Best way to approach "out-for-season" injuries
IMPORTANT NOTE: I PLAY SEASON MODE, NOT FRANCHISE. SIMPLER MANAGEMENT, AND I ONLY HAVE THE 40-MAN ROSTER TO DEAL WITH.
These questions always seem to come up. Hopefully we can get some good ideas here and make this a good searchable thread for the future.
In past years I used an OSFM Opening Day roster as a starting point, and manually injured all the players who were out for opening day. I added the players to the DL for the team I was controlling, and let the CPU handle the other 29 teams. I encountered a few problems with this approach: it took a long time for the CPU to add them to a DL, and it took even longer for the CPU to promote their replacements to the 25-man. Plus, it left some teams with 32-35 players on their "40-man" rosters.
This year, especially with my limited playing time, I am just concerning myself with opening-day players out for the entire season (plus players possibly out until, say, August). Should I continue using the above approach or, since the list of injured players will be much shorter, should I edit my roster before starting Season Mode to simply remove these players from the 40-man and promote suitable (or accurate) replacements? (i.e. circumventing the whole "injury" situation)
Again, my goal here is to have 100% accurate 25-man rosters, and "very close" 40-man rosters containing no players out for the entire season. Does that make sense?
These questions always seem to come up. Hopefully we can get some good ideas here and make this a good searchable thread for the future.
In past years I used an OSFM Opening Day roster as a starting point, and manually injured all the players who were out for opening day. I added the players to the DL for the team I was controlling, and let the CPU handle the other 29 teams. I encountered a few problems with this approach: it took a long time for the CPU to add them to a DL, and it took even longer for the CPU to promote their replacements to the 25-man. Plus, it left some teams with 32-35 players on their "40-man" rosters.
This year, especially with my limited playing time, I am just concerning myself with opening-day players out for the entire season (plus players possibly out until, say, August). Should I continue using the above approach or, since the list of injured players will be much shorter, should I edit my roster before starting Season Mode to simply remove these players from the 40-man and promote suitable (or accurate) replacements? (i.e. circumventing the whole "injury" situation)
Again, my goal here is to have 100% accurate 25-man rosters, and "very close" 40-man rosters containing no players out for the entire season. Does that make sense?
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