My Madden team......

[Mecca]

I'm just beginning my 3rd year of my franchise, I figured I'd post my roster and see what everyone thinks.....

QB
Jay Cuter
Matt Schaub
Derek Anderson

HB
Larry Johnson
Lorenzo Booker
Leon Washington

FB
Alan Ricard
Tim Castille

WR
Calvin Johnson
Martin Nance
Samie Parker
Dante Hall
Jason Avant
Craphonso Thorpe

TE
Tony Gonzalez
Jason Dunn
Kris Wilson

LT
Willie Roaf
Kevin Sampson

LG
Brian Waters
Chris Bober

C
Greg Eslinger
Nick Mann

RG
John Welbourne
Kasey Stoddard

RT
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Jason Peters

LE
Mario Williams
Elvis Dumerville
Chris Canty

RE
Jared Allen
Osi Umenyiora

DT
Ryan Sims
Le Kevin Smith
Manuel Wright
Junior Siavii

LOLB
Derrick Johnson
Keyaron Fox

MLB
Kawika Mitchell
Kai Parham
Robert McCune

ROLB
Kendrell Bell
DeMeco Ryans

CB
Pat Surtain
Tye Hill
David Irons
Domonique Foxworth
Roc Alexander

FS
Chijioke Onyenegecha
William Bartee

SS
LaRon Landry
Jermaine Phillips

K
Lawrence Tynes

P
Dustin Colquitt

Before you ask, Trent Green retired, I didn't cut him. So feel free to question and comment about the team I've built so far.

[Hammock Parties]

I just drafted the mother of all defensive ends.

6'6 294

86 speed
93 strength
75 agility
66 acceleration (increased to 70 via training camp)
63 jumping
72 tackle

He's going to fuck some shit up. ADIOS, HICKS!

[B_Ambuehl]

But you can buy the names off of Ebay, you buy a memory card off Ebay that has the NCAA '06 player names on it.

What are those memory cards called?

[royr17]

Originally Posted by gopaint

I just drafted the mother of all defensive ends.

6'6 294

86 speed
93 strength
75 agility
66 acceleration (increased to 70 via training camp)
63 jumping
72 tackle

He's going to fuck some shit up. ADIOS, HICKS!

What year are you in now, I dont hardly get to play anymore since i have a woman in my life and I work.

[B_Ambuehl]

6'6 294

86 speed
93 strength
75 agility
66 acceleration (increased to 70 via training camp)
63 jumping
72 tackle

He's going to fuck some shit up. ADIOS, HICKS!

His tackling does not relate well to his strength which is kind've uncommon and his acceleration is extremely poor.

When you scout players, the 20 yard shuttle is acceleration and cone drill is agility. Strength is obviously bench reps and tends to correlate well with tackling. At most positions, acceleration is much more important then speed. It's easy to get speedy players with poor accleration, agility and tackling but getting speedy players with good acceleration and tackling is where it's at. When you're scouting, simply find who has the best acceleration or strength and then relate that to everything else.

For example if I were drafting a defensive end I would first look at strength since I want them to tackle first and foremost. So find who has the best 225 reps. Next, look at 20 yard shuttle and see who has the best combination of 20 yard shuttle and 225 reps...from there look at speed and the scouting report. With that system you can get a lot of good talent often in mid to late rounds. I will not draft a defensive end if his shuttle is much over 4 seconds and his bench reps must be over 28 otherwise he'll play too slow and won't tackle or take on blocks very well.

[Hammock Parties]

I can easily get his acceleration up to 80 in two offseasons, maybe less depending on progression.

He's going to be a beast.

I think agility is more important for DEs, at least in the Madden world anyway. When a DE is engaged with a blocker, their agility rating more often than not is used when determining how quickly they can swim/rip past the blocker.

I never scout, either. The Madden editor shows me all the ratings.

[B_Ambuehl]

I'm dumb when it comes to all these add on's, video cards, cheats etc. I don't play games much in fact madden is the only game I've played in years......but anyway, tell me what a madden editor is? (As if I needed any more reasons to waste more time playing madden)

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl

I'm dumb when it comes to all these add on's, video cards, cheats etc. I don't play games much in fact madden is the only game I've played in years......but anyway, tell me what a madden editor is? (As if I needed any more reasons to waste more time playing madden)

It's for PC. It basically allows me to edit almost anything I want. You can import draft classes for the first time on PC Madden with it, too.

I mostly use it to scout the draft ratings and change players positions. In a previous franchise I picked up a free agent HB that just happened to be 6'4 and converted him to TE.

I also use the global head coach slider adjustment thing they just added to it...produces more realistic results. It also has an injury slider so I get much more realistic injuries now.

Here are a few screenshots:

[Reaper16]

Matrix - Is Khari Long seriously a 90? How did that happen?

[Dunit35]

Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl

What are those memory cards called?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NCAA-Football-20...QQcmdZViewItem

I have never done this before. But a buddy of mine did this. Im guessing rent NCAA 2006 or if you already have it. Im not sure how to get the names on the players with this memory card but Im sure it cant be hard. Load the roster off the memory card onto NCAA or something. Then do whatever you do to get the players graduated (play a college season or two or do what I do and simulate a couple of seasons.) Then when you export the graduating players the names will be on there and ready to be drafted with their names instead of numbers.

[htismaqe]

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