nhl 19 franchise mode player progression

I don't think development can be altered, but I think overalls of all players can swing wildly based on the morale system and this is sometimes mistaken for players having an ability to 'handle' the development of their prospects. Granted, I've played nowhere near enough of this generation of NHL to fully understand the ins and outs of the mode. While it's possible they've changed this, I don't think they have. They never rebuilt the mode so it has a lot of the same flaws and bugs such as uneven development (everybody becoming 90+ skaters for example). Why is that relevant to the newer NHL games?įranchise mode is built on top of the previous gen GM mode. I remember reading a post online where someone had someone gotten into certain elements of a game, and players had something like a 'breakout age', along with a development speed. This would always only last a season and didn't change the fact that player development was pre-determined. For example, if you could find a sniper who had a high 70s/low 80s overall but had 95+ O awareness and 95+ wrist shot, in the right scenario they could put up tons of points, and they'd rise to a first liner overall. In terms of elevating players, it was easier to do with computer generated players who had mutated offensive stats. Players could some times have their stats be altered temporarily for a season or two by playing them well above or below their intended role. It has nothing to do with how you deployed or developed the player, the game just happened to choose based on odds/metrics hidden in that player's profile that they were going to become a 91 within x amount of seasons in one save file and were going to become a 78 in x amount of seasons in a different save file. This is why in one save file you might have a certain 4.5 red player as a 91, and in another they never exceed 78. With real life prospects, every time you'd make a new GM mode, the game would decide that prospects development path.

If the game decides they were going to top out at 78 overall and never get better, that's it. Absolutely nothing you do can change that. So the moment a player was created for the draft, say a 4* player, the game decided the progression of that player. In older games, progression was all predetermined.

Nhl 19 franchise mode player progression