Injecting human judgement into a grading system can be a good thing. Daniel Sorensen is a good example mut coins. The player is having a difficult year as a player for Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City Chiefs, and Sorensen is a major factor in their defense's surrender of 69.5 points, which is more than what they had expected to concede this year, 31st in the league.
Sorensen's game has earned him a coverage grade at 42.2 from 100 from Pro Football Focus and an overall score of 35.5. However, despite the struggles, He's still fast! Based on his speed on the field that is measured by player tracking data, we'd expect an unrestricted model-based speed grade for Sorensen that is around 89.
Seven points higher than Madden's grade for Week 9 of 82. Perhaps the folks at EA do not want to be able to reward a player doing as badly as Sorensen with a high mark in a vital area like speed rating, since it has such an outsized impact on game play. If this is the case there's no reason to blame them.
Other notable exceptions include Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who is the fastest speed score in all of Madden at 99. Hill is certainly fast, and perhaps we're splitting our hairs but his best-ever speed of 22.8 mph ranks only fourth place in the league as of 2017.3 And his current weekly maximum speed which is very respectable isn't anywhere near into the top fifty.
Two Baltimore Ravens teammates also make the list of slightly underrated speedsters. Lamar Jackson appears to be performing slower this season which could be due to the nagging injuries to his back. His average max speed per game of 19.4 mph last year was almost a mile per hour faster than his speed this season buy Mut 22 coins. Madden is unbothered, though. The 96 speed score Madden offers Lamar halfway through the year is almost 11 more points than the model-based score.4
