We have been able to edit a player's posistion since Madden 05, In Madden 12 you could edit any player to any position at anytime. It was only taken out in M13. Madden 13 limited pretty much all roster management of any kind so trickling some of this back on a more limted basis does not excite me.
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Re: Madden NFL 25 Blog - Position Changes Are In
We have been able to edit a player's posistion since Madden 05, In Madden 12 you could edit any player to any position at anytime. It was only taken out in M13. Madden 13 limited pretty much all roster management of any kind so trickling some of this back on a more limted basis does not excite me.Last edited by Cleveland Rocks; 08-13-2013, 03:30 PM.I would say it's nice to meet you but it's not so I don't pretend it is when I greet you.
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I would put Bob Kraft, or even Mr. B in at QB WAYYYYY before I thought about putting Tebow in a game.....you must not have watched the first preseason game?Position changes are in; does that mean that they've also lightened up on cross-position play? i.e. Can Patrick Peterson play WR? Can Randall Cobb play RB? Can Percy Harvin play RB? Can Joe Webb play QB? All while remaining at their current, respective, position?
Limiting it to an off-season action is a bummer. Say you switch Tebow to TE and Brady gets injured for the season. You probably want to play Tebow at QB. Having the ability to start a player at any position has been abused when it was possible in last-gen Madden, but it doesn't make banning it justified. There is legitimate use for it.
One of my favorite position swaps was moving Reggie Bush to WR. He was so damn good as a slot receiver. I want to be able to have fun like this, again, with position changes.Comment
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Not to mention it's realistic and teams do it all the time.Limiting it to an off-season action is a bummer. Say you switch Tebow to TE and Brady gets injured for the season. You probably want to play Tebow at QB. Having the ability to start a player at any position has been abused when it was possible in last-gen Madden, but it doesn't make banning it justified. There is legitimate use for it.
"Positions" in real life are no where near as limiting as they are in video games. It's just where you line up and your responsibilities on that play.
If Tebow is decent at throwing and decent a catching in traffic and using size like a TE, the he should be decent at both. What's the need for the designation other than during contract time (where it matters then mostly for franchise player tagging)?
Things get exploited not because of position changing but because the game can't represent the demands of the position. If a QB can play DT, that's not position changing, that's inability to require size, strength, and power at DT. Banning changing is just yet another case of focusing on the symptom instead of the cure.
Same with this "awareness penalty". Why have a global penalty and not some sort of experience system like in OOTP? If a guy has played that spot before in real life (like say I switch Suggs back and forth from DE to OLB), why is he going to be penalized? And why just awareness? Why not PRC? Or CTH? or RTE? or M/ZCV? Reading the field, the play, the keys, etc, is all different.Last edited by KBLover; 08-14-2013, 12:14 PM."Some people call it butterflies, but to him, it probably feels like pterodactyls in his stomach." --Plesac in MLB18Comment
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Ideally you should be able to put any player at any position. You want your lineman to play receiver? So be it. Wanna have your DT play QB and throw every ball in the dirt? That should be your choice without having to go through some process.
Think of the early 2000s Patriots when they'd have Vrabel line up at TE or Seymour at FB. This is impossible in Madden. If it's in the game, it's probably not in Madden.
Look at the Jaguars and Denard Robinson. You should be able to have him play QB, WR, RB, whatever without having to lock him into one role.
How are they going to handle Patrick Peterson playing WR? Are you going to have to move him there?
Also, are players going to be limited in regards to which positions they can be switched to? If so, what a load of garbage.
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Thank you for a feature that shouldve never been removed anyway. good lord.Comment
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I like how that blog post announcement CLAIMS you can change Josh Cribbs to QB...
"How about moving Ryan Tannehill to WR or Josh Cribbs to QB like they played in college? Now you can. With Madden NFL 25, you can make position changes at any point in the offseason of your Connected Franchise. You can also make all position changes on your roster and then bring that custom roster into the beginning of your Connected Franchise."
But in reality, that option is NOT available during the offseason. You cannot move a WR to any other position at ANY time after beginning a franchise. Likewise, you cannot move ANY position to QB at any time after beginning a franchise.
You also can't move any defensive players to offense at any point after beginning a franchise. The only way to get a defensive player on offense is via extremely limited depth chart adjustments while IN A GAME, such as subbing in your MLB at TE. I think some offensive playbooks actually include plays that put your CB on the field as one of the WR's (I forget which playbook, might be the Power Run playbook).
It's nice that the option is available before you start a franchise, but frustrating that it's heavily implied in the official blog post as being an option in the offseason, yet it's actually not.Comment
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Very frustrating indeed, and why can't I move my undersized speedy LB to safety in the offseason??? Or my fast OL to TE, or my huge TE to OL, or - why the heck are their restrictions anyway???
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