Okay, this is the last thread from me in a while.
All my issues seem to come from the custom season setup. I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but several things are not working as expected.
My main issue currently is: I activate 40-man-roster, Extended roster, etc and all that in the setup but the game just ignores it. After it loads there are no such rosters at all:
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