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  1. Hi all, Please can you assign your chosen teams by editing your profile. In the edit profile page please scroll down to Xbox/PS4 user teams and select your team. This will then assign your teambars to your profile. I have completed a small update in that you will now be able to click on the teambars and it will direct you to daddyleagues.com specific team within your franchise. This will be of benefit when scouting teams, trades for yourself and commissioners, and wanting to look at yours or others teams as and when you desire. Thank you and hope you all are liking the layout tweaks @Arena Coach @Evolution Coach @PFL Coach @PS4 Coach @PS4 Commissioner @Xbox Commissioner @Staff @VIP
    14 points
  2. Just a quick intro post. I'm Willo, Colts fan since 2005 wide right Vander**** miss, hadn't played a Madden game since Madden 09 until two weeks ago. Got to know about this site from Stuey and looking to get into a casual league once I get better (doesn't have to be with the Colts). Struggling with interceptions at the moment but got my first win the other night on All pro!
    12 points
  3. Lads, You may or may not have noticed I've not been around lately, I've been thinking about this for a while now & I've decided that I'll be stepping down as commissioner and having a break from Madden for a bit. I want to focus my spare time on some other things and feel I can't give the site & the league the time it needs anymore. I don't want to be that commish who just posts fixtures and that's it. I feel it needs someone who can put the time in and I'm just not that guy at the moment. Hopefully with a bit of time out I might rekindle some desire to play in the leagues again. I've told the other commissioners, @SnapDan will be taking over my roll for Pro10 and will be announcing plans moving forward for M18 I'll still be around visiting the site and in the fantasy & stuff. Just feel I need a bit of a break. All the best RamsDan, NanoDan, Ramadan
    11 points
  4. Well lads, been on the site nearly 2 years now I think but iv finally made the big jump from PS4 to Xbox. Just said I'd put it up in here because I'm in bad need of practise on the Xbox (keep throwing to the wrong receivers cause I'm so used to the ps4 layout ). Works a bit crazy now so I won't put myself down on any of the waiting list quiet yet but hopefully in the new year. My gamer tag is scottyob93. Looking toward to actually getting to know ye all and getting some games in
    11 points
  5. @Xbox Commissioner @PS4 Commissioner You guys can now tag an entire group for ease of use in fixtures, and any league announcements. I will later this evening break the profiles up again into franchise groups ie: Arena Coaches/PFL Coaches/PS4 PFL Coaches/Evolution coaches. Im just trying to reduce your workloads guys
    10 points
  6. Complete seal of approval here. Great team of initially 3 @DanMcGrath77 is experienced in running franchises (Pro10), regular on these boards, great player/team owner, fantastic chap to chat on game days over the mic.. Clearly the no1 person I would want running this franchise. @Vondia having only got to know him on M18 I have nothing but great things to say about the chap. Again a top class and I mean top class bloke to chat with on the mic. Podcasts are a great listen, and by the way I have only ever listened to MaddenPFL. My employer provides us podcast I don't listen, Dolphins provide podcasts I don't listen that tells you something. A great asset to MaddenPFL.com and the PFL xbox. @Mcmanus Again a theme is developing, a true gent both on the mic, in the forum's and in person. Had a great time and chat with him on the meet up other year in Manchester. Another great asset to Maddenpfl.com. There was so many worthy candidates to take ownership of this franchise and so many could easily do the job to a great standard making us a Premier Franchise community. But realistically a decision was needed as Madden 19 is just around the corner (I have just downloaded the full game). I would like to add that my activity has been down some since taking ownership of backend duties, but after speaking with a member it probably not known how much really goes on behind the scenes taking a hell of a lot of my time. I am a family man with four kids and a beautiful wife all of which I adore. My current employment is known to most and in this day and age is a hard slog and times of austerity cause my chosen field to dictate when I work and that includes my rest days which are no longer my rest days. With regards to MaddenPFL backend everyday I receive half a dozen emails from our cpanel that controls our site detailing improvements and errors that occur. I have to correct each one, as they arrive. A simple update to the forum's software