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Official Madden Season 11 Thread: The school books say it can't be here again!

Going to try to make this as short as possible, but I know it won't be. Here are details you need to know:

1. This is a sim league. You are required to manually enter your player and team stats after every game. Please consult the league rules section of our site (http://www.leaguedaddy.com/leagues/rules/?lid=1307)

2. The league will have identical divisions and schedule to the real NFL.

3. I want to make it perfectly clear that you are going to have games with varying lag. You're going to have games where the game is running a notch or two (or more!) slower than single player. Dudes, I can't help this. So if this is going to be a huge issue for you or you refuse to play this way, let me know and I will find a replacement. Not to be a dick about it, but we all have to deal with lag and it's no ones fault in this league, so the league shouldn't suffer for it. So if you're going to blow up at someone cause they have lag, don't bother.

4. One more note regarding that: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure you aren't downloading anything, make sure you have no torrents running, make sure your roommates or family or whatever doesn't have anything else running. It is one thing if EA is ****ing with us by having crappy netcode, it's another thing when you are screwing up the connection cause of that stuff. It's hard enough to get a decent game going as is, so make sure everything is ok on your end!

5. You will have 5 days to play your games. You will not be allowed to play past the current week and enter your stats. All weeks except the "Current Week" will be locked. I discourage from playing ahead and writing your stats down, but if you have to for whatever reason then that is an option. Weeks will advance on the 5th day at 6 PM PST. For instance, if week 1 starts on a monday, you have m, t, w, th, and friday (until 6 PM!) to get your game in. Please don't be a flake. I know we all have lives, social and otherwise, so if you can't make a game or something at least CONTACT the person. if you know for a fact that you are going to be out of town for week 2 (for instance), you can simply play ahead and write your stats down then submit them later (or email them to me! write them down or take digital photos of the stats and i will enter them for you!)


Now that that's out of the way, please post your contact information for league players. Then I will compile a list of AIM/XBL Names so there is a reference page for that. If you don't have AIM I suggest you get it. I won't make it mandatory but if you are lagging on getting your games played and don't have AIM that is a possible reason. It's just easier to make contact and setup games.
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yeah i c&p that from the other thread, mostly because i'm lazy. but allow me to interject! here is the order of things:

1. finish the playoffs from season 10
2. secure correct draft order
3. find out who is playing and who isn't
4. come up with the list of players
5. draft
6. play season 11!

Q: When will season 11 start?
A: Probably in about 2-3 weeks. I need a break!

Q: What will the draft order be?
A: It will be based on the records from season 10.

Q: What about new players?
A: Bottom of the list ladies!

Q: What if some season 10 players missed games?
A: Depends. if their system died i'm not going to penalize them. if they were just being lazy then i may bump them down as a "new" player.

Q: Any rule changes?
A: I don't think so, but maybe!

Q: Should I post in this thread if I am interested in playing in Season 11?
A: Yes.

Q: Should I tell you what team I want when I post?
A: Please don't.

Q: Will the divisional layout stay the same?
A: Depends on if we have 32 players or not.

Q: What if we DO have 32 players?
A: I'm not sure.

Q: You're the commish and you aren't sure? It's a simple question. A baby could answer it. Are the divisions going to be the same?
A: I said I don't know for sure, get off my case asshole.

Q: Well, let's say the divisions are the same, is the schedule going to be the same as Season 10?
A: No. I will come up with a new schedule.

Q: Are you doing awards for season 10?
A: Yes. And I will update the all-time records also!

