Actual Madden League that PLAYS THEIR GAMES!

dsheinem and I got our game in today. It took three tries because the EA server was being a prude. The first time we played it was tied 7-7 early in the 3rd when we got kicked-off. A second attempt didn't go anywhere. After that we were pressed for time so we decided to play just the first half - winner takes all.

I squeaked out a 10-7 win. The final score in the schedule reads 19-7 because I had to finish the game to make it count. We were just going to quit, but it wouldn't let us keep that as a final score. After dsheinem left, I played the CPU the rest of the way. I wish there was a way to accept a forfeit like in regular online play because I felt bad for "padding my stats" with 9-more points.
 
Okay, I got my game in as well. After today I am going to sim to the next week. I think what I will do is giver everyone until Monday to play their games. Just to keep it moving.
 
@js1: I haven't checked to see if the week's schedule has been advanced yet, but as long as it has, dubbfoolio and I are going to get our game in early Tuesday morning.
 
Dubbfoolio and I got our game in today. I think the final score was 21-10. It was tied 7-7 early, but right after Dubb tied it, I managed to return the ensuing kickoff for a touchdown. That pretty much turned the game right there. Had I not taken the kick back I think the game probably would've had a much different outcome.

Up next on the schedule: the CPU-controlled Lions for a Thanksgiving day game. Here's to hoping I can handle Detroit just like the real Packers did this year.
 
[quote name='CRH7386']I hate when I try to play my game and it says franchise server not available :whistle2:([/QUOTE]

That happened to me when Dubbfoolio and we tried to play our game earlier this week. I quit Madden, restarted it and then it let me log into the Madden servers. I don't know why it worked, but it did. If all else fails, turn it off and try again.
 
[quote name='equax']Hey guys, I'm thinking of picking up Madden, but how does the online league work?[/QUOTE]

You pick a team and play their entire regular season schedule. Some weeks you play against actual players, some weeks you play against the CPU - it depends if an actual user has that team or not. I think our league here has 9 or 10 user-controlled teams.

For example, last week I played against the CPU-controlled Lions since no one has them as their team. Next week, I'll play against a user-controlled Ravens team because someone has that team.

We're one week behind the actual NFL schedule right now in case you're curious as to how many more games we'll be playing. We'll go all the way through the Super Bowl as well. If you were to join this franchise, you'd be jumping in at week 12 or whatever week we're on.

Whether you get in on this franchise or another random one, I'd suggest doing it. I'm definitely not the greatest Madden player in the world, but I've gotten way more play out of Madden this year compared to past years because of the online franchise.
 
HEY LIONSMAN...

I don't know if the guy who has the Ravens (lionsman) is on CAG, but if you are, please drop me a PM so we can figure out a time to play this week. I sent him a message over PSN last week, but haven't heard back.

Thanks.
 
He is not on CAG, his PSN name is LIONMAN6928 . He is on often during the day. I am not going to sim this week until maybe tues or WED. because one of the guys in the group sent his PS3 out for repairs and it should be back this week.
 
Oh man, I missed my game last week. After the servers wouldn't let me connect when I tried, I totally forgot and the Seahawks whooped me 27-3, haha. Oh well. I better pay attention so Mr. Mills doesn't take my division :)
 
If Lionsman never gets back to me, we may have to Sim our game...which could mean a loss for me...and a Division title for the Vikings (and that's unacceptable). :lol:

I sent him a message on PSN on December 8th and he never got back to me. I just sent him another message today. It's not like he hasn't been online at all.

In non-madden related news, I became a dad a couple nights ago.
Here's a link to some pictures if you're interested at all:

http://www.flickr.com/aaronmills
 
simmed the week. kicked a person for not being active. Smog you still playing this? I haven't seen you play your last few games..
 
[quote name='aaronmills']If Lionsman never gets back to me, we may have to Sim our game...which could mean a loss for me...and a Division title for the Vikings (and that's unacceptable). :lol:

I sent him a message on PSN on December 8th and he never got back to me. I just sent him another message today. It's not like he hasn't been online at all.

