Madden 17

i don't think it made me dl anything, just the updated roster if i wanted to play online, took about 10 seconds to dl.

when i started my franchise they had kirk rated at 88 ovr, reed at 97 ovr, and norman 95 ovr, those were great.

djax 78 ovr, a slap in the face. i think his spd only 93, and his acc maybe 94.

Yeah, the good old days. Nowadays, I fire up this year's Tecmo Super Bowl on my emulator and get in a game in like 20 minutes. If you are interested, there is an online community that continues to talk about TSB and created ROMs each year. TecmoBowl.org - TecmoBowl.org (http://www.tecmobowl.org)

I have an OG Xbox that I'll fire up NCAA on from time to time. NCAA was more my speed over Madden. I've been tossing around the idea of a PS4/XOne for a while now to play Madden and other games. The kids have a Wii U, so that for now gets my video game fix. But for the most part, I'm content playing old NES, SNES, Genesis games on an emulator.

Yeah, the good old days. Nowadays, I fire up this year's Tecmo Super Bowl on my emulator and get in a game in like 20 minutes. If you are interested, there is an online community that continues to talk about TSB and created ROMs each year. TecmoBowl.org - TecmoBowl.org (http://www.tecmobowl.org)

I have an OG Xbox that I'll fire up NCAA on from time to time. NCAA was more my speed over Madden. I've been tossing around the idea of a PS4/XOne for a while now to play Madden and other games. The kids have a Wii U, so that for now gets my video game fix. But for the most part, I'm content playing old NES, SNES, Genesis games on an emulator.

nice, a friend's little brother had an og xbox w an emulator. it had every nes game i could think of, so awesome.

i thought it was a carbon copy of last year's game but they actually did make some good changes.

the physics and tackling are greatly improved.

one bad change was that they added country music to the soundtrack.

i thought it was a carbon copy of last year's game but they actually did make some good changes.



the physics and tackling are greatly improved.



one bad change was that they added country music to the soundtrack.


Good thing is you can toggle the songs on/off.

Good thing is you can toggle the songs on/off.

thank you! i forgot about that.

i finally figured out how to trade on this game. unlike previous versions, where you were usually able to acquire any player w draft picks, on madden 17 another team won't trade a player like andrew luck for 3 1st rd picks.

instead i had to acquire players who were greatly valued by the team i was looking to trade w, usually 2 greatly valued players + 1 moderately valued player or a draft pick. once i finally got the hang of that, i started wheeling and dealing. skins looking pretty good in 2018; $2.5m dead cap, $450k cap space, only a handful of guys have guaranteed money since i traded for most of them or re-signed them w 0 guaranteed money. i'll probably trade kerrigan and let scherff walk in 2019.

qb: andrew luck 99 ovr
rb: bell 99 ovr
fb: matt jones 91 ovr
wr: odb 97 ovr, landry 93 ovr, doctson 85 ovr
te: reed 97 ovr, some snot-nosed rookie 82 ovr
lt: williams 92 ovr
lg: iupati 97 ovr
c: frederick 95 ovr
rg: martin 99 ovr, scherff 85 ovr
rt: second year guy 88 ovr

le: cam jordan 99 ovr
dt: donald 99 ovr, cox 99 ovr
re: wilkerson 97 ovr
lolb: houston 98 ovr, kerrigan 91 ovr
mlb: j.j. watt 97 ovr, brandon marshall 90 ovr
rolb: von miller 98 ovr
cb: norman 97 ovr, harris jr 94 ovr, peterson 93 ovr
fs: mathieu 99 ovr
ss: smith 99 ovr

k: carpenter 81 ovr
p: way 86 ovr

i know i'm just farting in the wind here but here da the 2019 skins:

qb: andrew luck 99 ovr, second year guy 81 ovr
rb: bell 99 ovr, third year guy 88 ovr
fb: matt jones 91 ovr
wr: odb 98 ovr, hopkins 98 ovr, landry 95 ovr
te: reed 95 ovr, rookie 84 ovr
lt: williams 93 ovr
lg: scherff 89 ovr
c: frederick 95 ovr, third year guy 84
rg: martin 99 ovr, rookie 85 ovr
rt: third year guy 94 ovr, rookie 82 ovr

le: d lawrence 99 ovr, nkemdiche 84 ovr
dt: donald 99 ovr, cox 99 ovr
re: watt 99 ovr, l williams 93 ovr
lolb: houston 98 ovr, rookie 84 ovr
mlb: kuechly 99 ovr, bowman 87 ovr
rolb: von miller 98 ovr
cb: norman 96 ovr, harris jr 95 ovr, peterson 94 ovr, third year guy 85 ovr
fs: mathieu 99 ovr
ss: smith 99 ovr

k: carpenter 82 ovr
p: way 91 ovr

not sure why reed and norman got worse. $100k in cap space, $9.53m dead cap. looking at $1.72m dead cap and $25.3m cap space for 2020.

That's a heck of a lot of trading you must be doing there. Looking pretty loaded.

That's a heck of a lot of trading you must be doing there. Looking pretty loaded.

they're a lot of fun to play w, norman usually gets at least 1 int every game i actually play. when i sim a season, the offense and defense usually finish 1st and 1st, w the offense doubling the yardage allowed by the defense.

w so many stars and their salaries on the rise each season, i had to get creative w cap space. one trick is trading all draft picks 2 years into the future so i don't have any rookie pool counting against my cap while re-signing players or entering free agency. after free agency (and trading most/all of the players i've signed in free agency) i'll trade back into the current draft using the future picks.

another trick is cutting a player and re-signing him if his contract is about to explode in the following season. for example, before the 2019 season i cut t williams and his $8+m 2019 salary, absorbed a minimal dead cap hit in 2019, and a $1.7+m dead cap hit in 2020. immediately re-signed him for 1 year / $7+m in 2019 and will re-sign him again after the season. i think his cap hit would have been something like $13m or $14m in 2020, now it should be around $5m or $6m.