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  • xCAGEx
    Rookie
    • Jul 2011
    • 499

    #1

    2014 Preseason Update

    UPDATED 09/13/2014
    BETA Roster Update v4
    I have not been able to do any testing with this roster. But wanted to share.
    Update is a port of the Week 1 Madden 15 Roster Update.
    All Changes listed below still apply.


    BETA FILE HERE v4


    Its officially here ...

    UPDATE 3.0 (08/13/2014)

    ***PS3 Update at bottom of page***


    ***FIXED SALARY CAP ISSUE***
    More Cosmetic Improvements as pointed out by Jake53
    Fixed fatigue issue where some players could not recover above 50%
    Adjusted Rookies Awareness and Learning Max Potential.
    Adjusted Key Players Importance as well as other attributes.
    Deeper philosophy adjustments with all Head Coachs, OC's and DC's
    Slight adjustments to All Head Coaches Job Security Status.
    Hope is no first year Head Coach will be fired, allowing them 2 maybe 3 years to build their team.

    2014 Preseason Roster Update

    Based entirely off of Rondo is God's Madden 25 Post Draft Update.

    Special thanks to Rondo for again allowing me to use is MD25 updated roster.
    He has put in countless hours in his work and I am honored to be given permission to use it.


    Details -
    PLAYERS -
    Rondos file contains over 2600 hundred players.
    Because of roster restrictions in Head Coach, a little over 2500 players where ported over.
    This is a straight port of Rondos roster. Meaning no player ratings where adjusted.
    Some players OVERALL Ratings will be lower then should be.
    This is caused by lack of prior seasons progression
    .
    Because of this the depth charts are locked to prevent the CPU from cuting players like Brady, Manning or Brees. Overall ratings will correct themselves at the end of the first season and depth charts will also unlock. This will nor prevent you from doing trades or signing free agents.
    Adjusted players sizes. Now Linemen will be built like linemen. CB's will be slender. LB built like LB's
    Currently there are NO player portrait photos. Small detail I am working on.

    Coaches -
    All Head Coaches, OCs and DCs have been updated or added.
    Playbooks and philosophies updated.
    ALL COACHES now will have the ability to reach Max Potential and Skills same as the Created Coach.
    Adjusted all coaches Job Security Status. Now no coach will start the season on the hot set.
    The scale works -
    0 - On Hot Seat
    1 - Doing a Good Job
    2 - Doing A Great Job
    3 - Unbelievable
    First year coaches have a been adjusted to a 2.
    Play off teams are adjusted to a 2
    Super Bowl teams adjusted to a 3
    All others a 1.
    This should lower the number of coaches fired after the first season.
    When looking at the default settings most all coaches where at a 1. Feed back would be appreciated as you guys complete your first and second seasons.
    Adjusted Head Coaches play call philosophies. Since only a few Head Coaches actually call offensive and defensive plays I have adjusted this accordingly.
    In looking at default settings most head coaches where set to call plays on both sides of the ball.
    Not sure how this will effect the progress and development of OC and DCs. Will ask for feed back from you as you play.
    Play calling aggression adjusted for all OC and DC to better match relief counter part.
    From my understanding the aggression controls play calling in simmed games.
    May wanna look back at this if certain stats seem inflated.
    Something goofy I adjusted - added ball cap to created coach.
    Now your created coach where's your teams cap on the sidelines. Only tested with a few different created coaches. But confirmed on coach 28 and lower.

    Please provide feedback on any player skin tone issues.

    With that said ...

    ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL ......

    Xbox ROSTER UPDATE v3 FILE HERE

    PS3 Roster Update v3 File Here

    Thanks, Cage

    Uploading Instructions -

    On Head Coach create a roster save on your USB flash drive
    After creating plug usb flash drive into pc
    Open Horizon, Horizon should auto detect your flash drive
    On the right side of Horizon you should see flash drive
    Under game - Head Coach - Your Roster Save
    Click on your roster save and new window opens
    Click on Content - Then right click on your roster save - click replace - select the new roster update - then save, rehash and resign botton
    Plug usb flash back into xbox under "My Coach" then "FILE MANAGEMENT" load roster save.
    Last edited by xCAGEx; 09-13-2014, 12:02 PM.
  • jake53
    Rookie
    • Apr 2014
    • 49

    #2
    Re: 2014 Preseason Update

    General things noticed precareer
    OLBs are not locked.
    Ratings are very odd.
    WR #2s are not locked.
    WR #4s are not locked.
    CB #3s are not locked

