How to fake a normal season

[GermanHab96]

Hello together

as I am playing since 1997 each year a single season offline with the habs
I am very disappointed that this mode is not included.
My question is how could I fake a season mode with full control of the cpu transfers in the GM mode?
Did anybody try it?
How do you handle the free agents topic as I am only doing the transfers
like in the real NHL?

Thank you for your great help
Bernd

[bigwill33]

You can't do it in this game. There is no way to even come close to accomplishing this feat with NHL15 for next gen.

[GermanHab96]

Really I thought with some tricks it should be more or less possible.
I trust I read that here somewhere....

[bigwill33]

Nope, I'm not kidding. It's not possible. And you didn't read it here at all.

[2kguy]

I have been trying to play a "season mode" using Be a GM. I'm ignoring all trace offers and just advancing through the game. I'm only about 5 games in tho, so I have no idea what issues I'll run into. Why won't this approach work?

[GermanHab96]

Hey 2kguy

Sounds interesting. I am sure that some more Forum members tried it.
Feedbacks Arme highly appreciated.

Is it worth it?
What do we have to consider in order to at least be near the season mode?


Thank you in advance
Bernd

[bigwill33]

Read around these forums. There are literally dozens of people that have discussed this at length by now.

If you do a GM you cannot control what moves the CPU teams make, making it completely different than doing a season.

If you do not turn trading completely off you will have no control over what players are traded between CPU teams or when. They often make very questionable trades.

The CPU teams will sign free agents and make crazy roster moves.

Players disappear and just vanish from the game completely in the mode at times.

If you try and create a player there is a duplicate player glitch.

There is a backup goalie bug where the CPU teams have started their backup for no reason and way more often than their starter. If you do not manually choose your roster your backup will play more often than not, especially if you sim your games.

There is no minor league system in which you can send players down and have them play actual games for their minor league affiliates.

You cannot edit players gear or attributes at all.

And these are just some of the things people have reported that is wrong with GM mode and how it differs from a season type mode. Read around, use this forums search function. It was a highly discussed topic when it was finally discovered that season mode was omitted from NHL 15 next gen.

[Smirkin Dirk]

The BAGM mode is early 2000s level in terms of depth.

I think I had more stuff to do in NBA Live 2004, and Im not kidding.