Long way to go for that. Perhaps a different developer.
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John Madden thinks NFL teams can benefit from hiring Madden players https://t.co/Av3H3rOWW1

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 25, 2021

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Madden is way to arcadey with to much ability to cheese mechanics for this to ever work.
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Maybe if the game didn’t fucking suck.
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Anyone who is decent at Madden knows that football knowledge only takes you so far in that game because EA Sports isn't great at creating a sim football experience. Sports video games (especially football) haven't come far enough to emulate what is happening on Sundays.
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Agreed on all of this, really just not sure their player evaluations and gameplay are realisitic enough to glean any truly useful knowledge from

This answer definitely works as well :-)
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John Madden isn’t dead?
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I was just as surprised at this fact as you.
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The last Madden game I played had Shaun Alexander on the cover.
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Apparently not, but at 84 his brain is definitely getting mushy because he seems to be listening to a bunch of pie in the sky from the developers about how realistic his game is

The last couple versions I've bought truly SUCK, including '19
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Madden, maybe not. But I'm curious about VR. Mahomes claimed he was using it at Texas tech. I always wondered how much that helped him with his development or how much teams in college or pros use it.
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Literally never heard of that, had to look it up just now and it does seem to be catching on... almost certainly more useful than Madden


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There are so many variables that go into the actual on-field performance of a single NFL player that simulating it in some realistic way is impossible. You have to come up with play-to-play, quarter-to-quarter, and game-to-game fatigue that closely resembles reality. They have to incorporate realistic movement and reactional movement AIs. Real-time spacing. Temperature, altitude, etc effects by player. Variable ball trajectories and speeds. Realistic physics alone with a football is a nightmare. Blah blah blah. I'm ranting. No fucking way EA could pull this off. Maybe, if they put the best 100 programmers in the video game industry in a room with all the computing power they'd ever need, they'd get close... but it would take a while.
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I’ve tried to watch a few of those Madden simulations on YouTube.

Stupid idea covered in butt sweat riding in a horse trailer.
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