Dave's Madden 10 sliders

[dave]

Thought I'd get these out before Thursday and the first rosters.
I play at very slow now because of crap I read at OS ... and, quite frankly, I don't see that much of a difference between slow and very slow. Very slow is the equivalent of slow online IMO.

I like the speed threshold slider. IMO, it makes speed matter more in Madden and hopefully cuts down on the bullshit linebacker play.

If you are a superior manual player, move on. These sliders are not for you.

These sliders are, however, a good challenge. If you beat the cpu 56-0 using them. Good for you. Fuck off. I don't need your "I'm the greatest Madden balla evah!" post cluttering this thread.

If you use a bad team, these sliders will punish you. But I guess that's how it's supposed to be.

I liberally steal slider sets and monkey around with them, so if you see a slider number and say "That fuckwad stole my setting!!!" ... thank you.

My sub in/sub out numbers are completely stolen from OS. Contact my legal firm of Lipschitz and Lipowitz.

I stole the formatting for my sliders from GilbertArenas - your check is in the mail.

SETTINGS
Quarter length: 15 (I get 120 offensive plays a game with this)
Play clock: On
Accel clock runoff: 25
Injuries: 50
Fatigue: 50
Game speed: Very slow/slow
Player min speed thresh: 20 (I tempted to make this even lower)

PENALTIES:
Frankly, as usual, I think EA completely fucked up penalties again. The only penalties I see with any consistency are clipping, facemasking and a little holding. A few false starts. Pass interference penalties - maybe one every five games (if I'm lucky).
If you get nabbed for holding on a FG, don't risk a second call. Just set the slider to 0 for your second kick.

Offside 100
False Start 100
Holding 52
Facemask at 57
Def PI 100
Off PI 100
KR/PR Int 100
Clipping 85
Int Grounding 100
Rough Passer 100
Rough Kicker 100

PLAYER SKILL
Passing:
QB Accuracy 18
Pass Blocking 40
WR Catching 38
Rushing:
Broken Tackles 53
Run Blocking 58
Fumbles 50
Pass Defense:
Reaction Time 53
Interceptions 0
Pass Rushing 100
Rush Defense:
Reaction Time 0
Block Shedding 0
Tackling 48

CPU SKILL
Passing:
QB Accuracy 25
Pass Blocking 0
WR Catching 25
Rushing:
Broken Tackles 54
Run Blocking 60
Fumbles 50
Pass Defense:
Reaction Time 35
Interceptions 0
Pass Rushing 55
Rush Defense:
Reaction Time 0
Block Shedding 0
Tackling 50

SPECIAL TEAMS
FG Power 58
FG Accuracy 50
Punt Power 90
Punt Accuracy 80
Kickoff Power 50

SUB IN/OUT
QB 50 / 80
RB 77 / 79
WR 65 / 80
FB/TE 72 / 80
OL 55 / 80

DT 79 / 81
DE 79 / 82
LB 75 / 80
CB 65 / 78
S 65 / 80​

 

[DoubleDeuce]

On the PI, I don't know what it is, but with testing I have determined I get more PI penalties called when the setting is on 99 rather than 100.

You can try it out for yourself sometime.

 

[dave]

On the PI, I don't know what it is, but with testing I have determined I get more PI penalties called when the setting is on 99 rather than 100.

You can try it out for yourself sometime.

I'll try that.

 

[FishStickZ]

Probably gonna test these out a little later, I'll post results.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Quarter length is really up to you IMO. I don't want to mess with 15 min, 25 sec runoffs. I'll try 12 minutes with 15 or 20 second runoff. I usually play 10 min with 15 sec.

 

[FishStickZ]

Through one half of play: Broncos:21, Texans (me): 28

Broncos Stats
Kyle Orton: 13/18 160 yards 2 TDs, 1 INT

Knowshon Moreno: 16 rushes 92 yards, 1 TD (25 longest run)

0 sacks for the D in the first half...

222 total yards of offense, 92 rushing, 130 passing
11 first downs, 2-7 on third down

Texans Stats
Schaub: 8/17 120 yards 3 TD, 2 INT

Slaton: 9 rushes for 75, 27 long

8 TFL so far (Antonio Smith with 3, Amobi Okoye with 3, Brian Cushing with 2)
5 sacks so far (Antonio Smith 3, Brian Cushing 2)
1 INT returned for a touchdown

195 total offense, 75 rushings, 120 passings
8 first downs, 2-4 on third

Notes (kind of just putting these down, sorry if I repeat myself or something):
- Love the Speed Threshold as is right now.

- Orton started terrible and got hot, finished the half with 13 straight completions... easily hit receivers (but I guess this is where speed threshold came into play, receivers all fast)

- Schaub was good in the beginning but just started to fail after the first quarter, probably more of me just making bad decisions rather than bad on the sliders part, although there were a few easy passes dropped.

- Pass rushing way to easy, but I consider myself pretty good with that and plus I control the DLineman, which probably explains it. I will personally make adjustments to pass rushing but you should probably take someone else's opinion on the matter.

- Rushing for both teams has been pretty simple. Moreno has had either some big holes or nothing at all. Slaton has had holes all day but the time of them closing depends really. They usually only break blocks when I start to sprint.

- Two missed field goals so far.. one from 45+ (for me) and one from 50+ from the CPU. Kris Brown (me) probably should've hit his but missed by a lot. Broncos missed their's by a ton but that should be expected, but probably shouldn't have been attempted anyway. Maybe the FG power is deceiving the CPU? Dunno.

- Broncos had the ball 20 minutes, I've had it for 10. Still, I think this is the product of me rushing my offense and down the stretch I was punting the ball pretty quickly.

