Kicked for excessive delay

If you spike the ball 3 times in a row you get booted from the game.. just lost my playoff game because of this, just wanted to milk two seconds because I had no timeouts left… not impressed

Slightofhand67 said:

If you spike the ball 3 times in a row you get booted from the game.. just lost my playoff game because of this, just wanted to milk two seconds because I had no timeouts left… not impressed

I'm trying to understand what strategy one would employ to spike a football three times in a row (or even over a short period of time other than when running hurry-up while losing).

phatalerror said:

I'm trying to understand what strategy one would employ to spike a football three times in a row (or even over a short period of time other than when running hurry-up while losing).

had 5 seconds left to kick a field goal and it was first down, wanted to waste 1-2 seconds to be safe. Guess Not

Slightofhand67 said:

had 5 seconds left to kick a field goal and it was first down, wanted to waste 1-2 seconds to be safe. Guess Not

But what did you do with the other two spikes. The math doesn't work.

phatalerror said:

But what did you do with the other two spikes. The math doesn't work.

It was 1st down I spiked three times to get to 4th down, what other details do you need?

You can kick it on any down.

"It was first down" confused me. Now I get it. I'm guessing you had no timeouts. If you're really worried about a monster return or an improbable Hail Mary (and I would understand this, because I've lost *that* game), call a pass from a formation where you can roll out and throw the ball away. You'll burn an extra two seconds that way.

But sorry for the bum break for "griefing" while trying to play football within the constraints of Madden.

phatalerror said:

"It was first down" confused me. Now I get it. I'm guessing you had no timeouts. If you're really worried about a monster return or an improbable Hail Mary (and I would understand this, because I've lost *that* game), call a pass from a formation where you can roll out and throw the ball away. You'll burn an extra two seconds that way.

But sorry for the bum break for "griefing" while trying to play football within the constraints of Madden.

I thought about it but I wasn’t really feeling like risking it and taking a sack or grounding, but yes I have been on that end of it madden bs can be crazy sometimes. I’ve been playing madden for 15 years had no idea you could get booted for this.. delay of games or encroachment yes but this???oh wellnlive and learn

Slightofhand67 said:

I thought about it but I wasn’t really feeling like risking it and taking a sack or grounding, but yes I have been on that end of it madden bs can be crazy sometimes. I’ve been playing madden for 15 years had no idea you could get booted for this.. delay of games or encroachment yes but this???oh wellnlive and learn

It was necessary to introduce that for a tactic that when executed flawlessly could make a head-to-head game run for more than one hour, holding the other player hostage.

For the sake of fair play, guys like you in your situation get burned.

learned this the hard way last year haha

optimusxgrind said:

learned this the hard way last year haha

Oh shit glad I’m not the only one

glad EA does this. teaches a lesson to idiots that want to spike the ball 3 times in a row to burn 2 seconds

joadasdasd said:

glad EA does this. teaches a lesson to idiots that want to spike the ball 3 times in a row to burn 2 seconds

The thing is that there are ways to accomplish the same thing that won't trigger the "excessive griefing" penalty. As the criteria for griefing are presently constituted, there are non-toxic users that are getting punished for the past sins of toxic users.

The toxic users are still around if there's enough at stake to try to squeeze a win out of a player who has to leave their console before the end of a game that runs an hour-and-a-half. So EA's doing too much, and yet not doing enough.

joadasdasd said:

glad EA does this. teaches a lesson to idiots that want to spike the ball 3 times in a row to burn 2 seconds

You appear to be the only idiot in here