Hey guys! I have been working hard on getting some more accurate & up-to-date draft classes for Madden 08. I have done about as good as I could with the file I edited from NCAA 08. I have now gotten 9 draft classes available for usage in Madden. I'll explain what & how this worked out below!
What I have done is take actual prospects for the 2008,2009,& 2010 high school classes & place them into NCAA 08 so they would be available for these draft classes. For the ones that doesn't know NCAA 08 allows the user to "Create-A-Prospect" after each season in a dynasty. There are 25 of these type prospects allowed to be created after each season.
What I did was place 25 from the class of 2008,15 from the class of 2009,& 10 from the class of 2010. I have used info from Rivals.com & scout.com & as well as info from a member named MattUM from MM forums. He usually provides info for some of the top prospects for NCAA Football series.This year he has switched to the PS3 version & has pretty much stopped after making only a select few players on offense.
I have taken the Top 22 prospects listed at Rivals for the class of 2008 & placed them into NCAA 08. I used the other 3 Create-A-Prospects to make Emmanuel Moody(RB,transfer to Florida), one local player which is going to Wisconsin as a QB,& created Kerry Murphy(DT) which didn't qualify for Alabama this year.
I have taken about 15 prospects for the class of 2009 & placed them into NCAA 08. I have taken 10 prospects for the lass of 2010 & placed them into NCAA 08. You get the picture. What has happened since doing this & making the draft classes is that Rivals has now posted an updated report on the class of 2009 which provides info on 50 top prospetcs. I had limited info available when making my draft classes so I only have about 15 players from the 2009 class instead. I am not going back to mess with re-doing that class.
One thing that I didn't do was go back to change all those player faces that cause the color glitch in Madden. I did however make sure of the players created & changed that they didn't have the faces that cause the color problem. These are white players that are given #1 & black players that are given #4 & #14 faces. Thanks EA for not fixing this stupid glitch! Very Nice!
This is not a total killer to the draft classes but it sure as heck makes things different. Color I guess doesn't matter to EA Sports. Geez! If I went back to correct these player faces it would take enormous amount of time so I didn't do that with players that already had these type faces. Chalk another one up for EA on this one.
I haven't tested these draft classes out yet either. I am fresh off of making these so I will test them out soon. Any feedback is welcome but what's done is done & I'm not going back to correct anything. I at least have some real-life prospects placed into NCAA 08 to make the draft classes somewhat more realistic for Madden. Thanks & enjoy! These are in Xport/Sharkport format & I'll provide the right converter program for others wanting these in Max Drive format! Thanks again!
One other thing I want to add is the reason for getting 9 draft classes! I was going to only provide 8 but since 3 of the 2010 prospects red-shirted that left them out of the 8th draft class. Therefore, I had to go another one to get them into the draft. Now, this granted will only have these 3 real-life prospects but I wanted them to be available still. Thanks!
Edit: I had to remove the draft class labeled "1" because it was a duplicate of the "07" class. I don't know how this happened except for the fact of starting over at one point & then forgetting to remove this one class from MC! Thanks guys & I apologize!
Max Drive classes now available also in post #1. Thanks!
What I have done is take actual prospects for the 2008,2009,& 2010 high school classes & place them into NCAA 08 so they would be available for these draft classes. For the ones that doesn't know NCAA 08 allows the user to "Create-A-Prospect" after each season in a dynasty. There are 25 of these type prospects allowed to be created after each season.
What I did was place 25 from the class of 2008,15 from the class of 2009,& 10 from the class of 2010. I have used info from Rivals.com & scout.com & as well as info from a member named MattUM from MM forums. He usually provides info for some of the top prospects for NCAA Football series.This year he has switched to the PS3 version & has pretty much stopped after making only a select few players on offense.
I have taken the Top 22 prospects listed at Rivals for the class of 2008 & placed them into NCAA 08. I used the other 3 Create-A-Prospects to make Emmanuel Moody(RB,transfer to Florida), one local player which is going to Wisconsin as a QB,& created Kerry Murphy(DT) which didn't qualify for Alabama this year.
I have taken about 15 prospects for the class of 2009 & placed them into NCAA 08. I have taken 10 prospects for the lass of 2010 & placed them into NCAA 08. You get the picture. What has happened since doing this & making the draft classes is that Rivals has now posted an updated report on the class of 2009 which provides info on 50 top prospetcs. I had limited info available when making my draft classes so I only have about 15 players from the 2009 class instead. I am not going back to mess with re-doing that class.
One thing that I didn't do was go back to change all those player faces that cause the color glitch in Madden. I did however make sure of the players created & changed that they didn't have the faces that cause the color problem. These are white players that are given #1 & black players that are given #4 & #14 faces. Thanks EA for not fixing this stupid glitch! Very Nice!
This is not a total killer to the draft classes but it sure as heck makes things different. Color I guess doesn't matter to EA Sports. Geez! If I went back to correct these player faces it would take enormous amount of time so I didn't do that with players that already had these type faces. Chalk another one up for EA on this one.I haven't tested these draft classes out yet either. I am fresh off of making these so I will test them out soon. Any feedback is welcome but what's done is done & I'm not going back to correct anything. I at least have some real-life prospects placed into NCAA 08 to make the draft classes somewhat more realistic for Madden. Thanks & enjoy! These are in Xport/Sharkport format & I'll provide the right converter program for others wanting these in Max Drive format! Thanks again!
One other thing I want to add is the reason for getting 9 draft classes! I was going to only provide 8 but since 3 of the 2010 prospects red-shirted that left them out of the 8th draft class. Therefore, I had to go another one to get them into the draft. Now, this granted will only have these 3 real-life prospects but I wanted them to be available still. Thanks!
Edit: I had to remove the draft class labeled "1" because it was a duplicate of the "07" class. I don't know how this happened except for the fact of starting over at one point & then forgetting to remove this one class from MC! Thanks guys & I apologize!
Max Drive classes now available also in post #1. Thanks!
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