So I've already had to restart a Franchise 3x now. My first go round seemed fine, I used a custom online roster to get more accurate team and draft prospects and all seemed fine the first season. Season 2 starts and I'm facing San Jose and they score a goal by Celebrini, from Celebrini. I assumed it was a bug in the scoring notification, but no I look at their roster and they have Celebrini at wing and at center. I exit Franchise mode and look at the sharks roster through edit lines and only one Celebrini is on the Sharks/their AHL affiliate.
So I start a second franchise. All my team looks normal, no duplicate players anywhere that I notice, but whoever created the roster must have put him and all his buddies as top prospects with Franchise potential so 6-7 players all come out in one draft with Franchise potential. Not EAs fault but pretty annoying.
Now I'm on my third franchise run, custom roster and Im about 2 weeks into the first season and I have a pair of defenders go down so I figure sure I'll just call up Levshunov. Go to my AHL team and hes nowhere to be found. Do a player search and hes rostered on the Hurricanes. Im only 2 weeks into the season so I know I havent traded him. Exit franchise mode and look at Chicagos roster and sure enough hes listed there.
So 2/3 of my franchises have either had a player get duplicated on the same team, or had a player get moved to a completely new team. Been playing Franchise for a month now and it looks like I'll have to start yet another Franchise from scratch. What gives EA?