Ratings Question

[LightRocket]

Not about if the ratings are accurate or not.

I was playing the FM 09 Demo and I noticed something while looking at players. It seems like in a lot of cases, a player's overall rating isn't quite reflected by his ratings at specific things.

Two examples:
DeMarcus Ware- Overall/Peak: 96/96, Specific Ratings: 81, 95, 76, 68
Shawne Merriman- Overall/Peak: 92/93, Specific Ratings: 87, 99, 76, 68

Larry Fitzgerald- Overall/Peak: 87/91, Specific Ratings: 60, 93, 82, 63, 89
Andre Johnson- Overall/Peak: 81/83, Specific Ratings: 62, 96, 87, 63, 91

So, in both cases, a player with a lower peak by at least a fair bit beats or ties the player with a higher peak in every specific rating.

This is without Commissioner Mode, obviously, as I only have the demo. Was wondering if maybe the inaccuracies of scouting might be the cause, though you'd think that the supposed overall would be gotten from the supposed specific ratings, thus if a scout thought he was great at everything, he'd rate him great. Or does the overall try to take into account the stuff (I remember seeing Maturity and Longevity and some others mentioned) you can't see normally?

Searched the General Discussion forum, but closest thing to this I could find was: http://sportsmogul.com/vbulletin2/sh...d.php?t=164306

[Lex Logan]

Were these receivers? WR, RB, and CB may have high ratings for their kick return abilities. I see a lot of highly rated WR's with terrible Hands ratings.

[Arctic Blast]

Some of it probably does come down to your team's Scouting rating...if it's bad enough, those ratings get wonky.

[reflections]

I just played the demo and it seemed to have very low ratings across the board for positions that are low stat variety (shutdown corners, offensive line men, defensive tackles).
Also the rookie class of 2009 was extremely low in rating. many in the low 60's. Seeing how football doesn't really have the same type of advancement idea as baseball, its pretty surprising to see Rey Malauga rated a 60 and the ranked 8th linebacker on the Bengals.