Bill's Realism Sliders (only Coach Mode for now)

[tomriddle]

NFL Scoreboard - New York Jets (3-2) at Washington Redskins (3-3)

, 1 2 3 4 OT F New York Jets 0 17 0 6 0 23 Washington Redskins 3 7 10 3 6 29 Top Performers New York Jets - Stats Washington Redskins - Stats	Team Stats Comparison NYJ WAS First Downs 13 10 3rd Down Efficiency 4-17 23% 4-15 26% 4th Down Efficiency 0-0 0-0 Total Yards 437 376 Passing Yards 259 230 Rushing Yards 120 62 Penalties-Penalty Yards 10-72 2-20 Turnovers 3 2 Time of Possession 30:08 23:05
Scoring Summary First Quarter NYJ WAS WAS 0:09 G.Gano 44yd fg 0 3 Second Quarter NYJ WAS NYJ 4:24 G.Hartley 18yd fg 3 3 NYJ 4:15 D.Barber returned fumble 18yds 10 3 NYJ 1:18 S.Greene 2yd run 17 3 WAS 0:02 F.Davis 3yd pass 17 10 Third Quarter NYJ WAS WAS 9:16 G.Gano 34yd fg 17 13 WAS 3:43 F.Davis 29yd pass 17 20 Fourth Quarter NYJ WAS NYJ 10:16 G.Hartley 31yd fg 20 20 NYJ 4:29 G.Hartley 22yd fg 23 20 WAS 0:00 G.Gano 45yd fg 23 23 Overtime NYJ WAS WAS 8:06 S.Slaton 1yd run 23 29
New York Jets Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M.Sanchez 15-31 275 0 2 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD S.Greene 28 112 3.9 1 L.Tomlinson 4 8 2 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD J.Crotchery 5 48 9.6 0 S.Holmes 5 145 29 0 B.Edwards 3 60 20 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD A.Cromartie 9 0 D.Harris 8 1 T.Zbikowski 6 0 Washington Redskins Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT D.McNabb 16-29 253 2 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD C.Portis 25 51 2 0 S.Slaton 3 10 3.3 1 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD D.Thomas 5 129 25.8 0 M.Sellers 3 21 7 0 C.Portis 2 10 5 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD L.Fletcher 11 1 L.Landry 7 0 K.Barnes 5 1 1

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[garion333]

Bill, as always I do so enjoy using your sliders. I was planning on just waiting for your non-coach slider set, but found that I hadn't played Madden in well over a week and figured I'd give coach mode a try. I'm actually thinking I might just stick with coach mode from here on out. It plays much more like Head Coach, which I actually prefer nowadays. I like putting teams together and seeing how they play.

Anyway, I played through the preseason as the Ravens and ended up 3-1 (Panthers 16 @ Ravens 30; Ravens 45 @ Redskins 3; Giants 17 @ Ravens 16; Ravens 26 & Rams 0). For the most part I think the scores reflect the team ratings and make a lot of sense. Technically the score should've been 38-3 against the Redskins, but I threw a Hail Mary at the end of the game for no particular reason and that ended up a touchdown.

I utilized Game Flow for almost every game, but would always wait until 35 seconds were on the clock before hitting the button to allow the timer to drop to 20 seconds. I ended up averaging 118 plays a game. I would stick to the game plan and rarely audible out of it unless there was a horrible mismatch. Basically, I didn't try and exploit the game by constantly calling audibles into a slant pattern or whatever.

I don't want to get into passing and running stats too much since the preseason is a bit of a mess, but the Ravens threw 11 tds to 0 int. The opposing teams threw 1 td to 2 int. The Ravens had more throwing tds than I would've expected, but part of that, I believe, is that I need to keep tweaking the gameplanning. But the lack of interceptions was appalling, on both sides of the board. I mean, we're talking about preseason with 1st, 2nd and 3rd stringers in there (though that's true on both sides of the ball). I know we need to expect a fair amount of dropped interceptions in the game in order to make it play realistically, even if it looks absurd, but the fact that the Ravens didn't throw a single interception boggles my mind.

Sack numbers seem okay if a little low, but part of that is the issue with QBs getting rid of the ball while practically being on the ground. For now, the numbers are okay.

I had 0 touchbacks. I didn't have too much wind in my games to help sail a ball into an endzone, but even using a kicker with 94 power for kickoffs he barely managed to get the ball past the goal line and that was with the help of wind. I think I'm going to bump kickoff power up to 35. I was using that before and you could get touchbacks, but for the most part the ball was still being brought out if it went over the goaline.

