Double Players after creating a Team

[Steeltroit]

Hey Guys,

i just created a team a few days ago and I chose free Agents cause I didn't want to take players which are in a team already. The problem is the free agents I chose are already available so the players are twice. Is correct?

[Blitz1942]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

It's been like this since the PS2 days. If you start a franchise using a created team, it'll remove any players from the team you replaced, and use the players on the created team instead. If your team has any players from any other team, or from the free agency pool on the roster, there will be duplicates. It's been like that for a long time now.

[NFCastle]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

The only way to avoid this, is to fill your created team with a roster of a real nfl team.


Write down every player on the team you want to replace.

Put those players on your CAT.

when you start the franchise and replace the team that all your players were from, there will be no duplicates.

[Steeltroit]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

Sorry but I didn't really understand it.

I think there is a way but I got a problem. I wrote down my players I chose and I will be cut the Bills to import my Team. So I tried to put these players, I will take for my team, into the bills Team. My is problem is that I don't want to release all actually players of the bills because then they become free agents ... Is it possible to delete the players of the Bills?

[NFCastle]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

Nope, You need to use an actual team's roster to fill your created team roster.

once you are in the franchise you can move your players around without problems.

But for the sake of getting started without doubles/losing ppl...

Write down every player on the bills if thats the team you are replacing.

When choosing players for your CAT, choose ONLY the players from the bills.

[Ampking101]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

Best solution to your problem is as stated above, fill your created team with all bills players, when you go into the actual franchise with that team since you are only using free agents, trade the bills players to teams that need to fill those position (eg: Stevie Johnson to the Rams, Ryan Fitzpatrick to the Redskins) for low draft picks and then replace the players by filling your roster with the FA's you want on your team, then if it bugs you that you have all these draft picks, you can trade them back to the teams for either UDFA's or low rated guys that you can then drop into FA

This makes it so 1.) all the bills players are not free agents 2.) you are able to play with your created FA team while having no duplicates 3.) the trades don't make any team over powered since you are trading the good players to low ranked teams that are hurting in that position.

Hope this helps.

[Ampking101]

Re: Double Players after creating a Team

Also want to add, I just tried out your idea and literally it's the most fun I've had in offline franchise (I usually play online franchise) since Madden '09

I didn't create a team but I picked the Vikings traded away everyone to teams that needed to fill positions (eg: Percy Harvin to the Jags, Adrian Peterson to the Redskins, Jared Allen to the Bengals) and picked up all FA's to fill spots.

Not allowing myself to trade for any players the first season but I did trade for a couple first round picks for the draft.