In non-madden related news, I became a dad a couple nights ago.
Here's a link to some pictures if you're interested at all:

http://www.flickr.com/aaronmills[/QUOTE]

Considering I beat you twice and I have all CPU opponents left, the title is mine! Muhahaha! :lol:
 
[quote name='aaronmills']If Lionsman never gets back to me, we may have to Sim our game...which could mean a loss for me...and a Division title for the Vikings (and that's unacceptable). :lol:

I sent him a message on PSN on December 8th and he never got back to me. I just sent him another message today. It's not like he hasn't been online at all.

In non-madden related news, I became a dad a couple nights ago.
Here's a link to some pictures if you're interested at all:

http://www.flickr.com/aaronmills[/QUOTE]


Wow man thats amazing. Congrats dude and keep you baby girl warm during these Michigan winters!
 
Thanks for the congrats, guys.

Lionsman and I got our game in last night and wow, did I dodge a bullet?!

After leading 10-0 at the half and then taking an extended halftime to change a diaper :)lol:), Lionsman scored a TD in the third to make it 10-7 heading into the fourth.

With two minutes left I drove down field and got picked in the red zone. Lionsman drove all the way down the field and made it to the five yard line with two seconds left (thanks to a facemask penalty by me that stopped the clock). He lined-up for the 22-yard field goal to send it to overtime, but "sh'doinked" it off the left upright as time expired giving the Packers a crazy 10-7 win over the Ravens.
 
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I'm not having a good week. I went 14-0 through my fantasy football season and get knocked out first round by the guy I helped get into the playoffs by trading him some people. Now I play the Cardinals in Madden and lose by a field goal after my first game was interrupted by my power going out when I unplugged something from an outlet. If my luck keeps up, I might have to shoot for the wild card. By the way, congrats Millsy!
 
Looks like four out of the eight people in the league still have yet to play their most recent game on the schedule. All four play against the CPU so there shouldn't be any problems scheduling a time to play those games. Any idea when we'll be advancing the schedule again?
 
Is there a glitch in the game where if you challenge a call you lose your connection to the other player -- its happened to me twice recently.
 
I ended up trading my game away. It was taking too long and not many people have been playing the game fast as I thought they would. I have passed the franchise onto AMillsy.
 
[quote name='js1']I have passed the franchise onto AMillsy.[/QUOTE]

That's a bummer...hate to lose ya...only a few weeks left so this shouldn't be too tough to take-over, though. I'll log in when I get home tonight to see how things look schedule-wise for people.I'll plan on advancing the week tomorrow night (Wednesday) when I get out of work around Midnight Eastern. If anyone has any objections, let me know. Otherwise that'll be the plan.
[quote name='bsesb2003']Is there a glitch in the game where if you challenge a call you lose your connection to the other player -- its happened to me twice recently.[/QUOTE]

I haven't run into this problem. I've had games freeze in past while playing online, but never during a replay challenge. In fact, I've done replay challenges in our online franchise and never had a problem (knock on wood). Odds are the Madden server was just having problems. I've noticed that it isn't exactly the most reliable server for playing online games. I had a stretch where three-straight games froze before they were done.
 
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I advanced the schedule last night so please get your games in.
Every person in the league plays against the CPU so there shouldn't be any scheduling issues.

I will advance things again on January 6th (or earlier if people get their games done before then). At that point, I will look at the league schedule and if there are any teams that haven't tried playing their games for 3-straight weeks, they will be kicked out of the franchise. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if a player goes 3-weeks without attempting to play a game, they obviously don't want to be (or have time to be) in the franchise.

We need to get this thing moving, so let's do this!
 
Sorry guys I think I may be in that neglect category. My season is sort of at a loss anyway since I don't have any more human opponents and probably wouldn't be making the playoffs. I'll try to jump on one last time to manhandle the rams.
 
