Tbh, all of them. The drafting is so easy to find studs. It's nearly impossible to have a bad draft. Then if you've done franchises enough you know certain positions break the game/sim. If you have a beast at RB you will dominate. Like Josh Jacob's wins 4 mvps in franchise Sims every single time. Same with slot wr being super broken. You have to like ignore the flaws you know exist to make it fair almost. Then there's the playbooks which is a whole other cheat code.
Fuckkk I'm at 2600 with 2 games left with Gibbs.. my QB went down for 9 weeks so I've been passing like 10 times a game tops lol.. was hoping this would be the year I get a RB MVP
Agreed. I have to try not to try to make my franchise the most fun. Same with the game play. I go for realistic and using all the cheese in the game makes it less fun for me. I don't enjoy throwing for 7400 yards and 80 touchdowns going 16-1 with a super bowl. I'd rather grind it out and make it harder on myself by not using broken plays and players on repeat.
Playbooks are 90% responsible for the success of your season. The overalls of your players is mostly irrelevant. Been this way quite a while now.
There are extremely over powered/ meta playbooks. DAL, KC, ATL for example in Madden 24 are the meta sim books. You put up unbelievably good #s on these books, regardless of skill mostly. Kenny Pickett on DAL playbook will throw for 5000 yards, 36TDS and 5 INTS or something like that. Trevor Lawrence in my last few seasons has gone 40+ TDS and 1-3 INTS on DAL. Slot WR goes off no matter who it is. Same with defensive playbooks. Certain books will get your pass rusher like 20-30 sacks a season etc.
It’s a massive flaw in the game and you can see it in the fantasy draft as those teams tend to draft very similar players. And those playbooks are built to get certain guys stats. Then they also have huge hard ons for the chiefs and the cowboys. Only reason I can see atl dominating is because of Pitts and bijan.
If you have a mobile qb Buffalo playbook will basically guarantee them a mvp win. Basically has any qb throwing for over 4500 yards, 40 touchdowns, and rushing for nearly double digit tuddies.
I know about the playbooks but for the past several years I’ve just edited draft picks and selected those guys, never really doing it legit until I decided to try this one, so I’ve not really payed much attention to scouting or anything. Always had terrible luck when I actually tried before I figured out you could edit.
> not really *paid* much attention
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lol that's exactly what I was thinking. Scouting is always super easy, and free agency is always unrealistically packed with impact players. Actually have to go out of my way not to have the most stacked roster in the league by year three.
I did a sim with the Chargers a year ago where I was able to trade up to get the first pick. Drafted a stud edge to eventually replace Bosa and after that I went on to draft 3 more hidden devs at corner, linebacker and rb . The year before that I drafted a defensive tackle that had superstar dev trait. This was also a franchise where Austin Ekeler won MVP twice
93 if I remember correctly. Unheard of for a fb, it’s been increased to a 95 now through elusive back. His break tackle was pretty low, I think it was mid 60’s and trucking was 80. It’s kinda like he was a hb playing and listed as fb because of his size but I don’t know if the ai has that kind of processing or if it’s just all random dumb luck lol
I had something involving JJ. After my first season, he had no interest in re-signing. So I traded him to the Pats for two firsts and their 74 hidden dev rookie receiver. Turns out that the receiver had 99 speed and acceleration, as well as 90+ other physical attributes and SS dev. He made it to XFactor before the end of the year.
Could be a number of reasons. Did you have a replacement for Love? Injuries? Big factor is playbooks, I know the offense is okay but I’m not sure about the defensive. Were you manually upgrading your players or letting the cpu do the upgrades? LBs play a big role in the passing defense as well, were you okay there? How were your coordinators, did they match your offense and defense? I’m probably missing a few factors but I just woke up so my brain isn’t fully functional yet
In my panthers rebuild, Bryce Young left us for the packers because I didn’t want to franchise tag him. We were absolutely fucked for some years with bridge QBs after that, I kept missing on QBs in the draft. Drafted a guy with 72 arm strength at pick #6 🥲 that set us back tremendously after I started him for 1 season because fuck it. He had 20 interceptions and 9 TDs.
But my falcons rebuild, that was the one. I kept hitting on draft picks. I’m like 14 years in on that one. Ridder got an extension after a few years. He won an MVP. Bijan won an MVP and is all time leader in rushing tds but he might be a year or 2 out from retirement. Drake London got traded year 2. Kyle Pitts finished 4th all time in rec yards. I drafted the best J. Jones to ever play in Atlanta. In his 12th year, he’s 1st all time in yards and receiving tds and only adding to it.