I'll wait until a few games into the regular season to pass judgment on other aspects. I'll also post up stat sheets using the OS table generators.

Note: I added 3 or 4 players to the Ravens and dropped some others. I was replacing backups, basically. I didn't "cheat" and add all the top ranked guys either, I looked for younger guys with some possible upside. For instance I dropped my 4th TE and added a backup LG, even though he's a 3rd of 4th string backup. Again, I didn't try and game the system, but created more even depth from the default roster.

[garion333]

Week 1 Regular Season

NFL Scoreboard - Baltimore Ravens (0-0) at New York Jets (0-0)

, 1 2 3 4 F Baltimore Ravens 7 0 0 13 20 New York Jets 0 0 0 0 0 Top Performers Baltimore Ravens - Stats New York Jets - Stats	Team Stats Comparison BAL NYJ First Downs 10 15 3rd Down Efficiency 31% 26% 4th Down Efficiency N/A 0% Total Yards 270 409 Passing Yards 155 196 Rushing Yards 77 130 Penalties-Penalty Yards 4-40 8-66 Turnovers 0 1 Time of Possession 22:46 25:14
Scoring Summary First Quarter BAL NYJ BAL 2:39 R.Rice 31 yd pass 7 0 Fourth Quarter BAL NYJ BAL 10:11 A.Boldin 7 yd td pass 14 0 BAL 7:44 B.Cundiff 53 yd FG 17 0 BAL 2:55 S.Graham 47 yd FG
Baltimore Ravens Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT J.Flacco 17/35 158 2 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD R.Rice 22 76 3.4 0 W.McGahee 1 1 1 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD R.Rice 5 49 9.8 1 M.Clayton 4 26 6.5 0 T.Heap 4 48 12.0 0 A.Boldin 2 17 8.5 1 Defense TKL SACK INT TD J.Johnson 9 1 0 0 E. Reed 7 0 1 0 R.Lewis 5 0 0 0 H.Ngata 4 1 0 0 New York Jets Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M.Sanchez 13/38 219 0 1 K.Clemens 0 2 0 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD S.Greene 26 130 4.9 0 L.Tomlinson 5 0 0 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD L.Coles 5 72 14.4 0 J.Cotchery 4 55 13.7 0 S.Holmes 2 78 39.0 0 D.Keller 2 14 7.0 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD D.Harris 5 0 0 0 B.Scott 4 0 0 0 B.Thomas 4 1 0 0

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Notes: Total Sacks - Ravens 4, Jets 1. QBs comp% was down, a lot of throws while being hit. Again, no touchbacks. One major injury for Ravens. Plenty of minor.

[skte1ement]

What I have been doing to solve kicking issues (ie returns, FG's) is to supersim those plays. Works out good and gives me some bigger punt/kick off returns.

With my Bronco's franchise my passing game is terrible. I'm wondering how you guys get these statistics. It is normal for me to have as many completed passes as times my quarterback is sacked. It seems like every throw my quarterback is getting hit and it results in an incompletion. Any ideas?

Blitzing the quarterback is also very effective for my defense, and is resulting in bad passing numbers for my opponent. They will hit maybe one or two big passing plays a game that result in most of their yardage.

[EonBlue]

NFL Scoreboard - Seattle () at Denver ()

, 1 2 3 4 OT F Seattle 0 10 3 7 0 20 Denver 0 14 0 6 6 26 Top Performers Seattle - Stats Denver - Stats	Team Stats Comparison Sea Den First Downs 3rd Down Efficiency 4th Down Efficiency Total Yards 343 354 Passing Yards 207 176 Rushing Yards 136 178 Penalties-Penalty Yards 1-15 0-0 Turnovers 1 0 Time of Possession
Scoring Summary Second Quarter Sea Den Sea 12:13 O. Mare 52 yd fg 3 0 Sea 8:39 J. Jones 10 yd run 10 0 Den 5:55 D. Campbell 61 yd pass from K. Orton 10 7 Den 0:38 J. Gaffney 14 yd pass from K. Orton 10 14 Third Quarter Sea Den Sea 0:24 O. Mare 49 yd fg 13 14 Fourth Quarter Sea Den Den 8:03 M. Prater 49 yd fg 13 17 Den 1:48 M. Prater 38 yd fg 13 20 Sea 0:38 T. Houshmandzadeh 10 yd pass from C. Whitehurst 20 20 Overtime Sea Den Den 6:55 K. Moreno 76 yd run 20 26
Seattle Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M. Hasselback 16/30 194 0 1 C. Whitehurst 3/4 32 1 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD J. Jones 15 96 6.4 1 L. Washington 5 49 9.8 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD Houshmandzadeh 5 66 13.1 1 G. Tate 4 27 6.8 0 D. Bulter 3 59 19.7 0 Denver Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT K. Orton 16/30 184 2 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD K. Moreno 23 179 7.8 1 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD J. Gaffney 5 61 12.2 1 D. Campbell 4 78 19.5 1 K. Moreno 6 4 0.7 0