Don't worry about it, Wyatt. If you don't get your game in, that's okay. I decided to put the "3-strikes out you're out" rule in effect mainly for people who have actual human opponents left.

For those who only have CPU opponents left, you can ignore the "you're gonna get booted" rule. If you get your games in, cool. If not, I'll just simulate them.

I think myself, Lionman and Snoopy are the only ones who play non-CPU's from here on out anyway.
 
Just a reminder that I'll be advancing the schedule when I get out of work tonight around midnight, so if you're gonna get your game in, get it in today.
 
Glad you got your game in, Craig. And I was happy to take things over so we can get the schedule moving again. We started off pretty good, then started slowing down as the season went on. Once I advance the schedule, I'll probably give it another week (or sooner if people get their games in) before I advance it again. Since we're down to only 6 player-controlled teams left, we don't really have to worry about scheduling conflicts.

Also...in case anyone's curious, Snoopy said he wants out of the league so he gets the award for most teams used (Two: Bears & Steelers) and most teams given-up with as well. :lol: Lionman said that he wants dibs on taking over the Steelers. Good news for him because he inherits a one-loss team. Bad news for me because I play the Steelers next week. ;)
 
I advanced the schedule this morning around 1 AM EST so we're in Week 15 now: three more games to go before the postseason.

Snoopy asked to leave the league so I booted him at his request. Everyone else will be allowed to stay in the league for the duration of the year whether you play your games or not because myself and Lionman (who will be taking over the Steelers) are the only players who have games against non-CPU-controlled teams the rest of the way. We play this week. After that, it's player vs. CPU for the rest of the regular season until the playoffs start.

6 player-controlled teams remain: 4 in the NFC, 2 in the AFC.

Here's when I'm planning on advancing the schedule:

Week 15->16: January 12th
Week 16->17: January 19th
Week 17-> Postseason: January 26th

This will allow everyone a full week (including a weekend) to get their games in. If all games are played before the deadline, I will advance the schedule early and we'll adjust things accordingly.
 
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[quote name='Theschill38']Any chance I could join this league?

PSN: Theschill[/QUOTE]

We only have three games left on the schedule, but if you only want in for three games (and any playoff games if your team is headed to the postseason), I'll send you an invite. The only catch is, you can't be the Steelers because someone else will be taking them over in the next day or two. Respond to this thread or send me a PM here on CAG if you still want in.

[quote name='smiggity']Sim all my games until playoffs[/QUOTE]
Yup. You already clinched a playoff spot and don't play any player-controlled teams so that won't be a problem at all.
 
REMINDER: The schedule will be advanced on January 12th. If you choose to have your games simulated through the remainder of the regular season and end up making the playoffs, you must play your playoff games. Players who do not manually play their playoff games will be removed from the league.


I got my game in today. I played Lionman for the second time in two weeks. I beat him when he was the Ravens, but he got revenge and then some as the Steelers.

I trailed 21-14 with about three minutes to go in the game when I failed to convert on a fourth down. Lionman then drove down the field and scored a TD to make it 28-14. I drove down field and then got picked off in the Red Zone. My defense stuffed him three times trying to run out the clock, but to add some salt to my wound, Lionman ran a fake punt that ended with an 89-yard touchdown. In the end it looks like I got blown out, but in reality it was a pretty tight game. If I wouldn't have turned it over three times inside the 20, I think I would've taken him again.

At any rate, that now drops me to 10-4 on the season so if the Vikings win-out, they'll take the Division. Here's to hoping for a CPU upset (sorry Craig)! ;)

In case you guys weren't aware, you can check standings and stats at www.easports.com. I guess you can also post videos from our games on there. I haven't posted any and none show up, but apparently it's a feature on there.
 
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I will advance the schedule when I get out of work tonight (1 AM-ish?).

Myself, YesterdaysRising and Lionman appear to be the only people playing their games so once all three of us have played our Week 16 games, I'll advance the schedule again.
 
