Best Madden to play as a GM only

[whughes]

Basically what the title says. What year Madden game is the best to play as a general manager/owner, i.e. Jerry Jones. I don't want to play the games, or super sim them or whatever. I may watch the game as a spectator if my team makes it to the super bowl but I want 0% control over the players on the field. Have any of you played this way? Any suggestions on which version would be the best to do so? I have every madden going back to 2004 on my ps2 up to madden 25 on ps3

[Pacman83]

Hope you have a PS2....


Also Madden 12 was pretty good

[whughes]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pacman83

Hope you have a PS2.... Also Madden 12 was pretty good

I do have a ps2 with 04-08 for it. I was leaning toward either 12 or 05. Just wondering what you guys thought

[Pacman83]

Do you not like 08? 09 Was pretty good as well.

[whughes]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pacman83

Do you not like 08? 09 Was pretty good as well.

08 to me was basically a roster update to 07 imo. 09 was pretty good although that's the only madden I've never completed a full season of franchise mode in. Maybe I'll fire that one up and go through it again. Does it have all the owner mode options, like setting ticket prices, concession stand stuff, adding onto/upgrading the stadium, relocation, etc

[juduking]

Madden 08 for PC is the game you want.

[Hooe]

If you have no desire to play the games on the field and exclusively want a extremely detailed single-player front office experience, there's not really a Madden game worth considering. For purely front office stuff and absolutely nothing else, there are many games which get more in-depth than Madden does, and without the on-field gameplay to reinforce the off-field portion Madden will leave you kinda wanting.

The only console football game worth considering for this sort of thing is NFL Head Coach 09 on the XBOX 360 / PS3. Beyond that, PC text simulators such as Front Office Football 7 or Football Mogul are your best bet.

If you're dead-set on having a Madden game to do this with, wait for Madden 17. It has practice squads, and the weekly training will allow you to have some influence over how your team develops on a week-to-week basis. You'll also have the most up-to-date rosters.

[whughes]

I thought there was an issue getting madden 08 to run on Windows 10? If not then maybe I'll give that a try because I know there's a good sized modding community for the game.

Someone else suggested FoF but I was hoping I could what I wanted out of the games I already had in my collection. My local game store has NFL Head Coach for $1.99 so I'm gonna grab it and try that one out