This exact thing is happening to me but I’m using the Houston playbook. I started playing July 10th and finished 2 seasons on my Houston dynasty by July 18th with 0 crashes or missing players on any play/formation. On July 19th I started my 3rd season but this time I wanted to play certain teams that season so during the part where you can custom the conferences, I clicked on the option where you can add either 1 or 2 protected opponents and I added two teams. The very first game of the season, the game crashes on me 5 times in a row. I turned my PS5 off and didn’t play until the next day. The next day I was able to finish the game but I noticed that certain plays on both offense and defense were missing 1 player. Every time I would choose those certain plays with a missing player, the game would crash on the very next play or sometimes right at the snap. So I stopped running those plays even though sometimes all the players would pop up.
i know you’re thinking it’s the wear and tear but it can’t be because I turned that off at the start of my first dynasty and the fact that it’s the exact same plays/formations makes me think it’s something else. The only thing that ever changed from my first 2 dynasties and my 3rd one was that i added the 2 protected opponents. Not sure if by doing that I messed something up on the backend. It’s either that or the most recent update made it to where my game would crash on certain plays that have missing players. So far I’m through my 10th game in this 3rd dynasty and the only way I got past it was by super simming the defensive plays on a few games I knew my team would dominate and then playing the whole games on the games I really wanted to play and on top of that, not picking those formations/plays that have the missing player. So far no crashes so my guess is, for now, make a note of the formations/plays that are missing a player and don’t run those again until they fix that glitch. I know it sucks bc there’s some plays I run all the time that I can’t use anymore but I rather use new plays and finish my games than let it crash in the 4th and waste my time.
