I wish EA would hire me as the franchise guru for Madden, I'd overhaul the whole shit.
I wish they would hire some of us. I do several franchises with Madden because I enjoy drafting a team and then simulating through a few seasons to practice drafting/team building and I can see so many damn things that could be done better.
But game prep is absolutely worthless and the amount of XP you can earn doing stuff is fucking laughable. People have a much harder time progressing in this game now.
As for scouting, I wish once again they would have taken last year's system and this year's system and met somewhere right down the middle. I do like that I can scout most positions, but yeah, I want the choice to scout whatever the hell attribute I want.
As for toughness, it seems to be 1 of 3 attributes a LOT of linemen get, but that's actually not a bad thing---I've drafted offensive lineman who are like A strength, B+ Pass block, and B toughness, and their run blocking can still be a B- or C+, it can be a small crap shoot.
I think I've gotten good at drafting in this game though. A lot of the guys I end up taking are ranked higher in their true value and I've nabbed some quick/superstars in places like the 4th round. And sometimes the game will tell you once you've fully scouted a player "2nd round talent" but they're actually really first round talent, so I'm not sure what that's about.
Something about the draft board that bothers me though is the lack of 3-4 players on the D-Line, but I've started experimenting with scouting every DT anyways just because I can probably move that 4-3 DT to become a 3-4 DE.
