Timings for M25

helimachoptor

Sunday 16th August - People will receive PMs asking them to let me know if they are coming back for M25.

Tuesday August 27th - If i have not received a reply from you to say you are coming back by this date ,you will be removed from the draft order. If you want to comeback after this date, you will be placed at the end of the draft list

Thursday September 5th
The draft will begin at midday.
I will PM the first user on the clock, each person will have 12 hours to make their pick. At the end of your pick, you must PM the next person on the clock (i'll also do it).

If you cannot make the draft, you must PM me a list of teams in your preferred order.
If your 1st and 2nd choice are gone, i will assign you the 3rd preferred team (regardless of overall) So if you have the Titans, Giants, Cardinals and then the Pats.

In this example you would get the Cards, so be sure who do this correctly.



September 10th
The Week 1 roster update should have happened...

September 11th

Preseason will start on this date, each pre-season week willl last for one day.
I wont be putting anyone on auto etc.


Monday 16th
Game time baby!


Please thank the post to ensure let me know you understand the timings

helimachoptor

Heli
Pudsy
Mikemac
Adrian
madalig
theoneadlum
mikey
guns4all
giffney
nelbert
gufc
paullyd
Padraic
Berty
Carroller
Perrinv2
Rock lesnar
Raoul
howarewe
davetherave


Players not coming back
Dangerdave
brianon
Matthew8
Bigbadrob
notyalc666
Ettloveslsd
Nerd69
Nekochan

adrian522

helimachoptor wrote: »

Heli

Sim the preseason, pointless anyway except for statistical whoring.

I'm back anyway.

Nelbert

adrian522 wrote: »

Sim the preseason, pointless anyway except for statistical whoring.

I'm back anyway.

But the whoring is my whole gameplan!!! Marginal xp boost for huge preseason performance is the way forward!

helimachoptor

Personally i want to do pre-season, there's a few guys i want to get a look at tbh.

however i think there's appetite for pre-season in general.

Mikeyt086

I'm in the no pre-season camp, think it's pointless. Obviously don't mind if the majority want to do it though.

Actually, if Pre-season is better in 25 than it was in 13 I'd be up for it, I just thought it was implemented poorly, the punter/kicker bull**** in particular.

adrian522

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

I'm in the no pre-season camp, think it's pointless. Obviously don't mind if the majority want to do it though.

Actually, if Pre-season is better in 25 than it was in 13 I'd be up for it, I just thought it was implemented poorly, the punter/kicker bull**** in particular.

I see no benefit of it, but if people want to play then fair enough, I won't be playing it though so all my games will be simmed.

Berty44

I'm in the 1 or 2 day per preseason week camp. Gives everybody a chance to do their training. If BOTH guys want to play their game let them organise and play it, if only one guy can play ( or its a CPU game ) then it goes to sim to avoid stat whoring.

Raoul

Berty44 wrote: »

I'm in the 1 or 2 day per preseason week camp. Gives everybody a chance to do their training. If BOTH guys want to play their game let them organise and play it, if only one guy can play ( or its a CPU game ) then it goes to sim to avoid stat whoring.

I definitely think we should do it for the first season anyway as people will just be getting used to the game so we will need the extra bit of practice with our team. It would be advantageous not to just jump straight into the season and not know what we are actually doing.

Vikings

Is there a ps3 league or is this just xbox?

helimachoptor

xbox, there has been a PS3 league but it fell over after a few weeks

helimachoptor

Heli
Pudsy
Mikemac
Adrian
madalig
theoneadlum
mikey
guns4all
giffney
nelbert
gufc
paullyd
Padraic
Berty
Carroller
Perrinv2
Rock lesnar
Raoul
howarewe
davetherave
empacher

New Players
stetyrell


Players not coming back
Dangerdave
brianon
Matthew8
Bigbadrob
notyalc666
Ettloveslsd
Nerd69
Nekochan

Raoul

helimachoptor wrote: »

Heli
Pudsy
Mikemac
Adrian
madalig
theoneadlum
mikey
guns4all
giffney
nelbert
gufc
paullyd
Padraic
Berty
Carroller
Perrinv2
Rock lesnar
Raoul
howarewe
davetherave

New Players
stetyrell


Players not coming back
Dangerdave
brianon
Matthew8
Bigbadrob
notyalc666
Ettloveslsd
Nerd69
Nekochan

When I read this first I thought it was the draft order :rolleyes:

helimachoptor

Raoul wrote: »

When I read this first I thought it was the draft order :rolleyes:

I'd still pick the Titans :pac:

empacher

I'm coming back, if my pm didn't send

helimachoptor

empacher wrote: »

I'm coming back, if my pm didn't send

Sorry empacher, i forgot to update the list!

