Season 1 Playoffs

The PS3 playoffs were fun to see.  I had a BYE in the Wild Card because my opponent was inactive and I was matched up with Jerms311 who destroyed me.  Sabotage, who was the player of the year, advanced to the conference championship as well.  Titansooners, who was fairly new to the league come playoff time, was able to make it to the playoffs and making it to the conference championships.  Mafiahero had a BYE in the first round and a BYE in the second round because his opponent was inactive.  He lost to Titansooners leading to a Superbowl between Titansooners and Jerms311.  They both played a good game but Titansooners came out with the victory winning 21-19.  We see potential in Titansooners throughout the existence of the TMFL and we hope to have him for many seasons to come.   Congratulations to Titansooners!*

New Requirement in the League

In order to help improve the communication of all our members in the league, we will be requiring that you use your AIM account.  There are many active players that are always on their AIM account looking for people who want to play their games.  Be sure to place your AIM Screename on your leaguedaddy profile and even your forum profile to make it easier to find your AIM account.  If your originally signed up to the league and said you didn’t have an AIM account, create one and notify me by E-Mail, PM, and even using AIM.  You can download AIM for free here.  If you don’t want to download and install software to your computer, you can use these in-browser alternatives:

AIM Express

Meebo

You can also find other ones, but those are, in my opinion, the best.  Those will work in your internet browser.

*titansooners quit after being blown out against Rainx909

In an interview with Gamespot.com, Josh Looman introduces “Madden Ultimate Team” and talks about some of the features it will have.  Here is a summary of it:

“Madden Ultimate Team” will be a brand new premium downloadable content that will be absolutely free to play.  You earn coins by playing games then you can buy packs or bid on cards in an eBay like style.  It’s a full feature in Madden such as Franchise and Superstar mode.  You will first name your team then go through a tutorial.  You will be given a starter pack with basic players.  You play to earn coins to buy better players and get a better team.  This will also include players where they were best known at, such as Brett Favre at Green Bay and Randy Moss at Minnesota but very hard to find in packs. There are also stadium, playbook, uniform cards, and injury cards to help you heal your players.  There is also other features such as length of contract, chemistry, and many new features.  This feature will be released around the holidays this year.

Here is a video on the new feature:

I at first thought that this would be another attempt to make money, but when I realized it’s free, I know that this is actually for our enjoyment.  I like what EA is doing with this, adding a new feature to the game.  I can already think of ways we can do tournaments here at Maddenholics.com with Madden Ultimate Team.  Should be a fun feature.

This play is taken from the Madden Federation and will now be enforced in our league.  If you have any comments and/or questions, please say so now.

The end of season 1 is approaching and many of you are left wondering if you’re going to make the playoffs.  We can’t obviously require you to complete all your games in order to make the playoffs since that’s of course not going to happen.  We have decided that we will approach the playoffs by admitting the most active players in the league.  This will help thank the players that have worked their butts off trying to compete their league games.  If someone finished 4-12, it would be better than a 9-0 record with the method that we’re using.  Right now, if the playoffs were to start as of today.  The TMFL-PS3 AFC playoffs would look like this:

1. Denver Broncos
2. Houston Texans
3. Miami Dolphins
4. Pittsburgh Steelers
5. Oakland Raiders
6. San Diego Chargers

If you check the standings at the leaguedaddy page for the PS3 league, you will see that the Steelers have horrible records (no offense).  They will make the playoffs because of their efforts in the league.  If you have any suggestions or comments, please say so.

Season 2 Draft

The TMFL uses default rosters.  There are many complaints that this isn’t really fair for the Detroit Lions owner.  We have to do our best to keep it fair.  We will be drafting teams for Season 2 and every season after that.  The people with high draft picks will be the most active as well.  The worst out of the most active will choose first obviously, then going to those who are better and active.  Inactive people will get to choose afterwards.  It’s another way to thank the active members in our league.  If I had to do the list for the draft right now, the first 5 picks would be:

1. Oakland Raiders
2. Pittsburgh Steelers
3. San Diego Chargers
4. Denver Broncos
5. Miami Dolphins

Once again, you can see that the active people get a high draft pick.  The Denver Broncos, despite being top seed at the moment, will have a high draft pick due to their activity in the league.  If you have any suggestions or comments, please say so.

Looking for Blog Writers

If you’re interested in writing for the TMFL’s blog, please contact me and we’ll get you in the blog.  Thanks for all the support everyone!

Even though EA said that the CPU would be able to adjust to your gameplay making money plays almost impossible, versuz2 show’s us otherwise.

This video is more positive than most of the other videos.  It shows how Pro is the most realistic setting in Madden this year.  The players are a lot smarter on the offensive side of the football.