Madden Trading

[KrAzYbUc]

I started a new franchise last night with the Bucs. After making some great trades. I managed to get Joey Harrington, Charles Rogers, and Ricky Williams, plus Derrius Thompson and Dante Hall. Talk about an explosive and very young offense. I'm ranked #1 offense after 5 weeks, (yes I'm playing, not simulating). I did lose Sapp and Lynch on defense, but Darby has filled in well and I signed Blaine Bishop from Free Agency and he has 3 INT's already.

[Ballin_Since_76]

cool.

offense -

qb - vick
hb - tomlinson
fb - alstott
wr - rogers - stallworth - bolden
te - heap
lt - ogden
lg - faneca
c - kruetz
rg - coleman
rt - williams

defense -

re - freeney
dt - mcfarland, tommie harris (rookie draft)
le - peppers
mlb - harris
lolb - suggs
rolb - bullock
cb - trufant, jammer
fs - dawkins
ss - archuleta

k - akers
p - sauerburn
kr - morton
pr - morton

i too have made some VERY VERY good trades.

[Fantasyplayer87]

Really do it. I sign hundreds of players for no Signing bonus and then trade them them for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes 1st round picks. Then if I get a 2nd for one. I pick up another Free Agent and trade my 2nd and the 2nd I just picked up for a 1st! Keep doing this until you run out of good players or get 10 1st rounders:D

[Frank784]

Originally posted by Fantasyplayer87
Really do it. I sign hundreds of players for no Signing bonus and then trade them them for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes 1st round picks. Then if I get a 2nd for one. I pick up another Free Agent and trade my 2nd and the 2nd I just picked up for a 1st! Keep doing this until you run out of good players or get 10 1st rounders:D

Lol, i used to do the exact same thing.

[BaDaBinGnRT]

In my 5th year simulating

QB Chris Simms
RB Travis Henry
FB Mike Alstott
WR Michael Clayton(created, started out at 76, is now 87)
WR Charles Lee
TE Randy McMichael
LT Derrick Deese
LG Mike Wahle
C John Wade
RG Cosey Coleman
RT Jon Jansen

DE Dewayne White
DT Anthony McFarland
DT Marcus Stroud
DE Ellis Wyms

LB Derrick Brooks
LB Ian Gold
LB Ryan Nece

CB Ronde Barber
CB Brian Kelly
NCB Mario Edwards

FS Dwight Smith
SS Jermaine Phillips

K Gramatica
P Bidwell

Coach Gruden
DEF Monte Kiffin
OFF Bill Muir
ST Keenan McCardell

Picked up RB Travis Henry in FA. Traded Simeon Rice(wasn't producing and makes around 9 million) for Jansen and McMichael(both on skins)

Then i picked up Wahle and Stroud thru free agency.

[KrAzYbUc]

Originally posted by Ballin_Since_76
cool.

offense -

qb - vick
hb - tomlinson
fb - alstott
wr - rogers - stallworth - bolden
te - heap
lt - ogden
lg - faneca
c - kruetz
rg - coleman
rt - williams

defense -

re - freeney
dt - mcfarland, tommie harris (rookie draft)
le - peppers
mlb - harris
lolb - suggs
rolb - bullock
cb - trufant, jammer
fs - dawkins
ss - archuleta

k - akers
p - sauerburn
kr - morton
pr - morton

i too have made some VERY VERY good trades.

since I'm not even close to believin this one, what did you trade for Vick? and still have enough to get tomlinson?

[DBradshaw]

Originally posted by Fantasyplayer87
Really do it. I sign hundreds of players for no Signing bonus and then trade them them for 2nd, 3rd, and sometimes 1st round picks. Then if I get a 2nd for one. I pick up another Free Agent and trade my 2nd and the 2nd I just picked up for a 1st! Keep doing this until you run out of good players or get 10 1st rounders:D
i did something like that once too. i ended up with 12 1st round picks and 1 2nd.:D

[Gmen]

Originally posted by DBradshaw
i did something like that once too. i ended up with 12 1st round picks and 1 2nd.:D

really? you can't have more than 10 draft picks

[DBradshaw]

13 on mine. i'm still playing the 2002.:rolleyes:

[PersistentBuc07]

LMAO
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!



boy. i am so far ahead in years. i dont even have those players anymore. they are my coaches!

i had an all-former-bucs coaching staff.



i dont have anyone erally left anymore that even has thier picture in the game. all of them are just names and stats.


but i love it. i love this game.


btw. idk if its preprogramed or random. or randomly preprgramed but i suggest all of u get Tubbs in 2006 1st overall pick. hes the best WR to hit hte NFL.


bad part is hell come back to bite u in the *** in 9 or so yrs. but wat he give u in return is amazing. he got me several SB. but a 6 mill cap penalty t the n of it all but he was great



i love managing

[southernbird]

I want to see how one of you would handle this situation.

I stupidly gave a contract to Dunn that is about 38 million with a 13.5 million signing bonus.He has a rating of 95.He has played out 2 years of the 7 year deal that i gave and now i really want to offload his large contract because there is a young guy that is coming through beautifully for me and he's much cheaper.

I couldn't resign him because it was much more expensive so I traded him after year 3 (after simulating) and I had more than $9 million in cap hit,but i had restored some room.I decided to simulate year 4(all this simulating was to see what effect trading dunn will have on my cap)After simulating the year without Dunn....in the resulting offseason i had a cap figure of $-2 mil :mad:

what would you madden gurus have done cause right now Dunn is killing my cap and i have someone else almost as good as him and he's playing for peanuts.

[Gmen]

Originally posted by southernbird
I want to see how one of you would handle this situation.

I stupidly gave a contract to Dunn that is about 38 million with a 13.5 million signing bonus.He has a rating of 95.He has played out 2 years of the 7 year deal that i gave and now i really want to offload his large contract because there is a young guy that is coming through beautifully for me and he's much cheaper.

I couldn't resign him because it was much more expensive so I traded him after year 3 (after simulating) and I had more than $9 million in cap hit,but i had restored some room.I decided to simulate year 4(all this simulating was to see what effect trading dunn will have on my cap)After simulating the year without Dunn....in the resulting offseason i had a cap figure of $-2 mil :mad:

what would you madden gurus have done cause right now Dunn is killing my cap and i have someone else almost as good as him and he's playing for peanuts.

look for players on your team with large contracts and extend them out to lower their cap value. it ties you to the player for the long haul but it's a quick fix.