Q: Thanks for your time!
A: That's not a question but you're welcome!
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Season 11 Draft:

1. Livewire - Patriots
2. Truelize - Chargers
3. Striker - Jaguars
4. Fifty - Colts
5. Bluemax - Steelers
6. Matrix - Bengals
7. Coldblooded - Eagles
8 Denog - Ravens
9. Daw - Chiefs
10. DCX - Cowboys
11. Malley - Vikings
12. Dammittmatt - Broncos
13. Gunstar - Packers
14. Sableholic - Bears
15. Slo - Saints
16. Konex - Lions
17. Mr. Bob - Titans
18. Lonestar - Browns
19. Luke -
20. Jube
21. Sickboy
22. DMczaf
23. Ramirez
24. Wellie
25. Shawn
26. Ando
27. FMT
28. Rors - raiders
29. Chris (unsure of draft position)
30. LJ (unsure of draft position)
31. airbrian (unsure of draft position)
32.
 

bluemax

Banned
As much as I'm going to regret this in terms of time commitment I want to play.

Question though, will the draft be used for next fall's league or will teams be more or less the same as in season 10?
 

Andokuky

Banned
bluemax said:
As much as I'm going to regret this in terms of time commitment I want to play.

Question though, will the draft be used for next fall's league or will teams be more or less the same as in season 10?

I would guess season 10.
 

Fifty

Member
Count me out. Kiss my ass FMT, I'm playing All Pro Football 2K with Coldblooded. They call him Coldblooded33 because he'll beat you 33 times in 2K games without any emotion!
 

Fifty

Member
I think most people will be in actually. Not to say that you shouldn't post your interest. I'd be surprised if we had less than 25-27 returning players.

I'll be busy working on the draft order so returning people can find out who they're using as soon as earthly possible.
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
Fifty said:
Count me out. Kiss my ass FMT, I'm playing All Pro Football 2K with Coldblooded. They call him Coldblooded33 because he'll beat you 33 times in 2K games without any emotion!

3-0 in NBA2K8! Gonna be 4-0 whenever FMT mans up and takes his ass kicking
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
ColdBlooded33 said:
2-0-1 in NBA2K8! Gonna be 3-0-1 whenever FMT mans up and takes his ass kicking


Thats better.


And of course I'm in,I want to play CB! make it happen.
 

DenogginizerOS

BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
After sleeping on it, I have decided to play another season. There is no other sports game out there that has this kind of following and I am curious to see if I can improve my 5-11 record. Apologies for the confusion, but hey, Madden drives us crazy. What else can I say?
 
Count me in

DenogginizerOS said:
After sleeping on it, I have decided to play another season. There is no other sports game out there that has this kind of following and I am curious to see if I can improve my 5-11 record. Apologies for the confusion, but hey, Madden drives us crazy. What else can I say?

glad you changed your mind.
 

Wellington

BAAAALLLINNN'
I'm going to up the ante a bit.

If you guys sign up, commit yourself to the league, then don't finish out, you're going to get banned for a time. How long, I don't know, I will discuss with my fellow admins.

Don't waste our time here fellas!
 

Smokey

Member
Wellington said:
I'm going to up the ante a bit.

If you guys sign up, commit yourself to the league, then don't finish out, you're going to get banned for a time. How long, I don't know, I will discuss with my fellow admins.

Don't waste our time here fellas!

wow:lol
 

Slo

Member
I'll be straight up, I want to see the draft order before I commit. This league is a huge time sink for me and I can't see myself having fun while trying to coach up a garbage team to a .500 record. There's a chance that I won't get the Vikes back, and I have no interest dedicating my time to JP Losman.
 

AirBrian

Member
Wellington said:
I'm going to up the ante a bit.

If you guys sign up, commit yourself to the league, then don't finish out, you're going to get banned for a time. How long, I don't know, I will discuss with my fellow admins.

Don't waste our time here fellas!
<3
 

Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Slo said:
I'll be straight up, I want to see the draft order before I commit. This league is a huge time sink for me and I can't see myself having fun while trying to coach up a garbage team to a .500 record. There's a chance that I won't get the Vikes back, and I have no interest dedicating my time to JP Losman.

That's actually my stance too.

And if a Banning is in, I might just sit out. Never know what might come up in the next 2 months. I could get put into a coma! Isn't that bad enough, now you're threatening me with a ban, while I'm in a COMA. IN A COMA.
 
