GAMES MICROSOFT XBOX MADDEN NFL 2003 Manual - page 12
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Sign Draft Picks
After the draft, you must sign your draft picks to your
roster. You must fit these players under the salary cap
in order to keep them on your roster.
Re-Order Depth Charts
Modify the roster before the new season.
Start New Season
Begin a new year of football.
NOTE:
If you wish to skip any steps in the off-season, you can simulate past
them; however, if your Coaching Options are not set to CPU for a given step,
then your team will not participate in that part of the off-season. After all the
off-season steps are complete, a new schedule is generated, and the next
season begins.
Rookie Scouting
Use your scouts to evaluate rookies and help you make a much more informed
decision at the NFL draft.
Scout a rookie through one round of the combine and receive a player note. Scout
him through two rounds, and receive three notes. Scout a player through all three
rounds and receive five notes.
To scout a rookie:
1.
Pull
E
or
F
to cycle among the user-controlled teams. Press
I
or
J
to cycle
through different player positions.
2.
To view a Scouting Report, highlight a player and click
. To return to the
Rookie Scouting screen, press
B
.
3.
Pick up to 15 players to scout per round. Press
A
on their name to flag them.
To unflag a player, press
A
again.
4.
Once you have flagged the 15 players, press
G
to proceed to the Scouting
Combine.
5.
At the Scouting Combine, check up on your scouted rookies. Press
I
or
J
to cycle among player positions until you come to “targeted.” A list of players
that you scouted appears.
6.
Click
to bring up the Rookie Scouting Report. You
should now see that player’s combine numbers, along with
a scouting note. Press or to cycle among all of your
scouted rookies. Press
B
to return to the previous screen.
7.
Repeat this process for all of your scouted players. You can
scout a player through two more rounds (scouting workout and
then scouting list), or you can choose 15 new players to scout.
However, you will only receive five scouting notes if you scout a
player through all three rounds.
NOTE:
Don’t waste all your scouting slots on 1
ST
and 2
ND
rounders!
Those players will likely be selected early in the draft by other teams
before you get a chance to draft them. Instead, scout some players for
the later rounds and try to look for a superstar in the making.
TOURNAMENT
Compete in a single- or double-elimination tournament with playoff-like
pressure.
TOURNAMENT SETUP BOX
Tournament Type
Choose a
SINGLE ELIMINATION
, DOUBLE ELIMINATION,
ROUND ROBIN, or DOUBLE ROUND ROBIN tournament.
Number of Players
The number of teams you can choose is dependent
on the type of tourney you have selected.
Playoff Teams
The number of playoff teams is only for round robin
tournaments.
Fantasy Draft
When ON, conduct a Fantasy Draft before playing
in a tournament (
➤
Fantasy Draft
on p. 16. The
default is set at
OFF
).
To start a Tournament:
1.
From the Team Selection, press
or
to cycle through available
teams and press
G
when all the desired teams have been chosen.
2.
To play a game, select Tournament Tree at the Tournament Main menu and
press
A
on the desired match-up. The Options pop-up screen appears.
From here, you can choose to simulate, forfeit, or play the game.
NOTE:
Selecting TEAM SCHEDULE at the Tournament Main menu starts
Round Robin and Double Round Robin tournaments.
Total Players
Scouted
Scouted Player
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