Missing Players/Lack of Players ISSUE***

[billfbrennan]

I know this game is incredibly in depth, but it does not have the depth on the amount of players that are in camp trying to make a team. i just looked at the patriots roster, and then compared it to the roster in the game and i found out that not only are around 20 players that are on their 80 man roster in real life are not on their roster in the game, but also these players are missing from the game completely. so i cant edit the rosters to add them, and begin with the real rosters. Just wondering why this happens (contract, name, rights, nflpa issues, game developers restrictions)??

Will this be fixed with the next roster update? (ofcourse not who is on the rosters at that time but to have these players actually in the game for roster editing for the beginning of preseason)

All of this info is taken from the pats roster on their website, and from the most recent roster update for the game. I am sure all of the teams are like this.

Also just a question because im in the middle of the season in my game and i cant quite remember, but how many players can be on the roster at the beginning of camp? 75 or 80? (in the game) Also is there a way you can control who you sign to fill up the roster? i thought i read in the book that you could, but when i enter the preseason i just end up with the guys that my gm invited to camp.

Please if any developers can answer any of these questions it would be great. Thanks

[Jukeman]

Re: Missing Players/Lack of Players ISSUE***

yea, it would have been really cool to start your career with the real 80 man roster(75 in the game) I don't expect josh to do that in a roster update tho....create a player for HC 2010!

[billfbrennan]

Re: Missing Players/Lack of Players ISSUE***

Upon further research ive found out that there are at least 350 players that are currently on nfl rosters (assuming they all max out the 80 man roster (and im pretty sure they all do) that are probably not even in Head Coach.

This is only counting missing spots from each teams roster break down (2560 roster spots (80 * 32) - x amount of players actually on rosters. this number is then subtracted by the amount of free agents available in head coach before entering into the coach mode) im sure there are more players that dont have spots on teams waiting for a call. and also all the no name injured reserve players such as barry stokes offensive lineman for the patriots, just not being in the game. so that keeps the missing players number growing and growing.

There are still around 350 players that are missing. To me this is alot of players because then they arent available during the season for free agency fill ins, and everything that real coaches go through. And not to mention players that we see at camp, and would like our teams to go and pursue to give them a chance to make the teams.. most of these players have probably played in the nfl in past years also (example: Ventrone S Pats, Kyle Eckel FB Pats)

Its no secret that this was done in madden throughout all these years because lets face it, it doesnt have any depth that the nfl has. But with head coach i would expect there to be more of a selection (even with fake names. or fake players. like all those great baseball games being able to named later by us customers)

The game still plays great and i love this game.. its very hard to stop playing.. It just bugs me that all these players fighting for spots in the nfl are just left out (again i dont really know if there are reasons for this, im sure there are. I would like to know)

I dont know, i may be looking way to far into this but i feel this is a major part of the nfl that needs to be in this game. Its basically like a giant minor league pool of players.

Alright let me know if anyone has any insight on this issue.