Madden NFL 17

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This is the trophy that will more than likely delay you from obtaining your platinum and increase your time to platinum tenfold. The thing about it, is it's not a difficult trophy - just mostly luck based. You can have a perfect drafting strategy but if your pulls are bad, then you're stuffed.

As I explain in the video, sometimes the game will only give you low end gold cards to choose from. Even worse, sometimes the game will keep giving you elite cards but only from the same positions repeatedly.

The good news is you have an unlimited amount of attempts to try for this trophy. If you fail to draft an 83 OVR team, then simply quit out of your first game and try again, but note that you will not be able to re-draft for 20 minutes from the start of your previous draft. So essentially, its only about a 15 minute wait.

This trophy gets easier as the NFL season goes along. As the season progresses MUT introduces new players and legends weekly, and these players and legends overall rating increase weekly as well.

The best strategy I can give is this:

Try to choose a good coach. I know most times you won’t get that chance, it’s not necessary but it helps a bit if you do. Most coaches with West Coast and Single Running Back styles start at 73, while most other coaches start at 72 but this varies as well so experiment.

As for players, NEVER draft a Fullback. That position does not affect your overall rating. Next tip is not to draft the same position twice unless it’s cornerbacks (up to twice) or Wide Receivers (Up to 3 times). Your starting roster has 22 spots but you only have 15 rounds to draft players so no matter what, seven of you players will suck (71-73 OVR rating) and only significant upgrades at starting positions will raise your teams overall. Having two great players at the same position will absolutely do nothing good for your team. For example: You drafted an 85 Tight End in the 3rd round, don't go and draft The Gronk in the 10th round just because he’s available. Sure at 91 OVR he’s the best TE in the game but drafting him over your already 85 RE is only a +6 and will not help you as much as upgrading another position with a larger net OVR increase. This goes for all positions.

This point is delivered well in my video. As you can see on two occasions, I draft lower rated gold players over highly rated elites because it benefited my overall rating.

On that point with all things being equal always draft the player that will give you higher net gain ratings wise. I talk more about that point in the video.

Draft highly rated rare positions first. What this means is if there is only one position in your starting lineup, then choose that over positions where there are two. I.e. you only have one starter at QB or RB but two or three starters at WR or CB. This helps because later in the draft you will pull a deck with high rated players from positions you have already drafted (this will happen). You can double up on corners but not RTs. Get it?

Something I learned through trial and error this year is that some positions pull more weight in terms of overall than others. This may not be scientifically accurate but from my experience I can assume this:

QB > All
RB > All but QBs
WR > OL
TE > OL
DE > All secondary
DT Lowest weighted defensive position.

My final breakdown on my 83 run was:

1. RB – 91 Emmit Smith
2. QB – 87 Big Ben
3. WR1 – 85 B-Marsh
4. WR2 – 83 Sammy Watkins (chosen over an elite player)
5. C – 87 T. Frederick
6. RG – 85 T. Turner
7. TE – 82 Ertz
8. FS – 88 Honey Badger
9. ROLB – 85 Haliiiiiiiii
10. MLB – 86 The other B-Marsh lol
11. LOLB – 86 A. Brooks (Niners!)
12. CB1 – 89 J. Jenkins
13. CB2 – 84 D. Trufaunt (Chosen over 2 elites)
14. LE – 85 Cameron Jordan or Jordan Cameron?
15. RE – 82 S. Richardson (underrated)

My final tip would be to pay attention to your team's overall rating in the top right corner of the screen. Sometimes it will fluctuate and inform you if a player will raise it so for every round make sure, you scroll over each player to check, no matter their rating. To re-draft without playing an entire draft champions event season, simply quit out of the first game.

For visual assistance with commentary, please use the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy56MrEj6Ag