Franchise mode Edited Rosters Glitch
There is a bug in Madden 26 Franchise Mode. In Madden 24 the game worked properly.
I have spent almost 2 months (shame on me) creating all time rosters for each team with great depth at each position ( a mix of retired and current players). I know for a fact I do not have any duplicate players for any of the teams.
Some all time players I created from scratch until I ended up at some mysterious limit (without limit notice) and other players I edited who already in the game but were not worthy of the all time rosters.
I decided to give this a go even though I ran into this same issue in Madden 25. I had faith EA had fixed what they broke after Madden 24.
Once I finished creating and editing the all time teams the best I could, because EA Limits editing abilities for tenure, salary, etc.... I loaded my custom rosters, then started franchise mode.
I changed any toggles which might cause player movement before the season started and when I went to look at the Buffalo Bills roster on week 1. I noticed the CPU had not only moved players to other teams or free agency, but also I noticed a duplicate player, and most likely more than 1 if I continued looking, but I already knew the answer, same glitch as last year.
Example: Bob Griese who is on my Miami Dolphins team of course was also now on the Buffalo Bills and Jim Kelly was no longer be found on any lineup. The game duplicated a player and removed another! The duplication also happens with a fantasy draft.
Also, there is a glitch in the league leaders. If I look at the leaders board it duplicates whoever the leader is in the category. For example: Gerald Riggs shows up 2 times in the rushing leaders for the Atlanta Falcons. The leaderboards are also broken with custom rosters.
Did hitting the created player limit cause this glitch? The game never tells you it cannot create another player that it has hit a limit. However, it just will not save your creation. I tried going back one roster save before this happened and started just editing players in the game. I am pretty sure both Jim Kelly and Bob Griese were created players I made and not players renamed from existing players in the game.
How can EA keep breaking what was working before? I have played all the sports franchises for years creating custom rosters, with hopes to share them with others so that they can enjoy all time teams or do fantasy drafts. However, I can no longer spend endless hours to find out the product is broken for 2 years now and possibly no hope of being fixed. Please fix EA and put out a fully tested product. Time to go back to Madden 24 with less in game enhancements. Thank you, and please enjoy my money I donated once again!