Association mode:
Don't play the draft workout, you will lose pregame intros. Sim them only.
Auto scouting will not work if you don't have your team's first round pick. Workaround is to scout propsects manually.
If a player who's leading the all-star voting gets in anyway injured during February, he will not be included in the ASG.
MLE gets screwed up. If the MLE is available for you and you signed your own player with bird rights during the FA signing period, the MLE won't be available anymore. Workaround is to sign first the player you want with the MLE, then your own FA.
If Player Roles are off, rookies don't get enough minutes in cpu controlled teams unless the team does a trade, vet retires, or someone gets injured for the season. Solution is to turn on Player Roles.
When Player Roles are turned on, Player Morale can be a
bitchGameplay:
The ball handler will sometimes do nothing and let the shot clock run out.
Too many backcourt violations even when the ball handler doesn't have a defender near him.
Those can be solved by increasing Offensive Awareness to (try 51-55) in the global slider.
Don't decrease quickness no less than 10 clicks (40, global) as it will affect the cpu's defense greatly even if Defensive Awareness is at 100.