We’ll be playing Madden 11 on the 360; this league will be a “real rosters” league, run pretty much the same as last year (barring significant changes to the online leagues from '10 to '11).
There are two requirements for playing in the league:
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You must have a QT3 account – so games can be scheduled via PM and trash-talking can be done in the thread. If you haven’t posted in this thread, you’ll be removed from the league.
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Own & use a headset – playing against mute stone walls kinda sucks. You don’t have to be crazy chatty, you don’t have to even use it every game, but it’s polite to at least say “hi, can’t talk much, wife is asleep” or whatever when the game starts up.
I’ll create the league once after EA puts up the post-preseason roster update – IE, hopefully we’ll get rolling around Sept 8.
League name/password
QT3 / restoretheroar
Free Agent “draft”
After Weds 9/15, you can add/drop free agents as you see fit. Prior to the 15th, we will be following the free agent draft/schedule posted here:
League Settings
Skill: All-Pro
Quarter Length: 8 min
Accelerated Clock: 15 seconds
Injuries: On
Fatigue: On
Trading: On - no CPU trades
Weather: On
We aim to play one game per week, rolling over from one week to the next (and thus simming any unplayed games) on Sunday mornings.
Trading
Blatantly one-sided trading is not allowed – if someone’s doing poorly, and decides to give away all their starters, they will be removed from the league, as will the person who agrees to take 'em. Honest, serious trades only.
Weekly Schedule
The league will roll over from one week to the next on Sunday mornings.
Scheduling problems
If you are unable to reach your opponent to schedule your game, send a PM to both the commish (Talisker) and your opponent by Friday night at the absolute latest (to allow for communication prior to giving someone the boot). If you don’t say anything until Saturday, the game will be simmed.
Non-responsive owners will be removed from the league to allow their opponents to play vs. the AI. (Owners that are booted are welcome to re-assume team ownership if they come back online later)
Please notify the commish if you will be travelling or otherwise unavailable for a given week; as there doesn’t appear to be any way to set “unavailable” status to allow your opponent to play against your team’s AI, we’ll need to boot you from the league, and re-add you after you return.
In the event that two owners are flat-out unable to agree to a time to play, the game will be simmed when the week rolls over on Sunday morning. (if this becomes a recurring issue with anyone, yep, boot)
The Rules
As described by Ryan A here:
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try to play like it’s a football game rather than a video game. This means don’t run the same play over and over, don’t sprint your QB straight backwards, don’t try to “nano blitz” or otherwise cheese, don’t go for it on 4th unless it makes good football sense (4th and 1 on the the other guy’s 40 vs. 4th and 5 on your own 30).
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use a mic.