No more NCAA sports game after this year!

[theRepublic]

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theRepublic said:

Sorry, didn't see your post when I quoted myself.

School licensing is not the issue.  I never said it was.  I already know about the Collegiate Licensing Company.  They are also a co-defendant in the lawsuit.  School colors, logos, staduims, fight songs, etc. should all be safe though.

What the NCAA, EA, and CLC are being sued over (there are at least 3 lawsuits now), is player likenesses.  So it looks to me, that in the near future, EA will NOT be able to use rough approximations of the players as they have been doing.  They have been making the rosters look roughly like the player, same height and weight, and same skill ratings.  Say goodbye to all of that, and hello to randomized rosters.

I just realized you are not the same guy I first quoted.  

I think its very hard case to take ownership over a skill rating.   At most I think you would see randomized looking players but with team accurate stats for the players.   I don't even think it will go that far.  I bet race accuracy will remain too as it is hard to prove that white generic QB is you.   The body size is the one that would require most change.  You can get around that fairly easy too though.  Changing it by a inch or two or making a guy slighlty a bigger or smaller.    I fully expect to be running the ball as Oregon next year with a speedy black guy who may or may not be De'Anthony Thomas. 

but I guess we need to see what happens to this lawsuit first.   All the same there will be a game and it will still sell very well until competition shows up.

Agreed that we will have to wait for the lawsuit, but I don't think it is a stretch to think the ratings will be affected.

Think about how much work must go into rating all those players.  There must be coutless hours of pouring over stats and real game footage of the players.  It would be easy enough to just subpoena those records, and bam, you have a ton of proof.

Playbooks are from the coaches, so I think that will be safe.  So Oregon will play the same, but with unrecognizable players.  Not sure how the running backs will turn out though.  There will likely have to be some level of randomization.  Like say they decide that Oregon needs to be rated 95, so they do a normal distribution on the starters that equals out to 95.  They could probably do both offense and defense like that.  Going position specific though might be tricky.