Generic 4-3 and 3-4 playbooks in the style of Madden 23

[solarkev]

This is my best attempt at making Madden 23 style defensive playbooks for Madden 08. Here is a generic 4-3 and a generic 3-4. I used Packfan's playbook editors, the playbook merger program, and the DB Editor to make these.
Features
1. I looked at all the playbooks for Madden 23 (using www.madden-school.com/playbooks) and compiled the formations, dividing teams into 4-3 style, 3-4 style and hybrid style. I chose the most used formations for the 4-3 and 3-4 teams to make these playbooks.
2. I used some play design tricks to add variety to blue and purple zones ala Madden 23. These zones are not exactly like the 23 zones, but are similar.
3. I used Teota's method for combining sub formations into a single formation via the DB Editor. This allowed me to have some plays with a press look or an Okie roll, etc. This empowers the AI to use man press coverage and to show different pre-snap looks from the same formation.
4. I added to the work of Ben75 and others in these forums to understand PBAI tags. So, I used the most up-to-date information to assign the PBAI tags to the plays which tell Madden when to use the plays.

Happy to answer questions or address issues.

[Kyote]

Thanks for taking the time, great work!

[sflcurt]

can these playbooks be used in on-line games - where you and your opponent play each other over the "online" feature of the game?

[solarkev]

I noticed that some rosters don't put all the players in with these playbooks. Maybe, it's a rare problem because no one has mentioned it.

After much investigation, I figured out that it was my use of an offense playbook to assign PBAI tags. First time I used that and won't do it again. I redid all the tags and tested. Here are the fixed playbooks.

[solarkev]

sflcurt,

Yes, these can be used. They will need to be added as a stock playbook via the dat file replacer. Both players must have EXACTLY the same stock playbook file or Madden will crash.