I'm sure you're getting this one 1000 times a day, but fix the freaking draft. We had so much hype leading up to our offseason only to be completely let down by the crowning activity.

1) Despite setting the time per pick to 1 minute, we got the 15 second default which could not be changed.
2) Pre ranking draft boards was meaningless if you weren't physically present since the CPU sim'd the teams picks irrespective of the draft board.
3) it was unclear what needed to be done during he draft. I joined a little late and hadn't pre-ranked my board. Although I managed to get the commish to pause, the player I thought I selected dropped because I only added him to my board rather than actually drafting him.
4) Server instability led to most guys getting booted during the draft without warning. Those who didn't know about deleting cookies were locked out for the reaminder of the draft. This actually happened to our commissioner so we had no ability to pause the in process draft or make any changes to the settings.
5) Draft board didn't automatically drop players after they were drafted so you had to manually update which was impossible with the 15 second clock.
6) Chat didn't allow you to see all of the text while entering it.

Lots more wrong, but I am happy that it was at least included. It should be easier to run in year two of our franchise but that's a hell of a learning curve.

The online franchise is great to play against friends but it needs to get improved...

Here are the items that need improvement:
1) No logic for CPU trades. Either fix this or at least put an option in for the commissioner to allow the trade.
2) Season progressions are not base on the season performance.
3) No options to include salary caps.
4) Can not use updated rosters when creating a new franchise.
5) Need to list more stats for the league leaders.
6) No player of the week.

I am having trouble accessing my franchise webpage.

Every time I try to access, I get this.

No Supported Platform Found
We’re sorry, you must register with EASPORTS.com and have a valid console persona to use this feature. If you have not done so, please head to EASPORTS.com and register to gain access.

Can someone help here?

For next year, could we please use custom sliders for our online franchise. It would allow us to really fine tune the game for sim players.

Edit:Ooops! Wrong section!

I would like the ability to advance a league from the web or iphone.

if u are interested in joining a online franchsie that is very active and advances every 2-3 days go to e-athlete.net

As far as they promised, the Franchise Online should be updated and optimized starting from this year aswel. But i bet my testicles that no update will be released.

I can't really believe that they went out with this Online Franchise that is much less than a beta.version.

anyway, THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU NEED FOR A REAL FRANCHISE EXPERIENCE, not a joke like the one included in 2010:

- FREE AGENCY WITH SALARY CAP (no way you have a dinasty without it)

- POSSIBILITY TO CREATE \ IMPORT \ MODIFY DRAFT CLASSES

- ABLE TO USE CUSTOM ROSTER AT START

- SLIDERS WORKING ONLINE

- MORE CONTROL FOR COMMISIONERS (SET SCHEDULE, SET RESULTS, SWITCH TEAMS, APPROVE TRADES ETC)

-STATISTICS SHOWN ON WEBSITE TOO!!

- FIGHT FOR FUMBLE OFF , AT LEAST THE OPTION TO SWITCH IT OFF !"!! (this is by far the wrost new feature ever seen in a new Madden).

- PROGRESSION MUST BE ON STATS BASED!!!

- CPU DRAFT LOGIC , NOT DUMB!

Minor things:

- More Injuries!!
- SPECTATOR MODE to allow at least 2\3 spectators
- Awards
- Where is the PRO BOWL??????
- Video Highlights shown in the relevant game box, under Schedule or Scores...
- All the USERS able to post news with team logo appearing on website.

Schmobag's Thoughts:

Things I like about the Online Franchise Web Experience:

- Great feature in general! Love that I can keep tabs on my team from the office.
- Changing depth chart online
- Ability to review game-by-game team stats and individual stats
- Overall look and feel, excellent graphic work, clean, professional



Things I think can be improved:

- Ability to see all player stats like you can in-game (Who's leading the league in rushing yards? Passing completion %? Yds per carry? etc)
- Cleaner presentation of team and individual stats. A section for passing, rushing, throwing, special teams etc. Right now its all kind of jumbled together.
- Would be cool to have your playbook online. Maybe just to view at first, but eventually create and edit plays from the web would be great.

My thoughts.

