

Pro Day and Combine is where you finally make your decision. Before you even get to the combine/pro day, you should be at least 80% sure who you are drafting OR waffling between 2 players with similar athletic abilities. Till they fix the bug: When you get the "focused scouting" they all need to be 3 people at the same position. But in general depending on the class, it's very likely at certain positions you may only have 2-3 players at a position. In general, I found after the process of elimination at most you should have maybe 5-6 players per position (as an example: 2 Day 3 guys, 1 or 2 1-2nd rounders, and 1 or 2 2-3 rounders). Athletic skills > Story, but I found many occasions where a player fell who had elite abilities. Anytime you see a story about a player, go back and look at their athletic skills.

QB is about THROW POWER (unless you prefer running QB's). The only position I'd suggest otherwise is Oline which should be STRENGTH based. In general, the most important trait is SPEED and ACCELERATION. You are in general looking for only the players with ELITE skills at certain categories. After going through the process below, I probably had around 75 or so players favorited WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT RATINGS at this point. This should take about 1.5 hours or so in total, but afterwards you are pretty much done till the combine and pro day. Go through every player in week 1 who is Day 3 or better and check their physical stats. Luckily they updated it so way more players now are also listed with their position. Note that different stories appear in both columns and I'd expect to see maybe 30+ stories per season. As with the past Madden, mark down every player who has any story written about them. My 1 season was not amazing, but after realizing some patterns, I managed to hit on 7 of my 10 drafted players with star or better development in year 2.Ĥ of them were 2nd round picks, the other 2 mid 1st rounders, the other the 6th pick. So I just went through 2 seasons of drafting.
