Madden 17 freezes in weekly training - Franchise Mode

@EA_Barry

I did a little more experimenting with this issue last night and this morning. I've written a blog post describing my findings:

http://www.megabearsfan.net/post/2016/09/19/How-to-fix-Madden-17-training-bug.aspx

In summary, I found that the following conditions can cause this error:

• There are no players at a given roster position,
• The only player(s) in a given roster position is/are injured,
• There are too many players on your active roster.

The fixes / work-arounds that I found are:

1. Verify that you do, in fact, have focus players and drills selected.
   If not, then select some.
2. Verify that you have the required number of players at all roster positions.
   If not, then sign a free agent at the relevant position.
3. Verify that the only active player(s) in a given position are not injured.
   If the only player is injured, then sign a replacement player.
4. Verify that no position on your depth chart is empty.
   If a position is empty, then substitute a player into that position.
5. Verify that you do not have too many players on your active roster.
   If not, then cut players until you are below the roster limit for the given week.

While testing, I did notice that after making a fix to the roster, the game would still hard crash (PS4 blue-screen crash) when loading the training. If I exit the game, restart it, and reload the franchise autosave, everything seemed to work and the training loaded properly. So if you've performed the above steps, and you still get an infinite loading screen and/or crash, try restarting the game and reloading the file, and it hopefully will work.

It's still possible that there are other conditions that cause this error, but I didn't encounter any while testing. So there may still be a larger problem. I hope this info helps! 🙂