Sorry - if you haven't dropped me yet go ahead - I got tired of playing the computer and/or getting disconnected from the EA servers 75% or more of the time.
 
I have advanced the schedule. As requested, I went ahead and booted dsheinem. That leaves us with just 5 players in the league. SmogItUp wants me to sim his remaining regular season games and dubbfoolio hasn't played his games for a while so once myself, YesterdaysRising and Lionman have our games played for this week I'll advance the schedule again. I'm going to be out of town from Saturday-Monday so I don't be able to advance the schedule during that time.

I got my game in late last night/this morning and barely escaped Seattle with a win. And I mean BARELY. Seattle had two defensive touchdowns (one fumble recovery and one INT return) and was up 17-14 on me with about 2 minutes to play. I drove down field and managed to score a touchdown with less than 30-seconds to play for a 21-17 comeback win. As far as games against the CPU go, this was the most exciting one I've played all season. A win kept me in the Wild Card picture and also earned me the "Super Bowl MVP-like" trophy.
 
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I just played my week 17 game and captured my division title and I must say, I am NOT happy about it... Favre got hurt and is out for 10 weeks with a broken collarbone. So now I have Sage Rosenfels as my starter for the playoffs with an AWESOME rating of 69. I wonder if I can put Adrian Peterson in at QB and RB, hahaha. My post season is doomed but I will not give up!
 
[quote name='CRH7386']Favre got hurt and is out for 10 weeks with a broken collarbone. So now I have Sage Rosenfels as my starter for the playoffs with an AWESOME rating of 69.[/QUOTE]

Oh man, that sucks! Of course, if you would've benched virtual-Favre (after he continued his games started streak), he would have virtually complained and screwed up the virtual team chemistry. ;)

I'm almost tempted to bench Aaron Rodgers in my season finale against the Cardinals now. I might do it if I can get a lead on the Cards. I haven't locked-up a playoff spot so I think I need to win to make sure I get into the postseason.
 
[quote name='aaronmills']Oh man, that sucks! Of course, if you would've benched virtual-Favre (after he continued his games started streak), he would have virtually complained and screwed up the virtual team chemistry. ;)

I'm almost tempted to bench Aaron Rodgers in my season finale against the Cardinals now. I might do it if I can get a lead on the Cards. I haven't locked-up a playoff spot so I think I need to win to make sure I get into the postseason.[/QUOTE]

Ya, well, I thought it was funny how he got taken off the field but at the end of the game, he ran out and was talking to the reporters, haha. I lost to the cards a couple weeks ago. They were tough. Probably the toughest CPU team I've played all year. But either way, I looked at the standings on the website and you've definitely clinched a wild card spot. Nobody else in the conference can catch your record, except for a two division leaders, even though it doesn't show you've clinched in the standings on the game.
 
[quote name='aaronmills']I'm almost tempted to bench Aaron Rodgers in my season finale against the Cardinals now. I might do it if I can get a lead on the Cards. I haven't locked-up a playoff spot so I think I need to win to make sure I get into the postseason.[/QUOTE]


NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I need you to beat the birdies to keep my playoff hopes alive. You know you need some virtual revenge anyway ;) I can't believe I'm not eliminated.

PS: I snuck a win in against the Lions before you advanced it. Time to handle the rams.
 
OK, Wyatt...just for you, I'll start Rodgers.

If I somehow get a decent lead, I'll bench him to see if Matt Flynn even knows how to throw a football.Here's to hoping you make it in the playoffs. If you don't, but still want to take a team over in the postseason, just let me know. I can boot you from the league and then give you an invite. The more player-controlled teams, the better.
 
man I just got my ass handed to be by the rams. Gore was hurt and Hill thew 4 picks but still. Clearly I don't deserve to be in the playoffs. PM me if by some miracle the niners makes it, cause I don't know how the strength of schedule thing shakes out.
 
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