I'll probably update this post when my game is finished.

 

[Macken]

im gonna try these out in my next chise game

 

[Tengo Juego]

Packers(me) 31
Bears 10

Rodgers 15/19 208yds 2TDs 0INT
Cutler 13/30 158yds 1TD 1INT

Grant 26 for 80 1TD
Forte 14 for 32

Greg Jennings 4rec 68yds 2TDS
Hester and Rideau both had 4 receptions.

CHI GB
181 Total Offense 296
360 Rushing 88
145 Passing 208
9 First Downs 14
344 Total Yards 406
1 Turnovers 0
5/14 3rd Down 5/10
19:20 TOP 28:40

Notes:
-Only one penalty all game and it was a facemask against Chicago.
-Chicago blitz 6 or more player 6 times. Two resulted in big first downs.
-Chicago ran the ball out of the shotgun 6 times. All were for no more than a yard per.
-Cutler sucked. threw to a player who ran out of bounds immediately after catching about 4 times. Twice on third down.
-I had no problem rushing effectively. Chose not to so much in the first half. I hardly ever used the sprint button, because if I had, I would have had a lot of big gains.

The user run blocking is better. But it felt like it was too good at times.

Blitzes and play selection by the CPU cause a lot of problems but are a separate issue from sliders.

I like this set. I might mess with it a little to my comfort. And I think I'll use these when I start my franchise after the update and patch.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Packers(me) 31
Bears 10

Rodgers 15/19 208yds 2TDs 0INT
Cutler 13/30 158yds 1TD 1INT

Grant 26 for 80 1TD
Forte 14 for 32

Greg Jennings 4rec 68yds 2TDS
Hester and Rideau both had 4 receptions.

CHI GB
181 Total Offense 296
360 Rushing 88
145 Passing 208
9 First Downs 14
344 Total Yards 406
1 Turnovers 0
5/14 3rd Down 5/10
19:20 TOP 28:40

Notes:
-Only one penalty all game and it was a facemask against Chicago.
-Chicago blitzed 6 or more player 6 times. Two resulted in big first downs.
-Chicago ran the ball out of the shotgun 6 times. All were for no more than a yard per. They did this for a long stretch and it was stupid IMO.
-Cutler sucked. threw to a player who ran out of bounds immediately after catching about 4 times. Twice on third down.
-I had no problem rushing effectively. Chose not to so much in the first half. I hardly ever used the sprint button, because if I had, I would have had a lot of big gains.
-Did not attempt to juke or break out of tackles when rushing.

The user run blocking is better. But it felt like it was too good at times.

Blitzes and play selection by the CPU cause a lot of problems but are a separate issue from sliders.

I like this set. I might mess with it a little to my comfort. And I think I'll use these when I start my franchise after the update and patch.

 

[dave]

Packers(me) 31
Bears 10

Rodgers 15/19 208yds 2TDs 0INT
Cutler 13/30 158yds 1TD 1INT

Grant 26 for 80 1TD
Forte 14 for 32

Greg Jennings 4rec 68yds 2TDS
Hester and Rideau both had 4 receptions.

CHI GB
181 Total Offense 296
360 Rushing 88
145 Passing 208
9 First Downs 14
344 Total Yards 406
1 Turnovers 0
5/14 3rd Down 5/10
19:20 TOP 28:40

Notes:
-Only one penalty all game and it was a facemask against Chicago.
-Chicago blitz 6 or more player 6 times. Two resulted in big first downs.
-Chicago ran the ball out of the shotgun 6 times. All were for no more than a yard per.
-Cutler sucked. threw to a player who ran out of bounds immediately after catching about 4 times. Twice on third down.
-I had no problem rushing effectively. Chose not to so much in the first half. I hardly ever used the sprint button, because if I had, I would have had a lot of big gains.

The user run blocking is better. But it felt like it was too good at times.

Blitzes and play selection by the CPU cause a lot of problems but are a separate issue from sliders.

I like this set. I might mess with it a little to my comfort. And I think I'll use these when I start my franchise after the update and patch.

Grant had 80 yards on 26 carries and you consider the run blocking too good?

 

[Tengo Juego]

I'm DEAD serious when I say I didnt sprint. I seriously avoided even hitting the open space when outside. I ran a lot of off tackle plays and just sorta lolly gagged. The corners were blocked perfectly every time.

When I ran up the middle it was better. But anything outside was too easy.

 

[Tengo Juego]

I edited my post because I forgot to include this:

-Did not attempt to juke or break out of tackles when rushing.

You probably read it before I edited it with that in it.

 

[Aso]

The cpu is running all over me. I'm play Pittsburgh (I'm Tennessee) and their C Justin Hartwig is even out but Willie Parker at halftime has 8 carries for 80 yards and 2 tds while Mendenhall has 2 carries for 12 yards. I cannot play vs the cpu with 0's at both play recognition and block shedding for player skill.


Other than that though, they are pretty good.

 

[dave]

I do have a stupid question though: where do you edit sub in/out?

Go to "My Madden" then "auto-subs"

Sidenote: Give me thanks for this one. I actually turned on my ps3 and TV to get this info for you.

Sidenote 2: Glad you like the sliders and absolutely expect guys to tweak them - that's what I do. No one's sliders are perfect. You need to tweak them to your skill level - totally understandable.

 

[Aso]

Thanks for posting theses dave. It's difficult for me to get into a computer game and have the game actually be a good game. That in terms of everything (except the rushing which i tweaked) very similar to real life. Without good sliders i can't play offline franchise mode.

 

[Tengo Juego]

This sucks. I like that sliders are going to be more effective post patch. But I dont want to go through the process of tweaking again.