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That Guy · 12-06-2005, 06:10 PM

if you just want draft picks, during preseason, last year's crappy teams' picks are high value, during the regular season it flips (so the SB champs picks are the most valuable... kinda screwed up)... so you can end up with 2 top 5 1st and 2nd rounders every draft.

drafting rookies and giving them bare minimum 7 year contracts with maxed bonuses is the cheapest way to stay under the cap.

During fantasy draft look at age and contracts as the determining factor... you can always get sean taylor and polamalu at safety. The best round one pick is probably daunte culpepper (cheap, fast) or randy moss (the only 6'4" 99 speed WR), though elite DEs can help to... the biggest trick is to always pick one round ahead of when the cpu makes runs at a position (after about 3 rounds it stops picking best overall and starts doing some position drafting). When picking, you can go for lower ovr stats if the low ovr is due to awr, car, tak or something you can fix in camp. I tend to go with speed, especially at LB and on the oline and height at WR (can't fix it and madden gives tall WRs jetpacks).

Franchise gets extremely easy though, cause the cpu doesn't draft well and cpu teams don't get progression improvements like human teams.

12-06-2005, 06:10 PM	#3
That Guy Living Legend Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: VA Age: 42 Posts: 17,620	Re: Franchise Help: if you just want draft picks, during preseason, last year's crappy teams' picks are high value, during the regular season it flips (so the SB champs picks are the most valuable... kinda screwed up)... so you can end up with 2 top 5 1st and 2nd rounders every draft. drafting rookies and giving them bare minimum 7 year contracts with maxed bonuses is the cheapest way to stay under the cap. During fantasy draft look at age and contracts as the determining factor... you can always get sean taylor and polamalu at safety. The best round one pick is probably daunte culpepper (cheap, fast) or randy moss (the only 6'4" 99 speed WR), though elite DEs can help to... the biggest trick is to always pick one round ahead of when the cpu makes runs at a position (after about 3 rounds it stops picking best overall and starts doing some position drafting). When picking, you can go for lower ovr stats if the low ovr is due to awr, car, tak or something you can fix in camp. I tend to go with speed, especially at LB and on the oline and height at WR (can't fix it and madden gives tall WRs jetpacks). Franchise gets extremely easy though, cause the cpu doesn't draft well and cpu teams don't get progression improvements like human teams.

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