In a sports game's Franchise Mode....

[DragonMasterP]

Which one do you do? Say, for example, you're playing Madden. Do you take a team like the Patriots and make them better, or a team like the Lions and make them a good team?

[Push R Truth]

I always play as "my" team.


So it's always the Vikings and the Cyclones.

[Deleted]

I always choose my favorite or my 2nd favorite team. For the past seven years and the past three years I'm used to making the worst, the worst, and 2nd worst team in the league better.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

I take the crap teams and make them good.

I save the playing for my favorite team thing for the create-a-player career mode.

[Toxik916]

I always pick my favorite teams.

[Lazy peon]

Yeah my favorite teams

[Sajoa Moe]

I pick a random team and do a draft. It's especially fun when I create all-time rosters and you can pick from just about every great player in history.

[Dat Dude]

Worst team. Always.

[triplethreatmark]

Worst to 1st for well as me. It's much more challenging that way and I guess it makes me feel like a Real GM where I have to do my best trying to create the best team possible while staying within the Salary Cap.

[Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan]

In Madden, I play as a mid-pack team usually. The awful teams are an abomination to play as unless you adjust the difficulty or force some unrealistic trades and the elite teams can get boring after awhile because you're beating everyone 42-10. Just seems more fun for me to play as a team that's in the 6-10 to 9-7 range because, especially with the degree of parody in the NFL, winning 11 or 12 games and a Super Bowl isn't that far off for some of them.

I usully play as my favorite team in exhibition mode, and if I'm playing my favorite team during the season in my franchise mode, I'll simulate & do the job for them.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

My favorite thing used to be the old-ass Raiders, whom I could trade Gannon, Rice, Brown, etc. for high picks because they almost always retired the next year anyway.

I used to have 4 or 5 first round picks

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

In MVP Baseball, I'd play as the Devil Rays, Nationals, Mariners and Mets.

[Dr. T is an alien]

It depends. For college sports games I always start on a crap team (one that would be willing to sign an inexperienced new coach). For pro sports I try to take a crap team that would have likely have been up for sale and make it a winner (a real challenge sometimes).

I prefer to not actually play the games themselves, though. I prefer to simulate the games. That way my success is not a result of abusing poor AI. Depending on the game you can have really long stretches of success (I took the Cardinals on a stretch of 15 straight SB appearances (10-5 record) with about 6 perfect seasons to boot in Madden 07)

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I always play as the Cardinals in MLB games, so I guess good team into better team.

[Vampiro138]

Chicago Cubs, which would fall into taking a bad team into great team thing.

[Goldenbane]

When it comes to Madden, I like to take my two favorite teams and make them into great teams. And since my two favorite teams, the Browns and Jaguars, also happen to be the worst teams ever, you can see where I'm going with this.

Meanwhile, in NCAA Football, my favorite team is the Buckeyes. I like to play one time through with them, but afterwards I start playing teams like Navy, Maryland, and the like. Love my Bucks, but I do get tired of seeing the scarlet and grey after so long, and I don't have much interested in the other big name schools (Alabama, Florida, ect).