Ideas for Self-implementation of a Salary cap and contracts for Online Franchise

[burne]

Re: Ideas for Self-implementation of a Salary cap and contracts for Online Franchise

Oh and one last thing, this is totally my personal feelings, but with the online franchise being just 10 seasons long, and because AT BREAKNECK SPEED, you could do a season maybe every 3 weeks, I'd prefer to err on the side of having too much change in one offseason than too little. I'd hate to play a season for a month, then have too little change and do it again. I'd rather see teams rise and fall quickly than play my online franchise and see 80% of the playoffs be the same teams over and over for 3 months. Usually I'll go for realism > fun factor (lol), but in this one case, I want more drama and change. Just my feeling, though.

P.S. Props to rightallthetime's post on page 3 because that's where a lot of my format comes from. I mostly took his system and fleshed it out and expanded on it.

[thekodinator]

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Again, great points...

Something I'm fiddling with right now:

-Each team gets 5 protected players.
-Players with 3 yrs or less in the league are protected as well

Also, I want to look at how the first round would look as both <100, as well as between 100-85... just for kicks and giggles.


BTW, you couldn't be more right about the simpler the system, the easier to change it.

[burne]

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-Players with 3 yrs or less in the league are protected as well

Yes! This! My bad, that was definitely a rule too and I forgot to post it. It would really ruin rookies and the draft if they all shuffled around in the 4th and 5th rounds of FA every year lol.

Also, def let me know how the experimenting goes.

[thekodinator]

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For sure... I'll give you a list after my "experimenting"

[labguy]

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I gotta say the fact that we even have to discuss this is a LOAD OF CRAP!


+1

[bgdave39]

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I sent Ian a message on here and XBL to try and get an answer as to whether or not they are realistically even considering adding this stuff server side so that we don't have to worry about, no response, which probably doesn't bode well to that effect.

[thekodinator]

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I sent Ian a message on here and XBL to try and get an answer as to whether or not they are realistically even considering adding this stuff server side so that we don't have to worry about, no response, which probably doesn't bode well to that effect.

Gee whiz... keep on him about this... this is the ONLY thing they should be working on at the moment

[thekodinator]

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Results of my experiment... thoughts? (sorry, this is really long)

Ok, so I went through each team, took out all players with 3 years of experience or less, and then tried to realistically pick 5 players to protect, as if I was the owner of the team.

Here is the list of the unprotected players that are left by team, with an overall rating of 80 or higher...

ovr 80 plus
bills
t mcgee 82
k mitchell 81

pats
matt light 92
d koppen 91
wilfork 90
a thomas 90
t warren 87
s neal 87
Kaczur 84
Sanders 82
Taylor 82
Springs 81
Bruschi 81
Watson 80

fins
g wilson 84
j grove 81
Crowder 81
Bell 81

jets
t richardson 97
t jones 90
s ellis 86
d woody 85
c pace 82
b moore 81
j cotchery 81

raiders
j wade 81
c carlisle 81
c johnson 80
t kelly 80
k barnes 80

broncos
b hamilton 81

chargers
j williams 93
m scifres 93
k dielman 92
n kaeding 91
n hardwick 89
l castillo 89
q jammer 88
d sproles 85
v jackson 84

chiefs
z thomas 80
m goff 80

titans
r bironas 96
k mawae 95
k bulluck 95
b scaife 83
d thornton 81
c hentrich 81
j haye 80

Jags
T thomas 88
t holt 84
b meester 83
v manuwai 82

colts
j Saturday 93
Clark 91
Diem 89
hayden 87
r brock 85
m jackson 82
r lilja 82
g brackett 82

texans
n/a

Ravens
m birk 88
d mason 88
w mcgahee 83
t pryce 83
w anderson 82

steelers
farrior 95
hampton 91
a smith 91
h ward 90
j hartwig 86
I taylor 86
r clark 83
m starks 83
d townsend 82

browns
j lewis 85
p dawson 80
bengals
s graham 87

eagles
t cole 91
s brown 87
t herremans 87
s andrews 87
q mikell 86
j jackson 84
e hobbs 83
l weaver 82
s jones 80
j parker 80

giants
O'Hara 91
Webster 90
Diehl 88
McKenzie 88
Hedgecock 87
Seubert 87
Feagles 87
pierce 86
canty 84
robbins 83
boley 82
bernard 80

redskins
samuels 93
sellers 89
fletcher 89
thomas 89
griffin 84
carter 84
jansen 83
smith 81

cowboys
McBriar 95
Gurode 93
Davis 92
Adams 88
Ratliff 87
Brooking 86
Hamlin 84
Williams 84
Kosier 83
James 82
Colombo 81
Ellis 80
Olshansky 80

bears
gould 94
kreutz 87
pace 87
mckie 82
garza 80

packers
al harris 90
c clifton 86
driver 86
c jenkins 82
a bigby 80

lions
hanson 95

vikings
p williams 91
a winfield 88
longwell 81
ej henderson 80

saints
sharper 87
h evans 82
l moore 81

bucs
r barber 88
bidwell 83
askew 80

panthers
kasay 91
wharton 83
hoover 80
delhomme 80

falcons
gonzalez 98
elam 92
peterson 80

rams
josh brown 92
d jones 87
bartell 81
Karney 80
Butler 80

niners
lee 92
nedney 83
sopoaga 80

seahawks
w jones 94
wahle 88
l hill 83
d grant 83
c redding 81

cardinals
warner 94
gandy 86
rolle 84
berry 83
rackers 81
r wells 81

[bgdave39]