    Weight Changes
    LOLB Von Miller plays around 255 pounds.
    RB CJ Anderson is now playing around 220 pounds.
    RB Monte Ball is now weighs 218 pounds.
    DT Kevin Vickerson plays around 320 pounds.
    ROLB Danny Trevathan plays around 240 pounds.
    CB Chris Harris plays around 200 pounds.
    SS TJ Ward plays around 210 pounds.
    WR Calvin Johnson is playing around 230 now.
    RB Le'Veon Bell is playing around 225 now.
    ROLB John Abraham weighs around 240 pounds, maybe even less.
    LE Lamarr Houston dropped all the way down to 268 pounds. This should probably come witha noticeable speed boost.
    WR Dwayne Bowe dropped down to 212 pounds.
    DT Nick Fairley is up to 308 pounds.
    MLB Mason Foster is down to 235 pounds.
    LOLB Danny Lansanah is down to 235 pounds.
    RE Mike Neal is down to 263 pounds. Should have noticeable speed boost.
    WR Gerell Robinson weighs around 240 pounds.
    LE Derrick Morgan is now 260 pounds.
    MLB Nico Johnson is down to 240 pounds.
    C Kory Lichtensteiger is up to 296 pounds.
    DE Allen Bailey is up to 300 pounds.

    Depth Chart Changes
    TE Dwayne Allen should be Colts starter or at least #2 -colts
    LOLB Nate Irving should be the starting MLB -broncos
    MLB Lamin Barrow should be primary backup -broncos
    MLB Keith Rivers should be starting ROLB (Kiko injury) -bills
    C Manny Ramirez should be starter -broncos
    CB Bradley Roby should be #3 -broncos
    FS Quinton Carter should be #2 -broncos
    RE Mike Neal is now a LOLB -packers
    WR Gerell Robinson is now a TE. -broncos

    Career started issues:

    Top QBs (Brees, PFM, ARod) drop to below 80 overall once career mode is started. It's not due to scheme change as far as I can tell. I used the Broncos and changed schemes with no benefit.

    Salary cap is really screwed up. With no changes Broncos are sitting at -277 million in cap. Nearly every contract in the league needs the Cap Salary adjusted. Players like Calvin Johnson cost 125 mil per year against cap room. Can't sign free agents because of it.

    Potentials for roster fill players should be below 80 at least.

    Some players have 0 Contract Years Left but are on teams, they usually end up getting released eventually during preseason.
    DT Marvin Austin
    WR Brian Robiskie

    Possibly related: Exporting plays and saving playbooks doesn't work for me anymore, but there are easy workarounds for this.

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    • jake53
      Rookie
      • Apr 2014
      • 49

      #3
      Re: 2014 Preseason Update

      Skin issues
      Broncos FS Quinton Carter should be black
      Broncos DT Marvin Austin should be black

      Broncos notable starters and backups are the correct skin color.
      Raiders starters are correct skin color.

      Will test more tomorrow night hopefully.

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      • jake53
        Rookie
        • Apr 2014
        • 49

        #4
        Re: 2014 Preseason Update

        WR Josh Gordon has the face of OT Eric Winston
        WR Justin Blackmon has the face of a black guy

        Skin Tones:
        Cameron Wake should be black
        M.D. Jennings should be black.
        Trevor Scott should be white.
        Leon Hall should be black.
        Domata Peko should be black.
        Autin Wentworth should be white.
        Minn offense is correct.
        Miami's starters are correct color.
        Bears and Bengals notable starters and backups are correct colors.

        Career updates. Simmed first season. Went 7-9 (with Broncos) missed playoffs (promised to make them) and had a neary 90 approval. Did not get fired. Lions beat Jets in superbowl.


        What you did to head coaches getting fired seems to have worked extremely well. 9 teams only won 5 games and only 2 of those 9 were fired. List of fired coaches after year 1:
        Bills - Doug Marrone (6-10)
        Browns- Mike Pettine (5-11)
        Chargers- Mike McCoy (5-11)
        Dolphins- Joe Philbin (4-12) Worst record in league
        Raiders- Dennis Allen (6-10)

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        • lanceb
          Rookie
          • Jan 2013
          • 20

          #5
          Re: 2014 Preseason Update

          Hey XCAGE,

          Any updates for the Rosters for PS3?

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          • ajimithing
            Banned
            • Feb 2011
            • 214

            #6
            Re: 2014 Preseason Update

            Does HC allow you to edit draft classes or edit names after they are drafted?

