You may notice a new link titled “Redzone" in the league menu. This page will show all active streams for the users in the league. The page refreshes stream data every 10 seconds in an attempt to keep it as up to date as possible. Sadly, YouTube is only actually every minute. But Twitch and Kick are both updated by the service itself. So, as soon as Twitch or Kick tells MyMadden you have gone live, it should update on the next 10 second refresh. 

No advanced streaming integration would be complete without bots to automatically post links. Discord and Groupme bots have been updated with these options. You can even specify a word to be required in the video title before it can post it; just put it in the “keyword” field for the bot. 

For Discord, you have two options. 

1. Use the /alerts commands. To create a new alert for streams do “/alerts new type:Streams channel:#streams keyword:tsl” but replacing #streams with the channel you want to use and tsl with your keyword to require, or leave off keyword for all streams from your users.  
2. The old webhook way works well for this. Just go in and check the “streams” box for the passive bot you want to post the links. Specify a keyword if you want to require a word in the title.

For Groupme, it's similar to the second Discord method. Just go in and check the “streams” box for the passive bot you want to post the links. Specify a keyword if you want to require a word in the title. 

I hope you enjoy the new features! if you have trouble, please contact me in Discord, Groupme, or through email. 

Yes, you read the title correctly! While we await the arrival of Madden 26 (and hopefully CFB 26 with exporting too), I have added the option for leagues to automatically generate game summaries using AI. 

This feature does require someone in your league to generate an OpenAI API key and put some funds into it, but it's pretty simple and inexpensive. Their are clear instructions for this on the AI page in your league's admin section, as well as the settings for the AI summaries. 

After an API key is added, the settings will open up and you can select which model to use and when the summaries are generated, as well as who can regenerate summaries. For the model, I set the default to gpt-4.1-mini as it seems to be the least expensive one that gives good results, but you can try the others if you want. The more expensive ones should give better quality results, but that is not a guarantee. 

Here is a screen shot of one of the AI summaries using the gpt-4.1-mini model. 

Over the past couple weeks, I've been working to try to speed the website up. The first attempt saw marginal improvements, but the most recent one seems to have really helped. There are still some parts that are slow and I will continue to try things to speed them up, but they have eluded my attempts thus far. (Draft recap, I'm looking at you.) 

Hopefully you are noticing the improvement and having a better experience. I did break a few things in the process, but I think I got them all fixed. 

To quote young Anakin: It's working! It's working!

EA still hasn't released a new companion app. However, with some assistance from snallapa, you can now go to admin->sync and the setup process there allows you to select a league. The league options are based on the league site settings for console and madden version, so please set those first. Once the league has been selected you can use the buttons on the site or the bot commands to do a sync. Remember, roster updates take a while, so be patient and pray that not every league does it at once.

I will also start doing renewals soon, but you have a few weeks to get that done. 

As for CFB 25, we're still waiting on EA to release the companion app. 

Well, the game has been out for a while now. Some of the leagues have renewed their sites with the anticipation that EA will get the Madden Companion App updated for Madden 24. So far, that hasn't happened. EA is taking their time getting the app out this cycle, which is surprising because it's not just used for CFM, but also their cash cow MUT. 

Hopefully it releases soon and we can all start using our bots and sites again! 

Some of y'all know I've been working on a new site upgrade for a while now. It's pretty much ready. 

This upgrade was mainly so the site could run on updated software to reduce any potential security issues, Don't worry, there's been no breaches and this is a step to keep it that way. But in the process, I learned some of the libraries I relied on weren't updated, so I had to make some changes. All for the better I think. Everything looks better on the new site and will have a toggle for light or dark theme. Some of the sort filters have been improved. And I ditched Bootstrap 3 (which is extremely outdated now) for tailwindcss. That means some of your custom homepages will need a bit of reworking. If you want help with that, just contact me via Discord, Groupme, or email. Don't try to reach me via comments here. 

Mobile use was also a big factor in the redesign. The site was already pretty decent on phones I think, but the new site will be even better. The user menu and mobile menus are more useful. For example, the user menu will contain links to all the leagues you are in. And the main menu includes all the navigation links for the league you are viewing. That's a big upgrade for mobile use. And for admins, the admin navigation will also appear there when in the admin section. 

As for functionality upgrades, the big one (for now) is in the stats search table. That's where you'll see the biggest improvement in search filters. You'll also find that passing, rushing, and receiving stats are now all part of one table. This was requested by quite a few admins, so it was something I wanted to add. And it works great! But don't worry, if you only want to view one category of stats, you can toggle the others off. As I type this, all the offensive stats are being converted to their new format on the new server. This will take a while, but it was the only way to get decent performance out of the stats search table. 

More upgrades will come. I had hoped to get more done before Madden 23, but life and work got in the way. So, there's still some big features to come that. Features like fantasy football, sportsbook, and login with discord. 

Having said that, there's still a couple things I need to optimize, but I should be able to that before M23 releases. You'll be seeing the new site very soon. 

As for Madden 23, contact me on Discord, Groupme, or email to renew your league or setup a new one. Same price. $30 for one league. I don't promise to read the comments on posts, so don't leave a comment for renewing or setting up a league. 

Yep, that's right. I finally added league blogs. Anyone in the league can make blog posts and comment on blog posts. In the admin panel, admins can edit categories and delete posts. I'll flesh it out more in the coming weeks, but it's working well right now. 

Madden 22 is now out and EA has updated the Madden Companion App. It all seems to be working fine except some issues with the app having trouble communicating the Madden NFL servers. If you get that error, try again or maybe wait a while and try again. I suspect the Madden servers are quite busy at the moment. 

If you haven't already renewed your league and you want to, contact me and we'll get it set up. I'll probably give a week or two for all leagues to get renewed before I set the site to only accept data imports for current leagues. 

There's been a few new features added over the past few months. 

The history tab on player pages shows their past ratings, teams, positions, and abilities. Bots also now have the ability to post ability changes in GroupMe and Discord. I plan to add the same capability for position changes and contract changes in the near future. 

There is also a new injuries link in the league menu. It works just like all the other search tables but is focused on injuries. I also plan to add the capability of posting injury updates to the bots soon. Currently there is an "injuries" command that will post the link to the table. In the longer-term I plan to add injuries to the player history tab. That will take some extra work though. 

In the admin section you will find a new tab in the menu. The export tab. There you can download league data in CSV files so you can keep historical records and also do advanced calculations if you want to. Or do anything else with the data. 

Also, we recently crossed the 200 milestone for Madden 21 leagues! Have fun, everyone! 

You might notice a new link in the league menu. Yeah, that one. "Draft" 

Well, clicking it will take you to a draft recap. From there you can select the season you want to see the draft of and then view by round, team, or position. 

In order to have the most accurate recaps, please export rosters after the draft before any cuts are made. 

In the future I plan add a way to view the fantasy draft recap, but that will have to wait for now.