Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

That worked. Thank you. Are you switching the controller on the dummy account to the middle before the game starts or after game starts? I tried switching after the game started, but all the controls were locked. As a result, my third string quarterback takes over the game whenever there is a field goal.

Switch before in cfm
Switch after in play now

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

****NOTE: You will NEED TWO controllers and TWO Playstation profiles/accounts for this to work.****

1. Create a secondary profile/account on your playstation. You can learn how to do that here.

2. With the 2nd profile/account active, go to Customize --> Playbooks. If you want to create your own playbook, scroll over to "Create playbook." If you want to download a playbook of Madden Share, go to Customize --> Share/manage files. Scroll over to offensive/defensive playbooks, download what you want.

3. Once you have your desired playbook (either one you've made or downloaded), again, make sure you have it saved to the 2nd profile/account (NOT your main PS4 profile).

4. Go back to your MAIN profile (easiest way to do that is by turning on another controller and choosing your main profile. When you're at the main menu, just tap any button on the dpad and Madden will ask you which profile you want in control of the game. It's very easy).

5. Go to Franchise mode. Go to league settings and TURN OFF ACTIVE STARTER. THIS IS A MUST!!

6. Notice who you are playing against that week. Let's say you are the Raiders and you're up against the Saints. What you want to do is click DOWN on the RIGHT STICK and then "Create New." Choose the team you're playing against (the Saints). Choose player. Then ACTIVE player. Choose that team's 3rd string QB. (You will have two "players" active at this point - you as the coach/owner and the 3rd stringer on the Saints).

(Note: if they do not have a 3rd string QB on the roster for any reason, first choose ACTIVE COACH, cut a player, and then sign a QB so that team has 3 QB's. This is important because you ideally want the player to NEVER check into the game.)

7. Push DOWN on RIGHT STICK again. Go back to your team's dashboard. (So you would click back over to Raiders owner/coach).

8. Start up your game against the Saints as usual. On the controller select screen, make sure your controller is over on your side and the 2nd controller is over on the opposing team's side. Using the 2nd controller, go to "Advanced Settings." Then choose the CUSTOM PLAYBOOK you want the CPU to utilize. Now you're ready to start the game.

When you boot up the game, because your opponent is a 3rd string QB, he should never check-in. Meaning the CPU should operate just as they normally would. However, your custom playbook WILL work for them.

The reason you have to do a player and not a coach for the opposing team is because there is no way to NOT play as the coach. The game will not let you continue if you have 2 coach profiles up against each other and then try to slide one of them over to CPU control in the middle.

Kind of sucks but the workaround WORKS.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Awesome! I'll post this in the OP to eliminate confusion... Thanks!

[vannwolfhawk]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

I DL'd and played the Chargers using your offensive and defensive playbooks. Defensively they played well. I lost 34-17 and they got me good at the goal line where I tried to run a play fake and they were in a Cover 4 and I threw right into it. I'm having serious issues on All-Madden getting my players to play the pass like they have a brain so I gave up over 500 yards passing to Rivers. They started the game passing on like 18 of the first 20 plays but I think it has to do with how successful they were early because I also played a game against Pittsburgh using your playbook and they were extremely successful running the ball early and then just continued to pound it down my throat and Roethlisberger finished with only like 18 attempts. The playcalling felt great though, very unpredictable which was awesome and refreshing. I just need to figure out how to eliminate the Robo QB.

The Chargers book needs work and is just a rough draft. The teams done is steelers and packers. The Vikings and panthers are pretty good too but everyone needs more work for balance besides the pack and Steelers.

By the way, I just for testing purposes set qb at scramble in edit and I've seen them escape and run more out of the pocket... Quick fix til patch...

[xSABOx]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Idk, try it again to see if crashes in CFM.

Unfortunately, same thing happened

[xSABOx]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

The Chargers book needs work and is just a rough draft. The teams done is steelers and packers. The Vikings and panthers are pretty good too but everyone needs more work for balance besides the pack and Steelers.

By the way, I just for testing purposes set qb at scramble in edit and I've seen them escape and run more out of the pocket... Quick fix til patch...

How many plays per situation do you say you're applying? I was trying to take advantage of the whole book but mine keeps crashing... Seems like I'll have to limit it and find the perfect mix...

[Uncle Elton John]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

The Chargers book needs work and is just a rough draft. The teams done is steelers and packers. The Vikings and panthers are pretty good too but everyone needs more work for balance besides the pack and Steelers.

By the way, I just for testing purposes set qb at scramble in edit and I've seen them escape and run more out of the pocket... Quick fix til patch...

Thanks to everyone for their input and help to the Community on this matter.

Sir: May I ask if it is possible for you to take screenshots or make a video of your x-box 1 defensive pb edits, with stars showing ? That way, myself or others could just view your screenshots or watch your video and pause it and apply your great edits to the PS-4 version of this game. Really - I am begging you to do this .... LOL - cause you have done a lotta good for us with M-17.

Thanks

[Uncle Elton John]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

How many plays per situation do you say you're applying? I was trying to take advantage of the whole book but mine keeps crashing... Seems like I'll have to limit it and find the perfect mix...

are you on xbox-1 or ps-4 ?

