Player ratings chart by Old Coach

[rcleslie]

I hope this is the place to ask this. I downloaded the ratings chart for strength and speed (submitted by Old Coach to FBMAX.com on 03/26/06), but I'm not sure how they should be used. It appears that if I change strength ratings according to the player weights given by the game in lbs. the resulting ratings are are often much higher. I'm also puzzled by the speed ranges given for the various positions. These ratings are also much highger than those used in the game rosters. I'm not quarreling with the ratings in the chart so much as wondering how to use them without creating a freakishly powerful team. It would be a complete drag to go though my 24 team conference and attempt to "equalize" all the teams. I do not have the skills to create some kind of normal distribution program for generating ratings across teams. There is also the issue of correlations between ratings, e.g., strength/weight and agility. Are others using these ratings in any way and how? For the present I have decided not to use them, but in the interests of simulation accuracy I do get to fretting about it all.