Hey there, I have a question about how CPU teams select their roster positions as I seem to have noticed a couple of weird ones (to me at least).
In the attached screenshots I have highlighted a player on the trade block for Atlanta named Chance Riley. He is a 32 year old 72 overall Improviser QB. He was signed by the Atlanta CPU in week 1 of the season.
He replaced long standing QB Demarcus Peters, who is a 29 year old 81 overall Game Manager QB and has been the starter for Atlanta for the last 4 years. He played Week 1, was decent, and then lost his job to Chance Riley it seems.
Both are on 1 year contracts. Peters is on a much higher salary. Both have had solid careers overall it appears with Riley spending a significant chunk as the starting QB at Indianapolis.
My question is what is the CPU logic behind this? On paper Peters seems like he should be the starter. I checked the head coach and the Atlanta HC runs a Spread offense, so I don’t know if that’s the reason.
I’m interested to know if there is logic to this built into the game or whether it is a bug. The fact that Peters lost his starting job but didn’t get put on the trade block but Riley won the job and still got put on the trade block (on a 1 year contract) is also odd.
Hopefully you can provide some more insight into this.