Thanks for your interest in
After Work Football League. Due to our expectation that we may lose a couple of members with the move to next-gen next cycle, we are actively recruiting ahead of time for the first time in a few years to find the next great members to come make AWFL your long-time CFM home!
Over the past few years, AWFL has become one of the most stable & successful leagues around and perhaps the best-kept secret among Madden Xbox leagues. The core of our league has been playing together since Madden 15, and thanks to low turnover and relying almost entirely on word-of-mouth, we've been fortunate enough to stay at a fully
active 32 players since summer 2016!
If you are looking for a long-term home in one of the best run, active & realism-focused leagues you will ever find, please feel free to connect with us to join the wait list.
You may
reply to this thread, send me a
private message on the forums, or (preferably)
join our Discord server and contact me there. Open teams will
not necessarily be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis; preference will be given to guys who exhibit responsiveness & activity in our Discord server to ensure we continue to maintain the strongest group of 32 members possible.
Features of our league include:- A stable league with a proven track record since M15! We look for players who want a long-term, franchise-building CFM home across good & bad seasons; not someone who wants to play a few H2H games on a whim.
- 72 hr advances. Most weekday games expected to be played between 6-11p EST.
- Expectation of activity but without the hardcore time commitment of a 24-48h league, we retain a competitive in-game atmosphere--most of us are CFM vets at this point willing to teach what we know if you're new. We've gradually become a league with a lot of talent--just making the playoffs here is a real challenge for most players.
- A true focus on team building in addition to playing games. We simulate every other season over the course of about a week (i.e. seasons 2-4-6). This way, we get more seasons under our belt, which rewards smart cap management, talent acquisition, and player development. This has been a huge staple of our league since we started doing it in M15
- We have multiple 'custom' things we do to enhance the team building experience for all 32 players, including but not limited to: data-driven progression tuning, fine-tuning the free agency process, and our unique compensatory pick process.
- Emphasis on NFL realism. It'll never be perfect, and we want to avoid unnecessary or overly restrictive rules whenever possible. But the modern NFL will be used as the baseline for the kind of gameplay I expect to see (and how sliders are created to incentivize this kind of play).
- The most realistic, data-driven H2H slider set available (I lead a data science team IRL and periodically compare league stats vs NFL to adjust sliders for the most realistic H2H gameplay Madden can provide).
- ~118 snap games (~1h 15m for a typical game) plus aforementioned realism sliders lead to a (gasp!) much greater focus on defense and field position. Play Madden the way it was meant to be played. Run the ball. Put together drives. Scoring should be difficult! Expect some defensive slugfests and a faster pass-rush. Expect punting & field position to actually matter. Expect ~115 plays per game, just below NFL #s.
- We complete 7 seasons each cycle (4 full user seasons + 3 simmed regular seasons).
- Active Discord server for league chat, trade banter, scheduling, etc.
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