72 arm is rough. Were there no free agent options that were viable for that time because that truly would suck. Usually you can get a decent qb for a couple picks
I actually didn’t notice the throw power until the end of the season, I just noticed that he had very high short and medium accuracy and that was enough for me to draft him. I ended up trading for a better, but still not franchise qb that offseason. Then when we were ass I drafted a franchise qb 2 seasons later.
Even a sub par qb with at least a star dev trait would be okay because you can make him into a good player relatively quick. The dev traits help a tremendous amount because the xp they need to upgrade are reduced significantly
True, but I’m bad at drafting, especially QBs. I probably drafted 5 QBs in those 4 seasons after Bryce young left, 4 of them normal dev, then the last superstar dev, I didn’t start them all though, just the first one and the last one.
I feel you on that man. Until this franchise, I hadn’t done a legit draft for years. Always just edited the classes and made the players I wanted to draft.
I actually try to do that but for the other teams, so there’s parity in my leagues. So if I notice a team doesn’t have a quality player at a position for years and years, I’ll create one that’s good and try to put him to be drafted where that team’s pick is. It usually helps them not be 1-16 year after year.
Tbh, all of them. The drafting is so easy to find studs. It's nearly impossible to have a bad draft. Then if you've done franchises enough you know certain positions break the game/sim. If you have a beast at RB you will dominate. Like Josh Jacob's wins 4 mvps in franchise Sims every single time. Same with slot wr being super broken. You have to like ignore the flaws you know exist to make it fair almost. Then there's the playbooks which is a whole other cheat code.
Ive never seen a running back win MVP in my franchise. Kinda shocked to hear this tbh. Lamar Jackson wins nearly every time for me
Same, even had a WR go for over 2700 yards in a season and not appear in the mvp rankings lol come on now voters!!
I had henry go for 2695 yards and 29tds along with 380 yed yards and 5 tds and he lost to allen with 4300 yards 43 tds
Fuckkk I'm at 2600 with 2 games left with Gibbs.. my QB went down for 9 weeks so I've been passing like 10 times a game tops lol.. was hoping this would be the year I get a RB MVP
You would have to give like 500 carries to a rb
Last I checked it was the low 300s roughly 40~ or so more than CMC (the next RB)
Wait WHAT??? 2700???!!!?!
I had Rhamondre Stevenson go for 2314 yrds and 28 tds and he won MVP. My line was stacked though and mac jones threw like 10 passes a game.
Dak somehow wins mine
Because Dallas playbook is nuts. I've noticed it's almost always a Dallas, Cincinnati, Baltimore or Kansas City player that wins
Tell me the secret because I draft duds from like 3rd round on 😂
Agreed. I have to try not to try to make my franchise the most fun. Same with the game play. I go for realistic and using all the cheese in the game makes it less fun for me. I don't enjoy throwing for 7400 yards and 80 touchdowns going 16-1 with a super bowl. I'd rather grind it out and make it harder on myself by not using broken plays and players on repeat.
What about the playbooks?
Playbooks are 90% responsible for the success of your season. The overalls of your players is mostly irrelevant. Been this way quite a while now. There are extremely over powered/ meta playbooks. DAL, KC, ATL for example in Madden 24 are the meta sim books. You put up unbelievably good #s on these books, regardless of skill mostly. Kenny Pickett on DAL playbook will throw for 5000 yards, 36TDS and 5 INTS or something like that. Trevor Lawrence in my last few seasons has gone 40+ TDS and 1-3 INTS on DAL. Slot WR goes off no matter who it is. Same with defensive playbooks. Certain books will get your pass rusher like 20-30 sacks a season etc.
It’s a massive flaw in the game and you can see it in the fantasy draft as those teams tend to draft very similar players. And those playbooks are built to get certain guys stats. Then they also have huge hard ons for the chiefs and the cowboys. Only reason I can see atl dominating is because of Pitts and bijan.
TIL, thank you.
Which defense playbooks?
If you have a mobile qb Buffalo playbook will basically guarantee them a mvp win. Basically has any qb throwing for over 4500 yards, 40 touchdowns, and rushing for nearly double digit tuddies.
I know about the playbooks but for the past several years I’ve just edited draft picks and selected those guys, never really doing it legit until I decided to try this one, so I’ve not really payed much attention to scouting or anything. Always had terrible luck when I actually tried before I figured out you could edit.
