2014 Preseason Update

[xCAGEx]

UPDATED 09/13/2014
BETA Roster Update v4
I have not been able to do any testing with this roster. But wanted to share.
Update is a port of the Week 1 Madden 15 Roster Update.
All Changes listed below still apply.

BETA FILE HERE v4


Its officially here ...

UPDATE 3.0 (08/13/2014)

***PS3 Update at bottom of page***

***FIXED SALARY CAP ISSUE***
More Cosmetic Improvements as pointed out by Jake53
Fixed fatigue issue where some players could not recover above 50%
Adjusted Rookies Awareness and Learning Max Potential.
Adjusted Key Players Importance as well as other attributes.
Deeper philosophy adjustments with all Head Coachs, OC's and DC's
Slight adjustments to All Head Coaches Job Security Status.
Hope is no first year Head Coach will be fired, allowing them 2 maybe 3 years to build their team.

2014 Preseason Roster Update

Based entirely off of Rondo is God's Madden 25 Post Draft Update.

Special thanks to Rondo for again allowing me to use is MD25 updated roster.
He has put in countless hours in his work and I am honored to be given permission to use it.

Details -
PLAYERS -
Rondos file contains over 2600 hundred players.
Because of roster restrictions in Head Coach, a little over 2500 players where ported over.
This is a straight port of Rondos roster. Meaning no player ratings where adjusted.
Some players OVERALL Ratings will be lower then should be.
This is caused by lack of prior seasons progression.
Because of this the depth charts are locked to prevent the CPU from cuting players like Brady, Manning or Brees. Overall ratings will correct themselves at the end of the first season and depth charts will also unlock. This will nor prevent you from doing trades or signing free agents.
Adjusted players sizes. Now Linemen will be built like linemen. CB's will be slender. LB built like LB's
Currently there are NO player portrait photos. Small detail I am working on.

Coaches -
All Head Coaches, OCs and DCs have been updated or added.
Playbooks and philosophies updated.
ALL COACHES now will have the ability to reach Max Potential and Skills same as the Created Coach.
Adjusted all coaches Job Security Status. Now no coach will start the season on the hot set.
The scale works -
0 - On Hot Seat
1 - Doing a Good Job
2 - Doing A Great Job
3 - Unbelievable
First year coaches have a been adjusted to a 2.
Play off teams are adjusted to a 2
Super Bowl teams adjusted to a 3
All others a 1.
This should lower the number of coaches fired after the first season.
When looking at the default settings most all coaches where at a 1. Feed back would be appreciated as you guys complete your first and second seasons.
Adjusted Head Coaches play call philosophies. Since only a few Head Coaches actually call offensive and defensive plays I have adjusted this accordingly.
In looking at default settings most head coaches where set to call plays on both sides of the ball.
Not sure how this will effect the progress and development of OC and DCs. Will ask for feed back from you as you play.
Play calling aggression adjusted for all OC and DC to better match relief counter part.
From my understanding the aggression controls play calling in simmed games.
May wanna look back at this if certain stats seem inflated.
Something goofy I adjusted - added ball cap to created coach.
Now your created coach where's your teams cap on the sidelines. Only tested with a few different created coaches. But confirmed on coach 28 and lower.

Please provide feedback on any player skin tone issues.

With that said ...

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL ......

Xbox ROSTER UPDATE v3 FILE HERE

PS3 Roster Update v3 File Here

Thanks, Cage

Uploading Instructions -

On Head Coach create a roster save on your USB flash drive
After creating plug usb flash drive into pc
Open Horizon, Horizon should auto detect your flash drive
On the right side of Horizon you should see flash drive
Under game - Head Coach - Your Roster Save
Click on your roster save and new window opens
Click on Content - Then right click on your roster save - click replace - select the new roster update - then save, rehash and resign botton
Plug usb flash back into xbox under "My Coach" then "FILE MANAGEMENT" load roster save.

