Community ManagerHey, thanks for dropping some feedback on the game. This is a really good callout, especially for online franchise leagues where a disconnect in the middle of a game can throw everything off and leave commissioners stuck trying to piece things back together manually.
Being able to restore things like quarter, time remaining, score, possession, and field position would help a lot in situations like that, especially in playoff games and other competitive matchups. There is definitely some value in having a better commissioner tool in the game. I will add the feedback to the list and pass it along to the team.
Appreciate the response. One thing I wanted to add is how leagues are currently handling this:
In many cases, we have to manually recreate the game by restarting, burning clock, matching the score, and trying to align possession before continuing.
It works as a workaround, but it’s not always accurate and can lead to disagreements between users.
Having an in-game tool for commissioners to set the game state directly would remove that guesswork and make things much more consistent across leagues.
Community ManagerTimmyT1232 I have done these myself when I took over a league for someone. It was a pain, and then I started seeing more players mention it. Having an in-game tool like that would absolutely be a game changer for leagues.
Community ManagerTimmyT1232 You bring up some really solid points here, especially in slow-sim leagues where the admin side of things can make or break the whole experience. When league settings can be exploited, when game behavior starts feeling less authentic than competitive, and when commissioners have to police things manually that the game could handle better, I can see how that starts creating more friction than it should.
A lot of this really comes back to giving leagues better control and better tools inside the Franchise itself. There is definitely some value in having more flexibility there for slow-sim communities.
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