(Franchise Mode) Who are you editing, how much?

[mavfan21]

Just curious, how much do you guys edit and who?

I edited Cam Newton and a few other real players. But I find I am editing the rookies a little more.

I am in year 2 of my Franchise and I will edit a few players on CPU teams to help them out. I gave the Bills a stud QB after they drafted a pretty good player 1st overall. I also make a few unique players to give life to the Franchise (created a super quick HB for a team and a beast DE for another, etc.)

The only editing I have done to benefit my team was I made my dream QB. I found a B potential player with a good pic (very important ) and he was from my alma mater (North Texas) so I edited him up to have A potential then lowered his ratings back down. I did amp up his ratings a little. I always try to develop a QB in my chise and now that we can edit players I can edit a guy to my liking instead of importing classes for hours. I just found a good pic/ht/wt combo and then set the ratings to be in line with the other top madden generated QBs.

I am REALLY glad this option was added this year. How are you guys using it?

[RumbleStud]

I have, and I wish I didnt, the Vikings drafted a decent scrambling QB in the 2nd rnd and came outta the draft with 96 THP with short, med, and deep throw ACC 78, 62 and 68 so I balanced it out 78, 72, 78. and upped his confidence and consistency to 4 stars each, and he was already clutch. In 1 year he's Cam Newtons arm with Brees accuracy and Aarons legs. I've never really liked the Vikings and I just wanted to make it interesting and now its a F**KIN greatest show on turf up there with him and AP.

[jd369]

I upped cj2k's fumble rating. the guy has only fumbled like 4 or 5 times his whole career, he shouldnt be fumbling it 3 times in my first 3 games.

[Knapper]

I upped Colt McCoy's THP to 85 from 80. The lowest THP on the game is like 77. With an 80 THP despite having high 80's for Short and Medium accuracy most of his passes would take too long to get to the WR or be thrown way out in front to account for how long it took the ball to travel. That made it look like I was throwing the ball to a defender rather than trying to hit my WR in stride. I could not even throw slants with him at 80....

Also before I edited him I simmed through a season to see if THP would progress. It did not so I am not sure if THP ever progresses.

[xblake16x]

I export draft classes, so some of the rookies need some lowering... Scratch that, almost all the rookies need lowering. I am in year 4, and there were two rookie QBs that I remember from NCAA, Jason Adkins UNM and Andre Cowan out of NM State, both had great college careers and both were 4th or later round picks and both drafted by the packers... I edited these guys to give them a future, high A potential with a low 70 overall. Andre Cowan was eventually released though as they already had 3 QB's on the roster............
Swooped

[xblake16x]

What I also do, is look for bad to average players who had a breakout year, and edit there ratings to accommodate for the non-progression.

Josh Portis and Anthony Dixon

[mavfan21]

Funny to see everyone's replies and philosophies.

Rumblestud, I almost did the same thing for the Bills QB. I wanted him to be really good (I like seeing bad teams get good) and he almost turned into Randall Cunningham and Joe Montana's love-child. Had to edit down his consistency.

[nastynatesolder]

Quote: Originally Posted by mavfan21

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Madden 12 Franchise Check List and Tips on Improving your Franchise Experience

