I May Have Found A Good Solution For a 1-Team Franchise.

[strife1013]

Re: I May Have Found A Good Solution For a 1-Team Franchise.

I'm not really sure. I haven't started my franchise. Will start tomorrow, not sure how its all gonna work.

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Re: I May Have Found A Good Solution For a 1-Team Franchise.

I'm not really sure. I haven't started my franchise. Will start tomorrow, not sure how its all gonna work.

Between the inaccuracies of the rosters and this UDFA garbage, idk when im gunna start my franchise....Prolly wont be anytime soon since we are dealing with EA...

[SergioK4L]

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Here is what I did. I controlled all 32 teams, auto re-order every depth chart and before even playing the first preseason game, I cut the 4 lowest rated players from each team. But only punters, kickers, WR's, RB's and QB's. Don't cut any defensive players. After that's done, sim the entire preseason and go to week 1.

And here comes the annoying part. Go to mylads.com and go through every teams depth chart and roster and manually fix every team. This took like 2 hours and but I think I got the rosters as accurate as you're going to get them. You might have to change positions for some linemen.

[Legionnaire]

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The shame of it is I was so immersed in my Franchise, and having to take a 2-day timeout just to edit hundreds of players really takes away from it.

I'm pumped to finally get it done so I can dive back into my franchise (having my new draft picks waiting for me is brutal -- like when you're a kid and your friend if outside your house but you can't go play until you finish your homework or something). And I know I'll go right back to loving it once I get back into the swing of things. But then I know I'll be getting antsy late in the season when I feel the next offseason coming on, knowing I'll have to go through another painstaking process like this.

Out of curiosity, if I go with 32-team control next offseason, exactly how hands-off can I be? How much can I trust the CPU to handle things for the other 31 teams I don't really want to bother with?

[Legionnaire]

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Something I wish I'd thought of earlier...

I wish, during the draft, I didn't sim to the end after my final pick. If I was smart, I'd have kept watching so I could jot down all the kids who went undrafted (so I know who they are and, once they land with a new team, I don't lump them in with the fake undrafted guys by changing their positions to punter). The draft recap doesn't give that info, I don't think. Would be nice to know which undrafted guys went undrafted in the actual draft and which are just generated mopes to fill out rosters.

I might have to make a habit of trading for the last pick in the draft from now on so I can take my time and write down the guys who are leftover from the draft class.

[pistonica]

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So eventually which is the best way to get rid of this "glitch"?
To user control all 32 teams or to change the UDFA's position?

[NoSubs]

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Yeah, I don't know if I can do this again. This is the worst. I'm hours in and I'm not even halfway through the league. It's so boring and draining having to sit here doing this.

Hours and you are not even halfway?

That's weird. I changed all the $310k UDFA's to punters last night, it took me about an hour. I was in week 2 of preseason, so maybe 4 per team had already been cut. But I can't imagine that it would have taken hours to only go halfway?

Sort by salary, go to a $310k player, click the left stick (on 360), then change the position. Am I doing something wrong?

[Legionnaire]

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Clicking the left stick takes me to the Player Details screen (traits, stats, awards) where I can't edit anything. To edit the guy, I have to go to a different screen, which takes longer to load, making me wait a few seconds each time I go in and each time I save to exit (maybe it's slower on PS3 since you can't play the game off the hard drive like on 360?).

And not only am I changing a dozen or more rookies per team, but I'm having to flip around the positions of other guys just to keep the team above the minimums at positions, or else it doesn't let me change the other guy's position to punter. So it's probably something near twenty edits per team, plus the time to investigate to make sure I'm editing the right guys.

Because you can't just sort by salary and dump everyone with a 310k salary,. There are guys who were actually in the draft class who got signed to deals for 310k salaries. And I try not to dump them since I consider them real players if they were part of the actual scouting/draft process (not like the phony guys conjured from thin air just to provide cut day fodder). So I have to check whether guy was drafted or not before changing him.