Paully D

Only 21 players coming back as things stand. We will be doing well to get a full league I'd imagine. I've just had a quick look and this time last year we had 27 confirmed.

Arawn

hey guys I want in but prob wont be able to join till bout the 16th-23rd

Guffy

doubt i'll be back for the first season anyway lads, sorry.

helimachoptor

So we are kicking off with the draft this week. Theres a few issues that will need to be patched before we can start.

1) Accelerated clock
2) chronic injuries!
and probably a few other ones

Just on the injuries, below are what has happened by week 6 in an online franchise

Levitre - Herniated Disk - Misses 12 games
Hunter - Dislocated Hip - Misses the season
C2J - Turf Toe - 3 weeks
Greene - Herniated Disk 9 games (not sure why theres a length difference)
Britt - Broken Collarbone - 5 weeks
Sensabaugh - Broken Forearm - 4 weeks
Walker - Broken something or other - 6 weeks
McCarthy - Broken Jaw - misses the season
Fokou - Also a broken jaw - Misses the season
Brown - Broken Collarbone 5 weeks
Britt - turf toe - misses 3 weeks
Casey - Broken forearm - 4 weeks

Paully D

helimachoptor wrote: »

So we are kicking off with the draft this week. Theres a few issues that will need to be patched before we can start.

1) Accelerated clock
2) chronic injuries!
and probably a few other ones

Just on the injuries, below are what has happened by week 6 in an online franchise

Levitre - Herniated Disk - Misses 12 games
Hunter - Dislocated Hip - Misses the season
C2J - Turf Toe - 3 weeks
Greene - Herniated Disk 9 games (not sure why theres a length difference)
Britt - Broken Collarbone - 5 weeks
Sensabaugh - Broken Forearm - 4 weeks
Walker - Broken something or other - 6 weeks
McCarthy - Broken Jaw - misses the season
Fokou - Also a broken jaw - Misses the season
Brown - Broken Collarbone 5 weeks
Britt - turf toe - misses 3 weeks
Casey - Broken forearm - 4 weeks

Such a joke that they can't get these things right before releasing the game. Seriously, how does that stuff get past testing?

Also Heli, will we be playing with pre-existing injuries on or off or can we have a vote? I vote off!

Raoul

I think that we will be playing with the pre existing injuries off.

Nobody benefits from starting with injuries so it would just be an annoyance.

helimachoptor

As Raoul says, they will be off.

tbh unless EA fix something we'll need all the help we can get tbh.

I can see FA getting a lot of action during the season unless a patch gets rolled out for the volume of injuries that are occuring.

Raoul

I would imagine a patch will be rolled out. It always is to be fair. Sure remember last year/year before, there were at least 1 or 2 PAT attempts blocked, which was ridiculous. That got fixed pretty quick.

madalig12

Free agents will all be snapped up with that amount of injuries, you'd need a roster of 73:o
Just gonna get some playing time today properly and get a offline franchise going.

helimachoptor

madalig12 wrote: »

Free agents will all be snapped up with that amount of injuries, you'd need a roster of 73:o
Just gonna get some playing time today properly and get a offline franchise going.

I'll be honest, i really think unless something happens we'll end up in that situation.

6 games in I've lost 11 players (ignoring they fact they are all starters)
But I've lost

2 RBs
2 TEs
2 WRs
My 2 MLBs
1 CB
1 OLB

You just cant sustain those losses and whats worse is the length of the injuries.

madalig12

helimachoptor wrote: »

I'll be honest, i really think unless something happens we'll end up in that situation.

6 games in I've lost 11 players (ignoring they fact they are all starters)
But I've lost

2 RBs
2 TEs
2 WRs
My 2 MLBs
1 CB
1 OLB

You just cant sustain those losses and whats worse is the length of the injuries.

Yeah that's a lot, I lost three in three preseason games, going to play the first season game later. Injured a bills player with a sideline hit into his bench lol

Nelbert

What's the story with FA post draft????

Is it reverse order in preseason till we've all got one and then open season? Like last year.

helimachoptor

Thats correct Nelbert, except it will be 2 rounds .

So last pick to 1st then 1st pick to last and then its open season

helimachoptor

No Week 1 roster update as yet.

