Ben Breeck
10-01-2002, 12:45 AM
Create-A-Mascot, or bum a real one for your created school. Make Cy The Cardinal the Illinois State Redbird, Colonel Reb stand in for Hey Reb, or the Hairy Dawg dance for Gonzaga, Georgetown, or Boston State.
Create-A-Bowl, complete with logo and set of sponsors.
More Created Schools names and nickname components pronounced by the announcing team. All States of the Union, plus Tech, State, A&M, and all directions, as well as all the player names pronounced by Nessler, and all hometowns in the recriuting database. Example: "We're live here in Frankfort, Kentucky, and we've got one heck of a football rivalry matchup between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Kentucky State Thoroughbreds..."
A greater veriety of stadium templates and backdrops, including single sided stadums, L shapes, Fieldhouse Types (like Idaho) and the ability to orient the horsehoe any way they please and delete the second grandstand. Also the ability to choose between H shaped and Y shaped uprights.
All Division 1AA Schools.
There should be a choice of three choices for postseason play:
Classic, in which the BCS is present, but all conferences and independents get a shot at BCS bowls, if they're good enough, lucky enough, and have enough of a schedule,
Realistic: in which the Sun Belt, MAC, Mountain West, WAC, and all independants except Notre Dame are shut out of the BCS bowls no matter how well they play and who they schedule.
Playoffs: 12 or 16 team tournament at randomly selected Bowl venues starting the the week after the Army-Navy game. 11 conference camps plus 1 or 5 at-large bids chosen by what would have been their place in the BCS. If the conference champ has a losing or tying record, the playoff berth goes to the next ranked team in the conference. If no one in a given conference has a winning record, that bid becomes another at large bid. In a 12 team format, the top four seeds get a bye.
Up to four possible uniform selections for created teams, and three created uniforms for existing teams (put them in the roster files)
Create-a-Playbood and Plays, include provisions for option passes(I love those), tight end and wide reciever reverses, direct hikes to a runningback,Runningback Passes (Especially in conjunctiion with a direct snap) a less arcane man-to-man coverage system, (Cover Out, Cover Slot(or inside twin reciever), Cover 5th Reciever(or Trips Third reciever), Cover Tight End or Wingback, Cover Halfback, or cover Fullback, rather than this cover #1 or #2 stuff in the Madden Play Editor), plus blitzing assigments (have a linebacker or safety blitz the halfback or fullback, if you know it will be a toss, handoff, or direct snap, just watchout for play-action) bluff cheats (Safetys and/or cornerbacks cheat forward and over to the line, then drop back to coverage after the snap), real cheats, and cold blitzes (Without Cheating) Fake special teams plays, Route Based Blocking, and so on. If it's legal, we should be able to draw it up and call it.
More options for Hot Routes and Hot Blitz assignments.
Ask the Coach on defensive situations, with more explanation for the reasoning behind a given formation and play than Madden gives.
More Mascots, More Mascot Teams, and bring back the fantasy teams, all 10 of them from 2001, plus classic teams from specific years, I'd say championship teams from all years since the Division 1A/1AA split and their bowl opponents.
No more Robo Quarterback or Robo Runningback except on Heisman.
No more Comeback Logic except in Bowl Games, Rivalry Games, and on Heisman.
Make the CPU Coaching be a factor. If I am facing, say, Bobby Bowden, when he takes a job at Louisianna-Laffyette, and I am coaching LSU, I expect the play on the field to be substandard, but the playcalling to be otherwise on the money. This does not mean that the CPU peaks at my play choice, of course, but still.
Genuinely new cheat cards, not old cards with new names and pictures.
Create-A-Bowl, complete with logo and set of sponsors.
More Created Schools names and nickname components pronounced by the announcing team. All States of the Union, plus Tech, State, A&M, and all directions, as well as all the player names pronounced by Nessler, and all hometowns in the recriuting database. Example: "We're live here in Frankfort, Kentucky, and we've got one heck of a football rivalry matchup between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Kentucky State Thoroughbreds..."
A greater veriety of stadium templates and backdrops, including single sided stadums, L shapes, Fieldhouse Types (like Idaho) and the ability to orient the horsehoe any way they please and delete the second grandstand. Also the ability to choose between H shaped and Y shaped uprights.
All Division 1AA Schools.
There should be a choice of three choices for postseason play:
Classic, in which the BCS is present, but all conferences and independents get a shot at BCS bowls, if they're good enough, lucky enough, and have enough of a schedule,
Realistic: in which the Sun Belt, MAC, Mountain West, WAC, and all independants except Notre Dame are shut out of the BCS bowls no matter how well they play and who they schedule.
Playoffs: 12 or 16 team tournament at randomly selected Bowl venues starting the the week after the Army-Navy game. 11 conference camps plus 1 or 5 at-large bids chosen by what would have been their place in the BCS. If the conference champ has a losing or tying record, the playoff berth goes to the next ranked team in the conference. If no one in a given conference has a winning record, that bid becomes another at large bid. In a 12 team format, the top four seeds get a bye.
Up to four possible uniform selections for created teams, and three created uniforms for existing teams (put them in the roster files)
Create-a-Playbood and Plays, include provisions for option passes(I love those), tight end and wide reciever reverses, direct hikes to a runningback,Runningback Passes (Especially in conjunctiion with a direct snap) a less arcane man-to-man coverage system, (Cover Out, Cover Slot(or inside twin reciever), Cover 5th Reciever(or Trips Third reciever), Cover Tight End or Wingback, Cover Halfback, or cover Fullback, rather than this cover #1 or #2 stuff in the Madden Play Editor), plus blitzing assigments (have a linebacker or safety blitz the halfback or fullback, if you know it will be a toss, handoff, or direct snap, just watchout for play-action) bluff cheats (Safetys and/or cornerbacks cheat forward and over to the line, then drop back to coverage after the snap), real cheats, and cold blitzes (Without Cheating) Fake special teams plays, Route Based Blocking, and so on. If it's legal, we should be able to draw it up and call it.
More options for Hot Routes and Hot Blitz assignments.
Ask the Coach on defensive situations, with more explanation for the reasoning behind a given formation and play than Madden gives.
More Mascots, More Mascot Teams, and bring back the fantasy teams, all 10 of them from 2001, plus classic teams from specific years, I'd say championship teams from all years since the Division 1A/1AA split and their bowl opponents.
No more Robo Quarterback or Robo Runningback except on Heisman.
No more Comeback Logic except in Bowl Games, Rivalry Games, and on Heisman.
Make the CPU Coaching be a factor. If I am facing, say, Bobby Bowden, when he takes a job at Louisianna-Laffyette, and I am coaching LSU, I expect the play on the field to be substandard, but the playcalling to be otherwise on the money. This does not mean that the CPU peaks at my play choice, of course, but still.
Genuinely new cheat cards, not old cards with new names and pictures.