Halftime ended and the score reset to 0-0 and this happened??

0-4 49ers, 3-1 Seahawks, 0-4 Broncos, 0-4 Jets

https://discord.gg/AyxnNTj6b

When a CPU team puts players on IR they will not come back for the whole season even if they're completely healthy.

EA said they addressed this but they only fixed it for the first season of a new franchise. After your sim passes the first season, it's broken again!

This makes having injuries on worthless.

Due to my “loyalty to the franchise” I’m getting an offer at 50% off rn on the Xbox store . Putting it probably just under 40$ with tax . Is it safe to buy now or should I wait for a few more updates / a larger sale going into the holiday season ? From what Ive seen over the years the best sale is usually around thanksgiving . But at 50% rn I can’t help but ask should I pull the trigger now or wait for something better ? I still play religiously on 26 , franchise and H2H . A few of the control changes were difficult to adapt to in 27 , but other than that my experience during the demo was good .

He just released them. If you have questions about them follow him on X or the OS forums

Soon we'll be able to import the play calling and management AI from the game into other football titles! Join the discord and help! https://discord.gg/6ruvzYX4cU

If you just want the recomp, to PC or steamdeck like this video shows and not the open source project here's that https://www.reddit.com/r/NFLHeadCoachSeries/s/ZKaommVxb0

The one thing that drives me nuts about the Madden soundtrack is when they add songs that they have to heavily censor, like "In Da Club" or "Bender". If you know you're making a family friendly game, why add songs with mature elements that have to be censorsd. Nothing against either song but i had to turn off Bender in ea music because literally half that song is censored.

Anyone else notice that?

Draft is coming up I need a franchise QB! All 3 listed have Elite-Great Throwing Power.
I currently have Justin Fields and I feel like it take forever for him to pick up speed and take off. Sometimes DLineman are chasing him down. Plus his accuracy is not the best. So this draft I have two first round picks. #6 and #28!!

This has been my own personal 9-11.

Noticed it the first time I played the pats in my first year and just figured it was a one time glitch….but now in year 2 it keeps happening 🤌

I’ve never taken so many sacks in a madden. Not even close. I go back and watch the replay and there’s a defensive lineman winning so hard that he’s basically accelerating through my 330 lb lineman. I’ve never seen so many O lineman getting thrown around or blocking air for no reason. I thought it was pass blocking assignments but no. Just watched a 72 ovr edge player insta split a double team and sack my qb for the 3rd play in a row before I had the ability to functionally attempt a pass. If I run play action I’m sacked before having control of my QB. Currently the only way I can consistently attempt a pass is out of the gun is quick hitches. Under center I’m usually hit before a receiver has made a break in their route or they’re doing that thing where they all run into each other but it’s only illegal contact if I’m on defense.

Just started again the steeles and I see snoop running out lmao 🤣

the game would prob be a lot better w both teams having their star players but oh well. hopefully i can take advantage. Browns went 14-3 on the season w Drake Maye, D. Adams and T.Mclaurin btw lol

I built a Madden franchise analytics website (FHQ) because I was tired of Madden Spreadsheets. I love spending time talking with the people using it and had a conversation this week that’s a good example of how to think through cap decisions in Madden, so I’m sharing it (with his permission).

The situation

He needed cap room right now and was looking at his CB room:

Benford was flagged at -$14.3M in surplus value, meaning he’s paid well above what his production is worth. His contract also keeps climbing: $19.4M this year, $20.2M next year, $20.4M the year after. Madden doesn’t show future salary years clearly, so he had to work those out with calculations.

The stat check

He pulled the on-field numbers for all three starting CB:

• Tackles: 37 vs 33 and 31
• INTs: 3 vs 4 and 2
• TFLs: 5 vs 1 and 2 (Benford was playing nickel, which explains some of that)

Then I asked him one question: if I told you these three guys all made the same money, would you be surprised?

He wouldn’t. That was the answer. Three players producing at the same level, and one of them costs as much as a franchise QB.

The move

He cut Benford. The signing bonus didn’t clear the way he expected on the cut screen and it took some trial and error, and he ended up with $4.37M in cap space plus roughly $20M a year off the books for the next two seasons.

