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Giants are still looking to move down in the first round. In addition Ahmad Bradshaw is available for anyone looking for a rb.
 
Im really excited for the off season i know exactly wut im looking for and im hoping i can make it all happen although im going to have to cut a few players becuz some guys r just getting paid way yo much and really arent worth it at all.

But my question from earlier was once the offseason hits fa is open but wut about during preseason will it still be wide open for people to take whoever?
 
Didn't realize it was Manninghams last year.

Big names that I definitely won't be resigning:

Mario Manningham
Brandon Jacobs

Maybe not that big...
 
So I think there may be a possible glitch. I scouted a player there not under unscouted or scouted. But yet they show up on " Team Needs" and it shows available player acquire via draft. But yet I can't find them in the draft. Has this happened to anybody else. I won't say the player because well he'll be my first pick. haha
 
[quote name='Blade3D']Didn't realize it was Manninghams last year.

Big names that I definitely won't be resigning:

Mario Manningham
Brandon Jacobs

Maybe not that big...[/QUOTE]

ya i looked at the falcons teams contracts earlier and well it says its matt ryan last year which is weird becuz i have the falcons in the other league and his last year wasnt until the 2nd season but in this league the first season is his contract year. im not sure if it has things mixes up or wut but i guess we will find out in the offseason. should be interesting though
 
It's showing the contracts as though we are already in the 2013 season. If you look at the guys who were rookies this year, instead of saying rookie, it says they have 1 year of experience. This made me do a double take as well, because it said Kenny Britt only had 1 year remaining on his contract...and I know the game never notified me of that.
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']It's showing the contracts as though we are already in the 2013 season. If you look at the guys who were rookies this year, instead of saying rookie, it says they have 1 year of experience. This made me do a double take as well, because it said Kenny Britt only had 1 year remaining on his contract...and I know the game never notified me of that.[/QUOTE]

We had a similar issue with contract length in the other league, though I can't 100% recall what the exact problem was. Don't quote me on this, but I think it might have had to with how the game handles restricted vs. unrestricted Free Agents (spoiler: inelegantly, but that's par for the course). Fero might remember better as he was advancing us and also looked into the issue more deeply than I did.

I believe the key was to make sure you look at your re-signings screen, even if you didn't think there were guys who needed to be re-upped. There might be some people in there you didn't expect.
 
so pretty much if they are there to sign a deal and u dont want to lose them u better sign them or they are gone
 
[quote name='DVO21']so pretty much if they are there to sign a deal and u dont want to lose them u better sign them or they are gone[/QUOTE]

Right.
 
Eagles are open to a lot of trades. Only players i'm looking to hold onto for sure are Bryce Brown, Demarius Johnson, and Desean Jackson. I'd be open to offers on a lot, especially Vick.
 
[quote name='bvharris']We had a similar issue with contract length in the other league, though I can't 100% recall what the exact problem was. Don't quote me on this, but I think it might have had to with how the game handles restricted vs. unrestricted Free Agents (spoiler: inelegantly, but that's par for the course). Fero might remember better as he was advancing us and also looked into the issue more deeply than I did.

I believe the key was to make sure you look at your re-signings screen, even if you didn't think there were guys who needed to be re-upped. There might be some people in there you didn't expect.[/QUOTE]

Ok, well just using Britt as the example here, he SHOULD be signed through the 2013 season (as per his real life contract). However, in game, it shows his 2012 cap hit to be $2.87 and his 2013 cap hit to be $0. I'm not well versed in my NFL finances here, but would he have zero cap hit because he's in the final year of his deal? (ie. coming off the books) I know you guys had problems with some players, but this would just blow my mind if the game screwed up contracts to the point of shorting players an entire year and not telling you about it.
 
How the game lists it is pretty confusing, but everyone who shows up during the FA resigning period will be off the books and be a free agent if you don't resign them then. So that should make everything clear once we hit that point.
 
