Madden PS3 Online Franchise Official Thread

[IronBuckI]

Originally Posted by Smooth Olaf

Pretty soon? It took SI a couple months to send me a Browns T-Shirt and another month to get a fleece.

Well. Then my prediction of not being able to play for a couple of months will come true.

[Smooth Olaf]

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

Well. Then my prediction of not being able to play for a couple of months will come true.

Then the NFC East is all mine!!!!!11!!!!one!

[Piney]

I guess I should stop [censored]ing around and play some more Madden to get ready. I have Fanatic in Week 3??? I can see a USC v Georgia type beating if I don't get some practice in!

[Smooth Olaf]

osucollegebuck sent me a PM a while ago saying he was having connection issues but asked to keep him. I don't know if they're fixed yet.

[Smooth Olaf]

I'm sending out invites now.

PASSWORD: GoBucks. In Madden, you can search online franchises to join. The password keeps this one private and invite-only.

IMPORTANT: If you don't enter the code on the back of your manual or buy the code outright, I can't send you an invite.

The following still need to enter the code:

• Piney
• Buckeneye
• Basebuck
• THEWOOD
• Billkeyes
• Iron (Probably won't happen until early 2010)

Invites successfully sent to:

• Fanatic

Invites accepted:

• Majorpayne27
• Buckeyemania

All I could do was send invites, I couldn't choose your team. Choose the team you signed up for (Fanatic), but if you change your mind at the last second, let me know. I don't care if you change it to a team that isn't taken, but don't grab the Pats before the rightful owner logs on (Fanatic).

As for preseason Free Agency, I stole this from the OS boards:

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Salary Cap System- Courtesy of Brandon
OK I gues I am supposed to tel you guys about the system I have put in place for my Online franchise so here it goes.

I will stat with the cap system, This system is a point based system and here are the point values:

95+ OVR= 10 points

90-94 OVR= 9 points

84-89 OVR= 8 points

78-83 OVR= 7 points

70-77 OVR=6 points

59-69 OVR= 4 points

45-58 OVR= 2 points

1-44 OVR= 1 point

OK now that that is out of the way I can tell you how it works, Each player has a point value as shown above. for each teams cap points you add up every players points for example my Colts are 298. Once you get each teams cap points then you need to come up with the number you think is best for the league cap, my leagues is 315. So this means in my Online franchise the Pats,Giants and one or two other teams are over the cap, therefor they will have to cut some players to get under the cap before the start of the regular season.

This cap will not remain the same throughout the league, just as the actual NFL cap does it will go up by a certain percentage every season right after the Pro bowl. I have settled on 8% per season which I feel is just right for our league and our leagues cap. So the first season it will be 315 as mentioned above but once the Probowl is over and we are into the offseason it will go up 25 points to 340 and the next season 367 and so on.

Now for the free agency system, Me and my "associate" have decided a bidding system was best, but we wanted to make it as much like the real NFL free agency period as we could. So we decided that you could bid as low as 1 point for any player which means you could occasionally get a steal at 2 or 3 points for a 4 or 6 point player.

You could also end up using a lot more for a great player. You could end up paying all of your remaining cap points for one big name player like Andre Johnson or Albert Haynesworth and instead of him only counting as what he is worth(10) you could end up paying 20-40 or even more for him when you get him from free agency. Here is an example of it all on action:
My pre-free agent cap number is 298, once free agency hits the number I can?t go above will be 340. I will give you a few different combos of players I could release:

I could release Brock(DL-85), Gonzalez(WR-75) and Santi(TE-72) or I could release Addai(RB-85), Ugoh(OL-76) and Jackson(CB-82) or just release Mathis(DL-92). These are of course only 3 of the different combos you could have I could also release Brock and Addai. Let?s say I end up releasing Brock, Gonzo and Santi, I would have 62 cap points left to use once the cap number goes up 8%.

Now free agency has started and I want to bid on Ronde Barber so I put in my first bid which would be 1, but obviously someone else is going to want him?he is a good CB. So they bid 2 for him and say I really want him so I put my bid up to 10 points, 2 more than what he would be worth normally and I get him. He will then count as 10 points on my point cap even though he is really only worth the 8 points. So my cap space would go down to 52.

I then decide I should plug the whole that Brock left so I look for a good backup for my DLineman. I find Will smith has been released from the Saints so I put in a bid of 1 for him. The Bears decided they need another DE to start over Alex Brown, So they bid 5 for him, which is still less than he is worth. So I decide I will go for 10 again, the Bears really want him so they bid 12. I figure I can go up to 13 for him, so I bid 13. Then the Bears bid 15, well that is too much for a backup DE for me so I decide to take care ofr that position in the draft.

I then see that Bryant Mckinnie formerly of the Vikings is available, so I put in a bid of 8 points. There are a few teams interested so the Lions bid 15 for him and I figure I can spend that much so I bid 18 and then a couple of the other teams backs off. Now it is just me, the Lions and the Bills. The Bills put in a bid of 20 for him, the Lions bid 25. I decide I will bid one final time so I bid 30 and everyone else backs off and I get him. So now I am stuck with a player that is worth 9 points but will be getting ?paid? 30 so that really hurts me I am now down to 22 remaining cap points. I then decided it would be best for me to save the rest of the points for the draft.

[Piney]

Sounds cool to me... as long as I am not the one running it

[Smooth Olaf]

I created a password for the franchise. It's GoBucks.

[buckeyemania11]

invite accepted....

[Smooth Olaf]

Originally Posted by buckeyemania11

invite accepted....

Cool. I updated the list.

As for free agents, by doing the waver-wire math, the outcomes of the teams (pre-roster updates) is as follows:

Patriots-329
Giants-327
Titans-320
Eagles-314
Browns-312
Cards-312
Chargers-310
Texans-308
Cowboys-307
Steelers-303
Bears-301
Bucs-301
49ers-299
Colts-298
Broncos-297
Ravens-295
Vikings-294
Packers-293
Raiders-292
Seahawks-292
Falcons-292
Saints-292
Bills-288
Rams-287
Lions-286
Panthers-286
Dolphins-285
Jets-278
Redskins-270
Jaguars-269
Bengals-269
Chiefs-262


I'm thinking a preaseason cap of 330 is fair. Any suggestions? Bitches, gripes or complaints? Or should we leave rosters as-is for the preseason?

[buckeyemania11]

I'm thinking a preaseason cap of 330 is fair. Any suggestions? Bitches, gripes or complaints? Or should we leave rosters as-is for the preseason?

330 is fine by me

[IronBuckI]

330 sounds good. At least I don't have to cut anyone.

[majorpayne27]

How will the timing work with the bidding?

For example, will a "player auction" be closed something like 24 hours after the last bid that was made on him, or how will that be handled?

[fanaticbuckeye]

When do we start the free agent bidding? Next question, do we go by the ranking first and then allow each person to choose? Or can Cincinnati pick the best 4 or 5 players until they are rated above another team? I think I know the answer, but just throwing it out there.

[Smooth Olaf]

I figure an auction system works best. You can bid a whatever you want on a player. You can start at 1 point and work your way up. If you get into a bidding war with somebody and you end up having more that 330 points on your team, you're going to have to cut a player or two.

I'd like to start as soon as everybody (minus Iron and ocb) accepts their invites so everybody knows who is available.

[THEWOOD]

I will input my code this afternoon.