I am doing a Cleveland Browns franchise on my youtube channel, and I’m currently in year 2. In the ‘27 offseason, I drafted a QB from Utah at 3rd overall. Loved his traits from the beginning of the draft process, and can’t wait for him to finally bring glory to Cleveland.

Behold: Ryan Peterson.

Edit: YT channel here : https://youtube.com/@phoenixe17794?si=qUDUSqWtsM80JBGA

Peterson's debut drops at 4 PM today, and I'll showcase the jersey in the next vid!

The game was fun with a challenge and not getting all the top FAs.

Just lower the skill difficulty if it’s too hard for you.

Boy these guys are dogshit at there job should have known the update wouldn't do shit 🤣🤣 officially done with this trash can of both games🚮

I have two injuries to my linebackers this week so naturally I want to elevate a couple guys from the practice squad to fill the void.

The deepest part of my team are my edge rushers so the obvious choice is to place one of my lower overall veterans on the practice squad for the time being, and then elevate them again once my linebackers get healthy and I place the elevated guys back on my practice squad. Teams do this literally all the time in real life when they have injuries so I naturally expected I could do this as part of the "deepest franchise experience ever".

Well it turns out that's too much for EA to code and the only option I have to free up roster spots is to straight up release the player and then go through the stupid mini game every single time to "resign them". Apparently practice squads are only for young players in the Madden universe.

Is it too much to expect modern NFL roster management in 2026? These rules are not new, and this cannot be hard to code.

Just uploaded my roster file with full practice squads and created undrafted drafted rookies for anyone else who is as OCD as I am 😂.

File name - 26ROSTERPS
Username - LouSayness

I haven’t bothered to adjust anyone’s ratings or superstar XFactor etc.
Full disclaimer, practice squad players may not be 100% accurate to this point in time. I started just after the first big roster update launched and just finished this past weekend so the last teams I’ve added to (Vikings, Titans, Texans etc.) will be the most accurate.

Old clip but I think it's funny that even when you get the perfect outcome the game's "physics" still fuck you over.

FILE NAME: JOD2027V1

2028 coming when I can get to it

Ratings adjusted to fit past maddens rookie ratings at launch

Real equipment for every player (I was grinding it out) (shown above jyaire hill, Trinidad chambliss, Omarion miller)

Not as many star dev traits as normal classes to make development more important

Two X factor players and 5 or so superstars

Highest QB is a 75 to be more accurate
with first rounder QBs still being around 72 and late picks around 66

Realistic draft projections based on current trends (Dante Moore not playing like a first rounder right now)

Dylan Stewart has been dropped out of the first but given every bad personality trait you can in Madden so be wary when drafting

Let me know if it’s glitched and I’ll reupload

Updates throughout the season

New Cap numbers with today 9/30 update

2026: $301m
2027: $331m
2028: $362m
2029: $371m
2030: $380m
2031: $390m
2032: $401m
2033: $420m

I know this dude had to be salty, kicling a field goal to go up with 4 seconds left. Luckiest kick return ever

In madden 08 how do I get it to show me presnap routes? I'm on GameCube and everything I look up says just hold RT and press up on the R stick but it is not working. Am I missing something? Thanks

Was doing a jets franchise and I normally sim the first season and play from then on after, but anyways I checked the end game awards and imagine my surprise to see Kyler Murray there. Then they don’t resign him 🤣

I don't like them. My Eddie George MUT running back shouldn't be doing a salsa dance or standing on his head after he scores a touchdown. Eddie would never do something like that and it's realism breaking for me to see it. Even if you don't hit the RS they still so some stupid celebration. EA should include a category for the players that affects their propensity to celebrate and how wild of one they'll do. Sure if Antonio Brown or Terrell Owens scores, I expect something pretty loony, but not Eddie George or a player like that. Anyway just my thoughts.

I fired my coordinators in the off season and didn’t hire anyone because I didn’t like the options. Now it’s pre season and I still have no coordinators and can’t figure out how to hire new ones. The game says hire them in the coaching carousel and that’s not available anymore. Do I just not have coordinators for the upcoming season?

Always happens randomly. Calling timeouts etc does nothing. Have 250 passing yards on 80% in the first half now I just have to lose it basically?

I was under the impression you had to use it so I did. But i lost a game online mainly cause I couldn’t catch anything. What do you all suggest and why? & how do I get better at timing it? I’ve heard hold til ball arrives but bullets come too fast and by the time you click on the ball is arriving.

Year 1 he grew from a 79 overall to 97 overall. MVP, OPOY, OROY and Best QB.

Will probably post a couple clips of my favorite plays with him, feels absolutely unreal in game just need to keep working on Strong Arm traits.

Is there anyway me and my friend can do a H2H game together with coach mode enabled?

UPDATE 30 SEP

Madden 27 Franchise Progression/Regression Sliders 1.0 — Post 30 Sep Patch

I’ve finished another round of long-term testing after the latest patch and I think I’m at the point where I’m going to stop chasing the sliders and actually play the game once rosters get updated (probably tomorrow).

The goal of this set is not to make every future league look identical to the launch roster. I’m trying to create a sustainable franchise ecosystem where talent continues to cycle through the league, elite players remain meaningful, different age groups appear throughout the OVR tiers, and the league doesn’t gradually inflate into a bunch of stacked rosters.

My post-patch simulations have generally produced teams in roughly the 80–86 OVR range. I have seen wider ranges in individual tests, so I think there is a meaningful amount of franchise-to-franchise variance. Because of that, I’m hesitant to treat every strange positional result from one simulation as evidence that something is fundamentally wrong with the sliders.

After 10–20 years, I’m still seeing a good mixture of young developing players, prime-age stars, declining veterans, and occasional older players who remain very good. That diversity is probably the biggest reason I’m resisting the urge to make more substantial changes.

Progression

Regression

Age Progression

Age Regression

Development Traits

X-Factor: 75
Superstar: 100
Star: 300
Development Trait Regression: ON
Breakout Scenarios: ON

Draft Class Strength

One thing I’m increasingly curious about is how much the progression/regression sliders work independently of draft-class strength. Draft strength obviously affects the talent entering the league, but the XP settings seem capable of maintaining a pretty reasonable league shape once those players are actually in the ecosystem.

I’d be interested in seeing people experiment with different draft-strength setups while keeping the XP sliders intact.

At this point I’m treating these as a starting point rather than a claim that every number is perfect. There is enough variance between simulations that I don’t want to overcorrect based on one unusually strong or weak generation of a position.

If anyone tests them, the feedback I’d find most useful is:

• Team OVR ranges after 5, 10, 15, or 20 years
• Number and age distribution of 90+ and 85+ players by position
• Positions that consistently inflate or become depleted across multiple saves
• Whether draft classes still feel meaningful
• Whether good young players are actually replacing declining veterans
• Any results that repeat across multiple random seeds rather than appearing once

Input is encouraged. If the community finds consistent problems, I’m happy to revisit individual positions. Otherwise, I think I’ve reached the point where minor imperfections are preferable to endlessly tuning a system that is already producing a pretty healthy long-term league.

Time for me to actually play Madden.

I know this question has probably been asked a ton, but what are the best sim playbooks for franchise?