So, yeah, it takes longer than you're describing. And on top of that, it's so boring that I can't focus entirely on this, so my attention is split between these roster shenanigans and a few other things I've got on my radar. But even if I took some Attention Deficit Disorder drugs and completely focused only on these roster edits, it would take much longer than an hour. Maybe the 360 just loads that much faster, I dunno.

[pistonica]

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I just have one question that concerns this glitch....so the cpu decides to keep a UDFA that has apparently a bigger ovr than a veteran..but after the cut days if this player is kept his ovr will be the real one (lower than before)...so..my question is: the next year...isn't this player gonna get cut because now his ovr appears exactlly?

[YeOldTonk]

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Because you can't just sort by salary and dump everyone with a 310k salary,. There are guys who were actually in the draft class who got signed to deals for 310k salaries. And I try not to dump them since I consider them real players if they were part of the actual scouting/draft process (not like the phony guys conjured from thin air just to provide cut day fodder). So I have to check whether guy was drafted or not before changing him.

So, yeah, it takes longer than you're describing. And on top of that, it's so boring that I can't focus entirely on this, so my attention is split between these roster shenanigans and a few other things I've got on my radar. But even if I took some Attention Deficit Disorder drugs and completely focused only on these roster edits, it would take much longer than an hour. Maybe the 360 just loads that much faster, I dunno.

You actually can sort by their salary. That's what I did. I just released all of the players with 310k salary. If there was an actual rookie that had a contract of 310k, it would come up asking if I really wanted to release him, because the balance of his contract would be used against the cap for next year.

Unless I was missing something, it went decently quick.

[Legionnaire]

Re: I May Have Found A Good Solution For a 1-Team Franchise.

I just have one question that concerns this glitch....so the cpu decides to keep a UDFA that has apparently a bigger ovr than a veteran..but after the cut days if this player is kept his ovr will be the real one (lower than before)...so..my question is: the next year...isn't this player gonna get cut because now his ovr appears exactlly?

Well, yeah, I think once they unlock their true OVR, the guy probably won't sniff a roster the next year because how much he sucks (lots of these jokers are HBs/CBs/WRs with speed below 70, QBs with THP below 80, linemen with strength in the 50's).

But I imagine his roster spot gets taken next year by a whole new class of generated undrafted deadweight players... who will proceed to do just like he did, tricking the CPU into cutting a better player to keep them because their mystery OVR confused the computer.

On top of which, perfectly useful, reasonably priced journeyman types sit wasting away in free agency. The computer should just sign them to fill their rosters so they don't need to take on so many undrafted bums.

[nastynatesolder]

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Madden 12 Franchise Check List and Tips on Improving your Franchise Experience

