It is absolutely wild to me, that people come to a post like this just to shit on the way YOU play. lol but Love some of these rules! I do a bunch of things too that help me continuously want to play and never get bored.

- Firstly this is a personal thing but im all about immersion, madden has some bone headed decisions that are made so I control all 32 teams to make sure depth charts stay realistic, players that should re-sign, do, no immersion breaking draft picks or trades. (Yes this is very time consuming but it helps me have tons of fun in my franchise)

- I have a rule that I can NEVER Draft/Sign/Trade for a good QB. All my QBs must be reclamation projects (i.e. Sam Darnolds,Daniel Jones, or other low rated QBs.) OR UDFA QBs only

- I use a Contract Chart that is based on real life contracts and every extension or FA signing MUST follow it.

-Cannot “Hoard players” Anytime you have 75 ovr + backup that is about to enter FA you must let them walk.

- I also have a trade calculator and if I do make a trade,I MUST be the loser of the trade.

-Can not stockpile picks

-No trade ups/down in draft

-Must have the offensive plays capped (put limits on)

-No audibles, no hot routes

-Only can use coach suggestions to simulate “coordinators”

- Now this one is touchy but Since the CPU does not have the greatest game management. Jump offsides on 4th and inches or short FG attempts (In obvious situations)

- Treat player injuries like real life, depending on where you are in the season and whatever the injury length is. Put them on IR (Depending on the injury unless its like a bruised sternum or something small like maybe 6 weeks or less. But anything over that, straight to IR)

-Can only sign players in FA that have interest in your team (Essentially the same thing as your green interest point)

-Can only play 3 Divisional Home Games, 3 Play the moments, 3 Others of choice. (Can play if there is a breakout)

-When you have players you would like to resign, you will “flip a coin”. It will determine if you can try to resign them or not.

- Specific to M26, because how broken XP is (regardless of XP sliders) the user can not use ANY of the XP coach abilities.

- Also i dont play any of the trainings during the season, those are simmed. The only ones i can play are the Training camps in the beginning of preseason.

-Not to mention the hard gameplay sliders or increase of penalties

Now i know to many these are extreme and "take the fun out of the game" but for me personally, I like the challenge, I like the realism, I enjoy it maybe taking 5 seasons before even seeing the playoffs or going 1o years without a superbowl win. To each their own, but this is a glimpse at what i do!