CFM Offseason House Rule Ideas

[NDAlum]

Quote: Originally Posted by splff3000

We're doing the same in our online CFM as well. It looks like something like this will have to be done in the offseason until players on the game start asking for realistic contracts. It's too easy to build a power house if you never have to worry about losing anyone. We also make signing bonus mandatory 40% of the contract. That'll make it a little bit harder to just cut a player before his contract is up.

We removed the bonus rule for one reason: people made so many math mistakes it drove us crazy. It was a headache to keep tabs on.

We have a waiver system so guys can't game the system by cutting and adding a guy. Also when you trade a guy with no bonus you need to find a trade partner with enough cap space to wear 100% of their salary.

Hopefully this system inspires a fun free agency market and doesn't have any exploits.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Grey_Osprey]

Resigning my own players:

-I utilize a 1/3 bonus rule on any contract over 1 year.
-contract years can't exceed what the player is asking for.
-if asking for more than 1 year, contract has to be a minimum of 2 years with appropriate bonus.
-1 year deals get a minimum 750k and 80k-100k (or more) bonus for lower rated players


Signing Free Agents:

-same contract rules apply for FA's that apply for signing FA's
-I don't bid on any 90+ rated players.
-I don't bid on the top FA at each position
-I don't bid on any player over 80 if any cpu team has bid on them (too easy to steal away)

After the draft/Preseason FA's:

-I don't allow myself to "load up" on FA's at the start of preseason
-I don't sign the top FA at each position in preseason week 1 (give the cpu a chance to sign players)
-after week 3 of preseason I can sign any FA's left


Scouting

-scout letter grade only
-for more of a challenge, don't scout the intangible attribute.

[Danish ram]

Thanks to all you madden community nerds.
Here's to EA delivering : an AI worthy of your efforts

[Cheese2121]

Great house rules suggestions; I may start employing some of these in my Jaguars project. Thank you!

[neume1mb]

I've never limited myself on number of moves, but I might do that this year, I think I like that idea.

What I've always done in the past is when resigning a player, in most cases they have to be really good for me to resign them, I'll look at the highest salaries of that position for the league and pay them top 3 money, which is always WAYYY more than they're asking for, but it's at least realistic and put's a bit of a strain on your cap.

And when trading picks use the draft pick value chart for accurate compensation.

[SwaggerCoach]

One thing I started doing toward the end of my time with M15 is during the contract negotiation stage, I would never try to drop the number of years the player wanted in contract length.

So if 32 year old Ryan Kalil wants 80 million over 6 years, I can't negotiate that down to 3. I either let him walk or face considerably over-paying the guy in a few years. Makes decisions tougher.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[fballturkey]

My only big one is no trading draft picks. It's just too easy to game the AI.

Things like resigning I probably do more than is realistic because I like to have a stable team.