Things i like:
- That i can follow see results and game stats online from anywhere
- The game stats. They are very detailed and give a good impression of the game
- Being able to modify depth chart, drafts and FA from my computer

Things that can be improved:
- Season stats, both for teams and players, should be available
- The comish options, especially progressing the week, should be available
- You cant type @ in the login screen using a non-us keyboard, i have to copy and paste my email address to log in
- Video highlights are great, but you can only see the most recent ones. Why do they disappear? cant there just be a limit to how many a franchise can store if its a space issue?
- The points on the scoring summary are often completely messed up

Suggested features:
- I would love to be able to follow the games live with a play-by-play update of some kind
- Some kind of ingame messaging and/or forum is really needed to plan games etc. As of now, I dont think any league can be well functioning without some kind of third party website or forum to koordinate things.

best thing about online franchise is playing humans every week trying to make to the playoffs. then on top of that you can make trades for players u like or dislike to improve your team. then each year there is a rookie draft.

Needs
1) Not to be down all the time! It seems like the site is down more often then it'snot!
2) Better stats interface, whether it's the various team stats, or player stats.

Why has nothing been done with the site at all since launch?

first of all go check our franchise please POWERHOUSE (360) ....we are starting season 6 soon and WE NEED MORE THAN 10 seasons....(we advnc once each night no prblem)

Commissioner BLOCKTRADER's Thoughts:

Things I like about the Online Franchise Web Experience:

- ihone app is AWESOME but needs to fleshed out
- love how we can chenge roster here
- how u can post messgs is kool but needs work
- idea of highlights but its currently broken

Things I think can be improved:

- need more STATS, STATS, STATS...including but not limited to: USER COACH STATS, head to head matchup stats, and ALL player stats and TEAM stats too like best D
- iphone app needs to be quicker and faster
- need to b able to sign FREE AGENTS from iphone including non commiss coaches
- ability to alter game results from site/iphone
- ability to AUTOPILOT unavailable coaches FROM SITE and IPHONE
- ability to DRAFT FROM IPHONE
- ability to see DRAFT ORDER from iphone
- ability for teams to HAVE THEIR OWN SPACE on website to post pics higlights etc and keep up with team info
- SUPERBOWL HISTORY and other RECORDED STATS should b in depth and accesible from site as well as iphone
- HALL OF FAME PLEASE for retired players
- NEW COACHES TO SELECT FROM so we can fire current coaches
-ability for email notification ot commiss about trades
-ablity for commiss to veto trades
- ABILITY TO FREEZE FREE AGENCY for a moment sometimes
- track head coaches (users) coaching records ala NCAA dynasty

General notes about Online Franchise Web Experience:

we are having a good time...but we really hope 2011 has MORE DEPTH ....we need at least 20 season limit too

OK some have already been mentioned so I'll try not to repeat but...

1st and foremost: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ONLINE FRANCHISE SERVERS WITH THE LATEST ROSTER UPDATES EACH TIME YOU DO A ROSTER UPDATE! This really can't be that difficult!

Ability for Comissioner to EDIT Player Ratings, Positions, and attributes!

Gameplay Sliders would be nice!

ADD Preseason games and Pro Bowl. In Pro Bowl have them wear AFC/NFC Uniforms BUT wear their actual TEAM Helmets as in real life!

IMPORT DRAFT CLASSES, and randomize the ones you do have!

When I add a message to the franchise it'd be wonderful if it was actually emailed/sent to all users psn accounts so I know they are getting it!

More Comissioner Controls: Especially ability to LOCK Free Agent Signings and "pause' and 'unpause' the Week from any games being played, and be able to SWITCH a USER game to CPU as needed! Sometimes a user just can't make it and instead of changing him to CPU for a game so his opponent can play I have to BOOT him which is pretty lame and offends people sometimes...

As far as the DRAFT, why not import the entire DRAFT from NFL Head Coach complete with Mel Kiper Jr and all? Definitely need to be able to trade players for current and future year draft picks! Make it a show, it IS a big deal!

At minimum we at least need Player of the Week and MVP awards like in offline franchise!

Yes, a Salary Cap option is also a must!

30+ year online franchise complete with team season and playoff History by year and by career. Coaching records as well...

FIX Injured Reserve and ADD the Practice Squad both on and offline! After you do that, cut rosters to 53 men not 55 like it currently is! Also, reduce minimum position requirements to the bare minimum and have it so ANY Player can be depth charted to play at ANY position! Why can a OLB play as a DE but not a MLB for instance? Why cant a tall slower WR play as a TE, but a TE can play as a WR?

