Madden NFL 15 Livestream: Connected Franchise

[fancyclaps]

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So I have not played madden in a couple of years so I have a question regarding xp. They gave the example of having Manzeil getting experience while Hoyer gets the start this year. Is it possible to apply points and not get results? Or will it work that no matter who you apply points to you will get results. So basically you can make anyone a superstar as long as you apply enough points. Do we know this?

Basically, but you'll be spending a lot of time on that one player. By the looks of it you can get xp for only 1 or 2 players per week.

But if a players develop rating is low and you do crappy on the drill it'll take a long time to build up a player, and if you ignore the rest of your team you're screwed.

It's actually a pretty balanced system.

[WickedFastball]

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I have to respectfully disagree. The Draft itself in terms of presentation is awesome. Trey Wingo was a great addition. The twitter feed, the ease of executing trades etc.

The issue is just having a draft board, so I can rate players and draft right from there. As it stands although the UI is fluid when you are on the clock you waste value seconds going from screen to screen. And if you didn't see that the guy you wanted to select was already taken you could waste 30 seconds trying to find them when they aren't there. A big board in game would make this easier.

THIS is MY issue, every year you see the real NFL teams jockeying their picks sometimes only one or two spots up OR down to take the player they want. We saw it happen again this year.

What EA needs to do is place every teams biggest needs right there on the screen, or have "Inside Information" from sources within your team telling you who the next team "MIGHT" take. Very much like in real life.
That would make taking your guy at the correct time much more life like.

I really don't like having the number one overall pick, liking a guy expected to go 1round 29th pick, moving down to the 10th pick to take him, and he was already taken at #3 overall!!!
If he was a top 5 pick or even top 10 pick, why did the game rate him at the bottom of the first round? Knowing he was more valuable than that to other A.I teams?

I think EA bases the draft off of the media's interpretation of the draft. Where they honestly thought Johnny Football should possibly even be a consideration for Texas at #1.
Which most people knew was unrealistic.

[Bull_Dozer]

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Can anyone tell me if QB's will scramble when I'm using coach mode? Also will I have to do kicks/punts myself?

[jpdavis82]

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Can anyone tell me if QB's will scramble when I'm using coach mode? Also will I have to do kicks/punts myself?

I believe it skips 4th down now when you play as a player

[DNMHIII]

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Sorry if it's been posted already, but does anyone know if a YouTube clip of this has been posted?

[KingTocco]

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Sorry if it's been posted already, but does anyone know if a YouTube clip of this has been posted?

Of the stream? It's on the first page of this thread

[DNMHIII]

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Of the stream? It's on the first page of this thread

I saw that thanks, I'm on my ipad though and it requires flash

[jpdavis82]

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I saw that thanks, I'm on my ipad though and it requires flash

Here

http://youtu.be/PQvDNRssst8

[DNMHIII]

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Here

http://youtu.be/PQvDNRssst8

Thanks a lot JP

[OhMrHanky]

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Yeah, I think they could do a lot more with a draft board situation as others are mentioning. In fact, I imagine that could be a nice spot for smart glass, actually. Having to switch back and forth in some of the menus to see different team items has always been a pain. Throw some part of it on smart glass, in particular, a straight up draft board would be fantastic.

[Sheba2011]

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I can t believe we are forced to go another year without any way to organized scouted players before the draft. How can this continue to be omitted? No big board, No war room draft board with stacked grades....

So scout players go to the draft and search through the phone book.

The game automatically creates your big board of every guy you scouted. I take it a step further though, I bought a notebook and some colored pencils. I go through my depth chart and I rank each position by needs: immediate, future and none. I assign each one a different a color. I then assign each one of the recruits I scouted a color grouping based on how long I project it will take them to be starters: immediate, 1 year, 2-3 years, never (special teams). It takes me an extra 15-20 minutes but it helps me feel like a real armchair GM. I go into a little more detail than this but won't bore with you the rest lol.

[Sheba2011]

Sorry for the double post the server timed out on me when I was replying.

[Sheba2011]

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I don't think it's a problem if there was a trade. However, if they've traded 4 of their 11 offensive starters, then that would be a big problem. I'm not saying that is the case, but with the way things looked it could be.

EA could stop all of this speculation if they would let us know what happened or put out another stream. Instead in typical fashion they just let it go unresolved for us to figure out ourselves. At least the EA Access guys should be able to let us know about this before the 26th.

You mean like in a matter of one season the Tampa Bay Bucs cutting Josh Freeman, Tiquan Underwood and Carl Nicks and trading Jeremy Zutah and Lagaratte Blount? That's just the offensive side of the ball that doesn't include cutting Revis the best CB in the NFL.

It sounds fish when you see it in the game but when you compare it to the real NFL you just never know what a GM will do. Maybe the Bears finished 3-13 and the GM decided he wasn't going to win anything with the current roster and decided on a wholesale rebuild, we have seen that plenty of times in the real NFL where teams have a fire sale. It could be EA messed up the logic or it could be they actually made it like the real NFL. Either way they will never please everyone.

[Sheba2011]

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So I have not played madden in a couple of years so I have a question regarding xp. They gave the example of having Manzeil getting experience while Hoyer gets the start this year. Is it possible to apply points and not get results? Or will it work that no matter who you apply points to you will get results. So basically you can make anyone a superstar as long as you apply enough points. Do we know this?

This is the reason why it costs so many hours for the drills so that you can't make your entire team into superstars. You have to pick and choose how you want to go about it. Do you want to turn Manziel into a 95 OVR and completely ignore the rest of your teams development or do you want to turn Manziel into 85 OVR and spend time developing a young RB, WR and OL as well. It's all about balance in this new mode. Hopefully the days of making your entire team All Pros with XP are over.

[Sheba2011]

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I was wrong about #29. It never shows his position. I hope he's a FB. Lol

Let's all hope he is a FB lol. With the way EA he is probably a CB....