How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

[tearyourshirt]

Certain playbooks sim better/provide better offense than others when simming.
Bears (with a mobile qb)
Bills (for passing yards)
Atlanta
Packers
Patriots
Saints
Titans (for passing yards)
Tampa bay (use multiple power run scheme or run and shoot)

The key to get top performance out of your qbs when simming is to make sure their traits are
Sense of pressure-ideal
Force passes can be any, but ideal is best
Tight spiral
If simming, your qbs overall doesn’t really matter (really!) as long as they have those traits

Make sure your LT and RT are great at pass blocking and awareness. They’re really the only linemen that matter in sim
WR and TE overall really doesn’t matter either (IF SIMMING)
As far as RBs, look for awareness, ball carrier vision, break tackle, and carrying

On defense (if you’re running 3-4) block shed, awareness, and power moves are big.
All of your defense should have the high motor trait. Your 3 down linemen and outside linebackers should also have the bull rush trait as well. Your Mlbs should have decent awareness, block shed (70+), and tackling.
I always want my DBs to have the aggressive play ball trait. For playbooks, try the bears, rams, patriots, ravens, and steelers playbooks.

Another key aspect- make sure (outside of qb and oline) that all of your players are 30 or younger for peak performance.

Again, this is if you are SIMMING all or most of your games. Of course you’d want better rated players if you’re actually playing. I hope this helps

[BodamEscapePlan]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

This is incredibly fascinating and an excellent find, if true.

I don't think I've ever noticed the Titans and Bills offensive playbooks producing better passing stats. Personally, I'm finding that teams/QBs that should be having awesome stats are not (Mahomes, Stafford, Kyler Murray) and some teams/QBs that are much more "iffy" in real-life are throwing for much less INTs than they should (Baker Mayfield, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Gardner Minshew).

[tearyourshirt]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

Baker Mayfield has ideal/aggressive/tight spiral traits, so he’s going to produce. Madden loves the browns playbook in sim, so he’s going to do well.

In addition to the passing yards, find a qb with traits like that with a 76+ bcv (ball carrier vision) with the titans pb and the west coast zone run scheme. He should win mvp

On madden 20, I used Taylor Heinicke as my qb (49 ovr) with the titans playbook and had multiple seasons of 4500+ yards and mvps


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[direfire]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

what sim are we talking? slow sim?

[tearyourshirt]

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The options from the main franchise menu
(Advance week/sim to mid season/sim to playoffs)


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[UFCMPunk]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

Baker Mayfield has ideal/aggressive/tight spiral traits, so he’s going to produce. Madden loves the browns playbook in sim, so he’s going to do well.

In addition to the passing yards, find a qb with traits like that with a 76+ bcv (ball carrier vision) with the titans pb and the west coast zone run scheme. He should win mvp

On madden 20, I used Taylor Heinicke as my qb (49 ovr) with the titans playbook and had multiple seasons of 4500+ yards and mvps


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This is a real interesting find. I'm curious though how the sim engine would impact Baker & the Browns if you took those traits away. Does Mahomes not have those traits because it's crazy how the Chiefs don't do well when simming despite Mahomes. Did a fantasy draft one time, Mahomes was a Packer and they went 6-10 when I simmed.

[tearyourshirt]

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This is a real interesting find. I'm curious though how the sim engine would impact Baker & the Browns if you took those traits away. Does Mahomes not have those traits because it's crazy how the Chiefs don't do well when simming despite Mahomes. Did a fantasy draft one time, Mahomes was a Packer and they went 6-10 when I simmed.

Keep in mind injuries (if you have them on) and the team defense will also impact what youre seeing. The KC book is hit or miss sim wise seems like (Andy Reid retires after the first year too, so they may be using a different book.)
If you changed Baker's traits to something like oblivious/aggressive, he would play like Blaine Gabbert in sim lol

Try this out:
Start an offline franchise (fantasy draft or normal) , name it "experiment"
Turn injuries OFF
Use one of the previously mentioned playbooks and one of these quarterbacks (I may forget a few)

Tom Brady
Aaron Rodgers
Patrick Mahomes
Drew Brees
Cam Newton
Phillip Rivers
Lamar Jackson
Nick Foles (yep lol)
Baker Mayfield
Matt Barkley (yep)
Joe Burrow
Tyler Huntley
Taylor Heinicke

each time, try a different playbook (from the list above) and see what happens
Good luck!

[oneamongthefence]

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Yeah i noticed this too. The playbook has a too big of an impact on simming.

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[Funkycorm]

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I have simmed multiple 30 year dynasties in the last 3 games and have a 10 year one so far on 21.

Just curious how many seasons you simmed to come to these findings?

A lot of what you have described I have not seen so I am curious is all.

[benton32]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

Baker Mayfield has ideal/aggressive/tight spiral traits, so he’s going to produce. Madden loves the browns playbook in sim, so he’s going to do well.

In addition to the passing yards, find a qb with traits like that with a 76+ bcv (ball carrier vision) with the titans pb and the west coast zone run scheme. He should win mvp

On madden 20, I used Taylor Heinicke as my qb (49 ovr) with the titans playbook and had multiple seasons of 4500+ yards and mvps


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And madden shouldnt be this way, thats lame if u ask me... so certain traits and setups and then it dont matter who u have at QB or other positions kinda lame if u ask me but ehh it is what it is

[tearyourshirt]

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And madden shouldnt be this way, thats lame if u ask me... so certain traits and setups and then it dont matter who u have at QB or other positions kinda lame if u ask me but ehh it is what it is

This is so true, but its what we've been given. Keep in mind, it definitely matters who you have at RB, LT, RT and on defense and what traits they have, but WR and TE dont matter and QBS just really operates on traits (outside of BCV and Avoid Sack to a certain degree)

[tearyourshirt]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

I have simmed multiple 30 year dynasties in the last 3 games and have a 10 year one so far on 21.

Just curious how many seasons you simmed to come to these findings?

A lot of what you have described I have not seen so I am curious is all.

WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY to many to name lol
Ive been toying around with this stuff since at least Madden 16. At least until 19/20, you could use the generic Spread playbook with a quarterback with such traits and routinely throw for 5000+ yards and 45+ Tds a year (Sadly, they've taken that option away)

On the old maddens, it used to give us the option to set our pass and run % and how aggressive or conservative that we wanted our team to be, but that was taken away some time ago (cant remember when) so the playbook that you use (and the scheme to a certain degree) is the only control we have.

It used to puzzle me as to why I would build a team that was 90+ across the board, but put up lousy records or get beat in the playoffs by a 70-80 rated team, or why my qb (despite being like a 99) would never throw for over 4000 yards. So I started looking at the end of season stats and started paying attention to the teams that were putting up high offensive and defensive numbers, taking note of the top passers and what they had in common. (The traits)
What really confirmed it for me was when the Titans drafted a QB who was a high 60 overall scrambler and he threw for 4600 yards and won all the offensive awards, including ROY and MVP. I looked at his traits and sure enough, he had Throw Ball Away, Ideal Sense of Pressure, Ideal Force Passes, and Tight Spiral.

[oneamongthefence]

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Another one is put your best WR in the slot. That receiver will put up really good numbers and your QB will usually have a much better statistical season.

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[SouthernWarrior]

Re: How to be successful in franchise BY SIMMING

great stuff

combining this with scouting guides should be good



I do find QB to make a massive difference though

[tearyourshirt]

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Another one is put your best WR in the slot. That receiver will put up really good numbers and your QB will usually have a much better statistical season.

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Thats another key aspect in all of this. I'll do a sample depth chart to give an idea of how to best set up user teams for sim.