NFL and SFL Week 1 TD and INT Stats

The SFL prides itself on delivering the most realistic football game experience on the Playstation.  Our rules and committed owners help to make the best out of a often flawed Madden videogame.  Madden 23 is making realistic football very hard to achieve with the broken interception algorithm used.  It is mindboggling that people who are paid very well to produce this game by a billion dollar company can be so incompetent.  More alarming is that there seems to be no consequence for their inability to not only fix the countless issues that the community has pointed out every year, but to actually put out a worse version seemingly evey year.  

The SFL and NFL's first week of games ended within 24 hours of each other and that timing has provided us with the ability to do a relevant analysis of the TD and INT stats for both.  The goal is that because the SFL strives for realistic gameplay, statistics will closely resemble what is produced in the NFL.  Yes, we are talking about a videogame, but there is supposed to be simulation elements to the game such as ratings and other factors that, coupled with SFL rules, should produce somewhat comprable outcomes.  The skill of the user in Madden will have some impact on that which is why absolute statistical results are never expected to be the same.  The videogame version will almost always produce slightly higher outcomes, but not to the point that they seem arcade-like (or MUT-like to speak Madden).  Here is the statistical breakdown for both the NFL and SFL week 1 games.

NFL TD Passes = 49
SFL TD Passes = 57

A difference of 8 TD passes in favor of the videogame version is certainly an acceptable variance.  However,   

NFL INTs = 27
SFL INTs = 95

A difference of 68 INTs is certainly not explainable by anything other than a broken game.  Yes, some of us are better at reading a defense than others, but because we are a no-switch league we rely on ratings to determine the outcomes of plays based on our strategy.  Because this is the purpose of our league, we need the game to honor those ratings in a meaningful way so that the results more closely resemble football.  Clearly, at this point the game does not do so.  

Another thing that is completely absurd...

NFL Defensive TDs = 3
SFL Defensive TDs = 25

Our hope is that some combination of slider adjustments and a patch from EA will fix this issue in the near future.  In the meanwhile, we hope that the justified frustrations that will result from this problem will not cause anyone to abandon the league.  There are aspects of the game that I do like this year, and hope that this issue will be resolved quickly so that we can better enjoy this Madden cycle.