Missing Player Byrce Harper

[Carsten]

This season I continued my season from 2014 on the PS4. I play as the Cardinals. Early in the season I played the Nats and noticed Harper was not in the lineup and just figured he was injured but did not look. I am currently playing them in August and still no Harper. I pulled up their roster and he is not there. I search for him and he can not be found. I go to the first Nat game and he is not on the line score. I load last season up and he is on the DL with a torn MCL at the end of post season. I load the start of the this season and he is still not there. I go back and sim the off season making sure he does not retire and I see no issues. I sim right to regular season and he is there. What happened? Where did he go? Any clue what could have happened to him?

[Madden's Jowels]

Quote: Originally Posted by Carsten

This season I continued my season from 2014 on the PS4. I play as the Cardinals. Early in the season I played the Nats and noticed Harper was not in the lineup and just figured he was injured but did not look. I am currently playing them in August and still no Harper. I pulled up their roster and he is not there. I search for him and he can not be found. I go to the first Nat game and he is not on the line score. I load last season up and he is on the DL with a torn MCL at the end of post season. I load the start of the this season and he is still not there. I go back and sim the off season making sure he does not retire and I see no issues. I sim right to regular season and he is there. What happened? Where did he go? Any clue what could have happened to him?

It definitely sounds like he had a career ending injury, but you specifically said he didn't retire, sooo I have no idea.


On that note, I think young guys retiring with torn ACL's/MCL's in this game is completely unrealistic. Nobody is forced to retire young with these kinds of injuries anymore. It's a 9 month recovery at worst these days, some guys come back after 6-7 months now.

[taterskin]

This also happened in my rtts career.

[bspring3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Carsten

This season I continued my season from 2014 on the PS4. I play as the Cardinals. Early in the season I played the Nats and noticed Harper was not in the lineup and just figured he was injured but did not look. I am currently playing them in August and still no Harper. I pulled up their roster and he is not there. I search for him and he can not be found. I go to the first Nat game and he is not on the line score. I load last season up and he is on the DL with a torn MCL at the end of post season. I load the start of the this season and he is still not there. I go back and sim the off season making sure he does not retire and I see no issues. I sim right to regular season and he is there. What happened? Where did he go? Any clue what could have happened to him?

My guess is the first time you did the offseason, he retired because of injury. Then when you loaded up a second time and did the offseason a second time, the game did not have him retire. This is just a guess but if you do the offseason multiple times from your previous save, you will see Harper retire sometimes and not the remainder.