Sim Schedule

So this kinda sucks, but I'm going on vacation on August 14th, the day Madden comes out... I'll be back on the 23rd. You can still trade and stuff for the next two weeks. There will be a transaction lock of August 21st (no trades, releases, etc. may be submitted until after I input the rosters). Once I get the game, I'll immediately start on inputting the rosters. My goal is to have all the FAs up by the 26th of August. The preseason sim will be that Sunday (August 30th). These last two dates may get bumped back a bit depending on how soon I can input the rosters and get FAs up. After the preseason, I'll be simming each week on the weekends on a normal schedule.

Updated on this: I may be getting the game tonight, which means I could input the rosters and PM Zoom the FA list... so if he and others posted it up while I was gone, FA could happen for the next week and we'd be ready to sim by the time I get back.

yea if I get pm'd the FA list then Ill post em up

are you gonna be able to bid on players when youre on vacation though?

I'll be able to get on like 5-10 minutes a day... should be fine.

Also, I seriously doubt there will be any FAs over 80.

yea but they wont all suck, theres gonna be some like mike mitchell in FA

i know... im just saying that this FA class is mainly to get backups and depth to fill out your roster.

Yeah sorry there's no fucking way I can do this... it takes me 20 minutes to do one round. At that rate, that's more than 16 hours to finish... my flight leaves in 10 hours. So much for that. Sorry guys, I tried

Reminder that transaction deadline is on Friday.

FA open yet?

I haven't posted everyone yet.

Hurry the fuck up. I need a punter.

PS3 and 360 have the same rosters, correct?

I'm back... will start inputting rosters tonight or tomorrow.

Yeah so I realized about 4 rounds in that there's no way to pause the clock... therefore I'd have to do it for like 14 hrs straight. Which I'm not gonna do... so I'm just gonna trade everyone through regular franchise mode, which will take much longer, but at least I can stop and save.

You cant pause the fantasy draft? Thats strange...Doesnt Madden realize that sometimes people might want a sandwich in the middle of thier fantasy draft?

true, but they're only making 53 picks whereas i'm making 1696 picks (did it on a calculator just now).

I'll start to post up teams needs, etc.

If I've posted your team up, that means your team is completely inputted into the sim.

Just a update, I hope to have all the rosters finished by tomorrow, and FAs up on Thursday. Free Agency will start on Friday.

New schedule:

FA opens tonight -- Touchdown Jesus will announce when free agency is open, and then you can start bidding.

Preseason sim is on Friday September 18th -- Roster locks go into place Thursday at midnight. After midnight, no trades, signings, releases, etc. will count for the sim. You can update your depth charts, sliders, etc. for the sim up until I sim (which will be Friday night).

Week 1 sim is Sunday September 20th -- See preseason info just posted above. Roster lock is Saturday at midnight.

so we can't trade AT ALL after september 18th?

Get On My Level wrote:

so we can't trade AT ALL after september 18th?

No, just any trades after the deadline won't be inputted for that sim.

oh. when the trade deadline than bud?

i doubt we'll have one. i'll poll it as we reach week 6 though.

yeah, no trade deadline is the best way to go imo