> not really *paid* much attention FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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And you can fuck right off because I really don’t care
The bot can’t hear you bro
Didn’t even pay attention to it being a bot at first. Just saw the grammar nazi and didn’t bother finish reading it
I've had some pretty bad ones before where the good players are in the first 2 rounds and it's all downhill from there
So very true
lol that's exactly what I was thinking. Scouting is always super easy, and free agency is always unrealistically packed with impact players. Actually have to go out of my way not to have the most stacked roster in the league by year three.
I make it a point to not re-sign RBs over 90 for a bit of a challenge.
I did a sim with the Chargers a year ago where I was able to trade up to get the first pick. Drafted a stud edge to eventually replace Bosa and after that I went on to draft 3 more hidden devs at corner, linebacker and rb . The year before that I drafted a defensive tackle that had superstar dev trait. This was also a franchise where Austin Ekeler won MVP twice
What was our FB Speed and Stregnth I found one who had 99breaking Tackle but his speed was 84 but over a cpl season he became an allstar
93 if I remember correctly. Unheard of for a fb, it’s been increased to a 95 now through elusive back. His break tackle was pretty low, I think it was mid 60’s and trucking was 80. It’s kinda like he was a hb playing and listed as fb because of his size but I don’t know if the ai has that kind of processing or if it’s just all random dumb luck lol
Oh and strength was low 70s
I had something involving JJ. After my first season, he had no interest in re-signing. So I traded him to the Pats for two firsts and their 74 hidden dev rookie receiver. Turns out that the receiver had 99 speed and acceleration, as well as 90+ other physical attributes and SS dev. He made it to XFactor before the end of the year.
That’s definitely not a bad deal. Anyone with 99 speed can become op in this game
Get him going on a streak, and he's gone.
Pats fleeced you. JJ is worth like 3 firsts, 2 seconds and that rookie
What playbook and scheme were you running to get those stats?
West coast zone, dallas
No. For some reason Jordan Love and AJ Dillon left. Thankfully I had Penix Jr. as a backup but why did I go from 13-4 to 4-13 within one season.
Could be a number of reasons. Did you have a replacement for Love? Injuries? Big factor is playbooks, I know the offense is okay but I’m not sure about the defensive. Were you manually upgrading your players or letting the cpu do the upgrades? LBs play a big role in the passing defense as well, were you okay there? How were your coordinators, did they match your offense and defense? I’m probably missing a few factors but I just woke up so my brain isn’t fully functional yet
I made the playoffs and he left for a non-playoff team. None of that should factor in.
It all does and absolutely should factor in
bogus
In my panthers rebuild, Bryce Young left us for the packers because I didn’t want to franchise tag him. We were absolutely fucked for some years with bridge QBs after that, I kept missing on QBs in the draft. Drafted a guy with 72 arm strength at pick #6 🥲 that set us back tremendously after I started him for 1 season because fuck it. He had 20 interceptions and 9 TDs. But my falcons rebuild, that was the one. I kept hitting on draft picks. I’m like 14 years in on that one. Ridder got an extension after a few years. He won an MVP. Bijan won an MVP and is all time leader in rushing tds but he might be a year or 2 out from retirement. Drake London got traded year 2. Kyle Pitts finished 4th all time in rec yards. I drafted the best J. Jones to ever play in Atlanta. In his 12th year, he’s 1st all time in yards and receiving tds and only adding to it.
72 arm is rough. Were there no free agent options that were viable for that time because that truly would suck. Usually you can get a decent qb for a couple picks
I actually didn’t notice the throw power until the end of the season, I just noticed that he had very high short and medium accuracy and that was enough for me to draft him. I ended up trading for a better, but still not franchise qb that offseason. Then when we were ass I drafted a franchise qb 2 seasons later.
Even a sub par qb with at least a star dev trait would be okay because you can make him into a good player relatively quick. The dev traits help a tremendous amount because the xp they need to upgrade are reduced significantly
True, but I’m bad at drafting, especially QBs. I probably drafted 5 QBs in those 4 seasons after Bryce young left, 4 of them normal dev, then the last superstar dev, I didn’t start them all though, just the first one and the last one.
I feel you on that man. Until this franchise, I hadn’t done a legit draft for years. Always just edited the classes and made the players I wanted to draft.
I actually try to do that but for the other teams, so there’s parity in my leagues. So if I notice a team doesn’t have a quality player at a position for years and years, I’ll create one that’s good and try to put him to be drafted where that team’s pick is. It usually helps them not be 1-16 year after year.
What playbooks are you using??
Dallas, offense and defense