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Gee whiz... keep on him about this... this is the ONLY thing they should be working on at the moment

Still no answer. i am pretty sure he saw my message on Live. I sent a friend request too and he declined it so he must have seen the message as well.

[labguy]

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Still no answer. i am pretty sure he saw my message on Live. I sent a friend request too and he declined it so he must have seen the message as well.


Let me start by saying I respect Ian and think he and his team made great strides this year. But I doubt they are going to add anything major this year. If they have not already announced it they probably aren't going to do it. Think about it. Announcing that a server side upgrade was going to come would do nothing but boost sales for anyone who was on the fence because of the lack of functionality of the Online Franchise Mode. So why not say yeah it is coming. Now on the flip side coming out and saying no we won't add anything until next year would have the opposite affect. So I think the silence speaks volumes.

Madden 11 will probably have a beautiful Online Franchise Mode with all the features one would expect (free agency, CPU trade logic, sliders, etc). I said this in another post but it is sad that the previous EA regime wasted so much time on last years league feature. We really should have had everything we wanted out of an Online Franchise Mode this year. Now everyone has to have spreadsheets and rules and a trade committee or whatever just to run an Online Franchise.

[bgdave39]

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Well.... let's all keep asking and let them know this is important so they are aware of the want for this to be added. Everyone do your part.

[TheDMG]

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Well.... let's all keep asking and let them know this is important so they are aware of the want for this to be added. Everyone do your part.

While I agree that our voices need to be heard on this matter, I don't think that bombarding a dev with PMs and XBox Live messages is the proper way to go about things. Assuming their isn't a petition/vote thread for Online Franchise contracts/cap/trade (and I'm sure you'll find one if you use the search feature), then start one up. A thread with 20 pages says a lot more for demand on a feature than PM-bombing.

[thekodinator]

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Well.... let's all keep asking and let them know this is important so they are aware of the want for this to be added. Everyone do your part.

a-freakin-men

[DeuceZeroz]

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what im planning on doing is kind of simple but le me know your thoughts anyway...

As the real NFL season and my OF starts, im going to find out what the remaining years left on contracts for the human controlled players. ie Tom Brady. he has 2 years left on his deal. After two seasons, whoever controls the patriots would be forced to release him, any other players that are in the last year of their deal and anyone else they want to release. Then ill have them total up the overall rating of the players they release. So if the patriots release 375 ovr. points, they can refill those 375 points with the available free agents.

Order of who has signing a player goes in order of record from worst to best. but the one twist im not sure about...Seeing that brady is one of the best players in the league, the person controlling the patriots may want to resign him. If they choose to immediately resign him after the season (or any other highly rated player) they have to release two more players rated at least 10 overall pts lower that are still on the roster. so to keep Brady for example who is 97 (maybe not two years into franchise but who knows) they would have to release two players like Fred Taylor (82 ovr) and Ty Warren (87 ovr). The point system would work the same for any other player, as wanting to immediately resign a player before anyone else can sign them, the two drops have to be minimum 10 points lower.

just spitting out ideas.. thoughts?? any adjustments you guys would want to make??

[xxxGODFATHERxxx]

Re: Ideas for Self-implementation of a Salary cap and contracts for Online Franchise

Free Agency


* Every team has 25 million to spend this off season
* Bidding on this years free agents ends on August 12 at midnight
* Highest Bid wins. If there is a tie we will base it on the "order".
* After each season more money for free agents will be added.
$100 million if you don't make the playoffs
$75 million if you lose in the wild card round
$60 million if you lose in the semi finals
$50 million if you lose in the conference finals
$25 million if you lose in the superbowl
$10 million if you win in the superbowl

* After each season you will submit to the league a list of protected players that can not be bid on. All players are protected if you miss the playoffs
25 players are protected if you lose in the wild card round
20 players are protected if you lose in the semi finals
15 players are protected if you lose in the conference finas
10 players are protected if you lose in the Super Bowl
5 players are protected if you win the Super Bowl

* Free Agency money can be traded for players and draft picks. It can also be carried over from year to year.
* After each season there will 3 rounds of Free Agent offers. During these 3 rounds you can submit up to 5 bids for free agents. If you bid on a player from another team that team can match the offer if they have the money available