This is hilarious! For those who don't want to read the article, "Madden" is so imbalanced that a guy won this year's championship by only executing run plays, while fielding a punter at quarterback!

There is some lazy reporting in that article however: while "2K Games" or whatever Visual Concepts is called these days has been given permission to make NFL-related games, they've said that these will not be simulation-related products. I wrote about that here.

All of that said, I actually think the contemporary "Madden" games are pretty good, as long as you just relax and play them on the default difficulty. I reviewed the 2018 edition, and the "arcade mode" made the engine play a lot more like the "NFL 2Kx" games of yore.

I'm still hoping to get this year's edition, although with the way the end of this year is stacking up, I'm not sure when I'd have time to play it.