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Question for you all—what do you think about potentially adding quick development traits to some worthy players who for some reason haven’t gotten it?

I’m thinking of guys like Wentz, Watson, Mahomes possibly, Hunt, Kamara, etc...

If you don’t want to I get it, but I can also see why it makes sense to give some of them a bump before the draft.

And here's why I don't play randoms online. Beating the shit out of this asshole and he just disconnects and I get stuck with a L? What the ****?

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Wentz, Hunt and Kamara, yes.

Watson and Mahomes, no. The sample size is too small to just award them that trait.

Do salary cap hits play a factor in the fantasy draft?

Yeah, it’s tiered. Obviously, with each round the salary goes down. Also, the years of their contract decreases too. 5 year deals go to your earlier picks, then 4, then 3, and so on.

Free agency won’t be very good until year 2 or 3 because all of the good players are under contract for a few years.

Oh, so current cap hits play no factor? That changes things quite a bit.

Nope, it’s all based on where the player is selected.

I think the first round picks usually have a cap hit up around $12M per year. And while that’s lower than many you’d see today, you also will pay some players more than they might be worth in the middle to late rounds.

This shit is getting me worried. You might be big competition.

Just wait til I get my squad assembled.

I know what players I want in what positions and how I want to use them.

Quite frankly, these slider settings are going to be child's play. ROFL

Easier said than done...

Wow...a gentleman.

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LMAO If you actually watched the game, you wouldn't be. I choked on the biggest and blackest dick in that 4th quarter. Clay just ran it up.

Granted, you were powerless to stop me from doing so...

Also the real score was 45-13. Opening kickoff was bullshit!

Let me build his confidence.

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Did you record the game?

No.

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Quick reminder that the draft is currently scheduled for this Sunday at 11 AM CT.

Sometime soon, perhaps tonight, I’ll post rules. They will be added to as necessary.

Pugs hasn't talked much trash.

He's like the quiet guy in the room that doesn't speak, but you know he has something up his sleeve.

Ya'll fools have me rethinking my decision to join this league.

Cause I'm honestly NOT a Madden gamer, i just bought it because i'm divorced, bored, and love football. I play on Pro, and sometimes struggle with throwing 5 or 6 goddamn interceptions a game.

Dude lol, it's not that serious. Just have fun. Draft players you like, and roll with it.

Someone has to be the Browns.

To add to what Kcrockaholic said, you will also improve a lot more rapidly playing this way.

Oh, I'm gonna disconnect 10 seconds into the game with you, mother ****er. ROFL

Good lord Clay must be humbled

Hey, that's my job, assclown.

Oh, he will be.

Alright ****ers. I have the headset and I’m ready to have my ass kicked by players and kick CPU ass

Sneak preview of the fahrenheit and Superturtle battle for AFC North supremacy.

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Which one of you ****ers wants to get his ass cheesed off before I go meet my girl at 7:30?

Go ahead and add me. I will let you warm up on my ass before you go out to break her ass

30 min bro

lmao....look at what I just did to this clown.

And of course he disconnected and I get the L

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lmao... I'm definitely Jerry, though. :D

After watching Clays pick 6.

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Played like total dogshit and still won. You all suck.

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OBSERVE MY SAVAGERY

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DA USER DA USER! ROFL

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Im willing to play another exhibition against a different person tonight. Had quite a bit more fun than I realized.

I really wish I wasn't on this later work shift now. I don't get home until about 9 otherwise I'd get in a couple games with somebody. With 3 days to get our games in each week though I'm sure we'll work something out once we get rolling here.

I’ll probably be down to play later.

Clay if I knew you were going to record that ****ing I would have at least got you to buy me dinner first

ROFLROFL

Hey at least you made a game of it at the end.

My penis was so hard to run it up I blundered into that pick to give you life.

You didn't give me too many opportunites, and I thought with the Colts' secondary I would be able to throw on you. I kept ****ing up trying to get greedy and force things, and like a dumbass I didn't balance my run and pass. Plus I couldn't kick to save a burning building full of babies and puppies.

I feel pretty good about it, being my first game online with Madden ever

You threw on me a lot as it was. But I just stayed patient, sat back in my zones and waited for you to **** up.

I also lol'd when you made that field goal perfectly just before halftime, after shitting your pants on the opening kickoff and extra point.

I was cussing up a storm when I made that. Can’t make it any other time but nail that one. Was so pissed lol

Current rules (these will also be posted in OP):

QUITTING:
1. Under no circumstances is quitting allowed. If a game is suddenly ended between users, there needs to be photographic evidence that a connection was lost or servers went down, otherwise quitting will be assumed on the part of the player losing that game at the time. If it is proven that the connection was lost, the game will restart unless a player was winning by at least three scores at any given time or two scores in the 4th quarter. In this case, a force win will be granted to the user who was leading.
2. Quitting vs. the CPU is easily visible as the league schedule shows how many times a game has been started. If the servers go down vs. CPU, photographic evidence must be provided or quitting will be assumed.
3. FIRST OFFENSE: Player who quit will receive a force loss for their next 4 regular season games. SECOND OFFENSE: Player who quit will receive force loss for their next 8 regular season games. THIRD OFFENSE: Player who quit will receive force loss for their next 12 regular season games. Any further offenses will result in another 12 force losses.

TRADES:
1. Any trade must be cleared here in this thread before execution.This is purely to ensure that CPUs are not being manipulated as well as to discourage salary cap issues if too many trades are being made by a player.