[jake53]

General things noticed precareer
OLBs are not locked.
Ratings are very odd.
WR #2s are not locked.
WR #4s are not locked.
CB #3s are not locked

Weight Changes
LOLB Von Miller plays around 255 pounds.
RB CJ Anderson is now playing around 220 pounds.
RB Monte Ball is now weighs 218 pounds.
DT Kevin Vickerson plays around 320 pounds.
ROLB Danny Trevathan plays around 240 pounds.
CB Chris Harris plays around 200 pounds.
SS TJ Ward plays around 210 pounds.
WR Calvin Johnson is playing around 230 now.
RB Le'Veon Bell is playing around 225 now.
ROLB John Abraham weighs around 240 pounds, maybe even less.
LE Lamarr Houston dropped all the way down to 268 pounds. This should probably come witha noticeable speed boost.
WR Dwayne Bowe dropped down to 212 pounds.
DT Nick Fairley is up to 308 pounds.
MLB Mason Foster is down to 235 pounds.
LOLB Danny Lansanah is down to 235 pounds.
RE Mike Neal is down to 263 pounds. Should have noticeable speed boost.
WR Gerell Robinson weighs around 240 pounds.
LE Derrick Morgan is now 260 pounds.
MLB Nico Johnson is down to 240 pounds.
C Kory Lichtensteiger is up to 296 pounds.
DE Allen Bailey is up to 300 pounds.

Depth Chart Changes
TE Dwayne Allen should be Colts starter or at least #2 -colts
LOLB Nate Irving should be the starting MLB -broncos
MLB Lamin Barrow should be primary backup -broncos
MLB Keith Rivers should be starting ROLB (Kiko injury) -bills
C Manny Ramirez should be starter -broncos
CB Bradley Roby should be #3 -broncos
FS Quinton Carter should be #2 -broncos
RE Mike Neal is now a LOLB -packers
WR Gerell Robinson is now a TE. -broncos

Career started issues:

Top QBs (Brees, PFM, ARod) drop to below 80 overall once career mode is started. It's not due to scheme change as far as I can tell. I used the Broncos and changed schemes with no benefit.

Salary cap is really screwed up. With no changes Broncos are sitting at -277 million in cap. Nearly every contract in the league needs the Cap Salary adjusted. Players like Calvin Johnson cost 125 mil per year against cap room. Can't sign free agents because of it.

Potentials for roster fill players should be below 80 at least.

Some players have 0 Contract Years Left but are on teams, they usually end up getting released eventually during preseason.
DT Marvin Austin
WR Brian Robiskie

Possibly related: Exporting plays and saving playbooks doesn't work for me anymore, but there are easy workarounds for this.

[jake53]

Skin issues
Broncos FS Quinton Carter should be black
Broncos DT Marvin Austin should be black

Broncos notable starters and backups are the correct skin color.
Raiders starters are correct skin color.

Will test more tomorrow night hopefully.

[jake53]

WR Josh Gordon has the face of OT Eric Winston
WR Justin Blackmon has the face of a black guy

Skin Tones:
Cameron Wake should be black
M.D. Jennings should be black.
Trevor Scott should be white.
Leon Hall should be black.
Domata Peko should be black.
Autin Wentworth should be white.
Minn offense is correct.
Miami's starters are correct color.
Bears and Bengals notable starters and backups are correct colors.

Career updates. Simmed first season. Went 7-9 (with Broncos) missed playoffs (promised to make them) and had a neary 90 approval. Did not get fired. Lions beat Jets in superbowl.


What you did to head coaches getting fired seems to have worked extremely well. 9 teams only won 5 games and only 2 of those 9 were fired. List of fired coaches after year 1:
Bills - Doug Marrone (6-10)
Browns- Mike Pettine (5-11)
Chargers- Mike McCoy (5-11)
Dolphins- Joe Philbin (4-12) Worst record in league
Raiders- Dennis Allen (6-10)

[lanceb]

Hey XCAGE,

Any updates for the Rosters for PS3?

[ajimithing]

Does HC allow you to edit draft classes or edit names after they are drafted?

[xCAGEx]

Quote: Originally Posted by ajimithing

Does HC allow you to edit draft classes or edit names after they are drafted?

Sorry it does not. All draft classes are hard coded into the disk so right now there is no way to edit them

[xCAGEx]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake53

Salary cap is really screwed up. With no changes Broncos are sitting at -277 million in cap. Nearly every contract in the league needs the Cap Salary adjusted. Players like Calvin Johnson cost 125 mil per year against cap room. Can't sign free agents because of it.

Figured out the cause for this and corrected the salary cap issues
Updated file on main page....

Still working on the cosmetics and will do my best to get something up shortly ...

Thanks for the feed back ....