Subbing in 2nd Team

[davebarr19]

I am missing something or is there no way to sub in your entire 2nd team? I have looked everywhere and cannot figure it out. Does anyone know? Thanks!

[canes21]

Re: Subbing in 2nd Team

It's not in the game. Is a pretty big missing feature that hopefully gets patched in.

[mtoo22]

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At least wear and tear doesn't have the effect they said it would it this would be a bigger deal. I haven't seen wear and tear really play any part at all and I'm 8 games in the season

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[okayokay]

Re: Subbing in 2nd Team

I am missing something or is there no way to sub in your entire 2nd team? I have looked everywhere and cannot figure it out. Does anyone know? Thanks!

absolutely NOT in the game.
I would depth chart modify freshmen to get reps in games during a blow out and demote SR players. Somehow those SR players got back into the game in the second half (the CPU manages? Assuming the CPU is trying to do second team subbing for me??)

Along the same lines....the madden 'wear & tear' thing where they suggest you sub a player out. You say YES ....and then continue to keep that player in the lineup. I guess I don't know how that works

[WilliamPoole]

Re: Subbing in 2nd Team

Gone and never coming back. Like most of the old cool features I'm afraid.

[okayokay]

Re: Subbing in 2nd Team

At least wear and tear doesn't have the effect they said it would it this would be a bigger deal. I haven't seen wear and tear really play any part at all and I'm 8 games in the season

three seasons in here and no injuries that kept any player out for more than a series.
I had one season at WSU where I converted a 6' 170lbs receiver to a HB because he had tremendous speed. EVERY game I would get warnings about him taking damage to his entire body, ignore it, he goes ALL RED and his risk injury was HEAVY (or whatever) but he never got injured. I received a prompt once "do you want to sub ___" because he was at risk for injury, selected sub....only to have the CPU put him back in 2 plays later

[Tonka3013]

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Partial work around might be the packages. There’s a sub DL and Sub LB package. They might have other position groups. But not a whole defense/offense.

[Razerback]

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They will sell it back to us as a brand new feature next year

[Scott]

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They will sell it back to us as a brand new feature next year

Just stop. We haven't even had the Day 1 patch.

[z1ppz]

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I’m guessing the formation package doesn’t exist then?

[dbrodeo2000]

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I was up by about 35 points going into the half of a game and the computer subbed in all my second stringers automatically. It's done that in 2 games for me so far.

[Tonka3013]

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I was getting blown out one game and my QB and RB were automatically subbed out. I didn't know why or what happened. I thought maybe they got hurt.

[bigwill33]

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I really don’t want or like the game making these subs for me automatically. I’m big on stats and if there’s one thing I want to micromanage as a coach it would be playing time and when I pull my starters. I certainly don’t want to pause the game and spend minutes reordering the depth chart, but given the two extremes, I’d rather do that than have the CPU pull my players out for me.

I don’t expect mass subs to return. But with their focus on wear and tear and everything this is an oversight to not give us more management options, in my opinion.

[goosedawg68]

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While finishing up a blowout win I set it on chew clock. I noticed that my qb and running back were subbed out for the backups. Seemed like some defensive linemen had been subbed out too. There may have been more. Those were just the ones I noticed.

[okayokay]

Re: Subbing in 2nd Team

does anyone think this is something that would be 'patched'?
IMO not having formation subs, mass substitutions is a MAJOR oversight for this game. The entire point of program building is getting players involved and getting experience (heck, look at any player bio in a university media media guide).

The game is playable. It is entertaining. It is omissions / oversights like this that really shakes my confidence that these people (EA) have any clue what they're doing. It seems as though there was just a rush to get an arcade football game of 4 quarters pushed + mascots & program-specific window dressing. A complete game wasn't on anyone's radar to offer the public.