Franchise Mode Blog - EA

[strahanfan92]

I think it means you can edit imported classes before the draft starts.

[adembroski]

Adem a developer? WTF? To think of all that time I wasted getting an education. What was he doing before this? I only heard about his torrid affairs with strippers or some shit like that.

When'd you get back here? Your butthurt finally go away? Crossing your arms and nodding arrogantly whenever abj speaks does not equal educated.

I like the shoutout to adembroski. That guy sucked up his way to the top.

Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

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Thanks, Dave.

[strahanfan92]

Ouch even Raidersabc123 felt that blow

[Rayman]

When'd you get back here? Your butthurt finally go away? Crossing your arms and nodding arrogantly whenever abj speaks does not equal educated.



Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

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Thanks, Dave.

Did dave snitch?

Nice to hear from you. Good stuff so far.

[adembroski]

Did dave snitch?

Nice to hear from you. Good stuff so far.

No, he defended me in his own unique way in this thread. I check in about once a week or so, usually don't post.

[strahanfan92]

Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

Just curious what does CD stand for?

[Aso]

CD = Community Day right? Are you sure that was me. Honestly you're a cool guy but I don't want your kids and I never wanted to really go to CD.

[St. Francisco]

When'd you get back here? Your butthurt finally go away? Crossing your arms and nodding arrogantly whenever abj speaks does not equal educated.



Says the guy who all but offered to have my children so I'd put in a good word for him to get to CD. Way to about face to stick with the in crowd, bud.

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Thanks, Dave.

Quick question I'm hoping you can shed some light on for me, ya know...since you're here and all (long time no see BTW ;).

The Madden-generated draft classes are money in terms of properly balancing incoming classes to address the needs from the NFL, but I was wondering just how much work was done to the NCAA-imported classes? I read that the ratings stabilized, but what about projections? Will there be busts in the top ten, and gems later on in the draft like the generated classes, or will they continue to be cookie-cutter like last year, where the best guys get drafted first, and their ratings slowly trail off to the finish? Also, has there been any logic put in place to keep non-essential roles like fullback from dominating the top remaining prospects list in the later rounds? In recent years, by the time you got to the sixth rounds, the top ten best players were basically all fullbacks and punters.

[St. Francisco]

Oh yeah, for those interested, OS did an interview with Looman about Franchise mode. Goes a little more in-depth on some of the new features. I was particularly happy to hear that you can go into the free agency part, and look at all the players available before starting the bid system. It's more realistic since real teams know who's on the market well in advance, and gives me a chance to gameplan.

http://www.operationsports.com/features/1273/chatting-with-josh-looman-about-maddens-franchise-mode-part-1/

[adembroski]

Quick question I'm hoping you can shed some light on for me, ya know...since you're here and all (long time no see BTW ;).

The Madden-generated draft classes are money in terms of properly balancing incoming classes to address the needs from the NFL, but I was wondering just how much work was done to the NCAA-imported classes? I read that the ratings stabilized, but what about projections? Will there be busts in the top ten, and gems later on in the draft like the generated classes, or will they continue to be cookie-cutter like last year, where the best guys get drafted first, and their ratings slowly trail off to the finish? Also, has there been any logic put in place to keep non-essential roles like fullback from dominating the top remaining prospects list in the later rounds? In recent years, by the time you got to the sixth rounds, the top ten best players were basically all fullbacks and punters.

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

[MrBill]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Appreciate the insight. Please just tell us if OF franchise was part of that tuning. The lack of a salary cap and the inability of the league commissioners to enter scores for games that disconnected late in the 4th quarter and/or default wins in the event of no-shows hindered the experience last year. It would also be great if the playoff tiebreaker wasn't alphabetical this year. Just saying

[St. Francisco]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Well be sure and pop in to give me the lowdown when you're free to talk. ;)

[Hitman]

Yea, I'm not really sure what all the venom is about for adembroski.. This guy used to work on making Madden playable like it was a real job long before he actually got a job with them. He would make Franchise tuning threads that went on for months at a time with data sheets pages long just to try to get good sim stats. He would put together slider testing threads that were more extensive than the tax code. Lay off this guy. He is good people.

[killgod]

Unfortunately man, right now we're on a bit of a communication freeze. There's a communication policy conflict between PR/Marketing, us on the game team, and accounting that we're trying to work out. Once that's sorted, I should be able to explain everything since I tuned it this year.

Is there any way possible if you could confirm/deny fixing playoff seeding and tiebreakers?

[j.hen]

The more I read the more I get the pseudo-RPG vibe for building your team in Franchise Mode. I love it.