Not just BETA but a lot of people reporting problems today (23rd Sept)

I didn't authorize any of my week 4 re-signing of players. I had ~$217,000 under the cap and now have only ~$7,000 which is hindering me from making a waiver claim I want to make. If I'm not controlling the team why am I playing. If this is not fixed I'll be quitting this game. What would be the point of continuing?

Something's gotta be done about these unauthorized AI roster moves or people are gonna leave this game in droves. I'm already looking at other football manager games.

You know that MFN 1 is the TEST server, huh?

Bugs or glitches found here should be reported for improvement.

I joined it knowing it's a test league, but didn't know that meant the game engine could do whatever it wants with your roster. If that's the case, why let anyone own a team in this league?

You know that MFN 1 is the TEST server, huh?


What a snarky, dumbass question. Being a test league has nothing to do with screwing us over with our roster. I've been here a while and never had players added to or subtracted from my roster for no legitimate reason. Why would I continue to play if that's the case?

As it is a test league, new features are implemented. In this case the roster governance feature. If you do not react manually, AI might do it for you, however actually in a very unsatisfying way. This point is reported and JDB works on it.

My roster and depth chart were set up perfectly. The problem is the game started re-signing players on my roster with one year contracts which to me is stupid in week 4. I should make those decisions since I am the owner. I wasn't going to re-sign some of them, but the game made the decision to.

Thx for the hint. I'm not really sure right now, but it looks like AI did it for a single player as well in my roster. I'll keep an eye on it.

Feature being rolled out is to deal with depth chart gaps, which include special teams positions.

Features are rolled out into the test server to get user feedback, to see how it works out in the wild and to spot and address bugs before rolling out to all leagues.

It's hardly a "snarky, dumbass" question but a reminder as to what MFN-1 is and is intended to be, something a lot of people miss.

I've changed my approach in this league to test changes to passing and Zone defence. This league needs owners who understand and fully take on board the nature of the test league. If people don't want to risk these things happening, there are other stable leagues that don't have these experimental features.

What's needed is the ability to give feedback on what you've seen, including details, to enable JDB to be able to refine algorithms and tidy up bugs. Hysterical threats of quitting hardly help improve things.

Now, AI has always been able to sign players. "You must have a minimum of 45 players active and a maximum of 60 players active to prevent the AI from managing your roster."

What is happening with this change is the refinement to take into account depth charts. If you need 2 QBs, then you have to have 2 QBs. AI will sign QBs to match that - if it then has to cut players to fit that, then it needs to do so.

Owners are given the information, that's evolving - there's now a banner detailing the issues, deficient positions have their header in red.

AI should always be a last resort when owners fail to address the problems.

If it's happening when there are not depth chart violations, then there's a bug in that functionality which needs to be detected - why is it happening? People quitting doesn't help resolve any issues.