I complete at daft o'clock as to not affect this community and brings so many challenges and errors. Last night's update was an bum and I fixed the coding errors at 2am and was driving then to work 4 hours later. Oh and same goes for our website. Being transparent our funding is good, and we are self sufficient thanks to our VIP's, we have a positive bank balance each and every month our server, forums software and domain fees are paid MaddenPFL will be in a position to renew daddyleagues.com subscriptions for the three franchises if the commissioners so wish. Thank you all for a great Madden 18 and I am looking forward to M19 being even better. I would ask if anyone has any suggestions for improvements to content, features, software, subscriptions to contact me by PM. Also if you would like to discuss or disagree with the commissioners chosen I will gladly discuss this with you. I have honestly done what I think best for this world class community. You are all fantastic, sincerely thank you for the last 11 months of Madden. @SnapDan thank you for all you did in Madden 18 and for the site. Please feel free to jump back into MaddenPFL at a level of your choosing as and when you feel upto it. Going to miss you buddy, please don't stay away too long or stray
    10 points
  7. yeah me too, if my wife seen another xbox/nfl/madden expense coming out of the joint account, you'd be looking for a new coach of the Titans
    9 points
  8. Hello girls I'm back to give the leagues another go. I'm a big boy drinker unlike someone on this site and I also enjoy long walks in the middle of the motorway, dogging and sucking on riverman's hot nuts. Lets go Big Blue
    9 points
  9. Ok guys so I have been thinking of ways to keep the league interesting outside of playing games and growing the sites profile. Want to use this to brainstorm some things that you guys might think make the league more enjoyable and different to other leagues. So far: I have been speaking with the creator of a twitter bot called recap, when daddy leagues is synced it posts results, it has a great little picture of the stadium with the score and then some player stats underneath, this is a great tool and twitter is something I want to use more to increase the sites profile, I will be using it as a social feature about the league rather than using it to recruit and hopefully people who see it, want to be a part of it and sign up. Obviously match reports are going to be a must to be in the league and then i'm hoping each team can do 1 blog/report a season atleast (again 4 posts between september 17/ August 18 is not a lot to ask) Bring back highlight of the month - this used to be around and then stopped but it was a great thing. I can get individual highlights posted out on twitter keeping it active, then we can do a video that members can vote on and then add the end of the year put all the months winners together to do an end of year winner. PFL H.O.F - Quite shocked there is not one of these already? I am suggesting that when season 4 is coming to an end we start to nominate players for H.O.F, could be a player from your team, a player from another team then after all 32 coaches have put forward a player, we could split them in positions and vote in one per position or just vote from the list and have say 5 players make it. It would be good for activity on the site between july/august and would also be nice whether you win games or not to have a chance of having a player go into the H.O.F and stay on the PFL site as long as it exists. PFL TOP 50 - Similar to the NFL's top 100 at the end of each season I will be doing (with help if anyone wants to help) a PFL top 50, this will be announced on twitter as a countdown in 5s per day and then added to the site 1-50 kind of thing. Think this will be a good little time/activity filler during the wait from play offs to pre season. It's what happens outside of games what makes a league most enjoyable, I would love to hear some ideas whether you plan on playing next year or not
    9 points
  10. Hello Pfl old player returning,haven't played since madden 15 so will be rusty but looking to get back in the leagues. good to see a lot of the old names still about.
    9 points
  11. Hey guys, it’s been awhile I know. I want apologize for my abrupt leaving. I want to apologize for not telling you all why I left. I had something life changing occur to my wife that shook us to our core. Out of respect for her privacy, I won’t elaborate on what that is, but know that she will ok. I’m still trying to wrap my head around things right now but just wanted to let everyone know (those that give at s**t at least) that I’m not dead. I’ll eventually come back to the leagues but not sure when that will be. I’ll pop in periodically to say hi and whatnot. Take care!