I guess I'm just going to wait before I continue anymore trade talks, cause I have no idea who is staying. I swear it looked like I was only losing 9 guys before and now it's more.
 
[quote name='ubernes']How the game lists it is pretty confusing, but everyone who shows up during the FA resigning period will be off the books and be a free agent if you don't resign them then. So that should make everything clear once we hit that point.[/QUOTE]

Yup. Even if you think a guy has another year, if he's on that list it means he'll leave if you don't sign him.
 
Seriously, why do we all continue to put up with this crap? Are we all sick or something? How hard is it to follow real contracts? Yet...one more thing EA botches. I feel like I need to be committed so I'll stop buying shitty EA games, lol. Somebody help us.
 
i hope there are alot of wrs i could use one more :)
im thinking
AJ Green
Victor Cruz
D Bowe or Mike Wallace or even both and go 4 wide all day everyday lol
if i have 3 top tier WRs and eli throwing the ball this team is going to the super bowl or at least i hope else is all just wasted talent

also my TE is on the block if anyone is interested in him gresham overall 82 i believe
 
[quote name='Blade3D']I guess I'm just going to wait before I continue anymore trade talks, cause I have no idea who is staying. I swear it looked like I was only losing 9 guys before and now it's more.[/QUOTE]

Our deal is still a go though right?
 
Just saw what's basically horrible confirmation that bv and uber are exactly right (not that I doubted them...just wanted to see the reasoning for myself). I looked at my contracts again, and happened to notice my free agent that I signed earlier in the year, Pat Sims (who we know was only able to sign a 1 year deal), and he's listed as having 1 year remaining on his contract and has a 2013 cap hit of $0.

Sooo...yup...if you look at your salaries, anybody who is listed as 1 year remaining, will be a free agent when we hit the offseason. I counted, and I have 24 guys on my team who fall into this category (and at best, the game only let me negotiate with 7-8 of them during the season). And I talked to the Giants owner (jza1218), and he has 27. Awesome that EA fucked up contracts this severely, as I know for a fact that several of them should not be running out at the conclusion of the 2012 season. Get ready for a shitstorm, folks.
 
Well from my own experience any FA that you signed during the season you'll be able to resign them again if they accept. In the other league I signed Kellen Winslow to a 4 year contract when I picked him up and it said only 1 year.

With the guys contracts that are about to expire with 1 year left you can still resign them as long as they haven't declined your contract.

I hope that cleared anything up. Basically once we hit offseason you can still sign players unless you've already tried and they said no.
 
[quote name='Blade3D']I thought you could try to resign anyone when the offseason starts? Even if they had declined?[/QUOTE]
If they've declined you've lost them they will be in the free for all.
 
Like the owner before me is losing all his players and it won't or hopefully I can once offseason starts even franchise a player.
 
Well, we could always set the first day on an honor system to just offer contracts to guys you are losing...just so it'll only be a free for all after. Give every team the chance to sign guys they wanna sign just for the first day.
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']Just saw what's basically horrible confirmation that bv and uber are exactly right (not that I doubted them...just wanted to see the reasoning for myself). I looked at my contracts again, and happened to notice my free agent that I signed earlier in the year, Pat Sims (who we know was only able to sign a 1 year deal), and he's listed as having 1 year remaining on his contract and has a 2013 cap hit of $0.

Sooo...yup...if you look at your salaries, anybody who is listed as 1 year remaining, will be a free agent when we hit the offseason. I counted, and I have 24 guys on my team who fall into this category (and at best, the game only let me negotiate with 7-8 of them during the season). And I talked to the Giants owner (jza1218), and he has 27. Awesome that EA fucked up contracts this severely, as I know for a fact that several of them should not be running out at the conclusion of the 2012 season. Get ready for a shitstorm, folks.[/QUOTE]

It sucks that EA messed up the exact details on the contracts, BUT the good news is that you do get a chance to resign all these guys during the FA resigning period before they hit the open market. Not ideal if someone is in for an early, big pay day but given Madden... could be worse!
 