This is a HUGE idea for next year! In both offline and online franchises, add NFL Expansion Teams up to 8 teams over a period of time (1 team per division). Maybe 1 team per year online, maybe less often offline. How cool would that be!? IF you do that or not please do something about the limited and poor quality logos for created teams u have in offline franchise mode and have a number of Nicknames to choose from that the Announcers will actually say instead of Home or Away team! Also, add more than 2 uniforms for created teams...at least 4 needed. 1 more thing, add ability to move team to new city, or reconstruct an old stadium and stay in same city, and when moving have the OPTION to KEEP same Nickname and NFL Uniforms please!

and once again: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ONLINE FRANCHISE SERVERS WITH THE LATEST ROSTER UPDATES EACH TIME YOU DO A ROSTER UPDATE! This needs to be done now badly!

THANK YOU!

Thing to improve:

THe scoring summary is way out of order when adding the score through the game.
It's out of whack. Needs to be structured better. Should be an easy fix.

Have it so you can adjust the amount of teams in the league.

ps3.GameNutt69 wrote:OK some have already been mentioned so I'll try not to repeat but...

1st and foremost: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ONLINE FRANCHISE SERVERS WITH THE LATEST ROSTER UPDATES EACH TIME YOU DO A ROSTER UPDATE! This really can't be that difficult!

Ability for Comissioner to EDIT Player Ratings, Positions, and attributes!

Gameplay Sliders would be nice!

ADD Preseason games and Pro Bowl. In Pro Bowl have them wear AFC/NFC Uniforms BUT wear their actual TEAM Helmets as in real life!

IMPORT DRAFT CLASSES, and randomize the ones you do have!

When I add a message to the franchise it'd be wonderful if it was actually emailed/sent to all users psn accounts so I know they are getting it!

More Comissioner Controls: Especially ability to LOCK Free Agent Signings and "pause' and 'unpause' the Week from any games being played, and be able to SWITCH a USER game to CPU as needed! Sometimes a user just can't make it and instead of changing him to CPU for a game so his opponent can play I have to BOOT him which is pretty lame and offends people sometimes...

As far as the DRAFT, why not import the entire DRAFT from NFL Head Coach complete with Mel Kiper Jr and all? Definitely need to be able to trade players for current and future year draft picks! Make it a show, it IS a big deal!

At minimum we at least need Player of the Week and MVP awards like in offline franchise!

Yes, a Salary Cap option is also a must!

30+ year online franchise complete with team season and playoff History by year and by career. Coaching records as well...

FIX Injured Reserve and ADD the Practice Squad both on and offline! After you do that, cut rosters to 53 men not 55 like it currently is! Also, reduce minimum position requirements to the bare minimum and have it so ANY Player can be depth charted to play at ANY position! Why can a OLB play as a DE but not a MLB for instance? Why cant a tall slower WR play as a TE, but a TE can play as a WR?

This is a HUGE idea for next year! In both offline and online franchises, add NFL Expansion Teams up to 8 teams over a period of time (1 team per division). Maybe 1 team per year online, maybe less often offline. How cool would that be!? IF you do that or not please do something about the limited and poor quality logos for created teams u have in offline franchise mode and have a number of Nicknames to choose from that the Announcers will actually say instead of Home or Away team! Also, add more than 2 uniforms for created teams...at least 4 needed. 1 more thing, add ability to move team to new city, or reconstruct an old stadium and stay in same city, and when moving have the OPTION to KEEP same Nickname and NFL Uniforms please!

and once again: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ONLINE FRANCHISE SERVERS WITH THE LATEST ROSTER UPDATES EACH TIME YOU DO A ROSTER UPDATE! This needs to be done now badly!

THANK YOU!

enough said. I Hope someone reads this *.

Adding the Online Franchise feature has tyaken the online experience to a new level....it's awesome.

The one limitation is not having a flex-schedule option.

most people have different personal schedules, and you have to rely on one person to get your game in. With flex schedule, you have more chances to hookup with someone in your league to play a season game everytime you log on.

It makes the seasons flow faster & creates more gaming opportunities for each member since there are usually at least a couple of league members online at the same time on any given day.