The best way to set it up the schedule is open(manual). Assign your team and friends, the rest cpu. As far as simming cpu games what I do is play my series first. Then have your friend play his series. Once those are complete, you then cycle through all the cpu teams and sim their series. This process of simming takes about an half hour on sony's server. Once all the cpu teams series have been tallied, go play your next series and let your friend play his. Then again sim the rest of the cpu series that corresponds to yours and friend. One thing to note is that compared to the season schedule in offline the season schedule won't exactly be the same as far as the dates are concerned. But don't sweat it. The opponents are. The best tip I can give you is just have you and your friend focus on your individual series. Then once those are complete sim each cpu team's series. That way stats and records will add up the same. Hope this helps.