Hawker's Express: A Cupcake AM 'Chise (on the PC!)

[realhawker]

Using Team Swapper for madden....

I created a cupcake franchise All Madden, on the PC version of madden.

They are based in Montreal.

I will post players stats soon, and may even make a website for them.



I plan to only draft new players to improve this squad, or new Madden generated
undrafted rookies in Free Agency. I will not trade for or pick up any pre-existing players. (People like TO are free agents.)

I picked the train since I like dark blue.. I used Invensco Field as a prebuilt template for my team, and it came with broncos banners!

[realhawker]

I am not too happy with this squad, but they are a cupcake team.....

My 10 best players, if you can call them that. I think I am going to sim the whole season so I can at least have a rookie or two to work with. I played the first week and its almost unbearable to get a 1st down, and the PC ran back 3 Kickoffs.

{* indicates porn star name}

1. Jabari Nax TE 79 OVR (great my TE is my best guy...with the strangest name)
2. Casey Littman QB 76 OVR (probably my best player, has 72 spd, 87 THP, only 26, I have some time to pick a QB if needed at least)
3. *Lennox Stone LT 76 OVR (It's nice to have my next best players be the LT, but he had crappy long term appeal, only 85 STR, 45 SPD)
4. Jimmy Chapman RE 74 OVR (he's a rook, looks like Justin Tuck of NYGiants)
5. Lonnie Martin RG 70 OVR (again, crap stats, but hes only 25)
6. Johnny Casey LG 70 OVR (another rook, but he has a red Flat-top, probably his best attribute. horrrible stats)
7. Chuck Williams LG 68 OVR (wow, another rook, o-line. 79 STR?)
8. *Ron Burns CB 67 OVR (This is getting very bad, very quickly, 5'9" 80 spd)
9. Tiki Spielman DT 66 OVR (wow he sucks... 84 STR is his BEST stat.)
10. Lionel Turner WR 66 OVR (he's 5'9" 207 {fat?} he's the best....around, 86 SPD, 86 ACC, 86 AGI, also is KR/PR)

AGAIN, I state that these are my BEST 10 guys.

my starting RT is 53 OVR, my starting HB is 60 OVR....

[realhawker]

WOW.

The team went 0-16. I set coach options to be pass heavy, since I like the QB..

at least Jimmy Chapman, the rookie DE, was 4th best NFL rookie defenseman...

[realhawker]

here's the fun part...

I get the 1st Overall pick of the draft.

I am going to go with a 3-4 D based on what I have defense wise.


here's my selections
(everyone you see starts, stats are post mini-camp, post pre-season)

1. Bobby Styles WR 85 OVR (92 spd, 96 ACC, 87 CTH, 90 AGI, 72 AWR, 6' 4" 205lbs

2. Todd Jones RT 81 OVR (99 STR, 87 PBK, 84 RBK, 72 AWR, 6'7" 314lbs)

3. Mike Aldridge C 82 OVR (94 STR, 85 PBK, 86 RBK, 75 AWR, 6'4" 303lbs)

4. Quinton Hastings CB 73 OVR (95 SPD, 91 ACC, 61 TAK, 62 CTH, 51 AWR, 5'10" 177)

5. Calvin Lane MLB 71 OVR (84 TAK, 66 STR, 70 AWR, 73 ACC, 80 SPD, 6'0" 248lbs)

6. Jim Faulk LOLB 69 OVR (73 TAK, 61 STR, 55 AWR, 82 ACC, 84 SPD 6'4" 246lbs)

7. Shyrone Brooks SS 75 OVR (83 ACC, 89 SPD, 65 CTH, 75 TAK, 56 AWR, 6'0" 206lbs)




from trade* or FA

*Casper Linde DT 77 OVR (88 STR, 76 TAK, 58 AWR, 76 ACC, 71 SPD, 6'3" 309lbs)

*Gary Flewelling HB 71 OVR (41 AWR, 90 SPD, 90 ACC, 81 AGI, 70 CAR, 78 STR 83 BTK 5'8" 212lbs)

Warrick Thomas TE 69 OVR (but will start at FB 72 OVR) (57 RBK, 63 CTH, 79 STR, 63 AWR, 60 BTK, 66 SPD, 77 ACC, 6'7" 269lbs

Edgar Sellers (starting) RE 63 OVR (87 STR, 66 TAK, 62 SPD, 67 AWR, 6'4" 284)

Harold Johnson CB 72 OVR (95 SPD, 88 ACC, 51 CTH, 62 TAK, 61 AWR, 94 AGI, 5'8" 182lbs)

Sean Tufts ROLB(playing 2nd ILB in 3-4) 67 OVR (81 TAK, 76 STR, 42 AWR, 79 SPD, 83 ACC 78 AGI 6'4" 242lbs)

Moe Lindsay LOLB(starting ROLB) 71 OVR (76 TAK, 66 STR, 56 AWR, 80 SPD, 82 ACC, 80 AGI, 6'3" 247 lbs)

Everyone else is the original cupcake squad or FA I signed to fill up requirements..

[surlacher54]

Haha sweet a cupcake team awesome =]

[MLB58]

Please forgive my stupidity, but what the heck is a "cupcake" franchise? What does that mean? Is it just that they are crummy players?

[jjwallstreet]

oups wrong post

[realhawker]

Please forgive my stupidity, but what the heck is a "cupcake" franchise? What does that mean? Is it just that they are crummy players?

