Madden 11 playbooks are substantially smaller than Madden 10

[MAHAM]

I use the Colts and their offensive playbook every year. Something about their playbook on '11 didn't seem right to me, so I counted plays & formations from Madden '10. I left out special teams and goaline.

Heres what I found:
Colts playbook for Madden 10 has 21 sets and 345 plays total

Colts playbook for Madden 11 has 13 sets with 216 plays total

Madden '10 has 8 more sets and 129 more plays. They also removed Shotgun Ace that was only found in the Colts playbook, one of my favorite sets.

[sniperhare]

Well they did say that most people only call a handful of plays...

[MAHAM]

Quote: Originally Posted by sniperhare

Well they did say that most people only call a handful of plays...

I usually don't call the same play twice in a game minus a few runs, but I do notice alot of players who run the same few over & over.

[Palo20]

I hope that's not the case for every team. The Colts actually run a pretty simple offense formation wise. They use very little motion and only use a handful of formations.

I think they've cut out a lot of the generic plays and kept only the team specific plays. I just hope they got every team right.

[Skyboxer]

Seems EA is basing a lot of design decisions on what happens online. God help all us football gamers if that's true.

[ODogg]

Yeah I agree Skyboxer. Very scary if that's true.

[bwright25]

Is this based on the playbook from the demo? If so I bet the whole playbook wasnt put into the demo for the purpose of slimming down an already large file to download.

[SA1NT401]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Seems EA is basing a lot of design decisions on what happens online. God help all us football gamers if that's true.

I endorse you statement 10000%....But shrinking the playbooks does leave one to believe that is their logic...God help us all.