Someone take Bryant please. Can't stand him in real life can't stand him here.

While you're at it please also take Tony Homo off my hands.
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']Just saw what's basically horrible confirmation that bv and uber are exactly right (not that I doubted them...just wanted to see the reasoning for myself). I looked at my contracts again, and happened to notice my free agent that I signed earlier in the year, Pat Sims (who we know was only able to sign a 1 year deal), and he's listed as having 1 year remaining on his contract and has a 2013 cap hit of $0.

Sooo...yup...if you look at your salaries, anybody who is listed as 1 year remaining, will be a free agent when we hit the offseason. I counted, and I have 24 guys on my team who fall into this category (and at best, the game only let me negotiate with 7-8 of them during the season). And I talked to the Giants owner (jza1218), and he has 27. Awesome that EA fucked up contracts this severely, as I know for a fact that several of them should not be running out at the conclusion of the 2012 season. Get ready for a shitstorm, folks.[/QUOTE]


Christ...this was the first Madden i've bought in several years and it'll probably be several more before I get the next one. I picked it up this year because of the new engine, and while it's promising, there are too many things broken and exploits that you can take advantage of. That's just the gameplay side of things...then you have this problem with the contracts and no telling what else...the EA Madden website having a terrible design and is just overall annoying to use.

I honestly might just take a hiatus from the league. Everyone i've played with has been great but this game finds ways to make you not want to play anymore.
 
[quote name='Wpark83']Well, we could always set the first day on an honor system to just offer contracts to guys you are losing...just so it'll only be a free for all after. Give every team the chance to sign guys they wanna sign just for the first day.[/QUOTE]

Madden actually has a day for this already. Before there's the free for all, there is a day or maybe 2? where you can sign or franchise any one going to be a free agent. As I said above, it sucks EA messed this up but nothing crazy bad because you will get that exclusive chance to resign those guys first.
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']Just saw what's basically horrible confirmation that bv and uber are exactly right (not that I doubted them...just wanted to see the reasoning for myself). I looked at my contracts again, and happened to notice my free agent that I signed earlier in the year, Pat Sims (who we know was only able to sign a 1 year deal), and he's listed as having 1 year remaining on his contract and has a 2013 cap hit of $0.

Sooo...yup...if you look at your salaries, anybody who is listed as 1 year remaining, will be a free agent when we hit the offseason. I counted, and I have 24 guys on my team who fall into this category (and at best, the game only let me negotiate with 7-8 of them during the season). And I talked to the Giants owner (jza1218), and he has 27. Awesome that EA fucked up contracts this severely, as I know for a fact that several of them should not be running out at the conclusion of the 2012 season. Get ready for a shitstorm, folks.[/QUOTE]

Hakeem Nicks is still on a rookie contract that doesn't expire until after next year, but he's unsigned for 2013 in this game. Just awesome (and no DVO, he won't be hitting free agency, so don't bother looking into him).
 
[quote name='n8rockerasu']Just saw what's basically horrible confirmation that bv and uber are exactly right (not that I doubted them...just wanted to see the reasoning for myself). I looked at my contracts again, and happened to notice my free agent that I signed earlier in the year, Pat Sims (who we know was only able to sign a 1 year deal), and he's listed as having 1 year remaining on his contract and has a 2013 cap hit of $0.

Sooo...yup...if you look at your salaries, anybody who is listed as 1 year remaining, will be a free agent when we hit the offseason. I counted, and I have 24 guys on my team who fall into this category (and at best, the game only let me negotiate with 7-8 of them during the season). And I talked to the Giants owner (jza1218), and he has 27. Awesome that EA fucked up contracts this severely, as I know for a fact that several of them should not be running out at the conclusion of the 2012 season. Get ready for a shitstorm, folks.[/QUOTE]

That's what happened to me in the other league when I had the Giants.
 
