HOW TO START AT MADDEN LATE

Hey y’all. I didn’t start til nearly February this year but I’ve played in years past

heres my guide on how to start madden as a latecomer

1 figure out your favorite thing to do in madden 

for some it might be solos for other it might be seasons. for this guide this is for the player that hates grinding and solo battles and is NMS

2 decide if you like running a theme team

for me I always run a Steelers theme team so I start out getting 50/50 Steelers chemistry and mostly ignore which players I am using to do so. early on, just to get the full speed boost it is worth it to get worse players just for the chems! mut.gg has a great feature allowing you to search by chemistry. 
 

3 MANDATORY ABILITIES

some abilities are mandatory. on offense I would say protectors on your tackles and a ball velocity ability on your QB. if you wanna be competitive on a budget get those three abilities. On defense it’s much more preference, I like having a lot of zone KOs and then some run shedding abilities

4 PHYSICAL STATS

speed kills. if you are on a budget you wanna get speed before anything else. I won a Super Bowl with an 85 OVR team and Jay cutler in February because I had top end speed at my WR and DBs. Prioritize this, semi permanently

5 HAVE FUN

dont stress about winning every game. just enjoy it. It’s a video game

6 BE NICE

if you’re nice to people they will be nice back. this is life advice but I find it makes mut.gg and my PlayStation messages much more pleasant

MY DMs ARE OPEN TO QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY ABOUT BUDGET TEAMS

good luck to all my fellow late start madden players!

Nice write up

for motivation — I started a few weeks before Easter. I’ve now had a 98-99 team for about 3 weeks now, and have been able to compete with others online for about six now. it is VERY easy to build if you consistently do challenges and get good budget players. From there, win a few games, learn how the game works, and get enough training/coins to get new players. Also, be sure to grind Competitive Field Pass to get really good players, especsilly this pass’s player. Joey Porter is likely going to be the best card in the game.

Another tip for DBs and WR/TEs most people prefer having height at those positions. It's not as important as speed but it's definitely the second thing I look at for those positions

isaach1708 said:

for motivation — I started a few weeks before Easter. I’ve now had a 98-99 team for about 3 weeks now, and have been able to compete with others online for about six now. it is VERY easy to build if you consistently do challenges and get good budget players. From there, win a few games, learn how the game works, and get enough training/coins to get new players. Also, be sure to grind Competitive Field Pass to get really good players, especsilly this pass’s player. Joey Porter is likely going to be the best card in the game.

My team is 96 OVR but I’ve had 99 speed everywhere since 94 OVR lol

Great thread! This is pretty good advice and detailed.

I'd say make sure to do as many solos packages that give free players. You can score some good guys out of those packs

Gcode13 said:

I'd say make sure to do as many solos packages that give free players. You can score some good guys out of those packs

Agreed. I just don’t really like solos. If anyone’s scrolled this far

THE COMP AND FIELD PASSES

playing online gives imo the best rewards for those

Just do all solos and just start from there. Build up your coin stack then get the players you want, then if you have some extra to that you don't care about why not risk it in TVP's and hope you pull a LTD, after that slowly grind H2H and repeat from the start (without the TVP)