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No Cap in Started
Franchise
To turn off the cap in a franchise you already have started get your
team extremely close to the salary cap (100k to 0k works for me) but
you have to be missing a player you need (ex. have only 4 WR) then try
to go to a regular or pre-season game it will say something to the
effect of "You need a WR" then give you a choice to sign one
or have the CPU sign it, choose CPU. Then it will pause for a second
and say "no cap room choose cancel to sign player yourself or
choose ok to turn off salary cap permanently. "Its that simple
warning though this will turn off owner mode for good
Get #1,2,3 Overall Picks
in the Draft
If you are the #1 ranked team at the end of the season, you can trade
your draft picks to get #1,2,3 overall picks. (It doesn't work unless
you are the #1 ranked team) First of all, start the owners mode with the
trade deadline mode turned OFF. After being the #1 ranked team after
the season is done, check the standing and find out which 3 teams have
the very worst standing. Before the playoff starts, trade your #1 draft
pick for the #1,2, and 3 draft pick of the worst team. Believe it or
not, they will APPROVE!!! Then trade YOUR TEAM'S #2,3, and 4 pick for
the #1,2, and #5 pick of the 2nd worst team. Then trade the #2,2, and 3
pick for the #1 pick of the 3rd worst team. Now you should have three
#1 round pick from the three teams, and #5,5,6,7 of your own picks. Not
bad huh??? You can build a dynasty or trade your picks for marquee
players!!!
Game Strategy Players
Become Coaches
Great players that retire in franchise mode can come back to be
coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and
he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an
assistant or head coach.
Get more fans in
stadium
On create a stadium make everything except for one or two luxury boxes
and press boxes to get more money in owner mode
Help Lower Salary Cap
(in franchise mode)
To help lower the salary cap,when you sign people sign them for 7
years and raise the signing bonus, it will raise your cap until a
certain point then will lower it,raise it to the point when it gives
you the most cap and there ya go as Madden himself would say BOOM
Get Cheerleader/Pump up the crowd card
Go to mini camp and beat the game situation. You will get a cheerleader card equal to the team you beat the challenge with
Mini Camp Cards
Get a gold on the different difficulty levels in all the mini camp challenges to unlock cards
Two-Minute Drill points
Accomplishment Points
Go out of bounds on a play with positive yards 50 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 21 on a 30+ yard completion 100
pts
4-yard run (or more) 100 pts
First Down 100 pts
10-yard completion (or more) 100 pts
Extra Point 150 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 16 on a 25+ yard run 200 pts
Special bonus for every Field Goal 3 yards past 41 yards 250 pts
15-yard run (or more) 300 pts
21-yard completion (or more) 350 pts
Two-point conversion 375 pts
Fumble recovery 375 pts
Field Goal 525 pts
Field Goal 31 yards or longer 675 pts
Field Goal 41 yards or longer 850 pts
Score 15 or more points +15%
Score 22 or more points +30%
Play at Pro Skill Level +50%
Play at All-Pro Skill Level +100%
Play at All-Madden Skill Level +200%
Super Bowl 38 stadium
Reach level 19 in your EA Sports Bio.
Do you have a
low salary?
If you have a low salary and need to sign in new players don't turn
your salary cap off. Because if you do you won't get Owner Mode. One
thing you can do is that the computer automatically puts what the
player want's in other mode how much money he wants lower it put the
signing bones up. Sometimes the player will reject but keep on putting
it up bye 10k and soon enough he will accept lower that what he was
asking for.(while you put salary up little bye little put signing
bones to it's max they like signing bones to it's max)
Bargain Basement
Superstars (Franchise Mode)
Create a player without increasing any of his attributes. You
can even lower them a little more to make his price as low as
possible. Sign him for 7 years for next to nothing, then go back
into ‘create a player’ and increase his attributes to whatever you
want them to be without raising salary. You can even max them
out, but how much fun would that be?
Various Hints-n-Tips
In Owner Mode, when you get to the Playoffs you should raise your
ticket prices, food, merchandise, and parking over the expected prise.
The Fans may complain, but they will pay up to see your team play in
the Playoffs (You need to have the homefield advantage to do this).
Also in Owner Mode (will be referred to as OM from now on) at the end
of your season SAVE YOUR GAME, before advancing to the off-season.
Take a look at your retired players, not restart your system and trade
them off for some draft picks, or whatever you can get.
NOTE--This will only work if you turn OFF the trade deadline option.
In OM your advisors may mislead you. When I raised prices they
told me that fans were grumbling about high prices (Don't make them
too ridiculous!). If you only raise them a few over the
expected, fans will still continue to come. However, if you
notice a considerable drop (over 5%) of people not attending you
should hold a fan appreciation day. The best ones are the ones
like tame atographs, team movies, etc. Anything that has to do
with the team will be big. If you happen to see nothing that has
anything to do with the team, just go back to the OM menu, and go back
to the fan appreciation day menu. Each time you go back and
forth you get new options.
You may not think that this matters, but it DOES. Each time you
play a game look at the teams roster you are playing. Take a
look at their weaknesses and strengths. Now go under coach
options and see you gameplain to the opposite of the opponents teams
strengths (ex. if the team you're facing has a strong running back,
set your team to worry about the run more, if the opponent has a weak
secondary, set you O gameplain to be passing). Now that you've
done that go to management and tell all of your players exactly how
they are to play. If you want to pass rush set you D-line to the
pass-rush side of the bar, if you want them to stop the run, slide the
bar to the other side. Do this to all of your players, and you
will be a LOT more successful in your game.
In OM if a star player is starting to get old do not hesitate to trade
him for draft picks. I suggest you do this. While in the
short term you lose a star player, in the long term your rookies will
be developed into stars when your opponents start to worry about
getting new players. You will be one-step ahead of the CPU.
For example, if you play as the Rams (go RAMS) you see that Bulger is
much younger than Warner and will be as good with a couple more years
of playing time under his belt. You should trade Warner for a
butt-load of draft picks at the end of the year to the team that gets
to pick first. I got all of the Cardinals picks for Warner, and
5 out of those 7 are starters in my second season, 2 out of those 7
are on the road to the pro-bowl, and my rookie CB, is nominated for
the rookie-of-the-year award. Trust me, you need to do this.
WARNING-Don't trade all of your star players, your rookies play better
with a veteran to look up to.

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