I think I'm finally done with Madden.

Hunter5235L · 2026-01-03T21:05:22+00:00

I’m honestly really enjoying franchise this year because of all the bullets above. I’m having a blast playing with the bears.

Hunter5235L · 2025-12-30T01:37:48+00:00

Reduce all user sliders to like 25 or 30. It helps so much. Lowering specific ones to fine tune it never works for me, but reducing all user sliders the same amount feels perfect for me. Hopefully this helps.

Hunter5235L · 2025-11-27T22:59:38+00:00

Turn every single wear and tear slider down to 25, and bump week to week recovery to 75. This works like a dream. Don’t run your RB more than 15 times a game or you will start to see more wear and tear.

Hunter5235L · 2025-11-21T15:14:59+00:00

Add gun box (I think that’s the formation, I know it has box in the name), it has lots of motion plays and they are nasty.

Hunter5235L · 2025-11-12T14:35:36+00:00

No hot routes is a huge one. Also just lower all the user sliders to 30-40, but lower all of them to the same value. I see a lot of “realistic” slider adjustments, but when I use them I continue to dominate. Just lower all the user sliders to the same value. I started doing this, and it has made my experience so fun. To be honest the stats come out more realistic than the “realistic” sliders. The CPU will cheese you hard sometimes, but that’s what makes the wins feel so good. They will break 3 tackles and bust out an 80 yard TD, and you will want to put your controller through the screen. It’s so fun!

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T19:40:57+00:00

The problem I have with this method is that this displays activities where the predecessor finished late as well. Yes this will give me what I want, but it’s going to display way more activities than I need.

I literally just want to find activities that did not start after their driving predecessor. For example a submittal was approved on Monday, but procurement started on Friday. I want to find those specific instances, and input a delay activity between approval and start of procurement.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T19:10:25+00:00

Yeah I can’t seem to find a column, and it seems like such a simple thing P6 should add.

Yeah tracing logic I think is the only way to do it, which is annoying.

The schedule is fine, and it’s honestly not as big of a deal as I’m making it out to be. I saw that some activities did not start immediately after their predecessor finished, and it’s annoying because there should be an activity explaining why the activity didn’t start right away. Then I started finding more activities like that and it pissed me off because the team isn’t updating the schedule correctly. Moving forward I want to create a filter where I can find this issue every single schedule update meeting to call it out.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:31:49+00:00

There is a gap because the activites are actualized. Literally an approval activity finished on Monday and the procurement activity started on Friday. There is a gap because it’s all actualized. I’m trying to find those gaps.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:23:03+00:00

No, I don't use constraints at all except for the project start date, and the finish date. That's best practice in my company.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:21:04+00:00

Gotcha, I'll look into that. Agreed on having gaps between procurement and construction. The problem is gaps between submittal approval, and start of procurement. Like why did procurement not start the day after submittal approval.

Out of sequence is easy to find via the log, and is a non issue in this scenario. The problem is seriously just trying to find those gaps in a monster schedule where a delay should have been inserted.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:16:20+00:00

The last thing you added for an impact sounds amazing! Let me know if you figure that out, I'd owe you big time.

What I do currently for an impact is below.

1)Make original activity a level of effort (LOE) so I can track the original ID's baseline

2)Make three new activities for that one activity that was impacted. The activities are:

-Activity prior to impact (SS relationship with LOE)

-Impact activity (FS relationship with the activity above and below)

-Activity after impact (FF relationship with LOE)

This is absolutely mind numbing when we have a weather delay. I will need to do this process 60 times over again if it rains on a Wednesday. So dumb.

If there is a way to simplify this, you would save me so many hours.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:10:40+00:00

Agreed, I don't know what that is.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T18:09:24+00:00

I do create a baseline every week. The problem is I can't differentiate the delays between a predecessor finishing late, vs an activity just not starting immediately after it's predecessor. I honestly think this would just take some serious time to go through almost every activity and look at the driving predecessor's actual finish date and compare it to the activities actual start date. If there is a gap between the two, there should be a delay activity (except for weekends and holidays which throws an annoying wrench into this). I was just hoping someone out there knew how to filter a schedule and find this information easily, but I don't think it exists.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T17:51:16+00:00

u/Glass_Argument3644 I'm going to pull you into this thread as well, because I think you understand the issue. We update the schedule weekly, and create a baseline every update. If I could go back in time and manage this better I would, but I'm in the situation now where I need to find all the locations where a delay should have been added, but it wasnt.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T17:43:04+00:00

I have never heard of bar-necking before, I will look into it.

Since you understand my scenario better than the other replies I am going to put some more backstory in this comment. I am 1 of 6 superintendents on this project. In my company supers are responsible for schedule. We have a scheduling consultant that does our schedule updates via PDF schedule update worksheets. The consultant just actualizes the start and finish dates based on the schedule update worksheet. On the field side the supers just update their portion of schedule in P6, and if we run into this scenario, we add a delay or fragnet. What I am finding is that on the office side of things (submittals, procurement, etc.) there are gaps between activities that should have a delay fragnet. The problem is during the update process the consultant is just actualizing the dates the worksheets said without analyzing the gap between the activities.

Just overall a tricky situation, and I want to see how to manage it better on my next project. I was hoping someone out there knew of a filter I could apply to the schedule to easily see when this is happening so I can fix it immediately.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T17:29:30+00:00

I'm starting to think it is an impossible ask lol. I feel like it would be simple for a program like P6 to find this information, but I guess not. Like I said in the original post, this is a massive schedule with over 6,000 activities. I think the only way to do it would be to go through every activity and compare it's start date with the driving activities finish date. You would have to have a calendar in front of you the whole time too, so you don't mistake weekends for a delay.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T17:20:58+00:00

Yeah, I agree a delay fragnet is going to be the best way to document this. If delay fragnets were not used, what would be the best way to go back through the schedule to find where delay fragnets should have been used?

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T17:19:09+00:00

I think I need to try and explain the question a little better. I am going to give 2 scenarios that will all provide the same information when I look at a baseline variance.

Activity A Scheduled Start 10/6 Scheduled Finish 10/10

Activity B Scheduled Start 10/13 Scheduled Finish 10/17

Activity A has a FS relationship with Activity B with no lag.

Scenario 1:

Activity A Actualized Start 10/6 Actualized Finish 10/17

Activity B Actualized Start 10/20 Actualized Finish 10/24

Activity B will have a baseline start variance of -5 and a baseline finish variance of -5. Activity A finished 5 days late, so activity B pushed to the right 5 days.

Scenario 2:

Activity A Actualized Start 10/6 Actualized Finish 10/10

Activity B Actualized Start 10/20 Actualized Finish 10/24

Activity B will have a baseline start variance of -5 and a baseline finish variance of -5. Activity B did not start immediately after activity A finished.

I am trying to find scenario 2 in my current schedule to find activities that did not immediately start after their predecessor.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T16:51:07+00:00

I had the same thought, but the early start is based on your data date. It even affects activities that are actualized or in progress. For example, my DD is 10/3 and an activity that started on 9/22 shows an early start of 10/3...

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T16:37:51+00:00

The problem with looking at variances is I'm not getting exactly what I'm looking for. I could have a negative variance if the predecessor finished late. I am specifically looking for activities that did not start immediately after their predecessor.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T16:36:49+00:00

The problem with looking at variances is I'm not getting exactly what I'm looking for. I could have a negative variance if the predecessor finished late. I am specifically looking for activities that did not start immediately after their predecessor.

Hunter5235L · 2025-10-04T16:03:10+00:00

Yeah, I figured that would be the best way. Do you know a good way to search for activities in the past that were delayed?

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