GWJ MADDEN 11 LEAGUE 2.0 (XBOX 360) WEEK 10-11

LEAGUE RULES

TRADE/FREE AGENT RULES:

1) Trades: Both teams must post the agreed trade in the weekly thread. I will then examine the trade, and if I think it is an unfair trade, I will veto. If both teams would like to "challenge" my veto, we will hold a league vote, and I will need 2/3 majority to overturn my veto by the end of the sim period. If I am involved in a trade, Zellbridge will act as commissioner, and examine the trade, and we will follow the same path. If Zell and I trade, it will automatically be put to league vote. If a trade is approved by the league, it will be processed directly after the league is simmed. Week 6 trades, it will be processed right before the sim, since that is the deadline.

PROPER TRADE REQUEST FORMAT:
Team: (Your Team Name)
Request: Trade with (Team you are trading with)
(Team) Gets:
Player A- Position, Rating
Player B- Position, Rating
Player C- Position, Rating

(Team) Gets:
Player A- Position, Rating
Player B- Position, Rating
Player C- Position, Rating

In the situation of a Human/CPU trade the league will decide if the trade is fair. All that is needed to pass a trade is a MAJORITY votes for Yes.

During the Season Free Agency Will Look Like this:

Free Agent Pickups: Any player who is out for 3 or more weeks, may be replaced by a free agent. You must pick up a free agent from the same position. Only exceptions are if the free agent would be used in another capacity, and please explain that in your FA request post (IE- Your tight end gets hurt, but you want to replace him with a WR, because he is your 4th string WR, then you may pick up a WR). ZelbrigeN will gather and evaluate all free agent requests, and on about the last day of the sim period, he will send me a PM with all free agent requests. After the week gets simmed, I will process all free agent pickups, so NO ONE should be touching the free agents, regardless of the situation.

PROPER FREE AGENT REQUEST FORMAT:
Team: (Your Team Name)
Request: Free Agent Pickup
Injured Player: (Name- Position, Injury Length)
Adding Player: (Name- Position)
Dropping Player: (Name- Position)

Up til week one you will have the opportunity to balance your team through FA. Pick up people where you need depth or where you want to. You are in Control. Now this is something also I would like to throw out there. You don't need to replace the position with the position lost. Hence you are happy with your back ups for the position lost but still feel like you need to drop a player. Or better yet just want to drop a player due to lack of production.

Rolling Schedule

5 Day schedule to get in Regular Season Games from when the league is rolled. The League Roll Date is the Date the Forum is Created for the Next Week. If there are games yet to be played after the 5 day period those players will have a 24 hour window to get games completed. Now I will make exceptions if both parties are trying to get it together and its just not happening. If you aren't playing a Human opponent there really isn't an excuse why you would be the last player to play

Roll date is Tuesday...game schedule will be put up as soon as my comp starts working

Bills win btw

Omega Girr wrote:

Gosh man why do i have to play spy 2 times in a 3 week period lol. 10 pm friday sound good to you spy?

I won't be back in town until late Monday. Can you support a Tuesday game?

more than likely i will be able to play. shoot for 9pm tuesday then?

Lions embarrass Chicago at home.

I managed to win despite throwing 6 interceptions, got to love Mendenhall.

Omega Girr wrote:

more than likely i will be able to play. shoot for 9pm tuesday then?

Works for me. Thanks for delaying.

Glad to see games are getting done

game complete...I got my FB back...it makes a difference...beat the Cards 80-0.

Confirming my 9 pm appointment with spy tonight.

League the simmer after your game I am planning...have to look to see if other teams have not played

Omega Girr wrote:

Confirming my 9 pm appointment with spy tonight.

We have a date.

i am dropping the league good luck to all.

Game played.

Omega Girr wrote:

i am dropping the league good luck to all.

how come?

lol, he played Spy. He seems to have that affect on everyone.

Leroyog wrote:

lol, he played Spy. He seems to have that affect on everyone. :P

Yep seems that way. I have won my fair share. I don't mind leaving the league so that folks don't quit or get frustrated. I got destroyed the other night by a pubbie so I understand the frustration factor. NCAA 12 will be out next week, so I have a whole new game to learn and play around with. Hopefully, some folks will rejoin if I am not playing.

