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Originally Posted by cdcox
Even watching film, there can be honest disagreements in the NFL who the best guard is during a given season. If you asked 10 different NFL GMs to rank the best 20 guards, you'll get 10 different answers, some widely different. You get tiers of players and that is about as good as you will be able to define things, and even then there is disagreement. Then there is week to week variation. In Sandbox you will never be provided with a list of all the starting guards ranked 1-48. You won't see ratings for strength, speed, agility. You'll know player x made 3 key blocks in the run game, got beat 2, allowed 1 sack and 2 pressures, etc. All of those numbers are context specific, depending on opponents, formations, the RB, the QB, and stochastic variation. There is always fog.
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Okay - that I agree with. The bold is really want I'm looking for.
Because you can set every GM and scout in the league in a room, have them watch a player for an entire game and 'score' each play and you're probably going to get and 80% overlap.
I'm not looking for a ranking by any means. What I'd like to see is exactly what you have planned - a 'film study'. I'll decide what to do with that information from there.
Additionally, I'd still love to see the sims broken into halves. It gives us that much more variability and gameplay experience. It also allows some in-game tinkering that wouldn't necessarily blow a season for you.