They treat this task with the gravity of an actual job, even though they offer no salary, no benefits, nor even much credit to those who assist them. For the most part, these editors are fully grown adults who hail from disparate parts of the country.
There are also a handful of others who would prefer to remain anonymous. None of these people have all that much in common with their colleagues, except for a fealty to NCAA Football. They grew up with the game, played it when they were children, and expected it to be there every fall. At some point in the s, EA began allowing users to alter rosters and create their own teams, to add names and legitimate numbers rather than playing with the unnamed bots who were thinly disguised versions of the real thing.
Most editors I spoke to at Operation Sports began tweaking their own rosters back then, while the game was still actively being published.
They wanted it to be as authentic as possible. So they turned to the internet to see whether others were trapped in the same void. That ungratefulness—the comments on Reddit forums and on Operation Sports itself—has turned some editors away after a year or two, several of the remaining editors tell me.
Burhans, a Michigan fan, developed a new different perspective on fandom after users on a Michigan blog derided his rating of an incoming recruit. But the ones who stay on are driven by that negativity to make things even better. What unites them—what sets them apart from so many internet subcultures—is that their loyalties lie not with their own points of view, but with a larger commitment to truth and authenticity.
That was my number-one goal in creating my system. But sometimes, the editors will surprise even themselves. When Burhans adjusted some agility settings for offensive linemen a couple of years ago, he found that they blocked in a far more realistic fashion than they did even in the original game.
They rely on research. They spend hours digging through recruiting websites, searching for player images on Google, and finding the statistics of incoming freshmen. They have a scale that allows them to convert meter dash times into 40 times. And many of the editors adhere to a ridiculously detailed rating system that Burhans created, which utilizes analytical scales to make subjectivity virtually impossible. The formula is so complex that A. He's been covering gaming professionally for over 15 years, starting his career writing as "Johnny Ballgame" for GamePro magazine before becoming the founding editor of IGN Sports.
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