[quote name='jza1218']Hakeem Nicks is still on a rookie contract that doesn't expire until after next year, but he's unsigned for 2013 in this game. Just awesome (and no DVO, he won't be hitting free agency, so don't bother looking into him).[/QUOTE]

Funny. In the other league, I didn't have to re-sign Nicks until after the start of the 2nd season when he wanted to negotiate.
 
[quote name='ubernes']Madden actually has a day for this already. Before there's the free for all, there is a day or maybe 2? where you can sign or franchise any one going to be a free agent. As I said above, it sucks EA messed this up but nothing crazy bad because you will get that exclusive chance to resign those guys first.[/QUOTE]

Oh awesome. Thanks.
 
[quote name='ubernes']It sucks that EA messed up the exact details on the contracts, BUT the good news is that you do get a chance to resign all these guys during the FA resigning period before they hit the open market. Not ideal if someone is in for an early, big pay day but given Madden... could be worse![/QUOTE]

Ya this is what I was talking about, you get a chance to resign everyone that has their contract expiring. As the Vikings last year, my roster afterwards was like 35 players, almost my whole team left lol. Of course I had no money to spend...(stupid AP trade)
 
[quote name='shotgunshine']Christ...this was the first Madden i've bought in several years and it'll probably be several more before I get the next one. I picked it up this year because of the new engine, and while it's promising, there are too many things broken and exploits that you can take advantage of. That's just the gameplay side of things...then you have this problem with the contracts and no telling what else...the EA Madden website having a terrible design and is just overall annoying to use.

I honestly might just take a hiatus from the league. Everyone i've played with has been great but this game finds ways to make you not want to play anymore.[/QUOTE]

I bet you can't wait for that first EA UFC game now, huh? lol ;)

[quote name='ubernes']Madden actually has a day for this already. Before there's the free for all, there is a day or maybe 2? where you can sign or franchise any one going to be a free agent. As I said above, it sucks EA messed this up but nothing crazy bad because you will get that exclusive chance to resign those guys first.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, except that doesn't address the issue of so many contracts coming off the books at the same time. From what I'm seeing, it looks like there are contracts that SHOULD expire this year and then additionally, contracts that shouldn't be expiring. So, you're having to assign money (and most likely give raises) to players who should still be locked up...thus taking away funds for players who actually should be free agents. This is how you end up with more players to re-sign than you have cap room for. All these contracts shouldn't be expiring at the same time. I just don't understand how they screw something like this up. This isn't physics or programming limitations. It's basic "pay the fuck attention to your job" skill level. It's unbelievable that they can't get simple things like numbers right. Yes, we can deal with it...but you can eat a shit sandwich and call it "lunch" too, lol.
 
I would like to look into trading for a tight end and maybe a wide receiver. I might also be looking for a safety depending on Reeds retirement status. Send me a PM with players you might be interested in and I will see what I can come up with. I may be willing to include draft picks also. I believe I have a top 5 pick. Future draft picks may also be available.
 
Just wanted to make an official statement on this because I know DVO and Gpninja were revving up for it..but free agency WILL NOT be a free for all immediately once the offseason starts. Considering all these contract issues among other things, NO ONE should be making any moves until directed to do so.
 
In the other league, the people who suffered from it the most were the ones who didn't even bother to check their FAs. Hopefully since you guys have a heads up and will be more informed, you'll be able to mitigate the damage better than we were.
 
I don't see what's the problem with the contracts. They didn't want to sign so your losing them! Simple as that lol
 
I agree, you still have the opportunity to resign them before anyone, the only one who can screw that up is yourself. Anyone I plan on keeping I am going to make sure to pay...
 
[quote name='Blade3D']I agree, you still have the opportunity to resign them before anyone, the only one who can screw that up is yourself. Anyone I plan on keeping I am going to make sure to pay...[/QUOTE]
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