Roster breakdowns on NHL 95, the Greatest Game every to grace the Sega Genesis.
The NHL 95 Team Tips below have so much nostalgia on your favorite players like Roenick and Gretzky you will want to buy a Sega and NHL 95 game halfway through reading.
(Shout out to NHL 94’s KINGRAPH for using his chart I stole and edited with his permission)
First off (updated in 2020 during the COVID pandemic)
The “Is this a Fair Match Up & Optimal Team Line Up Chart”
It’s a loose ranking from top to bottom and colored bars to the right indicate a “fair” match up.
Also included is optimal line up you need to sub in with a few symbols to indicate abilities
★STAR PLAYER
❶ One Timer Monster
⚡ SPEEDY
BOLD player names are important players
Italic player names are a liability on ice
Complaining that Gretzky is not at Center and other sacrilegious roster moves? Well that is because I favored big one timers at center and make sure we had wings that are righties on RW to get that backhand cut across cheater move.
If you are looking for something quick and clean and unbiased on your mobile phone go here. http://www.nhl-95.com/ An NHL 95 Prophet and Coding wizard by the name Jon Morris made this handy chart that is easy on the eyes.
Ok you must be back from Jon’s site and you need deeper, nerdier info,. You are going to freebase some NHL 95 Code next
OK read below but you are taking the RED PILL
- The actual game rates players on a number 6-0 Scale
- Which COULD mean that a 98 rated guy and a 81 rated guy are the same ability
- But I don’t think that is the case from playing as I felt players at 81 play worse than a 98 guy
- The HOT & COLD EA Rating Players ratings can vary +/- 10% from game to game.
- Remember back in the 90’s EA was RUTHLESS on Ratings famously giving Shawn Chambers a rating of 1 in NHL 93
- On the Sheet I added a SEGATHON Rating that just counts the top Attributes (Speed, Agility, Stickhandling, Shot Power & Accuracy)
- Here is the HEX Legend on Letter Grade Criteria…
NHL 95 Player Rating Letter Grades
DICE ROLL TIERED TEAM BREAKDOWNS
This is the most updated Team breakdown with “Tiers” that is sometimes used in Tourney Play with a Dice Roll.
Next off is this a little older ranking from the above but still useful. This one is floating around the internets for other NHL 95 Tournies across the globe for a while, so you may of seen it.
“ST RANK” which is probably a better rating the the standard CPU rating. ST RANK figures in how the team plays man v man.
Some of the CPU rated teams fell/rose if they did/didn’t have a good one timer center (-MTL/+LA) bad stick handling (-BOS/+QUE) or just a slower team (-STL/+VAN)
Top Players of NHL 95
This was the original Players ratings I did when I was still using OXY pads on my back
Ratings can vary +/- 10% from game to game.
