you cannot though. You cannot go through the BAP experience as advertised and and as designed with custom rosters. What you have stated before is a work around the problem that has been identified. Tell the Devs to patch it. I skipped NHL 25 because i was so disappointed with the BAP mode being identical to NHL 24 and NHL 23, so when I hear NHL 26 has a new BAP mode, i bought the game and we were told that you can use custom rosters, but we cannot and what you're suggesting doesn't change that. Now we are stuck using totally out of date rosters. Imagine you're a Vegas fan, you make your player and commit to Vegas only to find out that apparently BAP is a multiverse and in this verse, Marner stayed in Toronto. Or conversely, your a Toronto fan and you hate Marner for leaving only to find that the guy is still on your line. Doing the whole "skip the World Juniors and Cup games" and pick the free agent route to join the NHL directly is so not a satisfactory means to approach this problem. It solves nothing, ruins the whole point of BAP and the fact I had to google the issue because i have made nearly 10 BAP's because i was seeing the wrong players or my player is wearing a jersey number i had reassigned to be available. It takes a shine off the whole thing and makes me want to play something else. and fixing this would be simple. this isn't something that would require rewriting a ton of code. Tell the BAP team that this needs to be fixed or else all their hardwork was for nothing.