    8 points
  12. Gents! So after some discussing behind the scenes @TopLoader appointed me and @DanMcGrath77 to run the PFL next year after our leader from this year stepped down. @Mcmanus will be our co-commish and @tripperman28 is gonna first try and set the Arena up again and after that might join the team as well if it’s needed. @dr_volki is gonna keep doing his write-ups based on the stats provided by madden 19. And we got a ghost writer who’s gonna do write-ups about the league anonymously. Exciting things to come and we’re looking forward to keep building this community. Announcements about the big items for madden 19 will come soon after we’ve set everything up.
    8 points
  13. Good luck chaps, one piece of advice I can give.... Don't let DMac do the draft
    8 points
  14. Server upgrade, could have waited until tonight, but wanted to get it out of the way and not be faffing about at butt f**k o'clock if s**t went pear shaped. Just so happened that during the switch, the domain ownership also switched from me to @TopLoader, which essentially means that MaddenPFL and everything therein is now owned by the man himself. There will be another outage in the next week or two where Toploader switches over to MaddenPFL owned hosting and then its 100% complete. Again, apologies for not having any warning, I've been dragging this on for the last week or so with the host. Anyway, all done now. Welcome back
    8 points
  15. Hello everyone, Would like to join your community and participate in some of the leagues. I heard about madden PFL from my good friend Rayski. I watch football and play madden since 2006, however I had not played for the past 2 years. I bought an Xbox a few weeks back and can't wait to compete again. Would like to join the Arena league first if possible.
    8 points
  16. I want to apologise to all coaches and commissioners my activity on the site and arranging games has been appalling I have had some personal issues that needed dealing with also I have started a new job that is a lot more full on to what I was doing before and have been doing intensive training I have had a friend staying with me for the past month as he is having marital issues I've jus got back from a week in New York so to say I've a bit going would be an understatement I care a lot about the site and the leagues things are settling down now so I will be a lot more active just wanted you all to know I haven't just sacked off the leagues cheers lads
    8 points
  17. Hey ... it's me .... was just passing and thought I'd call in. Have been reading that topic about PFL what's going on and the bit about the honours and history etc. Sorry to create a new topic, but I can't seem to reply in that thread. Anyway, I still have a s**t load of stuff dating back to PFL season 5 when TuscanRaider beat AndyRams to win the Bowl. If you want anything, let me know
    8 points
  18. I wouldnt panic guys like @Riverman said we always have a drop off, i think unfortunately we just had a few in real close succession but its just coincidence as most have stated its down to work / life issues which we just have to respect and keep the door open for when they can return. So in the words of a certain qb All the commissioners do a fantastic job and the leagues would just not run without them, yes they have to make difficult decisions at times that wont please 100% of the coaches but they always decide what they believe is best for the franchise (and on a lot of things they usually give us a vote and a say if they can) Ive been here 3 and half years and i cant remember a moment where ive had a problem during a game with another coach, yes we all get angry with madden at times but we all seem to forget about the times we get the fortune go our way and tend to only focus when it goes against us. We just need to keep respecting each other when we play, dont be win at all costs lets enjoy the game together, and this means not running the score up if an opponent is having a bad day especially against newer madden players who might be playing for the first time they arent going to stick around then! Maybe i got lucky but when i joined id only just started playing madden and didnt know anything (when i look back its actually cringeworthy) but so many people helped me whether tips during the game or pm after it and its that community friendship that keeps us strong, and i do feel like we need more of that community feeling back. @DaBurg864 videos were great addition to the site (i know if they were available when started would of gave me a lot easier time getting used to madden), i used to love reading all the quick hits weekly reports etc, i know they take time and appreciate cant always be done but there has virtually been nothing last year or so (im guilty aswell as others). I really think these things keep the players engaged and want to stay around thats why i did the division previews before the start of the franchise . The other thing is the achievements in the forums when we used to have the badges when i won my first COTY badge i displayed it with pride (might sound sad to some) but things like this keeps players something to stride towards and a feeling of being part of something as in the league itself can only be 12 people in playoffs and only 1 eventual winner. I agree with @Vondia that @StueyH111 topic about his team was great and inspired me to do my hardknocks Lions series, again was going to do something similar this year but didnt have time (so again thats on me), but i will try and bring it back for sure and would encourge others to try things like this as it gets your more engaged with your team and will want to stick it out for the long run. As for the rules @ojm84 i get what your saying but i have to say i like the fact they are in place. Ive played lobby games and they are awful people going hurry up every play (usually then spamming the same play again and again) fake punts / fg i think could lead to too many incidents of disagreements / rage quits and are super-rare in the NFL. Just arent fun games to play in my opinion and I think the majority of people join this league because they are fed up of playing those types of games. So im guessing in summary the site will survive, lets all try and get more things going on the site / in the community, and just respect each other and create that nice friendly environment when we play each other.
