Quote Originally Posted by Rudy View Post
The new Connected Careers Mode (CCM) sounds really cool in this video. EA should be promoting this stuff more. It's in depth and actually shows us stuff.

If you lowball a player when trying to re-sign him during the season he may get pissed off and refuse to sign until free agency. You do have a franchise tag you can use.

Scouting now will be done every week during the season (last year it was about every 4 weeks). You will also scout at the senior bowl, combine, pro days and individual workouts.

When scouting players you can choose which attributes to unlock. Scout a QB and you can scout overall rating (pricy), accuracy, arm strength, scheme he fits in, juke move, whatever. I was surprised to see how little accuracy cost for a QB. Each trait costs so many points to unlock. You get so many points for scouting and I believe you can get more points by achieving objectives as a coach during the season (don't quote me on that).

Players have production grades based on their performance. Kids coming in the draft have production grades based on how good a college player they were. This will cause rookies to have very low overall ratings this year since their NFL production grades will be very low when they enter the league. As they produce this will go up.

Players have development ratings which will determine how much XP they earn which will make them better. It's a potential rating but this does not guarantee success. Even if you have a high development rating it won't mean anything if you don't play or if you play poorly when you do.

If a player's scheme rating matches the scheme you run he can earn more XP while playing which will make him a better player. It also affects free agency. A player won't just look at money. If the scheme isn't the right fit the player may not be interested in you.


I LOVE Madden's scouting. NCAA development team, STEAL MADDEN'S SCOUTING!!!! Steal those categories also. That was AWESOME! YOU can pick the attributes you wanna scout and not have it be random. PLEASE, in NCAA '14, development team, TAKE MADDEN'S SCOUTING PROCESS!!!