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amodernist · 09-04-2011, 02:28 PM

i noticed something rather strange in offline franchise mode... in season 1 of my OF, my TE was injured, so i signed a free agent, Cornelius Ingram. he ended up being injury prone, so i chose to not re-sign him for season 2. now into my second season, i look at the FA pool again, and Ingram is nowhere to be seen, as if he retired from the league --- he didn't, because he is only 26 or so. same thing with many, many other young lower rated NFL players that were there in season 1 in the FA pool (troy williamson, jarmacus russell, tom brandstater), but they just disappeared. now the FA pool is filled up with 70s rated guys, some very serviceable and would that accept cheap contracts, that for some reason, the CPU won't even pick up, while it keeps its scrub 50-60 CPU generated guys. a lot of the generated players, as well as some real NFL players, cut during "cut days" seem to vanish. lower rated NFL players not signed to a team in season 1 also seem to disappear into season 2. did anybody else notice this? it may have to do with the limited amount of spots in the FA pool, i.e. below a certain OVR and/or POT, player disappears. or is this a glitch? SUGGESTIONS?

09-04-2011, 02:28 PM	#1
amodernist Rookie OVR: 0 Join Date: Jan 2011	players disappearing from free agency pool? i noticed something rather strange in offline franchise mode... in season 1 of my OF, my TE was injured, so i signed a free agent, Cornelius Ingram. he ended up being injury prone, so i chose to not re-sign him for season 2. now into my second season, i look at the FA pool again, and Ingram is nowhere to be seen, as if he retired from the league --- he didn't, because he is only 26 or so. same thing with many, many other young lower rated NFL players that were there in season 1 in the FA pool (troy williamson, jarmacus russell, tom brandstater), but they just disappeared. now the FA pool is filled up with 70s rated guys, some very serviceable and would that accept cheap contracts, that for some reason, the CPU won't even pick up, while it keeps its scrub 50-60 CPU generated guys. a lot of the generated players, as well as some real NFL players, cut during "cut days" seem to vanish. lower rated NFL players not signed to a team in season 1 also seem to disappear into season 2. did anybody else notice this? it may have to do with the limited amount of spots in the FA pool, i.e. below a certain OVR and/or POT, player disappears. or is this a glitch? SUGGESTIONS? Last edited by amodernist; 09-04-2011 at 02:35 PM.