    8 points
  19. Little update. I can not remember who requested the teambars return but after several hours messing with code sorted it. Please see the below image and my own postbit. To select your team please edit profile and select from the dropdown box your assigned team for each league. Cheers @SnapDan @helimachoptor @RamsDan @ZoSo @tripperman28 @Beyond The Game @aidopotato @Aaron
    7 points
  20. Evening, Another little addition is the ability to add teams helmets (see match reports for example) and some of the prefixes have now a dedicated colour (just to be visually better when browsing) If a trade is approved a approved prefix is assign and same with the declined (see a trade announcement thread) I have linked below some examples https://maddenpfl.com/forums/index.php?/forum/379-pfl-team-blogs/ https://maddenpfl.com/forums/index.php?/forum/285-pfl-trade-announcements/
    7 points
  21. @Arena Coach @Evolution Coach @PFL Coach @PS4 Coach @PS4 Commissioner @Xbox Commissioner Another little update for you guys. (Applications in the menu bar) Now an application system is in place whereby you can apply for staff jobs, commissioner vacancies and come Madden 20 apply to be in the franchises we will be running. This system is a great bit of kit for us admin, it will promote members into the relevant groups upon successful application ie: apply to join PS4 Evolution Franchise and successful it will promote you from member to Evo Coach and all the permissions that comes with the profile. It also places a thread within our staff forums for those with access to discuss each application. Onwards and upwards TopL0ader
    7 points
  22. To All players in the PFL and Arena Leagues We have a great opportunity for you all A competition of sorts A copy of Madden 20 will be given to someone that the commissioners of both leagues deems to have made the best contribution to the site and their respected league. this could be streaming their games, match reports, site content, etc @JA15 is kindly donating the copy of Madden 20 on Xbox for our competition
    7 points
  23. Greetings one and all. After a year away, I've made the plunge and bought Madden18 and am now looking for a casual League to play in. Not sure how things are structured now but am keen to get involved. Please let me know if there are any leagues with any spaces so I can get started! steve
    7 points
  24. Donation sent Long live MaddenPFL
    6 points
  25. We've just upgraded to the latest version. There's a few new features, some I need to enable, others are just general around the forums. Anything you spot, post it here
    6 points
  26. Hi all, Invited over here by a member of the site with a glowing recommendation (shanew1705). Bit of an NFL newbie, football (soccer) has always been my main sport of choice although the I've followed NFL loosely for a few years. This year I will be a little different however as after slowly getting a bit fed up of the money train that is the premier league and the limited competition year in year out I have decided to follow the NFL as my main sport of choice this year. I've always been drawn to the giants and so spent the last few months watching all of their games from last year aswell as countless documentaries in the history of the franchise. My interest in the sport have grown dramatically over the last 3 months and I'm very much looking forward to the season ahead. Very similar story with madden, always been a FIFA man but for very much the same reasons as above I will be getting madden 18 on launch and will spend the year learning both the sport and the game. Long way to go before I get my head around everything but everybody has to start somewhere right? Enough rambling from me, thanks for having me!!
