Madden NFL 25 connected franchise tips and guide

Running The Team

Weekly Practices – Take advantage of weekly practices, as they’re a good mine. Not only will it give you a chance to improve your own stick skills, but you’ll get valuable XP for your players in addition to what you get in the games. Best of all, whether you’ve got a few minutes or an hour, there’s a practice scenario for you – and they all give you the same 2000 XP.

Playing The Game

Goals – Winning is always the most important thing, but you can still help yourself out by completing various goals along the way. Goals are set up at multiple levels – for individual players there are weekly, seasonal, and milestone (career) goals. Meeting weekly and seasonal goals get extra XP to be used in progressing the player, but since everyone on your team has their own unique goals to reach it can be challenging to keep track. The best advice is to simply use your best players to the best of their abilities and, naturally, win. Most of the XP will naturally happen.

Goals for owners are different, as there’s no XP that will help out. Instead, as an owner, you want to make the Hall of Fame – and to do that, you need to maximize Legacy score. As you would expect, winning is everything. From having 12, 14, or 16 win seasons to multiple championships, nothing makes a Legacy score increase like banking victories.

Rich Grisham
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