Ratings in game & franchise potential ratings
The rating system is off. The superstar traits needs to be dropped during in game use. It should not even have a setting to turn it off or on. It should be forced off, and the ratings adjusted to am...
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I cannot agree with you about all-madden. I play off-line franchise and have won the Super Bowl four times in a row. Currently I am in franchise year 2045 3-0 and what I learned is how to use my scheme. Too old (66) to be a expert stick guy, I use my scheme and build my team that way. Now are there impossible plays the CPU makes? All the time!!! But, I form my team with speed on defense and a solid ground game to keep the CPU offense on the sideline. Lockdown corners, draft or trade for corners that are strong enough to play safety also. I only look for fast linebackers and either keep them at linebacker or if strength attribute is upper 70's or 80's convert to defensive ends. I want run stuffers at DT. Fast and strong. On offense, I want blazing speed at RB and WR. I form my offensive line with high run blocking, 90+ strength, but upper 60' or 70's speed especially at center. Got to be able to make those second level blocks!! I carry four TE's. Two high blocking TE's that I use to switch out WR on my I formation power set and a OT at TE on the line. For my pass catching TE's I usually look at all WR's in the league from lowest to highest OVL. Some WR are mispositioned and can be converted to TE with good speed. Actually, using this method I found an anomaly in year 2044. I found a rookie wide out with 89 speed and 94 acceleration. He was a 65 overall, but what caught my eye was his size. He was frigging 6'9" 245. I first I thought, dude you are really old, my eyes are going bad!!!! So I traded 5 and 6 to get him. I changed his position to TE and he jumped to 78 OVL. So I tried him in a game and this dude reached over the LB cover guy, grabbed the pass, gets drilled by the safety coming over the top, bounced off of the hit and scores. Needless to say, after the game I changed his OVL back to WR, cut him, signed him back in FA and signed him to seven year deal for peanuts and converted him back to WR. Now his jersey is selling like hotcakes (among the top ten in the league). My QB is a guy I found in FA 75 OVL. Been in the league four years as a backup, not many passes thrown. What drew me to him was 99 THP, 80 S, 82 M and 81 D. At 6'6 with 98 injury, I jumped on this guy. Anyway, got to get to work. When playing all-madden, I have learned three key things, Hound the CPU QB relentlessly with your pass rush, keep the CPU offense on the sideline (burn that clock baby!!!) and minimize putting the ball in the air because the CPU defense will make impossible plays on the ball. IT'S IN THE GAME BABY!!!
Man I've been running the ball on madden for the past few versions, it's just not fun not being able to throw the ball, we talking about a football sim that should be emulate the NFL, and the NFL I watch you are able to pass the ball.
That's exactly my point about the ratings, you can beef guys up bc of their skill traits like 99 speed or 99 thp. It has not been a secret in madden for a while now, sorry you just now catching on to this.
How many back up qbs have became elite superstar qbs, that's unrealistic and the game needs to be more realistic based.
Last point you should not need to have a 99 overall rated team just to be able to stop the CPU, or beat them by means of milking the game and keeping their Offense on sideline. We not playing 1950 football.
You just wait iy will get old to you, bc I've been doing that at least the past 5 games, and milking the clock ain't cutting it for me.
Hey, I understand your point. My way of playing is not for everyone, but I really enjoy pounding the ball. My current squad is 83 overall and I might throw maybe 7 times a game and pound the rest. Now there are teams that shut down the run and I am forced to throw. To be honest, I tend to have trouble with those teams, but then I make adjustments and go over the top. But if their safeties can cover ground and have high awareness that's an additional problem. My wideouts can beat any corner one on one, but those high-end safeties with range cause some problems. I love playing 1950 football, especially if that what it takes to win on All-Madden. By the way, what do you think of the reviews from the beta testers so far? I saw something about the kick meter and I wonder if how seamless has the new kickoff rules been implemented.
Actually there is a lot of 1950 football going on in the NFL right now. When any team plays KC, the first thing said is to keep Mahomes on the sideline. IT'S IN THE GAME BABY!!