    6 points
  27. Some you know why I joined the leagues beacuse I've had those conversations with you. For those who don't here is some background for me. I was dealing with hard times personally and professionally and needed an outlet. I had the good fourtune to find out about this site through good ol' Google. Prior to joining last year I hadn't played Madden in over two years. For someone who's played every single Madden except during my hiatus it's a big deal. Football in all its forms has a massive place in my heart and finding out about the PFL helped unearth my desire that was buried by sadness. With that being said, I've had the this perception of lack of accountability across the board since joining a year ago. Seems to be inconsistency with who gets warned or punished. Legacy members are given the benefit of doubt over new members to the point it seems(at times) more like a "clique" than a "community". Like in my first offseason last Madden I had a ridiculous amount of people questioning my legitimate trades. I felt them to be legitimate beacuse they were on par with other trades that coaches were posting. When I inquired as to why so much scrutiny, I was told it was because I was new. I seen coaches get suspensions handed out for walking the line on a rule or guideline while a coach can cheese/lobby play their way to two Superbowls and nothing is done about it. I also question if different people were in the Pro 10 playoffs last season would it have dragged out as long as it did. I know everyone tries to make this place enjoyable and I've publicly thanked everyone for it many times. You could be somewhere else doing something else but you are here and I'm glad for it.
    6 points
  28. Hey guys, We've noticed a bad trend of people not being bummed to respond on the fixture arranging threats. It leads to a lot of frustration by people who do want to get their games played and it most of the times ends up in one party hunting down the other just to get a time to play. We can't and will not allow this anymore, it's stated clearly in the rules that you have to get in contact with your opponent before the advance to that week has been. From now on everyone that hasn't said anything in the fixture threat when we advance to that week will be set to auto right away. So if you didn't hear anything and the week has passed you can play the CPU whenever you like because your opponent will be set on auto already. This goes for both pro 8 & 10 and really shouldn't be a problem. I would also like to remind everyone that match reports are mandatory since this year by the winner. We've given you some time to get used to it and most guys have done well but there are some who consistently are not doing it. We see this and consider this your warning. cheers
    6 points
  29. Just a quick note to all our Xbox coaches out there. Don't be a duck head!( yes I know I’m one to talk) There’s been a few instances in which members old and new have had problems with chat (GroupMe) and in-game behavior. Its simple, only trash talk guys you know can take it. Always ask your opponent if they want you to “play your game” or chew clock when things aren’t going their way. If you don’t know or can’t confirm if they are cool with banter or you pounding them in-game, then err on the safe side and take it as easy as possible. We all should be able to enjoy all that this community offers, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of other members enjoyment.
    5 points
  30. I see you still dont trust the germans with any kind of power
    5 points
  31. Just thought I'd share some stats with you guys Yesterday 6th April 2018 we had 383 unique visitors onto Madden PFL 13,984 pages viewed 25,249 hits We are going strong as a community
    5 points
  32. I think we just found our very own Abramovich from Dubai as well..
    5 points
  33. Hi - Daniel here. Got control of the Jags... but in real-life I'm a Giants fan and live in Hamilton (near Glasgow). Looking forward to the UK fixture announcement so I can book a trip to London again - been down the last two years (Redskins-Bengals and Vikings-Browns). Cheers for the warm welcome!
    5 points
  34. Recent events in my folks house hold have not been great for the end of this year, and a little of this may have unfortunately splilled over in to game play or chat. My father has been diagnosed with advanced terminal bowel cancer,(back in September this year) it's the second time he's had the misfortune to be struck with this type of cancer, although as I say, it has become aggressive and now rather advanced and terminal. He's not doing great with it, who would, I wouldn't wish cancer on my worst enemy, and unknowingly, the stress sometimes comes through at intervals when least expecting, like the middle of a game. Thankfully it hasn't yet. So if I seem to be talking a lot more garbage than usual during a game, let me know, I may be taking it out where I shouldn't, and if I do I can only apologise in advance to you all. If it does become too much, and it will, I shall AP my team for the foreseeable. I have put this meeage in here as I do feel it is of importance to let you all know. Brian.
