Fun Madden Thread

**wickedsolo** · 09-24-2019, 10:23 PM

About 10 games into the season with the Ravens.

Record - 8-2
Losses to Kansas City and New England

AFC North Standings:

Baltimore, 8-2
Cleveland, 6-4
Pittsburgh, 3-7
Cinci, 2-8

Passing:

Lamar- 2,844 yards passing, 27 TD's, 8 INT's, 72% completion

Rushing:

Ingram - 847 yards, 6 TD's
Lamar - 443 yards, 7 TD's

Receiving:

Andrews (got hurt in week 8) - 42 rec, 582 yards, 3 TD's
Boykin - 27 rec, 598 yards, 6 TD's
Snead - 41 rec, 545 yards, 4 TD's
Hollywood (Hurt weeks 1-5) - 19 rec, 306 yards, 2 TD's

Tackles:

Peanut - 61
Humphrey 47

Sacks:

Judon - 5
Ricard - 5
Peanut - 3

INT's:

Humphrey - 1

Passes Defensed:

Thomas - 6
Board - 4
Averett - 3
Cyrus - 3
Jefferson - 3

Kicking:

Tucker - 11/11 FG's, Long of 60 yards, 39/39 XP's

Roster Moves - Traded Brandon Carr to the Dolphins for Davin Godchaux.

**edromeo** · 09-24-2019, 10:36 PM

PS4?

**Bhcforlife** · 09-25-2019, 06:53 AM

I had been playing a Ravens franchise but got bored with it after 3 years, so started a Dolphins one. Simmed the first year and had two top 10 picks, took Justin Herbert (was #1 prospect in the class I downloaded) and Jerry Jeudy (was #4 prospect). I have to look and see who else I took but I also got Grant Calcaterra at some point who is a beast (he's gone from like 70 OVR to almost 80 OVR in one year). On top of that I signed Melvin Gordon and Josh Gordon as FA. It's a pretty beastly offense now, the line isn't great but I plan to address that in the offseason, along with adding some defense.

**wickedsolo** · 09-25-2019, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by edromeo

PS4?

Xbox 1

**wickedsolo** · 09-25-2019, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by Bhcforlife

I had been playing a Ravens franchise but got bored with it after 3 years, so started a Dolphins one. Simmed the first year and had two top 10 picks, took Justin Herbert (was #1 prospect in the class I downloaded) and Jerry Jeudy (was #4 prospect). I have to look and see who else I took but I also got Grant Calcaterra at some point who is a beast (he's gone from like 70 OVR to almost 80 OVR in one year). On top of that I signed Melvin Gordon and Josh Gordon as FA. It's a pretty beastly offense now, the line isn't great but I plan to address that in the offseason, along with adding some defense.

I did something similar with the Dolphins.

I drafted Tua though, instead of Herbert.

**GreatWhiteNorthRaven** · 09-25-2019, 08:43 AM

I played the 10 hour trial, but didn't buy it.

Can't believe they didn't even touch frnachise mode

**bmorebirds_24** · 09-25-2019, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteNorthRaven

I played the 10 hour trial, but didn't buy it.

Can't believe they didn't even touch frnachise mode

This! I still bought it but play for 30 mins here and there and end up losing interest.

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**sflegend89** · 09-26-2019, 12:33 AM

Was pumped to make a Ravens franchise and it ended up such a massive disappointment. I even took the time to adjust all the ratings to fix some inaccuracies and help out some early standouts from across the league. I also tried multiple sliders and game settings.

- The main thing that I can't stand is the stats go haywire and make no sense. For instance Mahomes is a 99 ovr in my franchise and after 8 weeks somebody like Josh Allen or Mariota will be leading the league in passing yards/TD's and Mahomes/Brady will not even be in the top 5. It just kills the immersion for me.

- The other thing I can't stand is teams don't play like themselves. When I play the Chiefs for instance the scheme just doesn't feel remotely true to life. They will run the ball 70% of the time and facing 99 overall Mahomes doesn't feel any more difficult than facing a QB rated in the 80's

Madden has barely evolved in the last 5 years, I thought by now we would have an amazing football sim but EA is a terrible company and the annualization of the game has become a cop out for them to be lazy and put out a mediocre game with no attention to detail. All their attention is in MUT where people spend money, franchise mode is completely ignored and lazily slopped together.

**edromeo** · 09-26-2019, 05:47 AM

I’ve never liked playing against the AI.
As soon as online play became available never played the computer again.

**Bhcforlife** · 09-26-2019, 06:47 AM

I wouldn't have paid $60 for it, but it comes with the Origin Access Premiere thing on PC, that's how I've been playing it. $100 for 12 month sub, includes a bunch of games, including almost all new EA PC releases, Battlefield series, Madden, Fifa, etc. I definitely get my money's worth out of the sub, almost just from Madden alone. Need a decent PC to take advantage though.

**KMO13** · 09-26-2019, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteNorthRaven

I played the 10 hour trial, but didn't buy it.

Can't believe they didn't even touch franchise mode

I buy it every year and play about 200 hours of it until the next one comes out.

This is year is different. At release, I was addicted (have 89 hours currently). But now, I cannot get myself to play it.

Franchise mode has hardly been touched. Trading is way too easy - I can get Quentin Nelson from the Colts for a 2nd and a couple back ups. Barkley after a year for just a 1st.

Why haven't they added a 5th year option for 1st round picks?
Why doesn't the cap go up year to year? NHL has this.

They added a feature where if you hit certain metrics for a player (when they talked to you before the game), their development trait goes up - I had Chuck Clark have two of those in 3 weeks! Went from normal to super star!

**GreatWhiteNorthRaven** · 09-26-2019, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by KMO13

I buy it every year and play about 200 hours of it until the next one comes out.

This is year is different. At release, I was addicted (have 89 hours currently). But now, I cannot get myself to play it.

Franchise mode has hardly been touched. Trading is way too easy - I can get Quentin Nelson from the Colts for a 2nd and a couple back ups. Barkley after a year for just a 1st.

Why haven't they added a 5th year option for 1st round picks?
Why doesn't the cap go up year to year? NHL has this.

They added a feature where if you hit certain metrics for a player (when they talked to you before the game), their development trait goes up - I had Chuck Clark have two of those in 3 weeks! Went from normal to super star!

I actually bought NHL 20 instaed this year. I'll get 2k20 on Black Friday, but NHL is super solid. They really tweaked the gameplay and it's a lot of fun. Franchise mode is now 2nd best behind NBA2k.