Post by rams6164 on Aug 29, 2013 19:38:29 GMT -5
Rules are borrowed from the LSFL - A great league to be a part of!
A. Pausing the game. If your opponent pauses the game, do not immediately hit the start button to unpause! WAIT for at least 3 minutes for your opponent to send you a message via PSN explaining their pause, or until you see the timer for resuming the game appear on your screen. Sometimes people pause to make adjustments to their depth chart, playbook, whatever. Other times they have to let their dog outside or answer a call from Grandma. Let's remember that shit happens and real life is an annoyance that rears her head even during your Madden games.
B. No cheesing allowed! Cheesing is defined in many ways. Some examples:
Running the same few plays repeatedly because they are unrealistically successful against the defensive AI.
Kicking the squib kick repeatedly so you can try to glitch the game to recover the kick and keep your opponent from getting the ball.
Going to the same style of play repeatedly on offense or defense (e.g. outside tosses, all-out-blitzing every down)
This is *not* a complete list, but gives you a general idea of what I mean by cheesing. When in doubt, don't get the velveeta out.
C. Running up the score against your opponent, regardless of whether it's CPU or Human, is against the rules!
- If you are up by 17+ points at any point in the game, then you are required to run the ball on 1st and 2nd down.
- If you go up by 21+ points at any point in the game, you are required to run the ball for all three downs until the end of the game, or your opponent comes within 14 points of tying the game (14 points or less spread).
- If you are 27+ points ahead at the beginning of the 3rd Quarter, or 21+ points ahead at the beginning of the 4th Quarter, or reach that total at any time during those quarters, you are *required* to pause the game, and *bench* your 1st-string QB, HB and WR1 for the remainder of the game.
- If your opponent manages to bring the score within 7 points before the end of the game, you may put your starters back in. Otherwise, they must stay out of the game for the rest of the game.
To be clear: Once you hit the point total that calls for you to pull those players out, you are required to substitute them out completely, or if you don't have enough other players, make them 3rd string, and move your 2nd and 3rd string up a slot.
D. 4th Downs. You are not allowed to go for it on 4th down if you are winning by more than 7 points at any point in the game. If you are winning by less than 7 points, tied or losing the game, you may go for it on 4th down at your own risk.
E. Substitutions are allowed at all positions without restriction. You wanna risk your best WR playing DB? Be my guest. My only restriction is putting WR's at TE. That's all.
F. QB Scrambling: Do not cheese or spam the QB scramble. Going out of the pocket laterally to avoid defenders is one thing, but if you're hiking the ball and running backwards with your QB 15+ yards to buy you time to bomb, that's not acceptable. Scrambling is something that should be done only when necessary, not on every single down. Please do not abuse mobile QB's like Vick, etc with tons of bootlegs either.
G. When/If playing a game against a CPU-controlled team, do not run up the score on the computer. If you get ahead by three TD's or more against the computer, you are expected to dial it back, put in backups and play the clock game. Whether you do this or not will be very evident in the stats, so don't think you can get by on this rule and not get caught. Stat padding is bullshit. Want to lead the league in certain stats? Do it yourself in a legit way.
H. Just because something isn't expressly forbidden in this document doesn't mean that it's legal. If it's cheese, a glitch, an exploit.. then it's not allowed. Period. If it's not what you'd see in a real NFL game, don't effing do it. If we wanted to play bullshit games, we'd play in the "ranked" lobbies.
I. Play it like you see it played on Sunday!
J. Moving players prior to the snap when receiving a punt is not allowed.
K. Nano-blitzing, should it be discovered to be possible in Madden 25, is banned.
A. Pausing the game. If your opponent pauses the game, do not immediately hit the start button to unpause! WAIT for at least 3 minutes for your opponent to send you a message via PSN explaining their pause, or until you see the timer for resuming the game appear on your screen. Sometimes people pause to make adjustments to their depth chart, playbook, whatever. Other times they have to let their dog outside or answer a call from Grandma. Let's remember that shit happens and real life is an annoyance that rears her head even during your Madden games.
B. No cheesing allowed! Cheesing is defined in many ways. Some examples:
Running the same few plays repeatedly because they are unrealistically successful against the defensive AI.
Kicking the squib kick repeatedly so you can try to glitch the game to recover the kick and keep your opponent from getting the ball.
Going to the same style of play repeatedly on offense or defense (e.g. outside tosses, all-out-blitzing every down)
This is *not* a complete list, but gives you a general idea of what I mean by cheesing. When in doubt, don't get the velveeta out.
C. Running up the score against your opponent, regardless of whether it's CPU or Human, is against the rules!
- If you are up by 17+ points at any point in the game, then you are required to run the ball on 1st and 2nd down.
- If you go up by 21+ points at any point in the game, you are required to run the ball for all three downs until the end of the game, or your opponent comes within 14 points of tying the game (14 points or less spread).
- If you are 27+ points ahead at the beginning of the 3rd Quarter, or 21+ points ahead at the beginning of the 4th Quarter, or reach that total at any time during those quarters, you are *required* to pause the game, and *bench* your 1st-string QB, HB and WR1 for the remainder of the game.
- If your opponent manages to bring the score within 7 points before the end of the game, you may put your starters back in. Otherwise, they must stay out of the game for the rest of the game.
To be clear: Once you hit the point total that calls for you to pull those players out, you are required to substitute them out completely, or if you don't have enough other players, make them 3rd string, and move your 2nd and 3rd string up a slot.
D. 4th Downs. You are not allowed to go for it on 4th down if you are winning by more than 7 points at any point in the game. If you are winning by less than 7 points, tied or losing the game, you may go for it on 4th down at your own risk.
E. Substitutions are allowed at all positions without restriction. You wanna risk your best WR playing DB? Be my guest. My only restriction is putting WR's at TE. That's all.
F. QB Scrambling: Do not cheese or spam the QB scramble. Going out of the pocket laterally to avoid defenders is one thing, but if you're hiking the ball and running backwards with your QB 15+ yards to buy you time to bomb, that's not acceptable. Scrambling is something that should be done only when necessary, not on every single down. Please do not abuse mobile QB's like Vick, etc with tons of bootlegs either.
G. When/If playing a game against a CPU-controlled team, do not run up the score on the computer. If you get ahead by three TD's or more against the computer, you are expected to dial it back, put in backups and play the clock game. Whether you do this or not will be very evident in the stats, so don't think you can get by on this rule and not get caught. Stat padding is bullshit. Want to lead the league in certain stats? Do it yourself in a legit way.
H. Just because something isn't expressly forbidden in this document doesn't mean that it's legal. If it's cheese, a glitch, an exploit.. then it's not allowed. Period. If it's not what you'd see in a real NFL game, don't effing do it. If we wanted to play bullshit games, we'd play in the "ranked" lobbies.
I. Play it like you see it played on Sunday!
J. Moving players prior to the snap when receiving a punt is not allowed.
K. Nano-blitzing, should it be discovered to be possible in Madden 25, is banned.