James Hamilton Madden Career 1998-1999 - Peak 75 OVR
James Hamilton Madden NFL 1999 rating

James Hamilton Madden Career 1998-1999 - Peak 75 OVR

Position
LB
Team
Height
6'5"
Weight
243
College
North Carolina
DOB
Apr 17, 1974
Madden
1997-1998
75OVR
1998 Current
75OVR
Peak 1998
2
Seasons Played

James Hamilton 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 INJ AWR CAR BTK CTH TAK
1998 *
1997 NFL season
Jaguars LB 52* 59 - 46 - - 46 - - 46 13
1999
1998 NFL season
Jaguars LB 75* 74 69 76 73 9 62 17 17 24 48
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.

James Hamilton Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 75 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1999
  • Appeared in 2 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1998 through Madden NFL 1999)
  • Played for the Jaguars across every Madden release in his career
  • Listed as a linebacker in every Madden release

James Hamilton Madden Ratings by Year

James Hamilton Madden NFL 1998 rating: 52 OVR (1997 NFL season, JAX). James Hamilton Madden NFL 1999 rating: 75 OVR (1998 NFL season, JAX).