[jyoung]

The way the "50 players per team" works is that all of them are a part of the club, but only 6 players (in NHL '09's case) can play a game at one time. I'd imagine that FIFA '09 will do the same, only with a maximum of 10 players being able to play at once.

However, multiple games can be going at one time, so theoretically, you could have up to 8 different games going at once, all of which count towards your team's record.

That is an unrealistic scenario for most people, though.

For the average gamer, the large team rosters are just a way to make it so that you have a larger pool of people to help you get a game (meaning, "one") going at any given time of day.

For example, my EASHL team has about 15 people on the roster to date, yet most of the time, we have trouble getting more than a 3- or 4-man team together for a game.