[Uncle Elton John]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

****NOTE: You will NEED TWO controllers and TWO Playstation profiles/accounts for this to work.****

1. Create a secondary profile/account on your playstation. You can learn how to do that here.

2. With the 2nd profile/account active, go to Customize --> Playbooks. If you want to create your own playbook, scroll over to "Create playbook." If you want to download a playbook of Madden Share, go to Customize --> Share/manage files. Scroll over to offensive/defensive playbooks, download what you want.

3. Once you have your desired playbook (either one you've made or downloaded), again, make sure you have it saved to the 2nd profile/account (NOT your main PS4 profile).

4. Go back to your MAIN profile (easiest way to do that is by turning on another controller and choosing your main profile. When you're at the main menu, just tap any button on the dpad and Madden will ask you which profile you want in control of the game. It's very easy).

5. Go to Franchise mode. Go to league settings and TURN OFF ACTIVE STARTER. THIS IS A MUST!!

6. Notice who you are playing against that week. Let's say you are the Raiders and you're up against the Saints. What you want to do is click DOWN on the RIGHT STICK and then "Create New." Choose the team you're playing against (the Saints). Choose player. Then ACTIVE player. Choose that team's 3rd string QB. (You will have two "players" active at this point - you as the coach/owner and the 3rd stringer on the Saints).

(Note: if they do not have a 3rd string QB on the roster for any reason, first choose ACTIVE COACH, cut a player, and then sign a QB so that team has 3 QB's. This is important because you ideally want the player to NEVER check into the game.)

7. Push DOWN on RIGHT STICK again. Go back to your team's dashboard. (So you would click back over to Raiders owner/coach).

8. Start up your game against the Saints as usual. On the controller select screen, make sure your controller is over on your side and the 2nd controller is over on the opposing team's side. Using the 2nd controller, go to "Advanced Settings." Then choose the CUSTOM PLAYBOOK you want the CPU to utilize. Now you're ready to start the game.

When you boot up the game, because your opponent is a 3rd string QB, he should never check-in. Meaning the CPU should operate just as they normally would. However, your custom playbook WILL work for them.

The reason you have to do a player and not a coach for the opposing team is because there is no way to NOT play as the coach. The game will not let you continue if you have 2 coach profiles up against each other and then try to slide one of them over to CPU control in the middle.

Kind of sucks but the workaround WORKS.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Do we follow the same script with 32-team control ?

And can we set the custom defensive pb for each team in "team settings", instead of doing it before each game.

Thanks

[SwaggerCoach]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Do we follow the same script with 32-team control ?

And can we set the custom defensive pb for each team in "team settings", instead of doing it before each game.

Thanks

Yes I suppose you would...you would retire whatever team you're playing against, create a 3rd string QB in their place, and then follow the same steps.

If it's a custom defensive playbook, I don't think you can. I think you need to do to the same thing.

[SwaggerCoach]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Wow.

OK so Van, I took some of your advice and tried my Balanced Attack playbook out against Big Ben and the Steelers...it was night and day.

The man TORCHED me for 440 yards. Well over 15 yards per attempt.

Deep bombs everywhere...it was incredible.

So I'm sold on QB traits being the answer. I was seeing so many check downs from Brees...and basically none from Roethlisberger. So this puts me in a challenging spot with the playbook...if I keep it the way it is, it might be too vertical happy against an aggressive QB.

But if I try to make it more conservative, I may run into challenges when going against a less aggressive QB.

Decisions decisions...in the mean time, the playbook has been updated yet again and is up for testing.

Please, everyone, let me know how it's going for ya!

[Grandview2015]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Wow.

OK so Van, I took some of your advice and tried my Balanced Attack playbook out against Big Ben and the Steelers...it was night and day.

The man TORCHED me for 440 yards. Well over 15 yards per attempt.

Deep bombs everywhere...it was incredible.

So I'm sold on QB traits being the answer. I was seeing so many check downs from Brees...and basically none from Roethlisberger. So this puts me in a challenging spot with the playbook...if I keep it the way it is, it might be too vertical happy against an aggressive QB.

But if I try to make it more conservative, I may run into challenges when going against a less aggressive QB.

Decisions decisions...in the mean time, the playbook has been updated yet again and is up for testing.

Please, everyone, let me know how it's going for ya!

Did you adjust QB rating plus playbook?

[SwaggerCoach]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Did you adjust QB rating plus playbook?

I've been making small tweaks to the playbook for the past 24 hours.

The biggest difference was going from testing against Brees to Roethlisberger. Their play styles are dramatically different...which was kind of strange to me since Brees has such a vertical offense.

[Grandview2015]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

I've been making small tweaks to the playbook for the past 24 hours.

The biggest difference was going from testing against Brees to Roethlisberger. Their play styles are dramatically different...which was kind of strange to me since Brees has such a vertical offense.

So Brees has a rating that makes him check down?

[SwaggerCoach]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

So Brees has a rating that makes him check down?

I can't confirm for sure - I just know one (or some) of his traits made him far more likely to do so. I'll see if I can isolate which one(s).

[LionsFanNJ]

Re: Madden 17 Everything Playbooks (custom) for the CPU or user

Maybe throw power is the variable? And the force passes trait?

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