Help a college student pay for his beer & ramen.
All patrons will be kept in the loop monthly as I start working on my 2021 season recap. I'll share some interesting tidbits about what I'm seeing and how I think I'm going to frame it.
It's your way to stay in touch with the NFA while I'm working on the big 2021 post-season update, and it's also a major behind-the-scenes look at how I figure this stuff out. And since I'm honestly not totally sure how I'm going to go about doing this (how the site is going to look, what I should focus on, should I include the '22 offseason and make the whole thing a 2022 preview, or make the '21 recap and '22 preview two separate things, etc.), I expect that I'll be soliciting a ton of feedback from my patrons as well.
Join the club for just $5 a month!
Higher tier Patrons will be eligible for these perks (all optional, of course):
For $10, you have a direct line of contact to personally ask me for extra insight about a player, or a specific spoiler about something that happened in the 2021 season and I'll share it with you.
For $25 (not per month, just need to donate once), you can fully customize a player (with ratings caps) that I can add to next year's draft class. Be an NFA star! I'll play the role of the no-fun police here, though: you're gonna have to be conservative with the names. I'll be reading them over a few times so as not to let any Hugh Januses slip through the cracks. Unfortunately, that means the tale of the McCockiner brothers - Barry and Duncan - will never grace the NFA. They'll live on as Kahoot legends, though.
For $40 (not per month, just need to donate once), you can pick a team and I'll go through the work of copying every single starter from their 2021 pre-season roster onto a file in Madden 21 to share it with you all for use in your own franchises. I'll make sure everything from the ratings to the on-field accessories will be exactly as it is on the files I use for the website.
That means every time someone donates $40, that roster file will grow until the entire league is fully usable for all of you guys on your own consoles.
Take control of a team and play a franchise within the NFA universe. Think you can rebuild the Barons? Can you win the Knights the elusive championship they've been chasing for years? How many more years can you continue Los Angeles' dynasty? Read up on your opponents before each game and get a cool narrative as you take on the role of guiding an NFA team to greatness. Or you can choose to view the league as an observer like me, simulating seasons into the future to see what Madden has planned.
It'd take me a while to get all 25 teams done and have the full league on file, but I'd absolutely love to share the final product and see the endless possibilities for this thing.