Madden 08 Franchise Companion
This is a web app that helps you keep track of your franchise progress and offseason position needs. Just click the link and save it to your bookmarks. No download required.
Features:
Franchise Checklist
Based on the RevanFan and Nza Franchise Guides, you can use this to keep track of your franchise progress by checking off steps as you go. To begin, choose a franchise guide, season number, and year. Each step indicates which program to use to complete it. The app automatically saves your progress as you go with a local cookie file, which allows you to close the tab or browser and pick back up where you left off when you open it again. (Note: YOUR PROGRESS WILL BE LOST IF YOU DELETE YOUR BROWSER COOKIES.) Skip ahead or back to any point in the checklist by clicking the step you want to move to, and the app will automatically adjust your progress.
Draft/Free Agent Helper
Use this to keep track of position needs and review important attributes and advice for each position. Add however many positions and quantities of each you need, then use the reference info to help find your target players. As you go, mark individual players as drafted or acquired in free agency or trade. The board will keep track of how many players are still needed and how many have been acquired.
Attribute Averages Table: Average attribute values per position for different player archetypes. "Draft Class Avg" is average values from 20 game-generated draft classes. "Roster Avg" is average values from all players on the 2020 ROJO Roster v22 file. All other archetypes are from jose21crisis's Draft Class Generator file. The most relevant attributes for each position are highlighted blue.
Advice: Position notes from jose21crisis from this thread.
Superstar Scouting Report Ratings: Info on Madden 08's superstar scouting report data, posted by jose21crisis in this thread. This info highlights what attribute values the game considers good and includes more relevant feedback from jose21crisis.
Feedback
Any and all feedback is welcome. There are lots of info buttons in the app to help explain how everything works, but if you have any questions feel free to post them here or message me.
If you encounter any issues, please let me know and I will do my best to fix them. If you have any suggestions for new features, please post those here as well.
Enjoy!
UPDATES:
v1.2
The checklist has been updated with the following features:
- The checklist now supports both the RevanFan and Nza franchise guides. It will now ask you to select a guide and enter a season number and year. This info will be displayed at the top once selected. You can use the change button to make changes to these settings at any time.
- The checklist and tabs on the left now auto-generate based on the guide and season number chosen, so the checklist will be different between season 1 and season 2+
- The Nza checklist has been reordered to match RevanFan's guide so that season 2+ always starts at the end of the postseason. It's a slight difference to following the main Nza guide but I think ordering it this way makes the most sense.
Special thanks to RevanFan for helping me get his guide implemented and answering a lot of my franchise questions.
Next on the update list:
- Adding support for multiple teams on the draft/FA page
- Adding a page to keep track of defensive scheme changes for all 32 teams to make adjusting CPU depth charts easier
- Adding import/export of app save data for backup purposes