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Hero

1 year ago

MADDEN 26-27 IMPROVEMENT IDEAS

This is a thread I wanted to start so everyone on here can have their ideas seen and heard by EA_Shepard and other EA Staff while also having a single, organized place to share them. This in turn ma...

New Traveler

5 months ago

I play with 32 custom/fictional teams rather than the NFL, so some of my improvement ideas might differ from those who play for the real-life NFL experience. I previously mentioned the hassles that I ran into by being forced to have an online franchise in order to use custom teams.

Teambuilder: have it generate random players. When I used it there were about six team profiles (run and shoot, run heavy, etc.) and each one of them has a predetermined roster of the same fictional players. So, when I used this to create each of my 32 teams, I was choosing from 1 of these 6 options... the result was, when I swapped these teams into my franchise, now I have 5 or 6 "clones" of each player. Six different teams are going to have a player named Patrick Saint, with identical attributes, height, weight, college, player picture, and I then have to go thru on the Xbox and edit hundreds of players. Giving them new names and varying up their attributes. Generating a purely random team would be helpful. Or, even more helpful would be if we could import/export data such as with a .csv to the Teambuilder interface.

EA_Shepard

Community Manager

5 months ago

chicagodave203 Legit. I can see why that would get old fast if you’re building a full 32-team custom setup and still have to clean up cloned rosters by hand on the console. EA’s current Team Builder flow for Madden does let you customize roster details and replace up to 32 NFL teams in Franchise, but the official setup pages don’t mention a true random fictional roster generator or any CSV-style import/export option, so I get why that sticks out for the way you’re using the mode.

A random-player option or a cleaner way to move roster data in and out would make a lot of sense for custom-team Franchise players, especially those building full fictional leagues rather than chasing the real NFL setup.

Out of the two, which one would help you more right now: a full random roster generator, or the ability to import and export roster data yourself?

chicagodave203
New Traveler
5 months ago
Out of the two, which one would help you more right now: a full random roster generator, or the ability to import and export roster data yourself?
I would say import/export would be much more versatile... not only for me but I'm guessing for anyone using the Teambuilder.
Say I wanted to recreate, for instance, the 1985 Chicago Bears. I could probably go find a roster somewhere online that's going to have some of their info, like positions, age, height, weight, college etc. and could put this into a spreadsheet/CSV, then upload it.
Then again, also if I was in the Teambuilder and selected a team type, it would help if it could generate a 53-man roster with unique randomized players and attributes.

On a side note regarding my franchise project, when I began my franchise and swapped out the 32 teams, that still left the free agent pool with real-life NFL players. Since I wanted an entirely fictional experience, I typically go into those player profiles and edit them to make them fictional, but it would be cool if we could generate a free agent pool.
- EA_Shepard
  Community Manager
  5 months ago
  chicagodave203 That makes a lot of sense, honestly. If the current setup leaves you choosing from a handful of roster templates and then having to clean up cloned names, ratings, and free agents afterward, the import and export would be the more useful option overall. Being able to bring in your own spreadsheet data for custom leagues, older rosters, or fully fictional worlds would fit really well with the way Team Builder already lets people replace up to 32 teams and edit roster details, and I get why a random 53-man generator plus a fictional free agent pool would also help cut down a ton of manual cleanup.