Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth It?

[JSmooveIV]

I just finished my first full season on NCAA 12(Won Title With Longhorns 13-0 Wooo!) and im ready play a full season on madden with my Cowboys(Woooo!) and engage in a draft with my imported class. Are their bugs in the franchise that alters anyone's desire from starting one?

[oneamongthefence]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Yeah. Too many Undrafted Free agents who are F potential end up on teams rosters.

[GOBLUE_08]

I dont control all 32 teams and im still having fun. I guess it depends on how anal you are rosters and player equipment and the like. Im old school man, so i dont get bothered by some of the minor bugs. The only thing that really bothers me is the injury lengths, and for that i just turn injuries off for a few weeks during the season. The undrafted rookies dont bother me, if they get too silly i just edit them to be servicable players. I havent enjoyed madden this much in a long time, a lot of people would disagree with that though.

[OG_McNabb]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Yeah. Too many Undrafted Free agents who are F potential end up on teams rosters.

I thought I read somewhere that this is only an issue in the first year. Is that true. Also, are those UFA's starters or just very low on the depth chart.

[TheDelta]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

I thought I read somewhere that this is only an issue in the first year. Is that true. Also, are those UFA's starters or just very low on the depth chart.

They are low on the depth chart and usually if the CPU gets enough injuries some of them might be forced to start they usually hit the FA market before the next game.

I'm only playing 1 team offline 'chises and I'm doing alright, in a new frachise, I usually spend half an hour or so signing the most important cut rookies after the first preseason (from the first 4 rounds or so) and trade them back to their teams, usually they keep em after that and the problem is solved.

You'll have a couple of players every year that get drafted high and then cut in the preseason, that's unfortunate, but it's really not that may and it's not like teams are suddenly starting 50 OVR F potential players.

[OG_McNabb]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

They are low on the depth chart and usually if the CPU gets enough injuries some of them might be forced to start they usually hit the FA market before the next game.

I'm only playing 1 team offline 'chises and I'm doing alright, in a new frachise, I usually spend half an hour or so signing the most important cut rookies after the first preseason (from the first 4 rounds or so) and trade them back to their teams, usually they keep em after that and the problem is solved.

You'll have a couple of players every year that get drafted high and then cut in the preseason, that's unfortunate, but it's really not that may and it's not like teams are suddenly starting 50 OVR F potential players.

Doesn't seem to bad to me, as long as I'm not going against scrubs. I'll probably pick it up Friday since it'll be 28.00.

[CatMan72]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

They are low on the depth chart and usually if the CPU gets enough injuries some of them might be forced to start they usually hit the FA market before the next game.

I'm only playing 1 team offline 'chises and I'm doing alright, in a new frachise, I usually spend half an hour or so signing the most important cut rookies after the first preseason (from the first 4 rounds or so) and trade them back to their teams, usually they keep em after that and the problem is solved.

You'll have a couple of players every year that get drafted high and then cut in the preseason, that's unfortunate, but it's really not that may and it's not like teams are suddenly starting 50 OVR F potential players.

This drives me crazy, I guess I'll need to learn to get over it.

[RogueHominid]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

This issue is a little overplayed to me--no offense to those who are worked up about it.

You can change the ones who look like robots into P if you're only using one team, and then they'll get cut over the pre-season.

The ones who have realistic builds can actually be useful. I do quick edits to give a handful legit, usable skill sets for special teams or the bottom of the roster, and I'll edit a handful into potential starters in the 70s OVR.

Using the Bears, their reali life roster has some 50s dudes on it, especially at backup DE and LB. I just keep the UFAs who are 50s and 60s and let teams use them to fill the bottom of the roster.

If you release all the robocop guys in the first pre-season, they disappear from the game and become non-issues.

[tarantism]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

You can really go either way. I started out doing only one team franchises this year but ended up doing my usual 32 team setups because I am super anal about getting everything to act like it does in real life (see my thread about coaching schemes).

So I control all of the teams and do their drafts and free agents and the like. It takes forever and probably isn't worth it since I only get to play 2 or so hours at a time, and sometimes not at all. But for me, it's essential.

For others? I would say yes you can get by with controlling only one team. What I do really takes some of the fun out of playing and makes my madden experience more like work.

[SteboSSK]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Its hard to have any realism if you dont overcontrol. The cpu does very little resigning of any players. I simmed a season to what it was like...pretty much every top player that was in their contract year hit the market and many got resigned by other teams. Peyton Manning would not be on the market and signing with the Bears...mind u its Manning and they have Cutler already starting...its too much that goes wrong. Short term as in playing one year isnt an issue but long term 3-4 seasons in you dont even recognize half the players...

[Marsh43]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Absolutely enjoying my one team franchise

[Obnoxious]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Yeah. Too many Undrafted Free agents who are F potential end up on teams rosters.

Doesn't mean you can't use just one team.

Each Off-Season, switch to all teams then cut anyone with 50-55 below Ovr or F potential. Then switch back to your team.

[kpkpkp]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Doesn't mean you can't use just one team.

Each Off-Season, switch to all teams then cut anyone with 50-55 below Ovr or F potential. Then switch back to your team.

I never thought of doing this.

Then during the pre-season you could do the Punter/Kicker edit thing.

And voila! Most fake UDFA's wouldnt be a problem and you can do 1-team control.

[KBLover]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

I thought I read somewhere that this is only an issue in the first year. Is that true. Also, are those UFA's starters or just very low on the depth chart.

It's a mix of the two "camps", imo. (Truth is somewhere in the middle, as they say).

There can be a lot of UDFAs on teams. When I switched one of my 1-team franchises to 32-teams, one team had 16 UDFAs on it...but the worst part is they were ALL "F" players. That's sad.

But I believe they were all back ups and such so you don't have to worry about them starting in a lot of cases, but there were SOME that were slated to start. Those teams, though, did pick up some guys off the FA pool.

If EA won't fix the AI's dealing with them, editing them up to decent players (which they probably should be more often, more C/D+ players and less F players) is a good solution. You could "make the rounds" at the end of every preseason and do some edits of any really pathetic players.

[KBLover]

Re: Would You Start A Franchise Right Now W/O Controlling All 32 Teams? Is It Worth I

Doesn't mean you can't use just one team.

Each Off-Season, switch to all teams then cut anyone with 50-55 below Ovr or F potential. Then switch back to your team.

Exactly what I'm doing with my "converted" franchise. I set everything but cut days and scouting (for some reason, that's "global") to CPU, and on draft day, just sim each pick until "my" pick comes up. "My" team is all User and I play as per a 1-team franchise otherwise.