I managed to play him and not get annoyed. Well not any more annoyed than I do when playing any human on this game anyway.

I just say we up the skill level to all madden...prevent mass blow outs....people are coming back for 12 don't worry

May i make a comment about the league even thourgh as of now im sitting on the sidelines. I feel that the league has it advantages and that is the chance to play as the team you choose to play as and to get your games in a timely fashion. I do feel that some things might need to be address so that the league wont lose it flavor or substances.
For starters i feel that instead of 7 minutes that the quarters should go down to 6 minutes quarters. Also that games should be play with in a 24 to 48 hour time frame. Regaurdless if it either a human or computer opponet. The league should at least be playing 2 to 3 games a week. Yes i know we have jobs and responablities but we should be able to get our games in to show our commitment to the league. Also there is always one that shine above everyone else no matter what league you happen to be in. In this league not to slight anyone that is SPYNAVY give credit where credit is due. But to not continue to go practice or to run away from the challenge is just plain wrong. Isnt that why we play the game to be the best that we can be or we play just to have something to do. I feel that the league should stay as is and keep the setting on all-pro but there should be a sportsman rule if you are ahead of your opponet by 4 touchdowns in the second half you should pull your starters and run a basic offense to finish out the game. Look i get it you play to win the game but if you are ahead by that much you dont have to keep rubbing it in. Inclosinbg after each season it should be like a team draft and the winner of the superbowl and orthers base on records should pick teams and sometimes change division to keep things interesting and continue to keep the fire alive for as long as you can. This was just a thought from me and im hoping i can spark conversation one way or another. All the best Guys peace ALC

I like the slower pace myself. 8-10 teams is perfect.

So Leroyog you like the number of players that are now with in the league at this moment. You wouldnt want a few more players to test your skill or to build the gamers madden communty. I get not having a 32 players league but maybe 12 or no more than 16 would be interesting or at least 10 players that play their games and compete on the highest level.
What did you think about the ideal of having a team draft after the superbowl winner has been crown. Where you have a chance to pick a new team base on your record from the season you just completed Thus giving you new life and a chance to showcase your skill with a differnt team and style and playbook. What you think about that and also would you want the settings to change from all-pro to all-madden?

I'm not sure if you can in Madden but in NCAA you can customize your non-conference schedule. In NCAA 12, you will be able to customer the conference so that will be even better. I enjoy the head to head games myself. But I also like playing games and having too many(like when this league started) can slow things down to a crawl.

I find the team draft is an interesting concept...only problem there is; is for people who start with a lower team and build it to be an elite team...I personally do not think they would have to change teams...it is an interesting concept though. The reason why I said All Madden is because I was noticing the difference in score for the Comp vs Human keeps getting greater apart. I would like to have at least 16 teams because of the greater chance to have a head to head game. I like the 4 day play period and then roll on the 5th without question...simply because you have to play and if you don't it gets simmed. Thanks for the input ALC.

ALC wrote:

May i make a comment about the league even thourgh as of now im sitting on the sidelines. I feel that the league has it advantages and that is the chance to play as the team you choose to play as and to get your games in a timely fashion. I do feel that some things might need to be address so that the league wont lose it flavor or substances.
For starters i feel that instead of 7 minutes that the quarters should go down to 6 minutes quarters. Also that games should be play with in a 24 to 48 hour time frame. Regaurdless if it either a human or computer opponet. The league should at least be playing 2 to 3 games a week. Yes i know we have jobs and responablities but we should be able to get our games in to show our commitment to the league. Also there is always one that shine above everyone else no matter what league you happen to be in. In this league not to slight anyone that is SPYNAVY give credit where credit is due. But to not continue to go practice or to run away from the challenge is just plain wrong. Isnt that why we play the game to be the best that we can be or we play just to have something to do. I feel that the league should stay as is and keep the setting on all-pro but there should be a sportsman rule if you are ahead of your opponet by 4 touchdowns in the second half you should pull your starters and run a basic offense to finish out the game. Look i get it you play to win the game but if you are ahead by that much you dont have to keep rubbing it in. Inclosinbg after each season it should be like a team draft and the winner of the superbowl and orthers base on records should pick teams and sometimes change division to keep things interesting and continue to keep the fire alive for as long as you can. This was just a thought from me and im hoping i can spark conversation one way or another. All the best Guys peace ALC

ALC wrote:

So Leroyog you like the number of players that are now with in the league at this moment. You wouldnt want a few more players to test your skill or to build the gamers madden communty. I get not having a 32 players league but maybe 12 or no more than 16 would be interesting or at least 10 players that play their games and compete on the highest level.
What did you think about the ideal of having a team draft after the superbowl winner has been crown. Where you have a chance to pick a new team base on your record from the season you just completed Thus giving you new life and a chance to showcase your skill with a differnt team and style and playbook. What you think about that and also would you want the settings to change from all-pro to all-madden?

