Since talent is more spread out throughout the league, it also allows the superstars like Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby to be even more valuable to have on your team. This means that there is a more defined gap between a player’s value in Franchise Mode and will affect any player transaction from trades to waivers. There are a few reasons for this change happening.įirst, it spreads out the talent from first liners to fourth liners to improve Franchise Mode logic. The official NHL® 18 Player Ratings are about to be unveiled, but before we roll them out we wanted to discuss the new player overall rating changes.Īs a whole, player overalls will be lower and more spread out than they have been in previous years. The annual release of player ratings is always anticipated with excitement by ‘hockey-gamers’ (is this a term? I feel as though it should be, since I am one after all) and this year EA had the following to say about it: Aside from general game-play improvements, a more in depth franchise mode, and the EASHL community becoming more prominent, EA has decided to take a closer look at player overall ratings. This year’s edition is slightly different though. With it, a whole other set of the fan-base gets to dive into the realm of “Franchise Mode”, “Be A Pro”, and the hugely popular “EASHL” to satisfy their hockey cravings (me included).
In addition to real hockey starting back up, the virtual world of hockey also has time for celebration the yearly edition of EA Sports NHL franchise releases on September 15th. August is slowly crawling towards an end and with that comes the wonderful month of September.