by NastyNateSolder

***DO NOT HIT AUTO REORDER ROSTERS***

1. Buy Madden 12 :P
2. Unlock Online Pass
3. Save original roster as Preseasonwk1.ros
4. DL Regular Season Week 1 Roster
5. Save as NFLwk1.ros
6. Load NFLwk1.ros from File Management
7. Go to Franchise Mode
8. Configure Options
a. Suggestions
Settings I used:
Sim Injuries = OFF
INJ = OFF
SAL CAP = ON
QTR = 10
DRAFT = OFF
DEADLINE = ON
USE PRE INJ = OFF/NO
UPDATE CHART = USER
RE-SIGN = USER
FA BIDS = USER
SIGN DRAFT = USER
FILL ROSTER = USER
SIM CUT DAYS = USER
SIM SCOUTING = USER
EDIT PLAYER = ON
9. Select all 32 Teams
10. Go into Coaching Schemes
a. Coaching Schemes Suggestions
OFF = 50/50/100
DEF = 50/50
Under DEF Set to either 4-3 or 3-4 depending on roster depth and coach habits
Team Base Defense
Arizona 4 - 3
Atlanta 4 - 3
Baltimore 3 - 4
Buffalo 3 - 4
Carolina 4 - 3
Chicago 4 - 3
Cincinnati 4 - 3
Cleveland 4 - 3
Dallas 3 - 4
Denver 4 - 3
Detroit 4 - 3
Green Bay 3 - 4
Houston 3 - 4
Indianapolis 4 - 3
Jacksonville 4 - 3
Kansas City 3 - 4
Miami 3 - 4
Minnesota 4 - 3
New England 3 - 4
New Orleans 4 - 3
NY Giants 4 - 3
NY Jets 3 - 4
Oakland 4 - 3
Philadelphia 4 - 3
Pittsburgh 3 - 4
San Diego 3 - 4
San Francisco 3 - 4
Seattle 4 - 3
* Louis 4 - 3
Tampa Bay 4 - 3
Tennessee 4 - 3
Washington 3 - 4
11. Go to NFL.com http://www.nfl.com/
12. *if you have a laptop skip this step
a. Print out all 32 Teams Active Rosters as of 9/11/11
13. Go to Player Management
14. Use Printed Sheets to Delete Fake UFA Players
15. Go back to Player Management and Cut Players as follows
OFF= QB [2] RB [4] FB [1] WR [5-7] TE [2] LT [2] LG [2] C [2] RG [2] RT [2]
DEF= LE [2] RE [2] DT [3-4] LOLB [2] MLB [2] ROLB [2] CB [5-7] FS [2] SS [2]
*= K [1] P [1]
16. Go to Player Management and fix Player Pos as needed
17. ***DO NOT HIT AUTO REORDER ROSTERS***
ex. (OVR)

LOLB 82 ROLB 87
LOLB 73 ------
LOLB 64 ------

change to

LOLB 82 ROLB 87
LOLB 73 ROLB 64

this will balance out the depth charts


18. Go to Player Management and select Team Captains
WHY? Cause these are the players at the coin toss u don't want benchers out there
I normally pick my favorite players for each team.

19. Go to Player management and do all the player edits you want 8)
all personal pref here.
NOTE:You can't edit "?"/rookies/fakes till after preseason :cry: :shock:

20. Depth Chart Time 8) Even out the Depth and balance the weight
a. ex(1)

LOLB Jerry 1st ROLB Harry 1st
LOLB Barry 2nd LOLB Barry 2nd
LOLB Terry 3rd LOLB Terry 3rd

why? = Cause now these 2 players will say 2nd String and 3rd String this is important
for simulation reasons and auto sub reasons [don't forget to set your auto subs ]

POS that need to be balanced [LT,LG,RG,RT,LE,RE,LOLB,ROLB]

21.Players needed to fill req. after UFA Fakes are Cut [if you released the correct fake ones you
will have these left over don't cut real rookies
***Make sure to sign only FAs below 59 OVR so it wont effect your depth changes you just made.***

HB= TEN
T= ARZ IND GB
G= SD IND ATL SF GB OAK STL NO
C= OAK NYG
DT= ARI SD DAL MIA GB BAL HOU
FS=GB

22. Next Save File as
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

you will basically make a league template with changes as default

23. Now Sim the Pre-Season if you wish to do so but when Pre-Season is done do not forget to edit the rookies

Print out a sheet of Rookies Names for a reference. Edit them if you wish.

Next Save File as
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

24. Then simulate the season and look for any glitches bad stats etc.

If not move on to Pre-Season and test that as well.

If you have time Simulate the Season again on Year 2 now.

25. If there is no problems then load the file of your choice below
NFLwk1.fra <-- Save to restart season
NFL.fra <---- Season to Play
"Your Team" ex. Patriots.fra <--- Your Team's Franchise

Enjoy! You earned it probably take a good 7-15 hours or more :shock: if you really your picky , ocd , etc :P
I simmed some seasons and the stats were pretty good don't forget about coach schemes