Re: 33rd Franchise schedule

@EA_Blueberry I’m not sure. I quit the franchise and started a 32 team one as soon as I noticed. If it’s anything like 20 or 21 the years after year 2 would be variations of the year 2 schedule.

It wouldn’t be ideal, but it would be better if every year was the exact same as year 1.

@EA_Blueberry Actually this reminds me! It’s not really a bug, but a suggestion that fits in with the schedule.

When you start a 33rd team expansion draft it takes a year off everyone’s contract. Presumably this is because the expansion is supposed to take place just before the 2022 entry draft, but it still starts you just before the 2021 entry draft. You have the option to “add a contract year” to everyone if you don’t want to be drafting free agents in expansion.

I think instead you should be picking a starting point for the expansion draft, where you either pick 2021 or 2022. If you pick 2021 everything operates the same as it currently does when you “add a contract year.”

If you pick 2022, at the very least the game should quickly simulate a season and add stats/awards to all teams and players. In an ideal world that first season would involve you hiring coaches and scouts then scouting all the players in the league for the upcoming expansion draft.

I highly doubt anything can be done about this in a patch, but it would really improve the mode of it could be added to 2023.

And now my thought process has snowballed in to me thinking you should be able to vote on adding franchises at any time in even a 32 team franchise mode. Maybe you can get a contract offer to be the new GM of a new franchise that will be coming up in 2027 or something… sorry, I should’ve just put this post in a new suggestions thread. The top part is semi-related, though!

@EA_Blueberry Hey there!

Any chance this has been passed along? I keep wanting to start a franchise with a 33rd team, and then I don’t do it because I remember the schedule/standing will be messed up by year two.