So once that happens which i think may be thursday/friday
we'll get the league kicked off.

As above pre-season weeks will be 1 day, pre-existing injuries will be off. Because we start in pre-season we will have 75 man rosters.

Berty44

Joe told me last night that the Week 1 Roster update should be out on Friday night.

helimachoptor

Cool, I'm away so bert/Adrian presume you can help out with the franchise creation in my absence

adrian522

helimachoptor wrote: »

Cool, I'm away so bert/Adrian presume you can help out with the franchise creation in my absence

Should be around by Sunday anyway, if not Friday night.

Raoul

I will be around Friday night I think.

guns4all

helimachoptor wrote: »

No Week 1 roster update as yet.

So once that happens which i think may be thursday/friday
we'll get the league kicked off.

As above pre-season weeks will be 1 day, pre-existing injuries will be off. Because we start in pre-season we will have 75 man rosters.

I know we are doing the pre season but is it gonna be with the default rosters from the start of the game.

Or will we be using the rosters from the Week 1 update, in which case people might not have 75 man rosters as they will have been cut down to 53?

Berty44

It will be the 53 man up to date week 1 rosters which are released on Friday night. That's what Heli will use to start franchise with.

mikemac1

Thank God!

I was fearing my Ravens would not have Vonta Leach, best fullback in the league

helimachoptor

Berty44 wrote: »

It will be the 53 man up to date week 1 rosters which are released on Friday night. That's what Heli will use to start franchise with.

But will there be the pre-season dross to get rid off before week 1 of the game bert?

Berty44

I don't think so Keith. Will be the rosters for the teams which were active for the week 1 games as far as I know.

Raoul

Do we know what the story is with the update yet?

Also, I think after the league is set up we should give two days for the first preseason week just so we can give people to get joined.

Berty44

Confirmed release later today:

http://www.operationsports.com/news/660952/madden-nfl-25-roster-update-week-2-details/

adrian522

So when are we looking at week 1 of the regular season?

helimachoptor

Adrian, are you ok to set the league up later this evening?

adrian522

Should be, attempting to install a satellite this evening too, you don't know anything about that sort of thing do you?

Anyway, I'll post up details for joining later on.

helimachoptor

adrian522 wrote: »

Should be, attempting to install a satellite this evening too, you don't know anything about that sort of thing do you?

Anyway, I'll post up details for joining later on.

Not a clue, half price Sky for a year if you want that though

Raoul

I will be about to do it regardless. Sure only takes a couple of min. Then I can pm everyone with the code. I will also set up the community that we can use for friendlies and if we ever have more cup games or anything like that.

Edit-didn't see Adrians post. Doesn't matter who sets it up. Whoever does it quickest I suppose .

Paully D

If Raoul is setting it up I guess we'll be starting in week two? :pac:

adrian522

Raoul wrote: »

I will be about to do it regardless. Sure only takes a couple of min. Then I can pm everyone with the code. I will also set up the community that we can use for friendlies and if we ever have more cup games or anything like that.

Edit-didn't see Adrians post. Doesn't matter who sets it up. Whoever does it quickest I suppose .

I'll let you set it up then as I'll be pretty busy this evening. Half marathon training to do as well.

Raoul

Paully D wrote: »

If Raoul is setting it up I guess we'll be starting in week two? :pac:

Harsh!! Commish of the league for 3/4 years and I made one mistake

Paully whats your gamertag? Updating the who's who.

Raoul

So just going through the process now (I need practice).

We will be using the Week 1 rosters.
Should everyone be a new coach or are we happy for people to pick current coaches which will already have a legacy score? and is it owner only?
Instant Starter off
Salary cap on
skill level all pro
playcall style game flow
quarter length 7 min??
accelerated clock on
min play clock time 20 sec
game speed normal
play progression weekly
coach firing off
game play tuning on (just incase)
injury on
pre existing off
trade deadline on
trade type enable human
relocation settings normal
league type owners only
auto strafe on
pre snap menu off
coaching tips off
player names always
heat seeker off
ball hawk off
switch assist off
fill roster on
re sign players off
progress players off
sign offseason agents off
legend yes or no?? I am not sure what this is.
Last thing is...current rosters and not fantasy draft

adrian522

New Coaches only.
8 min quarters
Heat seeker/ball hawk/switch assist, not sure on these would have thought they would be on but not sure.
Sign off season agents, presume this should be on, but not sure again.

Legend no I think
Current rosters.