Unfortuenently you can't customize anything other than the basic game info like skill play time of quarters yaddyadda...

Leroyog wrote:

I'm not sure if you can in Madden but in NCAA you can customize your non-conference schedule. In NCAA 12, you will be able to customer the conference so that will be even better. I enjoy the head to head games myself. But I also like playing games and having too many(like when this league started) can slow things down to a crawl.

Thank ya for answering my post but as for those that continue to work with there team after building it they would pull their name out of the hat or just repick their team. But it would give the players a chance to work with the differnt players they may have want to work with and see if their skills can translate to that team. Also it would just give them a chance to work with differnt playbooks so they dont get predictable. I think that guys look at the cpu games and just dogg them out you have to rework your mind set when you play an human opponet and be ready for anything. That what leagues are for to play as the team you want or root for and to take your game to a higher level. But i do feel that the sportsman rule should be enforce there is no way you up by 40 points should you be running the 2 minute offense and throwing bombs just to padd stats that plain wrong. We all have to start from somewhere just to dogg a guy out just isnt correct. Any and every one is welcome to comment on this and i do hope that lets ya know i enjoy the league. I just hope this open up talk and ideals to help make the league better and good for all. Peace ALC

Ok well I forgot to mention the sim date so happy playing! The sim date is wednesday enjoy

Is BIG Sergio still playing? I haven't seen him post.

Indiana0210 wrote:

Ok well I forgot to mention the sim date so happy playing! The sim date is wednesday enjoy

sh*t...I lost Frisch for the season

ALC wrote:

Also that games should be play with in a 24 to 48 hour time frame. Regaurdless if it either a human or computer opponet. The league should at least be playing 2 to 3 games a week. Yes i know we have jobs and responablities but we should be able to get our games in to show our commitment to the league.

I know I don't play in the Madden league, but this is the polar opposite of what I want out of a GWJ league. The main reason I enjoy playing with folks here is that we adults with far more important things to do than play games. But we love them, so we make time, and understand when other stuff takes us away.

Tb be honest, this is exactly why I bailed on the Madden league in the first place. Far too many Madden guys have come in that have no attachment to the community, and instead of fitting in, they try to make this league more like all of the other leagues many of us tried to avoid in the first place.

If I wanted more dedicated leagues, they are easy to find. But they are also annoying and filled with kids I don't want to play. They also churn through members and have no real sense of camaraderie. The drive to fill the league brought in plenty of guys in the madden league I would never play against. The small size of the NCAA leagues allowed us to focus on guys from the community much more, and there was less drive to lure in players just to fill slots.

I thought I would chime in, as I think we may finally be getting enough sports gamers on the boards to maybe have some good leagues. But I'd sure like them to have more Goodjer flavor than the riff-raff I can find anytime over at Operation Sports.

That's just my 2 cents.

So let me understand this JAYHawker you are ok that it takes a guy dam near a week to play his game against the computer. Or dosnt say nothing dont try to get intouch with his human opponet and leave the league in limbo and then gets piss when the league decide to let the week play out. Yes we all have been in league that get carry away and seem to move to fast and take the fun out of playing games. But as a madden player you should want to meet the challenge that is why you compete. I dont have problem with the way the league is set up but lets face facts playing the cpu shouldnt take 3-4 days to do. Now a 24 to 48 hour window to play a human opponet shouldnt be a problem. At this rate it will take dam near 4 months to play a season none less the playoffs. That makes you think that with that long period guys dropping out which hurts the league. I just think something need to either be suggest or atleast brought up to see if things can be better for madden 12. Ideals dosnt hurt sometime they help and if it can help the league remain competitve then isnt that what we all want. Thanks ALC