Slo said:
I'll be straight up, I want to see the draft order before I commit. This league is a huge time sink for me and I can't see myself having fun while trying to coach up a garbage team to a .500 record. There's a chance that I won't get the Vikes back, and I have no interest dedicating my time to JP Losman.

I assume since we didn't make the playoffs there will be good teams when we pick.
 

Andokuky

Banned
Yea there are plenty of capable teams in Madden. Plus if you're good enough it won't really matter who you got. I mean look at what LJ did with the Bills, DCX with the Browns, Rors with that total garbage team completely reflective of their real life counterpart, FMT with the Niners. Although the Niners might not be rated that bad in Madden, idk.
Overrated
 

Slo

Member
Andokuky said:
Yea there are plenty of capable teams in Madden. Plus if you're good enough it won't really matter who you got. I mean look at what LJ did with the Bills, DCX with the Browns, Rors with that total garbage team completely reflective of their real life counterpart, FMT with the Niners. Although the Niners might not be rated that bad in Madden, idk.
Overrated

What they've done is VERY impressive. But the key component for me is fun.
 

Slo

Member
Lonestar said:
That's actually my stance too.

And if a Banning is in, I might just sit out. Never know what might come up in the next 2 months. I could get put into a coma! Isn't that bad enough, now you're threatening me with a ban, while I'm in a COMA. IN A COMA.

Wellie's an insensitive hard-ass when it comes to severe brain injuries!
 

Wellington

BAAAALLLINNN'
Fine fine. You all see what is going on though in season 10, it's not fair to the guys that want to play their games.

The only thing I would like to see for season 11 is players that use questionable tactics be taken to task. Only one person has ever told me they have a problem with the way I play, there may be more, if so I want to know about it so I can change. I think it was dumb how the whole thing went down with Slo. It took until the second to last game of the year for someone to speak up.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
I'm speaking up right now...

I want Konex's cheesy ass 2k style scramble towards the sidelines with the QB to get a pass off to stop.Konex cant complete passes when he stays in the pocket or maybe he can!?he just 95% of the time doesnt bother trying.I agree with CK that the whole thing with Slo was handled weakly,but how come Konex didnt get the same shit from anyone that Slo got at the end?


I was bitching about it my last game in the forum as the game was going on and no one else had anything to say.

I hate to bring someone else into this,but Chris told me Konex did it to him too.

Is it just accepted since Konex has sucked at Madden in the past that its ok for him play this way?



DRAMA!

ps..

I <3 Konex
 

Andokuky

Banned
Wellington said:
Fine fine. You all see what is going on though in season 10, it's not fair to the guys that want to play their games.

The only thing I would like to see for season 11 is players that use questionable tactics be taken to task. Only one person has ever told me they have a problem with the way I play, there may be more, if so I want to know about it so I can change. I think it was dumb how the whole thing went down with Slo. It took until the second to last game of the year for someone to speak up.

I agree with this as well. FMT said a lot of people complain about me and I never heard anything about it from anyone except one person bitching about a sack.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
Most the time we all tend to blow up and act like 2 year olds when we get called out/call someone out on the forum.I think thats why more people resort to complaining in private now to FMT and hope he deals with the issue someway.
 

LJ11

Member
I'm definitely down.

And if anyone had a problem with the way I played please let me know. I'm willing to change things up if it's brought to my attention.
 

Rorschach

Member
Matrix said:
I'm speaking up right now...

I want Konex's cheesy ass 2k style scramble towards the sidelines with the QB to get a pass off to stop.Konex cant complete passes when he stays in the pocket or maybe he can!?he just 95% of the time doesnt bother trying.I agree with CK that the whole thing with Slo was handled weakly,but how come Konex didnt get the same shit from anyone that Slo got at the end?


I was bitching about it my last game in the forum as the game was going on and no one else had anything to say.

