Preseason Idea (for future Maddens)

[StormJH1]

A lot of people have complained that preseason in Madden has no real function other than to get your regulars hurt with nowhere to put them on the IR. It's been suggested that Madden would never expand to an 80-man roster b/c they would then have to have literally hundreds of additional free agents corresponding to the real NFL.

Instead of doing that, why not have the same number of NFL players, but then an optional mode (you could skip it or turn it off) where it computer generates fake undrafted prospects to fill out each 80-man roster. Most of these guys would be rated in the 30-60 OVR range, but maybe throw a few gems in there...

Then, instead of playing meaningless preseason games (and getting your guys hurt), you play games featuring many of these generated prospects. Their ratings would be hidden to you, but you could either scout them, or discover their attributes by playing with them. They may even progress a bit if you perform particularly well with them. At the end of the preseason, you get to choose if any of them are worth keeping on your roster. If not, they can disappear from the game, so as not to crowd up the FA list too much. A new batch would simply be regenerated each training camp, the same way draft rookies are generated.

I know, it's probably unrealistic and too hardcore and I'm sure "memory limitations" (code for: "Your idea isn't valuable to enough people to make it worth our time"), but I was just trying to reverse engineer a preseason mode that I'd actually enjoy playing.

[Glenn33]

Truth be told..I love your idea.

[torrey]

with some tweaking, i think that is a great idea. i've always said they needed to expand, if not 80, at least 70, and give us a darn practice squad!!! and fix the IR bug. and as far as the ratings go, i think they should hide ALL of the ratings, so we could base things off on field performance and combine numbers for draft picks.

[bbell447]

Sounds really cool actually

[CSL]

It's not a bad idea but I don't really wanna see a bunch of fake players. If they're gonna go through the effort of adding a bunch of fake players, it won't take them any longer to add real ones

[sois]

I love this idea.

[RayAllen20]

YES genius idea...that way after a draft we wont immediately know if weve drafted a gem or a bust.

[Sanchez_Mareno]

Looks like someones been playing Head Coach