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I ran this game with a few changes to the sliders. My concern with all of the boxscore I have seen is the CPU QB accuracy. In most case the completion % was near 50% or lower regardless of the QB. I bumped the CPU QB Accuracy to 23. CPU WR Catch to 48. Broken Tackles for Hum/CPU to 25. CPU Fumbles to 34.

Although the rushing looks high, a couple times I was caught in a bad defense against where J. Jones ran for 9 -15 yds. Also Denver's run defense is not great (and there were a few injures). Before the OT K. Moreno was 22-103 yds, which I think is Ok versus a bad Seattle defense. The 76 yd run in OT, Seattle blitzed from the outside and the safety was out of position and Moreno was not touched. There were only 3 broken tackles between Moreno and Jones. Overall, I was pleased with the modest changes. I am going to test playing against P. Manning and see if the Comp % makes sense. Part of the problem is the Hasselback threw it deep 5 or 6 times.

[garion333]

NFL Scoreboard - Baltimore Ravens (1-0) at Cincinnati Bengals (0-1)

, 1 2 3 4 F Baltimore Ravens 10 7 7 3 27 Cincinnati Bengals 0 6 0 7 13 Top Performers Baltimore Ravens - Stats Cincinnati Bengals - Stats	Team Stats Comparison BAL CIN First Downs 14 13 3rd Down Efficiency 6/12 50% 7-16 43% 4th Down Efficiency 0-00% 0-3 0% Total Yards 254 242 Passing Yards 152 162 Rushing Yards 102 80 Penalties-Penalty Yards 3-35 2-20 Turnovers 2 1 Time of Possession 22:34 25:26
Scoring Summary First Quarter BAL CIN BAL 6:06 S.Graham 24 yd FG 3 0 BAL 3:00 J.Johnson, returned fumble 90 yds 10 0 Second Quarter BAL CIN CIN 10:06 R.Kelly 4 yd pass (missed kick) 10 6 BAL 6:01 W.McGahee 4 yd run 17 6 Third Quarter BAL CIN BAL 4:32 M.Clayton 6 yd pass 24 6 Fourth Quarter BAL CIN CIN 11:56 A.Bryant 17 yd pass 24 31 BAL 1:01 S.Graham 31 yd FG 27 13
Baltimore Ravens Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT J.Flacco 15/20 171 1 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD R.Rice 22 68 3.0 0 W.McGahee 5 31 6.2 1 L.McClain 1 3 3.0 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD T.Heap 5 53 10.6 0 M.Clayton 4 43 10.7 1 A.Boldin 3 58 19.3 0 R.Rice 3 17 5.6 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD R.Lewis 7 0 0 0 S.Kindle 7 1 0 0 J.Johnson 1 0 0 1 Cincinnati Bengals Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT C.Palmer 19/36 196 2 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD C.Benson 16 55 3.4 0 B.Scott 6 21 3.5 0 F. Vakapuna 1 4 4.0 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD A.Bryant 5 62 12.4 1 C.Ochocinco 5 62 12.4 0 A.Caldwell 3 32 10.6 0 C.Benson 2 17 8.5 0 R.Kelly 2 7 3.5 1 Defense TKL SACK INT TD D.Jones 9 0 0 0 M.Trent 4 1 0 0 B.Johnson 4 1 0 0

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Notes: Total Sacks - Ravens 4, Bengals 3. Still no interceptions on either side, though there was less obvious drops in this game than the last. No major injuries for the Ravens. Plenty of smaller. Overall this seemed more like a real game than the previous game.

