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Madden 10: Six Franchise Strategies for Success

11:29 AM - September 3, 2009 by RaychelSnr

Every year a new Madden title is released, and regardless of whether the gameplay, animations, graphics or commentary is praised or criticized, one of the consistently played and enjoyed aspects of Madden is its franchise mode. And since its debut in Madden 99, the notion of a franchise or career mode has grown to become a necessity in all sports games.

And while Madden 10 brings forth the exciting new feature of an online franchise mode, there are invariably many who still enjoy the standard offline franchise mode (myself included). So for those of you wanting to rebuild that struggling franchise, or for anyone wishing to strengthen his or her favorite team, hopefully some of these words are useful during your managerial endeavors.

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# 1 Articula @ 09/03/09 12:12 PM

Great article!

# 2 Jump @ 09/03/09 12:28 PM

Signing 7th round picks to 7 year deals.

# 3 txfalconfan @ 09/03/09 04:23 PM

very good article. 1st part about contracts should be reposted and stickied cuz they are so many people that dont know why they got a big cap penalty the next year (1 guy on here said he made a ton of moves 1st year and next year had $120 mill in cap penalties) LOL. Ive personally answered that question on here 4 times in the past week.

# 4 gotmeamodel @ 09/03/09 04:57 PM

Good Stuff

# 5 Striefer @ 09/03/09 05:03 PM

I have a couple questions.
1) If i trade a player with a signing bonus for a draft pick, do i still have to pay the player the signing bonus for the remainder years? Does that show up in the salary cap penalty?

2) When the option is given to clear your cap penalty, how does that work?

# 6 Madwolf @ 09/03/09 05:44 PM

Signing 7th round draft picks to 7 year deals is pretty smart. I've been doing it since 2004. Like he said, they cost and penalty is minimal, and only under extremely rare circumstances will it come back to bite you in a CAP crunch.

# 7 Stacks @ 09/03/09 05:53 PM

I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.

# 8 reyes the roof @ 09/03/09 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Striefer


	I have a couple questions. 1) If i trade a player with a signing bonus for a draft pick, do i still have to pay the player the signing bonus for the remainder years? Does that show up in the salary cap penalty? 2) When the option is given to clear your cap penalty, how does that work?

in regards to 1, you take the cap penalty for the remaining years of the bonus, but technically the entire bonus is paid upfront on the day you sign the player, you just split the cap hit of the bonus over the life of the contract. So if you sign someone to a 5 year 30 million dollar deal with a $10 million bonus, he gets the 10 million the day he signs his contract, but the cap hit is split up into $2 million per year

# 9 maademperor @ 09/03/09 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phillyax


	I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.

roger that, I cant believe they actually removed stuff (no projected draft board?)

# 10 playalistic @ 09/03/09 06:47 PM

Franchise mode is garbage this year

# 11 Yeah...THAT Guy @ 09/03/09 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phillyax


	I'm strictly an offline franchise guy and I hate to say it but, Franchise Mode is the worst part about Madden 10. They didn't improve it at all. They just made it worse.

How? Taking away the draft pick history is like one of the only things they took out of franchise this year (at least the only things I've noticed)

# 12 Uncle Stumpy @ 09/03/09 11:35 PM

Great article. Thanks for sharing

# 13 Jump @ 09/04/09 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Madwolf


	Signing 7th round draft picks to 7 year deals is pretty smart.

Yeah its smart, but it's cheap. I guess some people get their kicks out of abusing mindless AI. To each their own.

# 14 commandojon @ 10/07/09 07:08 PM

Got a question...Lets say my player is 35 years old and has like a 85 overall and i resign him 7 years...I resign him 7 years because then i get more cap room to spend on other players

If the player Retires then do i still owe that contract to the guy for 7 years? or do i get the money back?

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