I hate to bring someone else into this,but Chris told me Konex did it to him too.
Yeah, it's funny that everyone had something to say about slo for 1 complaint, but when you brought up Konex, there was zero drama. He did it to me as well, but he's been doing it since the first time I played him. I thought it was fishy as hell back then, but I guess I've gotten used to it. He even did it with the Colts! When I play Konex, I keep in mind that I have to play against that style and that he goes to grab a cup of coffee during defensive downs.

I didn't feel cheesed when I played him or Slo and that's why I didn't bring anything up. There is a way to stop the rollouts that happen at the start of every play. Unfortunately, I'm an idiot and I didn't do it against the last time. :p


Is it just accepted since Konex has sucked at Madden in the past that its ok for him play this way?
I think that's part of it. When I hear about Konex rolling out, I just think "haha that's our konex!" We let him get away with a little more than most. Remember Cone Gate?

I <3 Konex
We all <3 Konex.

FrenchMovieTheme said:
EA could solve a lot of these problems with spectator mode! we could see for certain who is cheesing!
NCAA at least lets you upload videos. Why does tiburon hate us, FMT? :(

And if anyone had a problem with the way I played please let me know. I'm willing to change things up if it's brought to my attention.
Yeah, I have something to complain about. You win as the Bills! THE BILLS!!! That's unacceptable.
 
Is it just accepted since Konex has sucked at Madden in the past that its ok for him play this way?

i talked to conex about it. he denied the accusations and said he didn't scramble out every play. that is why big brother is now watching him


p.s. if no one speaks up or tells me things then i can't know any given situation is happening.
 

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
FrenchMovieTheme said:
i talked to conex about it. he denied the accusations and said he didn't scramble out every play. that is why big brother is now watching him


p.s. if no one speaks up or tells me things then i can't know any given situation is happening.


Ok maybe its not every play,but it sure is heck is every 3rd down play if he has to pass to get himself out of a bad situation.I did type up as the game was going on that he did it in 1 series atleast every play.

I had no reason to bs about what I was seeing since I wasnt making the playoffs and if I won it would have affected my draft position.

I didnt complain about it the first time I played Konex,because he didnt do it to me then.The funny thing to is he beat me worse when he played 100% sim like.

Everyone knows Konex's history of scrambling as soon as he snaps the ball,so I dont see why anyone has to watch him,he just needs to stop it.
 

Fifty

Member
Yeah, I agree about taking people to task. I said this before but it's good to speak your mind in the open so that we all know what's going on, and issues can be addressed, rather than letting things fester.

Any team that's out of the playoffs and returning will probably have a good idea where they stand draft wise later today. I think DJ needs to play one more game against Jube though. As long as the player who picks promises to return, and the team he wants is not currently in the playoffs (because if that team won, they could repeat), I think we should be able to start the initial pick process right away. I'd post the list in one of my posts, but they'd get lost in the thread so I'll just hope FMT will edit the list in his original post.

Of course there will be some waiting around. If Livewire really wants to turn his back on his team and pick the Patriots that demoralized his Redskins, he'd have to wait for them to be eliminated (or win!) the playoffs. Not so much waiting if he picks the Redskins!
 

Ramirez

Member
Matrix said:
Most the time we all tend to blow up and act like 2 year olds when we get called out/call someone out on the forum.I think thats why more people resort to complaining in private now to FMT and hope he deals with the issue someway.

Never see me doing this, you guys should act more like me! :lol

But yea, Konex did the rollout cheese to me too, I was talking to Luke about it all during the game, just never brought it up. I think I told Fifty too!

I also can't believe how many of you scrubs want the Pats, no one will take you serious, we all know a good player can dominate with them!
 

Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Having the "Choose Season 11 team" week happen right after the patriots murdereded the Skins, and DJ having the #1 pick.....is just classic.

I too like to try another team, since really, the Seahawks offense is HARD to do anything with. I've tried with the Titans, and they are actually fun to mess with on offense. But making it to the playoffs is going to leave me with someone like the Bills or Jets.... or the Seahawks again :(
 
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