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  • RaychelSnr
    Executive Editor
    • Jan 2007
    • 4846

    #1

    Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

    Every year a new Madden title is released, and regardless of whether the gameplay, animations, graphics or commentary is praised or criticized, one of the consistently played and enjoyed aspects of Madden is its franchise mode. And since its debut in Madden 99, the notion of a franchise or career mode has grown to become a necessity in all sports games.

    And while Madden 10 brings forth the exciting new feature of an online franchise mode, there are invariably many who still enjoy the standard offline franchise mode (myself included). So for those of you wanting to rebuild that struggling franchise, or for anyone wishing to strengthen his or her favorite team, hopefully some of these words are useful during your managerial endeavors.

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  • Articula
    Rookie
    • Dec 2008
    • 74

    #2
    Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

    Great article!

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    • Jump
      Pro
      • Sep 2008
      • 606

      #3
      Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

      Signing 7th round picks to 7 year deals.

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      • txfalconfan
        Rookie
        • Aug 2009
        • 294

        #4
        Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

        very good article. 1st part about contracts should be reposted and stickied cuz they are so many people that dont know why they got a big cap penalty the next year (1 guy on here said he made a ton of moves 1st year and next year had $120 mill in cap penalties) LOL. Ive personally answered that question on here 4 times in the past week.

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        • SA1NT401
          Banned
          • Sep 2007
          • 3532

          #5
          Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

          Great read bro. But there are too many sim issues with this years engine, that i just cannot LOVE franchise mode.

          I have to control ALL 32 teams just to try to make things work out. EA did a pizz poor job on testing this mode, yet again!

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          • gotmeamodel
            Rookie
            • Jul 2006
            • 5

            #6
            Good Stuff

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            • Striefer
              Rookie
              • May 2009
              • 69

              #7
              Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

              I have a couple questions.
              1) If i trade a player with a signing bonus for a draft pick, do i still have to pay the player the signing bonus for the remainder years? Does that show up in the salary cap penalty?

              2) When the option is given to clear your cap penalty, how does that work?

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              • Madwolf
                MVP
                • Jul 2007
                • 1334

                #8
                Signing 7th round draft picks to 7 year deals is pretty smart. I've been doing it since 2004. Like he said, they cost and penalty is minimal, and only under extremely rare circumstances will it come back to bite you in a CAP crunch.

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                • Stacks
                  Rookie
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 307

                  #9
                  Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                  I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.
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                  • reyes the roof
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 11505

                    #10
                    Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                    Originally posted by Striefer
                    I have a couple questions.
                    1) If i trade a player with a signing bonus for a draft pick, do i still have to pay the player the signing bonus for the remainder years? Does that show up in the salary cap penalty?

                    2) When the option is given to clear your cap penalty, how does that work?
                    in regards to 1, you take the cap penalty for the remaining years of the bonus, but technically the entire bonus is paid upfront on the day you sign the player, you just split the cap hit of the bonus over the life of the contract. So if you sign someone to a 5 year 30 million dollar deal with a $10 million bonus, he gets the 10 million the day he signs his contract, but the cap hit is split up into $2 million per year

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                    • maademperor
                      Rookie
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 298

                      #11
                      Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                      Originally posted by phillyax
                      I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.
                      roger that, I cant believe they actually removed stuff (no projected draft board?)

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                      • playalistic
                        Rookie
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 48

                        #12
                        Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                        Franchise mode is garbage this year

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                        • Yeah...THAT Guy
                          Once in a Lifetime Memory
                          • Dec 2006
                          • 17310

                          #13
                          Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                          Originally posted by phillyax
                          I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.
                          How? Taking away the draft pick history is like one of the only things they took out of franchise this year (at least the only things I've noticed)
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                          • fourthreemafia
                            Banned
                            • Jan 2008
                            • 941

                            #14
                            Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                            Originally posted by Yeah...THAT Guy
                            How? Taking away the draft pick history is like one of the only things they took out of franchise this year (at least the only things I've noticed)
                            And what did they add that is so great?

                            They say they "tuned the logic", yet its still awful.

                            Still freezes. Maybe not as much as last year, but it does.

                            Nothing new added. IR still doesnt work. No point in preseason.

                            I think we may have to accept the fact that franchise mode on next gen will always be terrible.

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                            • shigogouhou
                              Banned
                              • Dec 2008
                              • 294

                              #15
                              Re: Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

                              Good article. So very important as the Panthers who have huge salaries tied to players (Delhomme costs a bundle, Peppers is on a one-year deal which is huge, Jarrett is awful and has a monster contract...) and I found out the hard way what it's like to make a couple roster moves and find yourself ~$4 million over the cap due to penalties.

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