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REALISM-based dynasty on XBOX with 2 open spots (using the Big-10 and SEC.

The purpose of our community is to emulate the football you see in real life without sacrificing fun. There are many gameplay rules but if you are looking for realistic football, you won’t even have to think about following them, it’ll be natural.

We have a very detailed server ready to go when the game launches and have a 35+ page rule document to cover any and all questions you mys have about gameplay or teambuilding.

This is a complete changeup from “win by all means” online gameplay. If this interests you, shoot me a DM!

have had someone I know told me that for the weekly drills, if you receive a gold as an OL, it will ALWAYS give a +1 overall (like players do in preseason training camp) but it does this throughout the season not just preseason camp. is this real?

yep, while this should be the case is often is not. The year Urban Meyer was hired to the Jags, Doug Marrone was listed as the team’s coach on the playbook until mid September. teams like the Falcons did not have correct positional desgnations (3-4/4-3) the entire season for their playbook last Madden, the Lions were incorrect for the first month of Madden 23 I believe. Some teams did not have their live playbooks changed at all from the coaches who fired them, yet their “regular” playbooks were the new hire’s schemes. coach schemes, appearance, and info is readily available since January/February, it just shows how lazy the team is.

this will probably be fixed for game launch but this stuff is just a reminder that they don’t always fix even basic things. I mean look at playbooks, they can add 300 different things to Miami’s playbook, but can’t simply change WAS to Air Raid for Kliff or change LAC to Greg Roman’s old BAL playbook?

Yeah 2K is definitely not the best for online gameplay. You will not get an assortment of error codes in Madden like you will in 2K. But I’d trade that issue 100% to eliminate the chance of any gamebreaking server issue for what seems like the fourth year in a row lol

No.

Just one year ago, EA DELETED EVERYONE’S FRANCHISE SAVE FILES because of an issue with their cloud servers. The year prior, there was a gamebreaking draft revert glitch stemming from horrible servers which would effectively kill your franchise, because no matter how far you would progress, it would always revert you back to some random point of the draft. Both this year and last year I have had people ask me something along the lines of: “why are we still in Free Agency stage 2, I thought we advanced to week 3?” This was because EA’s servers are so bad, that some users would be stuck in a completely different franchise offseason stage than others.

You cannot share or manage files in Madden on the first attempt most of the time. Want to download a custom draft class? Get ready for “file could not be downloaded” 37 times before it miraclously decides to work out of nowhere. They have had no idea how to handle file sharing on their servers for years, I do not even want to imagine what the case would be if they had cross-platform file sharing (which they always should have had anyway, but I guess that’s too much effort).

As someone who plays 2k as well, there servers are nothing to be amazed about. But could you imagine if they just deleted everyone single player’s MyCareer file(s) out of nowhere one day? Until that happens, EA is in a group of their own

had to double take thought this was okbc 😭 the lot owner explains exactly why it’s not probable cause lol

motion style doesn’t matter at all for anything except for running without the ball. anyone noting any differences about sliding, shuffling faster, etc. is wrong — it is placebo effect. this has been tested by 2klabs/tutes. that said, Alex Caruso and Drew Eubanks are the fastest in the game, Caruso probably better the shorter you are

join an online league. if run well, they are realistically usually only going for about 4-6 seasons anyway. advances are spaced out so you don’t risk getting burnt out, every game is a different challenge because the CPU all play the same, trades/roster management is harder because there’s 31 other people you can’t really abuse as you can the CPU, etc.

there’s not really a right answer. its a new game that just came out, there’s lots of stuff about balancing we will have no idea about until weeks, even months into the cycle. whatever you do, some will not agree. whether its recruiting, team overall, rankings, etc; unfortunately just how it is running a league. what’s more “fair/unfair” is hard to tell until the games been out for a bit.

when something new comes out for that year’s madden in franchise which could have balancing issues/cause disagreements (think FA motivators, home field advantage, skill-based passing, etc. for M24) it just comes down to what the members of our league voted for those. this seems to work best (have been doing it for years) and I’d suggest just polling the people you’re gonna be playing with to see what they think and go with majority. chances are their opinions probably differ from some people on reddit and at the end of the day it’s hard to tell how they game will balance out

believe Matt Brown said it was not in the build they played but the plan was to add it for launch.

yeah I had him too, got him in like the 5th round the year after. these were honestly really cool for a first playthough but kinda felt like cheating the second and third time around (prob why they ditched this approach to draft classes and went full auto-gen)

these aren’t generated, there were stoylines in M25 draft classes. they had wolverine, a 36 year old QB named “Pop Warren”, Leon Sandcastle (literally just Deion with a wig),two communist russian twins as edge rushers named Stalin 😭 it was definitely funny playing thru a franchise the first time seeing all of them

you’d have to randomize EVERYTHING, not just names. “Joe Smith, QB, RS-SO, #2 Texas A&M” is still very clearly Johnny Manziel even if his name is random. But the player’s likeness still is all there, and since they do not have his rights to be in Madden or a part of the NFLPA licensing, everything needs to be randomized… which leads to… an auto-generated class which Madden already has. if there was a way to do it, it would definitely be in the game

I help run a very realistic Madden league, we have a rules document that is like 20-30 pages on google docs lol. Feel free to poach stuff from here if you want (even though you said it’s a smaller league). It’s been running for half a decade and if anything’s cheese its likely listed in here as a rule. Obv college is different so different rules apply but feel free to look through for ideas

you brought up irl ball which makes no sense bc there are no L2 cancels or any animations that cause you to glitch/speed boost/stutter back and forth IRL without losing any speed. also if anyone were humanly capable of doing this insane stuff for 12-14 secs of a shot clock they would be absolutely gassed after only 2-3 possessions of it, but since pro-am/rec knows theres no subs you have stamina increases + gym/gatorade boosts to make it so that you can do this the entire game

smartest random rec player logic

it’s risk/reward ratio. if you have 92 standing dunk you are almost always scoring if you have position, unless there is late help. whereas a driving dunk needs to be off a well-timed pass (not automatic for a PG/SG who is reading the slip/looking for a shot during pick and rolls), or else it will just end up being a standing dunk/pass back out anyway. having that standing dunk rating makes it so you can still go up with it, whereas driving dunk is a oftentimes a wasted attribute for competitive modes for those who aren’t ball handlers, where every last rating is important. there are no “disrespect” points in 2k lol so if you’re playing with people who want to maximize their chances at winning it will be the most efficient attribute spending (standing dunk) and no weird/flashy animations, just the fastest/hardest to block.

yeah he’s right, standing dunk is very useful in pro am, specifically because of how most good teams play. in most instances, they will have a PG under 6’4” guarding your lock in the corner. if that lock, even at 6’6”-6’7” has just 85 standing dunk (a lot will go to 90 or 92) standing dunk meter will be almost automatic if they have any sort of positioning if the PG isn’t playing their cut. it is also way cheaper to have high standing dunk than driving dunk, which also raises your driving layup (not needed) once you raise it enough, and way more forgiving if a pass is late compared to driving dunk. Since most teams are running high pick and roll, a free slip/any offensive board with positioning is free points once the big is under the basket, regardless of what anyone’s interior defense/block is. The effectiveness of standing dunk is why most bigs neglect close shot and interior defense in pro-am, and why most locks/backends/secondary ball handlers will go all-in on their strengths and cheap out on driving dunk/layup bc high standing dunk is automatic if done correctly