Madden 08 does NOT like the 49ers

by David Fucillo on Sep 6, 2007 9:17 PM PDT in San Francisco 49ers News

So after a long day of reading and school, I decided to fire up the Wii and simulate a 49ers season on Madden '08. I've been thinking about this since I first started Niners Nation. I love the 49ers, I love Madden, so I had to do a simulated season for everyone's benefit.

Well, prepare to cringe after I got probably a simulated semi-worst case season. Feel free to post your own simulated seasons on Madden in here.

49ers 2007 Season
Week 1
Cardinals 28 - 49ers 15 (0-1)

Week 2
Rams 34 - 49ers 28 OT (0-2)

Week 3
Steelers 34 - 49ers 22 (0-3)

Week 4
49ers 23 - Seattle 20 OT (1-3)

Week 5
49ers 20 - Ravens 17 (2-3)

Week 6
BYE

Week 7
Giants 17 - 49ers 16 (2-4)

Week 8
49ers 38 - Saints 21 (3-4)

Week 9
49ers 35 - Falcons 26 (4-4)

Week 10
Seattle 20 - 49ers 10 (4-5)

Week 11
Rams 24 - 49ers 14 (4-6)

Week 12
Cardinals 37 - 49ers 7 (4-7)

Week 13
Panthers 38 - 49ers 10 (4-8)

Week 14
Vikings 23 - 49ers 7 (4-9)

Week 15
49ers 41 - Bengals 3 (5-9)

Week 16
49ers 28 - Bucs 7 (6-9)

Week 17
Browns 31 - 49ers 13 (6-10)

First off, in regards to the Arizona Cardinals, they actually won the West and lost to Philadelphia in the NFC title game. What was really bizarre was that the system had Kurt Warner as their starting QB the whole year. Kinda bizarre.
Frank Gore finished the season with 1367 yards and 13 TDs on 277 carries, but missed 3+ weeks with a hip pointer, which coincided with the team dropping to 4-9.
Alex Smith finished with an 80.2 QB rating, 2700 yards, 18 TDs and 14 INTs, but week after week he never seemed all that great. He bottomed out in week 11 going 7-23 for 48 yards.
Patrick Willis was NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year finishing with 88 tackles and 5 sacks, while the defensive leader was Derek Smith with 111 tackles and 6 sacks.
Darrell Jackson and The Disease tied with 67 receptions, although DJack had 7 TDs to Davis's 3.
Arnaz Battle was a lowlight finishing with 30 receptions for 341 yards, although he struggled with injuries for chunks of the year

All in all certainly not pretty. Thank goodness it's fake! As part of my game day info each week I'll simulate the 49ers game that week with up to date rosters and we'll see what it shows us. And I bet if each one of you simulated through a season, you'd get some radically different seasons...at least I hope so.

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ouch

trouncing the bengals and losing to the browns? something doesn't seem right.

Bring back the classic Uni's!

by wjackalope on Sep 7, 2007 10:12 AM PDT reply actions

exactly

I also forgot to remove Michael Vick from the Falcons.

I'm thinking if I have sometime this weekend, I'll do like 20 sims of a season, see what the average ends up being and posting that. I won't include a breakdown of each game, but just get an idea of the cumulation.

The other problem is rosters aren't totally right. They don't have Tarell Brown, Brandon Williams or Colby Bockwoldt on the roster and Jay Moore and Joe Cohen aren't on IR. I've got an internet connection so I'm gonna see if they have updated rosters online yet.

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by David Fucillo on Sep 7, 2007 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions

both ideas good

tweak the rosters as necessary to make them more realistic (aka no vick, pacman, etc), major roster changes and injuries accounted for. then run it a bunch of times and see what happens. although, to be honest, there's probably someone out in internetland that's sim'd the whole 2007 season 400 times...

Bring back the classic Uni's!

by wjackalope on Sep 7, 2007 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Updated rosters

Last I checked, they haven't released one for the Wii. The Wii version of the game seems to have been a half-assed attempt at "improving" the game. The biggest things they did were throw in all of those minigames. Other than that, I hear the game is terribly buggy (though I haven't encountered most of the errors reported), and the rosters seem to be ignored.

One of my biggest disappointments (this year and last) was that Marcus Hudson is no where to be found. At least this year Delanie Walker is on the roster, but theres no Bajema anywhere.

by sfgfan on Sep 7, 2007 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

correct

Bajema and Hudson aren't included. I'll create players and whatnot to make it more accurate. I have yet to go online from my Wii so I'll try and do that this weekend.

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by David Fucillo on Sep 7, 2007 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Thats the other thing.

Thats the other thing that irked me about '08 on Wii. Why in the world did the opt to take the "Create-A-Player" option out? That was how I "made my dreams come true". Create myself as some high-60 or low-70 overall player, and work my way into the starting lineup after a couple of seasons.

by sfgfan on Sep 7, 2007 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions

yeah right

How does a team beat the Seahawks, Ravens, Saints and Bengals go 2-10 in the other games? Those are pretty much the hardest games for the Niners. I'd be interested to find out what all exactly goes into these simulations.

by methodrampage on Sep 7, 2007 12:22 PM PDT reply actions