Ron Rivers Madden Career 1996-2000 - Peak 75 OVR
Ron Rivers Madden NFL 2000 rating

Ron Rivers Madden Career 1996-2000 - Peak 75 OVR

Position
RB
Team
Height
5'8"
Weight
205
College
Fresno St.
DOB
Nov 13, 1971
Madden
1995-1999
70OVR
1999 Current
75OVR
Peak 1998
5
Seasons Played

Ron Rivers Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 75 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1999
  • Appeared in 5 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1996 through Madden NFL 2000)
  • Entered at 56 OVR in Madden NFL 1996, climbed 19 points to his peak
  • Biggest single-year rise: 43 points into Madden NFL 1998
  • Played for the Lions across every Madden release in his career
  • Listed as a running back in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2000 at 70 OVR

Ron Rivers Madden Career Ratings

Scale (starred* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.
Madden Team Pos OVR Speed ACC AGI STR JMP STA INJ AWR CAR BTK CTH TAK
1996 *
1995 NFL season
Lions RB 56* 40 - 53 - - - - 59 20 33 33 -
1997
1996 NFL season
Lions RB 23 70 48 65 - 50 50 - 37 35 65 28 18
1998 *
1997 NFL season
Lions RB 66* 66 - 66 - - - - - 40 33 46 -
1999
1998 NFL season
Lions RB 75* 76 75 75 56 - - 24 64 53 58 52 18
2000
1999 NFL season
Lions RB 70* 69 67 71 56 - - 80 48 59 44 55 24
How to read these: Each row is the player’s rating in that year’s Madden, listed by the NFL season it covers (Madden NFL 2001 = the 2000 season). Madden sets its ratings before the season is played, so they reflect the previous season’s performance - a player’s breakout year tends to show up as a jump in the following year’s game.
About the starred rows*: Several early Madden releases rated players on a 1-15 scale, as printed in the game manuals, rather than the modern 0-99. We store those ratings converted to 0-99 (each manual point is about 6.6) so you can compare players across eras at a glance - use the 0-99 / 1-15 toggle above the table to see the original numbers on those seasons. EA didn’t publish an overall rating in those games, so the OVR* values for those years are our own calculation, the average of the player’s two best ratings.
Note: Some Madden releases tracked fewer attributes than others. Cells shown as - were not published by EA that year.

Ron Rivers Madden Ratings by Year

Ron Rivers Madden NFL 1996 rating: 56 OVR (1995 NFL season, DET). Ron Rivers Madden NFL 1997 rating: 23 OVR (1996 NFL season, DET). Ron Rivers Madden NFL 1998 rating: 66 OVR (1997 NFL season, DET). Ron Rivers Madden NFL 1999 rating: 75 OVR (1998 NFL season, DET). Ron Rivers Madden NFL 2000 rating: 70 OVR (1999 NFL season, DET).