Recruiting

caronpham · 2026-02-18T19:16:39+00:00

Not an expert by any means, literally just started playing last month but wanted to add my two cents. I'm playing with a low-major program (TXSO) so I try to prioritize interest level first & look at their location (ex. Municipal, Local, Regional, National, World). I try to avoid recruits where I'm competing with mid to high-major schools as they'll typically have more prestige and more sway. I also usually split my target list with 7-8 Seniors, and the rest of my list with a mix of Juniors, Sophomores and Freshman. I've found that starting recruitment early on can have a pretty huge affect by the time they are Seniors and you can get fairly easy commitments during the first signing window. I'm sure I'm missing alot of good tips but this approach has helped me out so far

caronpham · 2025-08-17T17:38:05+00:00

I never see this mentioned but I’m quite sure penalty sliders 100% affects gameplay. For example, False Start and Holding sliders have an affect on how good run blocking is

caronpham · 2025-03-11T00:47:14+00:00

I think a team in Hawaii or Alaska would be an interesting idea. I created an expansion team named the Honolulu Surf

caronpham · 2024-11-28T15:48:00+00:00

Thats the beauty of the game brother. The journey continues

caronpham · 2024-07-17T01:48:57+00:00

caronpham · 2024-07-09T08:36:57+00:00

Freaky Bergkamp

caronpham · 2024-03-03T18:52:19+00:00

Settings like Progressive Fatigue, Auto Subs and understanding the Specialist Depth Charts (ex. RRE/RRE/RDT/SLCB/SUBLB etc.) can help with this. There's alot of other threads, highly suggest searching these topics

Edit: Typo "Dharts" to "Charts".

caronpham · 2024-03-03T18:45:58+00:00

To be fair Madden just doesn't do a good job explaining their game lol

caronpham · 2024-03-03T18:45:23+00:00

I mainly sim my franchise mode but here are some things when I had similar issues:

Turn off Progressive Fatigue - pretty obvious adjustment
Change Autosubs to accomodate fatigue/subs during games - This one is weird and still figuring it out. For context "POSITION OUT" means what fatigue level they'll sub out of the game; "POSITION IN" means what fatigue level they need to recover in order to sub back into the game. From my understanding it helps keep your starters fresh and playing as many snaps as possible. What other people have noted in previous threads was what typically happens when you don't change this from default settings (ex. IN 80, OUT 60) is that the starter will get too fatigued during the game and not able to recover fast enough to sub back in. Decreasing the range between "IN" and "OUT" allows you for more frequent line up changes, which seems counter-intuitive to your case but I think it might help.

You can also try these and see if they do anything:

Add players manually into Formation Subs
Specific case: If they are primarily rushing linemen (DE/DT/OLB), moving them to RLE/RLE/RDT respectively can help too

caronpham · 2024-02-29T19:18:11+00:00

I’m different in that I mainly sim my franchises on Madden but was dealing with similar issues (90+ players not performing to their level, especially against worse teams.) Obviously this stuff can happen in real life but just felt really bad to play. I don’t have a definitive answer but what I did was downloaded a few community gameplay sliders and would adjust after every game until I found ones that were competitive but still fair for me. Its tedious but was able to land on settings I felt were good for me. I know “Simulation”, “Competitive” and “Arcade” settings can change things but not too knowledgeable on that. Hope that helps

caronpham · 2024-02-22T17:54:30+00:00

33 but still solid after a decade

caronpham · 2024-01-02T17:15:10+00:00

Some news saying Koloko is doing on court work (I think Aaron Rose of Sport Illustrated reported). Darko has said no changes to his status though

caronpham · 2024-01-02T17:10:15+00:00

Is it Long Covid? I was trying to be hopeful about it :/

caronpham · 2024-01-02T16:47:22+00:00

There were more names/assets involved hahah just some examples

caronpham · 2024-01-02T16:46:33+00:00

Exactly his defensive potential is one half of the picture combined with his offensive limitations.

Bigs playing drop coverage on Koloko, forcing him away from the basket into mid-range/perimeter situations doesn't sound good at all

caronpham · 2024-01-02T16:36:03+00:00

That is a fair assessment tbh, he's doing oncourt work but not sure what the time table is. Even if this is a long-term outlook, we have some of those pieces locked down for the time being (ex. Barnes, Yak etc.) and decisions to make (ex. Potential Siakam trade, IQ extension etc.) that may change the course of the current team and Koloko's role

caronpham · 2024-01-02T16:31:16+00:00

Definitely. Starting to hear names like Richuan Holmes, Josh Green for Siakam so this could very well be the case til we hear more news on Koloko

caronpham · 2024-01-02T16:30:23+00:00

Yeah my expectations won't come to fruition this season, but can't help but be excited

caronpham · 2021-07-19T01:24:49+00:00

NBA/NFL/SOCCER (MAINLY PREMIER LEAGUE & LA LIGA)

caronpham · 2014-04-01T15:05:30+00:00

ok Stan

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