    5 points
  35. @SnapDan @helimachoptor Thing is how do you adjust sliders when teams have players injured and some do not? Its a sim game - I have three 85+OVR starters out including Freeman but hey it is what it is - NEXT MAN UP Probably as close to sim than it has been for years and years - you want 100% inj free season then go offline I say keep as is, and will probably now lose Ryan and Jones next week but my mind wont change I have always tried to go depth and for the first Madden I have ever known its becoming relevant - have seen too many GM's over the years build a team of starters then have 60+ OVR as back ups with no consequence
    5 points
  36. Hey guys, New to the site. Played Madden for a a few years but took a break from it and now looking to get back into it. From Scotland and a seahawks fan
    5 points
  37. Hey, New Irish member here. Bears fan for 30 odd years, they won the Superbowl when i was young and impressionable and not reached those heights since! Played Madden for years but only got into online play in Madden 17. Play on PS4. Hoping to join a online CFM if any spaces going
    5 points
  38. I hath return to wreck the league with Brock Osweiller* in 2018..... *BS - Brock's getting cut....
    5 points
  39. Just an update on this, I rung up today as I thought it had been a while but they still haven't finalised details, they recommended to call back in a month so I'll try mid-August
    5 points
  40. @SnapDan when joined I was in the pro 7 there was no spaces in Xpress or UK ML at the time, it was good friendly games advanced one a week, basically it helped me find my feet while I waited for an opening in the Xpress, in the process I played guys like @RainbowDoc @PatsUK danmcgrath shatners and had good banter with them as i learned and I've stuck around since, I'm up for doing something easy going like that again for other new comers to the site
    5 points
  41. Looking forward to Manchester now will be good to meet up with everyone a good few have already had the pleasure of a beer with Kev, be good to catch up with you guys looking forward to meeting the rest of the lads who I've had good chats with during games
    5 points
  42. It's a head scratcher this one cause all the guys that left said it was due to in real life stuff. If this is the truth then it's just bad luck that it's a couple in a row imo. I've seen some nice suggestions on here how to improve the community (shoutbox, Facebook etc.) and think we should definitley look in to doing this! Me myself arren't a long time member and i can't say i've had the feeling there was a 'clique' since when i joined but maybe i'm one of the once that helped create that feeling(sure hope not). The thing with the rules is that its hard to compare trades not being accepted to someone not writing his match report. I'm pretty annoyed when i lose and my opponent doesn't write the match report cause i like to get his view on the game and get the word out there on how the game went. And i'm all for punishing people who don't do the reports its just hard to find a fair punishment for this(one game ap? Or maybe not able to use one player the next game by choice of the opponent of the not writen match report?). On the trades i think 99 out of a 100 get accepted, only reason why new players are looked at a bit more strictly is to protect the franchise. A nice example of this is the trade @ojm84 loves to look back on, if we would've accepted that then the 9ers would've been in shambles for the next guy cause blair actually did end op leaving. I totally understand it can feel unfair at that time but when you've earned your stripes you will understand that its best for the site/league in the long run. @DaBurg864 you've been with us for a while now have you had some of the trade troubles lately or was that earlier when you joined? The gameplay issues are new to me, we do need people pm'ing us if you feel like your opponent didn't follow the rules. This can be done anonymous but if we don't get complains we don't know theres something wrong. In these matters a streamed game also can help a lot since we then can see what the problem was. For me personally this community/site is real important since i'm one of the only guys in my surroundings who love (American) Football, all my other friends are in to Footie. There for the declining activity is an extra bummer for me cause you lads are the only guys i can talk football with haha. I might start a series about one of my Franchises like i saw @StueyH111 and one other do last year. Loved reading about their franchises and how things were going and what their thoughts about stuff was, think it was called hardknocks but not sure.
    5 points
  43. "Dave, did you check the wind direction this year? Dave? Dave?"
    5 points
  44. You're looking at it very one sided mate Its a coaches responsibility to post in the FSL, commissioners have enough to do without PMing people if they haven't posted. It's just one of those times where you hold your hands up and admit you f**ked up
    5 points
  45. FYI there's 2 extras now, @Rickyt from FLM and our own @Mcmanus are paid up taking the numbers to 17
    5 points
  46. a decision has been made there will be more flexibility on this issue it will be included in the new rules that EVERYONE will have to sign before being allowed to play in both franchises
    5 points
  47. Hey All, Joining the community in advance of the Madden 18 release, looking forward to playing with you guys. Feel free to add me on PSN, my username is Stefennn. Thanks!
    4 points
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