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            • xCAGEx
              Rookie
              • Jul 2011
              • 499

              #7
              Re: 2014 Preseason Update

              Originally posted by ajimithing
              Does HC allow you to edit draft classes or edit names after they are drafted?
              Sorry it does not. All draft classes are hard coded into the disk so right now there is no way to edit them

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              • xCAGEx
                Rookie
                • Jul 2011
                • 499

                #8
                Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                Originally posted by jake53
                Salary cap is really screwed up. With no changes Broncos are sitting at -277 million in cap. Nearly every contract in the league needs the Cap Salary adjusted. Players like Calvin Johnson cost 125 mil per year against cap room. Can't sign free agents because of it.
                Figured out the cause for this and corrected the salary cap issues
                Updated file on main page....

                Still working on the cosmetics and will do my best to get something up shortly ...

                Thanks for the feed back ....

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                • xCAGEx
                  Rookie
                  • Jul 2011
                  • 499

                  #9
                  Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                  Originally posted by lanceb
                  Hey XCAGE,

                  Any updates for the Rosters for PS3?
                  There are instructions some where on this forum how to transfer this to PS3...
                  Will look and try to post in a bit

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                  • lanceb
                    Rookie
                    • Jan 2013
                    • 20

                    #10
                    Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                    Hey XCAGE that would be awesome if you could post how to transfer to PS3. Thanks for the work you put into this.

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                    • xCAGEx
                      Rookie
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 499

                      #11
                      Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                      Updated roster on main page...

                      All changes listed at top of page

                      Thanks, Cage

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                      • lanceb
                        Rookie
                        • Jan 2013
                        • 20

                        #12
                        Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                        Any updates on how to transfer your XBOX file to a PS3 file.

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                        • jake53
                          Rookie
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 49

                          #13
                          Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                          Skin Tones:
                          OT Andrew Wentworth should be white I'm typed Autin meaning Austin.
                          Buffalo has no issues with notable starters and backups.
                          DE John Hughes should be black
                          MLB Tank Carder should be white
                          TE Jordan Cameron should be white
                          TE Gary Barnidge should be white
                          RB Dion Lewis should be black.
                          WR Earl Bennet should be black.
                          Bears, Bengals, Bills, Broncos, and Browns have now been checked for skin issues with notable starters and backups. I usually go at least two deep and sometimes 3 deep if I know who the 3rd stringer is. Others feel free to help me out here.

                          Looks like you fixed a lot of player portraits! For players who don't have portraits here are some generic face suggestions to use:
                          Black QB/RB/WR/CB/FS/SS/K/P: RB Dantrell Savage FA
                          White QB/RB/WR/CB/FS/SS/K/P: P Mike Dragosavich NE
                          Mixed QB/RB/WR/CB/FS/SS/K/P: QB Chris Leak FA
                          Black OT/OG/C/DT: LT Richard Collier Jax
                          White OT/OG/C/DT: LT Calvin Armstrong FA
                          Mixed OT/OG/C/DT: C Marvin Philip Cle
                          Black FB/TE/DE/OLB/MLB: FB Andrew Pinnock SD
                          White FB/TE/DE/OLB/MLB: FB Boomer Grigsby, Mia
                          Mixed FB/TE/DE/OLB/MLB: LOLB Thomas Williams Jax


                          The issue with QBs dropping in overall once a career is started has not been fixed. Aaron Rodgers dropped to 75 while Peyton Manning dropped to 74. Drew Brees dropped all the way to 67. THP, THA, & AWR don't change but overall does. Manning ended up passing for 4600 yards and threw 31 touchdowns (27 interceptions) while returning to 91 overall. Drew returned to 84 overall. Aaron returned to 92 overall. Weird I guess this is a non issue.


                          Cap room is indeed fixed.


                          Career update: Simmed year 1 and made playoffs at 10-6. Head coaches who got fired include: Jason Garrett (Dal 4-12) and Joe Philbin (Mia 3-13). Vikings and Browns were worse teams in the league and neither new coach was fired. Seahawks beat Chiefs in Super Bowl.
                          Last edited by jake53; 08-07-2014, 05:33 PM.

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                          • cocacolaman
                            Rookie
                            • Jul 2004
                            • 198

                            #14
                            Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                            No Josh Gordon on the Browns. I just uploaded your latest roster and he's not there.
                            Did you put him in FA or something I can't find him. Let me know if anyone else sees this or maybe I have to reload or something. Crazy how the QB's drop then get cut. Manning was cut then resigned with the Red Skins in the career I started as the Browns. Thanks for all the work you've done with these makes playing an old classic fun again.

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                            • coke hogan
                              Rookie
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 106

                              #15
                              Re: 2014 Preseason Update

                              do u plan on doing another update?
                              like after preason or one after the trade deadline?

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