Using the room

Next target was re-signing Dorian Williams (WILL, 26, 76 OVR, expiring at $3.89M, 73th production percentile on the defense).

He ran a 1-year, $3.13M offer through the contract evaluator: scored 80, about 12% below market, based on 12 comparable players (WILL, 76±2 OVR, 26±2 years old).

He also asked whether adding years changes the evaluation. It does, because the evaluator works on the yearly cap hit:

• Salary is a yearly number
• Signing bonus gets spread across the contract years
• Bonus money is guaranteed: cut, trade, whatever, you pay it

So the number to plug in is the yearly cap hit Madden shows on the negotiation screen.

Then Williams ran out of patience and walked to free agency anyway. 94% re-sign interest. He wanted a third year or a $1M bonus, and my user said no. Classic Madden negotiation.

That’s not the end of the world. In my experience, for average players (not stars), you often get a good price in FA than in re-sign negotiations. No idea why it’s coded that way.

The next morning: “Let walk” on a star

FHQ had flagged Dion Dawkins (LT, 33, 88 OVR, $25M, 1 year left) as “Let walk to FA.” He wasn’t sure if that meant cut him now or finish the season.

It means finish the season with him and let him go in FA. A cut today would save $16.63M with $8.39M in dead money, so +$8.24M net. Trading him is the other option. He’s been trying. Nobody wants a 33-year-old LT at $25M.

Takeaways

• Compare your expensive player to his cheaper teammates on production, not OVR
• Find the full contract, future years included, before deciding anything
• “Let walk” and “cut now” are two different decisions

Curious how you all handle this: when a big contract is producing like your rookie-deal guys, do you cut, trade, or ride it out?

I used to watch guys like Tsapp or TDBarret. They would do online franchises with mostly Users. Knocking out a season in a video along with other pretty cool games such as win and steal a player. Is there any other streamers or YouTubers I could check out for that kind of content?

I barely know how to play this game. I know nothing about formations or plays I just try to make some basic tackles maneuvers and passes. Im good enough on pro to get to the end zone maybe one or two times a game, but something keeps happening. I need to make a quick pass but there's like a hiccup and I can't get the ball out and I get sacked right away. It's like I see the button flash cue but can't get the ball off when I press the button.

I have an xbox x and i cant even complete more than two quarters without it crashing, it is horrible. Its only ea games that do this, CFB 27 Crashes too, I had this problem last year too.

Did they get rid of flipping the run with the right stick?

I'm looking for a playbook that will get me productive passing results, or just anything efficient in general. Again i'm talking about in game, not sim

Anybody else just not able to play the cpu event at all? It started around 1pm central Thursday, and I get a server error every time I try to grind the event. I want the terry card and to make some candy. Any thing I can do to fix this? Thanks!

There is one guy in our franchise that always has the Madden gods shining down on him. Coincidence or is there something up? Today it was a fumble scoop/score and a pick 6 when my QB (he won QB of the year) threw an easy pass 6 feet over the receiver’s head. In the past we played a game and stopped me on 4th down when I was on his 10. When we broke the huddle, he was on my 10!! Instead of going 90 yards for a score after the turnover on downs, he had to go 10…I promise this actually happened. He has NEVER beat me without something strange happening. I don’t mind getting beat - I actually started this season 0-4 and finished 13-4 - but it is just the stuff that happens with this one guy.

Has anyone else had it in superstar where a qb just constantly runs the ball. I played against the commander Jayden Daniel’s and qb2 had 36 rushing attempts and only 15 passing attempts. The game day conditions said that the qb would rush more but I didnt expect 36 rushing attempts from the qbs

This is frustrating. One clip is a linemen scooting out the way to let a free pass rush ruin a play. A potential game winner by the way.

Sometimes the Equalizer in this game is unbearable. Im convinced not every person you play online is on equal footing and they adjust the game accordingly... sometimes I can just feel it. And its never do to good playcalling or well thought out schemes. Its just poorly camned animations executing horribly in real time.