GAMEPLAY:
1. No WRs used at TE.
2. No nano blitzing.

Thanks for setting this up Pugs

What in the blue hell is nano blitzing?

My pleasure!

1. What if I want to convert a big WR to TE?

2. What is nano blitzing?

I honestly don’t think we have to worry about it here, but there are just certain ways to create glitchy blitzes that are basically unblockable. Usually involves a nickel corner who comes on every play and for some reason the game doesn’t know how to account for them if the play is glitched. This doesn’t mean you can’t blitz a corner, but just don’t go researching glitch plays or nano blitzes that simply can’t be denied.

If you ever watch the guys that play for world titles, they do it almost every play.

If you want to convert a WR, let it be known on here first so we can at least see the skill set and whether or not it’s a viable idea.

Ah, I actually remember reading about that in the patch notes. Never heard it differed to as nano blitzing though. I thought I read that they at least patched some of that out.

I hope they did, but I never count on Madden to do anything right.

I loathe for 2K football to one day return.

Looks like we’re still waiting on NWO and Fahrenheit to accept their invites. Make sure and do it by Sunday obviously fellas.

I don't know if 2k would be much better outside of forcing competition to make better games. They seem to be extremely lazy when it comes to actually improving the core gameplay from year to year. There was a solid stretch of time where WWE 2K was basically the same game with different rosters, and they couldn't be bothered to update the rosters from time to time even though the game comes out in October while the roster it uses comes from late March/early April. 6 months.is a long ****ing time for things to change in a business like that.

Player Development Trait Adjustments:
Kareem Hunt NORMAL —> QUICK
DeVante Parker QUICK —> NORMAL
Carson Wentz NORMAL —> QUICK
Solomon Thomas SUPERSTAR —> NORMAL
David Njoku QUICK —> NORMAL
Yannick Ngakoue NORMAL —> QUICK
Jamal Adams SUPERSTAR —> QUICK
Christian McCaffrey SUPERSTAR —> QUICK
Todd Gurley QUICK —> SUPERSTAR
Johnathan Allen SUPERSTAR —> QUICK
Alvin Kamara NORMAL —> QUICK
Marshon Lattimore NORMAL —> QUICK
Malik McDowell QUICK —> NORMAL
JuJu Smith-Schuster NORMAL —> QUICK
Kevin Byard NORMAL —> QUICK

Nah, just leave it alone.

I'm fine with those

All of that seems fair enough.

Nano blitzing is the cheese guys use that are typically in the top 5%. Basically creating a free rush every single snap by confusing the A.I. of the offensive lineman presnap. It IS defendable, but it's a real pain in the ass. Basically exploiting a flaw in the game rather than playing the game correctly.

Also, nano blitzing was a HUGE problem in previous years of Madden. This year it's not nearly as prevalent anyways.

Yep. That’s why you always see the dudes who compete at world title tournaments on NFLN using them. It’s like steroids used to be in baseball, everyone does it at that level and if you don’t—you’re screwed.

That's a good analogy.

I do gotta laugh when I watch those guys using the same 3 plays all game and they're championship level players. It's all about cheesing the game to them. I always bait those guys. I act like I didn't notice what they were doing the first couple times, then the 3rd time I force the turnover.

One thing I pride myself in is playing the game right. I've never once used cheese plays to win in my 20 years playing Madden.

This might have been answered previously but do we keep the current draft order or does the order get shuffled around

The draft order will be randomized on Sunday by the CPU. Then it’s a snake format from round to round.

So if you are lucky #1, you won’t pick again until pick #64. And if you get pick #32, you’ll also have #33.

Speaking of which...can the commish go in and execute the trades we need to balance the draft?

And are we going to have some rules about trading during the draft?

Awesome. Are the picks times? Or do we need to put a time limit on

They are timed, and it goes by pretty fast

Project we are doing this weekend is going to take Saturday and Sunday instead of just Saturday so I am going to be out of town and will miss the draft.

If Turtle can't make it I'm able to do it anytime Monday, Tuesday

That is if we move the draft

I’m ok with moving it a day or two later as well

This is tough. I’m afraid there are going to be struggles with getting everyone together at once, regardless of the day.

We could push this thing back forever and somebody would have something come up each week. If it's any consolation, the CPU doesn't do a bad job of drafting a team. What if it was Sunday night instead of 11am does that make a difference for turtle?

Just do it at the time you've already set. Pugs is right, its going to be damn near impossible for 9 people to have their schedules align for the amount of time its needed to draft.

Can you do it Sunday night?

If you can do Sunday night, we’ll wait

And if you can’t draft, I would say just make sure that you go in and edit your schemes the way that you want them. That has an effect on the players the CPU will target I believe.

I’m gonna throw a real curveball at you all right now, I’m sure it won’t land—can you draft tonight??

If one of you can’t, we won’t.

I can do it tonight if we need to

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The CPU really did seem to do a good job when I ran my mock fantasy draft.

It seems to really favor younger players and superstar/quick developers. For instance, Russell Wilson went #1 and Jalen Ramsey went #2 despite being only low 90s overall. Makes sense if you’re looking to build a team for the long run. I didn’t check to see where guys like Brady, Brees and Rodgers went.

Aaron Donald was still on the board at #9 when I picked though. That was a bit of a head scratcher. I’d probably take him #1 overall. Couldn’t justify him falling out of the top 5.

They also seemed to undervalue OL. There was a 27 year old guard with 97 OVR still on the board in the fifth round.