[tomriddle]

NFL Scoreboard - Washington Redskins (4-3) at Philadelphia Eagles (5-2)

, 1 2 3 4 OT F Washington Redskins 0 10 7 14 3 34 Philadelphia Eagles 21 3 0 7 0 31 Top Performers Washington Redskins - Stats Philadelphia Eagles - Stats	Team Stats Comparison WAS PHI First Downs 13 15 3rd Down Efficiency 2-10 20% 4-12 33% 4th Down Efficiency 1-1 0-0 Total Yards 570 610 Passing Yards 220 182 Rushing Yards 218 281 Penalties-Penalty Yards 3-30 7-44 Turnovers 2 1 Time of Possession 24:23 23:47
Scoring Summary First Quarter WAS PHI PHI 10:06 J.Maclin 70yd run 0 7 PHI 7:05 J.Maclin 26yd pass 0 14 PHI 4:43 L.McCoy 98yd run 0 21 Second Quarter WAS PHI PHI 4:24 D.Akers 39yd fg 0 24 WAS 4:09 C.Portis 77yd run 7 24 WAS 0:26 G.Gano 23yd fg 10 24 Third Quarter WAS PHI WAS 9:15 S.Moss 2yd pass 17 24 Fourth Quarter WAS PHI WAS 7:06 D.Thomas 18yd pass 24 24 WAS 3:49 F.Davis 54yd pass 31 24 PHI 1:39 J.Maclin 17yd pass 31 31 Overtime WAS PHI WAS 11:49 G.Gano 34yd fg 34 31
Washington Redskins Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT D.McNabb 18-27 241 3 1 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD C.Portis 23 211 9.1 1 S.Slaton 4 12 3 0 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD F.Davis 6 120 20 1 S.Moss 3 35 11.6 1 C.Portis 3 15 5 0 D.Thomas 2 50 25 1 Defense TKL SACK INT TD A.Carter 6 1 C.Rogers 6 0 L.Landry 6 0 Philadelphia Eagles Passing C/ATT YDS TD INT M.Moore 22-34 196 2 0 Rushing ATT YDS AVG TD L.McCoy 15 196 13 1 J.Maclin 6 84 14 1 Receiving REC YDS AVG TD L.McCoy 9 49 5.4 0 J.Maclin 5 71 14.2 2 J.Avant 3 43 14.3 0 D.Jackson 3 15 5 0 Defense TKL SACK INT TD E.Hobbs 7 0 S.Bradley 7 0 M.Fokou 6 0

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this was as sweet a victory as any I've ever had in Madden

[Manning2Harrison]

Changes to the base set:

15 min. qtrs, 25 second runoff

Fatigue 62 (give me a good split of RB carries with RB sub at 89/92

Injuries: 40 (was alreading seeing enough)

I don’t know if I’ve ever been sold on a set of sliders after one game, but I’m very pleased with the results I got from the first game:

Vikings 20, Saints (CPU) 19

I love it when neither team scores more than 20 points. This one could have been 21-20, with each team failing on a two point conversion- the Saints first in trying to make the score 21-14. A 3 yard run by Toby Gerhart with 57 seconds left in the third quarter held up as the winning score, but the Vikings would not have won without a 60 yard pick-six by Lito Sheppard in the second quarter. The game had a good ebb and flow to it. Nothing was too easy, but neither was anything maddeningly difficult. I had a solid running game and Favre was efficient, allowing me to dominate time of possession without running up the score. Although Gerhart end up with a modest 3.7 ypc, he was beastly in the final clock-killing drive against a worn out New Orleans defense.

TEAM STATS

MIN | NO

Total off.: 352 | 326
Rush Yards: 182 | 72
Pass Yards: 170 | 254
First Downs: 19 | 12
Turnovers: 2 | 1
3rd Down Conv.: 9-14 | 3-10
Sacks: 0 | 3
Time of Poss.: 39:44 | 20:16

Partial Individual Stats

Passing

Brett Favre: 15-21, 193 yds, TD
Drew Brees: 15-27, 254 yds, INT

Rushing

Adrian Peterson: 20-113 (5.6), TD, long of 24, 2 fumbles lost
Toby Gerhart: 14-52 (3.7), TD, long of 17
Pierre Thomas: 16-68 (4.2), 2 TD
Reggie Bush: 5-4

Receiving

Visanthe Shiancoe: 6-50, TD

Bernard Berrian: 3-72
Jeremy Shockey: 5-116
Marques Colston: 3-41

Defense (MIN/NO)

Sacks: - / Alex Brown, Sedrick Ellis, Patrick Robinson

INT: Lito Sheppard (TD) / -
TAK: Chad Greenway, E.J. Henderson - 4 / Clint Ingram 7