Random Fake UNFA's invading Franchise

[volstopfan14]

Quote: Originally Posted by Manning2Harrison

Yes, both from sitting around too long or because of the size limit of the FA pool.

wow. That is a joke. I thought this problem could be solved just by cutting the fake UDFAs in the preseason. EA seriously needs to make the FA pool bigger. Expanding the roster size but not allowing for more free agents is inexcusable.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

So annoying that I have to edit player's ratings myself to get them signed to teams. Everette Brown led the NFL with 20.5 sacks, was left in the free agent pool as a 74 overall after that, so I had to bump him up mainly using Awareness so that he would be above an 80 so he would be signed. Had to do the same with a rookie QB and Tony Romo.

[LivingLegend]

Quote: Originally Posted by ghettoqball

See, I look at that list, and I see a pretty big problem. I'm counting 36 QBs on that list that are UDFAs. Maybe 12 of those guys are good enough that they could actually be backups. I've seen simmed games where all 3 quarterbacks end up playing. I definitely don't want to see these guys in franchise games. And this is only the quarterbacks. In my franchise, the packers have a 40-something overall LOLB as their second string player. There is a pretty good chance he will get solid playing time, when in real life that guy would have a hard time making a practice squad. I'm torn on what I should do on this though. I HATE this issue, but I like the CPU picking up new guys via free agency, and also draft day trades. With 32 team control, those are both eliminated. But I think that's the way I'll have to go to avoid the CPU assembling a team that is partially made up of practice squad players.

Nice to see you over here along with IGN man.

I too am irritated with this all. I tried yesterday to sim an off-season and do the draft/cut days to try to elminate the fake players to get real rookies from NCAA on the teams and it took me hours I finally just gave up. I'm still hoping the Week 1 roster update helps elminate the problem.

[LionsFanNJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by LivingLegend

Nice to see you over here along with IGN man. I too am irritated with this all. I tried yesterday to sim an off-season and do the draft/cut days to try to elminate the fake players to get real rookies from NCAA on the teams and it took me hours I finally just gave up. I'm still hoping the Week 1 roster update helps elminate the problem.

you do realize the week 1 update is only going to have about 55 players and the rest will immediately be filled with these guys when you start franchise right?

[KBLover]

Quote: Originally Posted by debauchlord

It is not beyond the scope of possibility. Fives years into franchise, and some team made themselves a 68 overall? Cheap owner, bad management....these stories play out constantly over different sports, including football.

Except...did it happen because the owner has a cheap personality? Or is it strictly because of the AI and their inability to decipher the system EA put in place?

Are there even owner personalities in M12? OOTP12 has them, and if this happened in that game and the owner is a tightwad, then that would at least make that a possibility, but in M12 - if there's no owner personalities, can we say "they made themselves bad because the owner is too cheap?"

I WISH owner personalities were in the game.

Having to come up with "backstory" to justify the fact it cuts top prospects for 40/F UDFAs that come in as "90?" and the AI believes they are actually 90 is a problem, imo, and it needs tweaking.

[Manning2Harrison]

Quote: Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ

you do realize the week 1 update is only going to have about 55 players and the rest will immediately be filled with these guys when you start franchise right?

Do we know this for sure? I've not seen anything about it. Since they've made such a big deal about expanded rosters and cut-down days, it would make more sense for the rosters to include not just the final group, but also the players who were with a team during training camp (unless they've ended up with another team). Cuts were made that not all of us agree with, since the game starts week 1 of the preseason, we should have the option of having all of the cut players at our disposal so we can choose who ends up on our opening day roster. That would also allow the FA pool to include players that would otherwise go missing since the size of the pool is too small to include all of the players who got cut. The reduction in the number of fake UDFA's would be an additional benefit of structuring the rosters that way.

The update shouldn't be about reducing the roster sizes, it should be about accounting for player movement and the inclusion of players previously missing.

[Manning2Harrison]

Quote: Originally Posted by KBLover

Except...did it happen because the owner has a cheap personality? Or is it strictly because of the AI and their inability to decipher the system EA put in place? Are there even owner personalities in M12? OOTP12 has them, and if this happened in that game and the owner is a tightwad, then that would at least make that a possibility, but in M12 - if there's no owner personalities, can we say "they made themselves bad because the owner is too cheap?" I WISH owner personalities were in the game. Having to come up with "backstory" to justify the fact it cuts top prospects for 40/F UDFAs that come in as "90?" and the AI believes they are actually 90 is a problem, imo, and it needs tweaking.

In Madden, all the owners are cheapskates.

[LionsFanNJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Manning2Harrison

Do we know this for sure? I've not seen anything about it. Since they've made such a big deal about expanded rosters and cut-down days, it would make more sense for the rosters to include not just the final group, but also the players who were with a team during training camp (unless they've ended up with another team). Cuts were made that not all of us agree with, since the game starts week 1 of the preseason, we should have the option of having all of the cut players at our disposal so we can choose who ends up on our opening day roster. That would also allow the FA pool to include players that would otherwise go missing since the size of the pool is too small to include all of the players who got cut. The reduction in the number of fake UDFA's would be an additional benefit of structuring the rosters that way. The update shouldn't be about reducing the roster sizes, it should be about accounting for player movement and the inclusion of players previously missing.

Donny is only keeping the players that made the final cut and any players on IR for the Week 1 update.

Donny_Moore Donny Moore
The free agent wire holds approx. 280+ players. NFL teams at 90 players now (we support 75). Must cut down to 53 per team, plus IR guys.