I'm Just About Out of Stomach for the Miserable Draft Mode

Half of my opponents are sweaty, and all of my lineups are weaker. It's like there's a hidden trigger that ensures I draft teams with an OVR of 91, anchored by two quarterbacks, and no real abilities to speak of. Where's my Ryan Leaf? Where's my Julio Jones? Where's my dominant interior lineman as fast as my opponent's quarterback?

I had a draft with two rounds of quarterbacks, and every single one was a 95. I've had drafts where I got only runningbacks of ascending value or Team Diamonds wideouts and tight ends of descending value. It's just been snake eyes again and again.

And then I get to the games, where my opponent's CPU-controlled players get Lurker picks, and my guys drop wide open ducks again and again. My quarterback will throw on target, so the defender will warp through space to get underneath. Or my quarterback will just throw it straight to the defender instead of to my receiver in stride.

And for as many times as I quit out of the first game and said, "I'm not going to waste my time with this sorry lineup," I've had exactly three people quit out in the manner that I've probably done a dozen times.

phatalerror said:

Half of my opponents are sweaty, and all of my lineups are weaker. It's like there's a hidden trigger that ensures I draft teams with an OVR of 91, anchored by two quarterbacks, and no real abilities to speak of. Where's my Ryan Leaf? Where's my Julio Jones? Where's my dominant interior lineman as fast as my opponent's quarterback?

I had a draft with two rounds of quarterbacks, and every single one was a 95. I've had drafts where I got only runningbacks of ascending value or Team Diamonds wideouts and tight ends of descending value. It's just been snake eyes again and again.

And then I get to the games, where my opponent's CPU-controlled players get Lurker picks, and my guys drop wide open ducks again and again. My quarterback will throw on target, so the defender will warp through space to get underneath. Or my quarterback will just throw it straight to the defender instead of to my receiver in stride.

And for as many times as I quit out of the first game and said, "I'm not going to waste my time with this sorry lineup," I've had exactly three people quit out in the manner that I've probably done a dozen times.

I'm still holding strong at 1-0, barely won my first game... haven't been back since, which was Day 1 of the Draft promo.  Meh.  Not sure if i'll be able to complete the NFL Draft Field pass without playing those ten games, but haven't been in a rush to circle back.  I completely and totally empathize with where you are coming from.

Maybe the rewards are compelling, but i spent quite a bit of time last evening prebuilding a few sets, got the new cards i wanted.  Sold Baker for profit, meh.  Probably sticking with AR15 for the moment.

From what little i gathered, based on my limited interaction with that game mode, well -- just put 3-4 (or more) Streaks onto the field every play and try to take the top off.  I cannot imagine suffering through that game mode, especially not in friggin May, after spending the past ~eight months building up our rosters, theme teams, whatever.  Fuck off, EA.  They should have a Draft mode available all year, so anyone can interact with the game and the latest/greatest cards without having to break the bank -- but that isn't going to sell more packs, so EA isn't interested.

Yeah I keep going back. I'll start of by saying I don't believe that I'm very good to begin with. That said I'm not incompetent and just about everyone I play runs the same plays that have at least one wide receiver running wide open on a streak and 80 percent of the time its no contest and the other my guy doesn't make a play on the ball when you push the y button. Then I try to run those same types of plays and their guys make the interception everytime. That's if I eve able to get a throw off because within three seconds my quarterback I getting sacked. It may just be that I suck because I already know what's coming but no matter the adjustments nothing works.

Wolbert3 said:

Yeah I keep going back. I'll start of by saying I don't believe that I'm very good to begin with. That said I'm not incompetent and just about everyone I play runs the same plays that have at least one wide receiver running wide open on a streak and 80 percent of the time its no contest and the other my guy doesn't make a play on the ball when you push the y button. Then I try to run those same types of plays and their guys make the interception everytime. That's if I eve able to get a throw off because within three seconds my quarterback I getting sacked. It may just be that I suck because I already know what's coming but no matter the adjustments nothing works.

What you describe is the most maddening thing about this game. NFL coordinators aren't stupid; they know how to scheme their slower guys to be able to defend faster athletes for brief moments at a time. In Madden, everyone is an idiot, and if the numbers say the receiver is 10 SPD faster than the guy assigned to cover him that play, that's pretty much a TD. Indefensible.

I had like 8 or 9 flawless runs before everyone started running streaks. Now I feel lucky to win a couple games. I’ve almost never gotten multiple DBs in a draft, its impossible imo to stop the streaks

Draft is as easy as it gets tbh

I’m gonna be honest this mode is prolly the easiest I’ve ever played. I’ve gone 5-0 flawless about 30 something times. I was able to add 99 Travis Hunter, Abdul Carter, Baker Mayfield, & Brandon Sheriff to my MUT squad from winning these. If you don’t draft a good team just back out and redraft.

Slightofhand67 said:

Draft is as easy as it gets tbh

If you run current glitches, any mode is easy. Whether you think what you’re doing is glitchy or not, the results speak for themselves.

OvOSzn said:

I’m gonna be honest this mode is prolly the easiest I’ve ever played. I’ve gone 5-0 flawless about 30 something times. I was able to add 99 Travis Hunter, Abdul Carter, Baker Mayfield, & Brandon Sheriff to my MUT squad from winning these. If you don’t draft a good team just back out and redraft.

What if you almost never draft a good team? This was the whole point of my original post. Then when I do get a half-decent lineup, I’m hobbled by an unfamiliar playbook, and I’m matched up against one of these career Madden types that gets the individual RNG’s at the moments they’re needed, and I’m back to drafting.

But I’m happy for you that between recognizing the holes in the Madden logic and some awesome drafts you don’t even need to try. Must be nice.

phatalerror said:

What if you almost never draft a good team? This was the whole point of my original post. Then when I do get a half-decent lineup, I’m hobbled by an unfamiliar playbook, and I’m matched up against one of these career Madden types that gets the individual RNG’s at the moments they’re needed, and I’m back to drafting.

But I’m happy for you that between recognizing the holes in the Madden logic and some awesome drafts you don’t even need to try. Must be nice.

I mean, you just gotta quit out and redraft. It depends on your objective ig. If it is to get to 10 wins fastest, then the easiest way is to just turn your brain off, hope to get the ball first and keep quitting out until you have a good draft. It sucks. Most people don't like this. We're all in the same boat. But you'd be surprised how easy it is to get the Ws.
If you're looking to compete like MUT H2H, this mode ain't it.

phatalerror said:

If you run current glitches, any mode is easy. Whether you think what you’re doing is glitchy or not, the results speak for themselves.

I run zero glitches or meta schemes. I do coach suggestions. I often win 20-30 draft games in a row. When I play mut H2H I’m barely above .500, the matchmaking is significantly easier on draft and you can’t run meta scheme as efficiently with the lower overall players so the YouTube bums are in shambles