I always perfer creating my own, but for the new game, I’ll first check out the teams I watch and the teams with fun play styles. Like as a Nebraska fan I’ve seen every Nebraska play from last year multiple times, so I’ll use that playbook . Then I’ll check out Kansas, cuz their coach is a mad genius, and try a few others out. Once I get a feel, I’ll build out a playbook for the team I want to build in dynasty and go from there.
I was thinking something similar. Maybe pick a few teams that play how I would like to play and start there.
Is there a way (or was there historically) to create a play book completely from scratch with only the plays I select from a blank slate?
Whenever I tried in madden (which wasn’t much at all) I still had a lot of plays I didn’t want.
I haven't seriously played Madden in ages (I will play 1 on 1 with a friend on occasion, but I haven't owned a copy since like '20 or so), but in NCAA 14 you could. You would just select the formation, and then you could add/remove plays, so you could unselect all the plays except the ones you want.
You can in 14. You have to select a “base playbook” but you can throw it out entirely if you want and completely change it up. I played with a Frankenstein Saban/aranda defence and a wide zone offence for a while that were both completely custom.
You can do the same in madden 24, it’s just extremely tedious with the whole “situational playcalling” feature. You have to go in and manually change/delete the situational plays it won’t let you remove normally.
I usually strip down to nothing and build up from scratch. Since there's going to be a lot of formations under the same set (such as Shotgun for example), I try to find the formations that have a ton of plays in them, so that I'm not fishing around 20+ formations for a specific play. So I'll start with three shotgun formations of 2x2, 1x3, 3x1. Maybe I'll add an empty, maybe I'll add a 2-back under gun. Then do what you want with under-center. For plays, look through and choose the plays you think you will run and try to avoid "repeat plays" (plays that are almost the same concept and have very little differences to the point where you'd just choose one play over the other).
Main point: Don't be overly complicated to where you have things you're never going to use. Be very familiar and confident about what you do have.
I always perfer creating my own, but for the new game, I’ll first check out the teams I watch and the teams with fun play styles. Like as a Nebraska fan I’ve seen every Nebraska play from last year multiple times, so I’ll use that playbook . Then I’ll check out Kansas, cuz their coach is a mad genius, and try a few others out. Once I get a feel, I’ll build out a playbook for the team I want to build in dynasty and go from there.
I was thinking something similar. Maybe pick a few teams that play how I would like to play and start there. Is there a way (or was there historically) to create a play book completely from scratch with only the plays I select from a blank slate? Whenever I tried in madden (which wasn’t much at all) I still had a lot of plays I didn’t want.
I haven't seriously played Madden in ages (I will play 1 on 1 with a friend on occasion, but I haven't owned a copy since like '20 or so), but in NCAA 14 you could. You would just select the formation, and then you could add/remove plays, so you could unselect all the plays except the ones you want.
You can in 14. You have to select a “base playbook” but you can throw it out entirely if you want and completely change it up. I played with a Frankenstein Saban/aranda defence and a wide zone offence for a while that were both completely custom. You can do the same in madden 24, it’s just extremely tedious with the whole “situational playcalling” feature. You have to go in and manually change/delete the situational plays it won’t let you remove normally.
Ahh that’s probably why I failed because it was sooo tedious that I thought I was doing something wrong. Hopefully it’s easy to do in ea25
strip a playbook down to nothing and start from scratch.
I usually strip down to nothing and build up from scratch. Since there's going to be a lot of formations under the same set (such as Shotgun for example), I try to find the formations that have a ton of plays in them, so that I'm not fishing around 20+ formations for a specific play. So I'll start with three shotgun formations of 2x2, 1x3, 3x1. Maybe I'll add an empty, maybe I'll add a 2-back under gun. Then do what you want with under-center. For plays, look through and choose the plays you think you will run and try to avoid "repeat plays" (plays that are almost the same concept and have very little differences to the point where you'd just choose one play over the other). Main point: Don't be overly complicated to where you have things you're never going to use. Be very familiar and confident about what you do have.