by NastyNateSolder

***DO NOT HIT AUTO REORDER ROSTERS***

1. Buy Madden 12 :P
2. Unlock Online Pass
3. Save original roster as Preseasonwk1.ros
4. DL Regular Season Week 1 Roster
5. Save as NFLwk1.ros
6. Load NFLwk1.ros from File Management
7. Go to Franchise Mode
8. Configure Options
a. Suggestions
Settings I used:
Sim Injuries = OFF
INJ = OFF
SAL CAP = ON
QTR = 10
DRAFT = OFF
DEADLINE = ON
USE PRE INJ = OFF/NO
UPDATE CHART = USER
RE-SIGN = USER
FA BIDS = USER
SIGN DRAFT = USER
FILL ROSTER = USER
SIM CUT DAYS = USER
SIM SCOUTING = USER
EDIT PLAYER = ON
9. Select all 32 Teams
10. Go into Coaching Schemes
a. Coaching Schemes Suggestions
OFF = 50/50/100
DEF = 50/50
Under DEF Set to either 4-3 or 3-4 depending on roster depth and coach habits
Team Base Defense
Arizona 4 - 3
Atlanta 4 - 3
Baltimore 3 - 4
Buffalo 3 - 4
Carolina 4 - 3
Chicago 4 - 3
Cincinnati 4 - 3
Cleveland 4 - 3
Dallas 3 - 4
Denver 4 - 3
Detroit 4 - 3
Green Bay 3 - 4
Houston 3 - 4
Indianapolis 4 - 3
Jacksonville 4 - 3
Kansas City 3 - 4
Miami 3 - 4
Minnesota 4 - 3
New England 3 - 4
New Orleans 4 - 3
NY Giants 4 - 3
NY Jets 3 - 4
Oakland 4 - 3
Philadelphia 4 - 3
Pittsburgh 3 - 4
San Diego 3 - 4
San Francisco 3 - 4
Seattle 4 - 3
* Louis 4 - 3
Tampa Bay 4 - 3
Tennessee 4 - 3
Washington 3 - 4
11. Go to NFL.com http://www.nfl.com/
12. *if you have a laptop skip this step
a. Print out all 32 Teams Active Rosters as of 9/11/11
13. Go to Player Management
14. Use Printed Sheets to Delete Fake UFA Players
15. Go back to Player Management and Cut Players as follows
OFF= QB [2] RB [4] FB [1] WR [5-7] TE [2] LT [2] LG [2] C [2] RG [2] RT [2]
DEF= LE [2] RE [2] DT [3-4] LOLB [2] MLB [2] ROLB [2] CB [5-7] FS [2] SS [2]
*= K [1] P [1]
16. Go to Player Management and fix Player Pos as needed
17. ***DO NOT HIT AUTO REORDER ROSTERS***
ex. (OVR)

LOLB 82 ROLB 87
LOLB 73 ------
LOLB 64 ------

change to

LOLB 82 ROLB 87
LOLB 73 ROLB 64

this will balance out the depth charts


18. Go to Player Management and select Team Captains
WHY? Cause these are the players at the coin toss u don't want benchers out there
I normally pick my favorite players for each team.

19. Go to Player management and do all the player edits you want 8)
all personal pref here.
NOTE:You can't edit "?"/rookies/fakes till after preseason :cry: :shock:

20. Depth Chart Time 8) Even out the Depth and balance the weight
a. ex(1)

LOLB Jerry 1st ROLB Harry 1st
LOLB Barry 2nd LOLB Barry 2nd
LOLB Terry 3rd LOLB Terry 3rd

why? = Cause now these 2 players will say 2nd String and 3rd String this is important
for simulation reasons and auto sub reasons [don't forget to set your auto subs :wink: ]

POS that need to be balanced [LT,LG,RG,RT,LE,RE,LOLB,ROLB]

21.Players needed to fill req. after UFA Fakes are Cut [if you released the correct fake ones you
will have these left over don't cut real rookies :wink:
***Make sure to sign only FAs below 59 OVR so it wont effect your depth changes you just made.***

HB= TEN
T= ARZ IND GB
G= SD IND ATL SF GB OAK STL NO
C= OAK NYG
DT= ARI SD DAL MIA GB BAL HOU
FS=GB

22. Next Save File as
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

you will basically make a league template with changes as default

23. Now Sim the Pre-Season if you wish to do so but when Pre-Season is done do not forget to edit the rookies

Print out a sheet of Rookies Names for a reference. Edit them if you wish.

Next Save File as
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

24. Then simulate the season and look for any glitches bad stats etc.

If not move on to Pre-Season and test that as well.

If you have time Simulate the Season again on Year 2 now.

25. If there is no problems then load the file of your choice below
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

Enjoy! You earned it probably take a good 7-15 hours or more :shock: if you really your picky , ocd , etc :P
I simmed some seasons and the stats were pretty good don't forget about coach schemes :wink:

[MileHighSalute30]

Re: I May Have Found A Good Solution For a 1-Team Franchise.

And than a roster update comes out...lol

Yep lol. I'm gonna start my franchise over anyway, since my slider set was a tad too easy the first few games. I'm just gonna deal with all the UDFAs this time though.