Madden 20 Custom Playbook & Game Plan Play Call Guide

[alston4659]

Quote: Originally Posted by edgevoice

Great question mate. The answer to your question is; It doesn't matter. The star system in this instance has nothing to do with repetitive plays showing up. Here's the solution: 30 plays per-situation must be installed in order to combat repeated plays from showing up. If you print up my original gameplan, you will notice that I copied situations in such a way to work around this. In critical situations, 3rd/4th/2min, I want only my best 12 pass plays up and want to find them quickly without the repeats. That's why I suggest copying all running plays to this situation so that they will take up the rest of the 30 play count, so repeats don't occur. Of course, I call plays under the Run or Pass windows, rather than Coach Suggestions. The only exception is that ONE PLAY will repeat to take up the play square of the previous play called, which disappears until another play is selected from that specific situation. To completely avoid the workaround I've described, I wrote in a suggestion @ BETA that would allow us to select up to 30 plays per-situation, rather than have to in order to prevent what you are experiencing from happening. They did a nice job of finally working on this feature, but it does need refinement so it is more user-friendly.

This gameplan right? I actually still haven't figured your gameplan out but I'm gonna read your response again to better understand what you are talking about.Screenshot_20200220-122033_Drive.jpeg

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[edgevoice]

Quote: Originally Posted by alston4659

This gameplan right? I actually still haven't figured your gameplan out but I'm gonna read your response again to better understand what you are talking about.Attachment 175523 Sent from my SM-G955U using Operation Sports mobile app

Yes. Just remember that, no matter how you decide to set up your situations, you must assign 30 plays or you will see some plays repeated, while others omitted. You do not have to set up your book the way I did. Just showing as example. Good luck and let me know if you need further help.

[Mike N]

Do you have to run all the plays in exhibition or anything to get them to show up when calling plays?

[tg88forHOF]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mike N

Do you have to run all the plays in exhibition or anything to get them to show up when calling plays?

Not in 20.

19 and earlier, you did need to call them once each (Exhibition was usually the easiest way to do this), but that's no longer necessary.

This is one of the improvements they (finally) made in 20 that has some of us nervous about the proposed play lockout system.

[Mike N]

Quote: Originally Posted by tg88forHOF

Not in 20. 19 and earlier, you did need to call them once each (Exhibition was usually the easiest way to do this), but that's no longer necessary. This is one of the improvements they (finally) made in 20 that has some of us nervous about the proposed play lockout system.

Thank you! I appreciate the reply.

[sheizman]

Edgevoice. Thank you for your detailed information. I am back playing Madden after a 15 year hiatus. Amazing the amount of changes. I have figured a lot out, but am having trouble with saving my offensive audibles. I'll install my custom audibles at practice. only to have them disappear when the game starts. No idea what I am doing wrong. I am playing in franchise mode but don't have the yearly PS4 membership. Does that make a difference? There is a line in your OP "after you switch to this book in your CFM under coaching schemes". Could you please elaborate on that? I am surmising that is where my efforts are failing.

I would be very appreciative if you could point me in the right direction. I love using my own audibles, as well as hot routes. Being able to set up a way to keep them would make the game a lot more fun.

Have a nice day.

[Philosopher0]

Quote: Originally Posted by sheizman

Edgevoice. Thank you for your detailed information. I am back playing Madden after a 15 year hiatus. Amazing the amount of changes. I have figured a lot out, but am having trouble with saving my offensive audibles. I'll install my custom audibles at practice. only to have them disappear when the game starts. No idea what I am doing wrong. I am playing in franchise mode but don't have the yearly PS4 membership. Does that make a difference? There is a line in your OP "after you switch to this book in your CFM under coaching schemes". Could you please elaborate on that? I am surmising that is where my efforts are failing. I would be very appreciative if you could point me in the right direction. I love using my own audibles, as well as hot routes. Being able to set up a way to keep them would make the game a lot more fun. Have a nice day.

You have to set them in your playbook for them to save.

[highpost1388]

Hello everyone, I read the entire thread, and it's great to see there are people like me who want to make their own playbooks and the like. My wife thinks it's pretty nerdy, and I agree!

So I encountered an issue doing slow sim cpu vs cpu in my franchise mode. In the second season, I got more serious about adding plays and deleting plays to refine the game plan based on personnel. When I did so, a strange glitch happened. My team now punts the ball on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd down about 4 or 5 times per game. I've gathered that many of you are actually playing the game, but hopefully you can help me fix this.

My suspicion: I have too many plays. I've downloaded a few playbooks and looked at the team playbooks. They typically have 20 plays assigned to 1st down, 2nd and long, etc. I have far, far more than that. I started a new franchise and used the regular playbook (Cowboys playing as Cowboys) and the punt issue didn't happen once.

I'm thinking of simplifying my book entirely, taking out redundancies like the same play out of a different formation, and limit myself to 20 plays from a more limited number of formations. Do any of you know if there is a formation limit I should be aware of? I think I messed up by adding more formations to vary the personnel when I run plays.

Thanks in advance!