it is not an average. If you think they do, then you haven't played GM Mode in-depth. A few posters already correctly stated that some individual stats weigh more towards the overall.

 

[Quares27]

Kronwall? Burns? Seabrook? Voracek?

Voracek is probably the worst ranking out of all of them

 

[The Expert]

I will say though it's not as bad as NHL 12, some 4th line grinders were rated 82-84 and weren't even the best 4th liners in the league. But still come on EA.

Not as bad? It's way worse. We haven't even seen the fourth liner ratings in this game, but established fourth liners are typically 80-82, would expect more of that in this game.

 

[Kazcram]

I am wondering how rask didn't make even 88 rating????

 

[sabresEH]

These ratings are terrible. Kane only a 88?

This. Really. An 88. While Nash is a 90. What a joke ea. And no msl is a joke too. I know we have some good bud in bc but how high were these guys?

 

[The Undertaker]

Carey Price is the most overrated player in the NHL.

 

[samsquanch9*]

IMO:

Subban-90
Karlsson-90 (better than subban but physical stats are really weighted heavily. Higher stats everywhere else)
Pac- 86
Price- 87
Kronwall- 86
Seabrook- 87
Burns- 86
Voracek- 86
Letang- 86 (hes terrible defensively the game shold reflect that)

 

[bumperkisser]

this is pretttty terrible.. also how is perry higher than getzlaf. that makes absolutely no sense. did EA even look into last season? or is it all by rep. jesus

nash is also ridiculously high as well as a few others

 

[Machinehead]

lol @ Dan Girardi being an 88 and being ahead of McDonagh. EA hasn't watched a Rangers game in over a calender year.

 

[FinRuutu]

Overalls don't mean anything... Some attributes bring the overall up more than others.