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Official Madden '10 Xbox 360 Online Franchise: A World Without Favre
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FrenchMovieTheme
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simming now!
Wellington
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If anyone needs a fill in I am home doing nothing!
FrenchMovieTheme
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advanced! play your games, lets make this a short week!
Wellington
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GG Somnia.
Games remaining:
Live/CB
Daw/Nightz
Smokey/AI
DM/AI
Games remaining:
Live/CB
Daw/Nightz
Smokey/AI
DM/AI
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
So, if the kids at Tiburon don't change anything with Madden '11's online franchise, what are the pros and cons of us doing another multiple season franchise versus consecutive single seasons with updated rosters or perhaps updated rosters with a fantasy draft?
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Screw Online Franchise!!!
We got BEATS!!!!
We got BEATS!!!!
DenogginizerOS said:
One: So very few of us are ok with a Fantasy Draft. People just want to control their teams as they are in real life. Instead of being able to create a team in your image.
Two: What would playing multiple seasons of single seasons do? No Progression, no new players? Would we do trades? FA?
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Progressions are fucked up. If they don't address it, we will have uber backs that are going to benefit even more from the new blocking AI. In addition, without any kind of cap, we will essentially become a fantasy league after season one.Lonestar said:
I personally would be fine with normal updated rosters in the first season, play a second season with updated rosters and a fantasy draft OR with updated rosters with a FA draft before we start. A third season could be with another rsoter update. A fourth would be a roster update with an FA draft. I bet with the roster updates, this would yield some unique seasons without drastically altering the balance of the player skills and progressions.
Lonestar said:
Some of us work weekends, unless we plan it 2 weeks in advance I could take some vacation or personal time :lol
I think the progression (what little there is), drafting and the trades we CAN do make it worth keep playing the same franchise and not restarting. The gameplay changes alone will make it worthwhile to play even if they don't change anything. Plus this entire experience is one I won't forget and the offseason was a big part of it!
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I would play 10 again if we had a season of updated rosters. Been talking about this (and tried it) for quite some time but so many wanted an FA draft from that and I just wanted to play with the Jets as they were at the end of the season.DCX said:
goldlion054
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DenogginizerOS said:
Even with the updated rosters, EA never throws a bone towards some of the lesser teams in the league. Having to control a shit ass lions team vs. The rest of the NFC north in madden universe would be terrible. Trying to stop Green Bay with our nasty secondary (which will end up being worse in madden than in real life) or having to see julius peppers and jared allen humiliate jeff backus every week would be miserable. I would still play, but it wouldn't be nearly as fun as building a team in my image
Wellington
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Yes, Madden 10 and it's flaws are absolutely not an option.TheCrow said:
I say we press forward with Madden 11 and it's fucked up franchise, it's not going to be any worse than what we have now, which is more than livable. I understand that everyone wants to do away with the fantasy backs, but I'll be honest with you, I never had a problem against any fantasy back running the ball. The only time they became problems was when they were used extensively in the passing game, which we already know is an issue with the game. Before it's even brought up, I have exactly one fantasy LB that plays and he's only become a starter this year. Before him, I topped out at 85 SPD at LB.
I think the biggest issue would be parity, the bad teams would never get any better, as Goldlion mentioned. There were a number of guys that benefited a lot from having high draft picks and acquiring the right personnel to propel them into the playoffs, the Broncos, Niners, Bengals, Saints - not to mention the guys that have much better teams than what they started with in a lot of respects.
Also, whether there's a cap in the NFL or not (not), I think we should implement our own.
Wellington
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Nah last year this was like a safe haven. Some topics were moved into here.Lonestar said:
Wellington
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There's an option to leave a redirect link on the old forum. Check out the OT and it's redirect for the World Cup thread.Lonestar said:
Wellington
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This blows. With no OT, I am forced to do work.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Not sure if any of you saw this but. ESPN3 on XBL is huge for me.
I used to go to my PC and watch all the college football streams on ESPN360. Having them all on XBL, in HD, on my HDTV will make Saturdays alot better.
I used to go to my PC and watch all the college football streams on ESPN360. Having them all on XBL, in HD, on my HDTV will make Saturdays alot better.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Lonestar said:
ESPN3.com is free. The only thing is that you have to be on a cable provider that supports (subsidizes) it.
But ESPN3 will be live with Gold so none of that matters. I will only use it for college football. Hopefully they will have the archive available on XBL as well.
Wellington
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Sonofabitch!!!BigAT said:
Don't know anything about ESPN3, but would it broadcast MNF, PTI, and the 30 for 30 series?
If so I am canceling my cable today (or whenever Cablevision gets it).
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Lonestar said:
It archives for about 3 months. Atleast ESPN360 did. Not sure how the rebranded ESPN3 is going to handle it, but I would assume it will be the same. Having a 3 month archive was nice for games you missed or when there wasn't crap on TV. Again, that was online, not sure how it works on XBL.