Top 50 Most Frequent Offensive/Defensive Plays Called in Madden NFL 11

[pistolpete]

I never knew why the slot verts scored TDs for me all the time. Thanks engage 8.

Kind of silly.

[PhillyJim76]

Shouldn't the CPU playcalling mimic its real life counterpart? Wasn't that the hype point for this year with gameplanning?

[youALREADYknow]

Quote: Originally Posted by PhillyJim76

Shouldn't the CPU playcalling mimic its real life counterpart? Wasn't that the hype point for this year with gameplanning?

Gameplanning is only as good as the user makes it.

[shttymcgee]

Quote: Originally Posted by boxboy99

Engage 8 lets up the most yards on the list. It is sick that 4 verticles is the second most called play and nets the most yardage on that list.

Why is it surprising that 4 verts is a prevalent call? It is one of the most common plays in 1-back formations with wide split receivers in football. Not to mention that the game does a poor job of carrying vertical routes in the seam area.

[Palo20]

Engage Eight is called so much because it's always one of the first plays to pop up in every formation. That needs to change. NFL teams blitz 8 about 0.01% of the time, and when they do, they're probably not playing a soft deep zone with it.

[dp68]

4 verts indeed. The defense doesn't even try to defend it. Any type of coach mode in Madden is an **** fail because of plays like this...or more accurately, because of the pathetic AI the Madden team gave to defenders. Serious simmers will never respect Madden because of gaping AI holes like this. It shows a lack of effort by the development team.

[shttymcgee]

Quote: Originally Posted by dp68

4 verts indeed. The defense doesn't even try to defend it. Any type of coach mode in Madden is an **** fail because of plays like this...or more accurately, because of the pathetic AI the Madden team gave to defenders. Serious simmers will never respect Madden because of gaping AI holes like this. It shows a lack of effort by the development team.

The play averaged a little over 4 yds per attempt and was called 1 1/2% of the time. Look, I know that the deep seam area can be exploited, but I don't think those statistics warrant the kind of response you gave. In the NFL, I'd guess that some sort of all-vertical variation is ran about 5 times per game per team. That's close to 8% of the time. It's a good play, providing a good horizontal stretch against deep zone defenders and it provides match-up problems against underneath man defenders.