When you "Create-a-Team" there is a selection "team type"

you pick from some team archetypes You get a team full of created players with a certain theme.

I believe the choices are

All Madden - obvious
Strong Off - obvious
Strong Def - obvious
air it out - a passing team
smash mouth - a run heavy team
balance - obvious
cupcake - really low OVR players...the opposite of All Madden, not necc all rookies either.

[Precarious42]

I love these kinda teams...they're fun to build.

Brooks looks like a steal to me in the 7th, heh. And Styles is going to be a beast.

[realhawker]

ok so we went 4-12 this season, better than I expected, and I only played 4 games, lost 3 of them.

WR Styles is fun to throw to, he is kind of like braylon edwards, he really goes up and gets the ball. he was o. rookie of the year. 1730 yards, 12 tds

j. Nax, the TE seems to get open alot but also drops it alot.
Littman, the QB is not too bad since he can scramble, but he is a INT machine.
the HB flewelling is surprisingly good, remind me of rueben droughns. The LB squad performs very well, and all 4 were D rookies of the year. Linde the DT does very well as well, I think because of his speed. The RE/LE havent done as well, chapman couldnt replicate his 1st year.

Heres the current lineup

*** original cupcake players
** last years squad
$$ 2006 draftee
F@ free agent
TR Trade aquisition.

QB
*** Casey Littman 71 OVR
F@ Tarik Jefferson 77 OVR (6'3" 211lbs, 90THP, 90 THA)

HB
** Gary Flewelling 72 OVR (90SPD, 80STR, 85 BTK)

FB
** Warrick Thomas 71 OVR (6' 7" 269 lbs 81STR)

TE
*** Jabari Nax 83 OVR
F@ Henry Kozlowski 71 OVR (6'7" 277lbs, 76 SPD, 72 STR, 69 CTH)

WR
** Bobby Styles 88 OVR
$$ Mike Dishman 77 OVR (6' 4" 221lbs 88 SPD, 86 CTH, 86 JMP)
** Tra Rose 74 OVR (5' 11" 186lbs 90 SPD, 89 ACC, 92 AGI, 70 CTH)
*** Lionel Turner 68 OVR

LT
$$ #2 pick Martin Morris 77 OVR (6'8" 360lbs 99 STR, 71 ACC, 52 SPD, 80 PBK, 81 RBK)

LG
*** Chris White 70 OVR (6'2" 285lbs 92 STR)

C
** Mike Aldridge 82 OVR (6'4" 303lbs 96 STR)

RG
$$ Lawrence Nakfoor 74 OVR (6'3" 297lbs 90STR, 87 RBK)

RT
** Todd Jones 80 OVR (6'7" 314lbs 99STR)

LE
TR Patrick Gordon 83 OVR (6'2" 276lbs, 74 SPD, 90 STR, 74 AWR, 81 ACC
*****traded Jimmy chapman and our 2nd round pick, this was the #2 overall pick of this years draft*****

RE
$$ Rod Hall 75 OVR (6'3" 292lbs, 78 SPD 76 STR, 76 AGI)

DT
** Casper Linde 78 OVR

LOLB
** Moe Lindsay 75 OVR

ILB
** Calvin Lane 74 OVR
$$ Andrew Aristegui 70 OVR (6'3" 244lbs 81 SPD, 84 ACC, 82 TAK, 80 STR)

ROLB
F@ Dennis Tucker 74 OVR (6'3" 250lbs, 83 SPD, 68 STR, 78 JMP, 83 ACC, 59 AWR)
**starting over j.faulk cause of better str, awr, jmp, size)

CB
$$ J.T. Norman 76 Ovr (6'1" 195lbs, 93 spd, 91 acc, 70 AWR, 65 TAK, 92jmp)
F@ Kris Lewis 75 OVR (5'9" 182lbs, 93spd, 93 acc, 53 awr, 76 tak)
** Quentin Hastings

FS
** Shyrone Brooks 74 OVR (moved him over to fs cause of new SS)

SS
$$ #3 pick overall Stephen Wilder 84 OVR (6'2" 212lbs, 92 spd, 92 acc, 70 cth, 82 tak, 63 awr, 65 str, 86 agi, 80 jmp)

[jjwallstreet]

really nice 'chise... I love cupcake chises, check out mine hawker! keep the details coming.

[Clumzie]

When are you going to continue the cise hawker..I want to make one too...jjwallstreet own is a lot of work.

[Theo]

Oliners with 90+ str: love em.

[Theo]

Hey Hawk,
just one question, and it sounds like, hey am I stupid or what, but: how do you start a chize with a created team?

[realhawker]

When are you going to continue the cise hawker..I want to make one too...jjwallstreet own is a lot of work.

Well I have 4 chises going on at once.

1- VG member chise

2- Cupcake chise

3- Miami Air-it out chise I may post on that later.

4- Toronto Strong D/smashmouth chise.

There is alot to do, and I am always trying to hlep other get there sites up.




I love STR for any position in madden. O-line guys I look only for STR, and size. They will get AWR/PBK/RBK very quickly if you start them and run it.


I will post some more updates on the cupcake soon.
This new season is going very well, perhaps too well. Just 2 years of draft picks has totally turned this team around. Its not as much of a challenge, and I think I can go 8-8. Just throwing it to Styles half the time is working out since he is 90 OVR now and is such a force.