October 2022
The roster you have checked in the “active roster” menu will be the one used when you start a new franchise. If you have created players you want to show up, you probably have to merge the rosters in the active roster menu.
This is for regular franchise, not sure if it’s different for custom league as I haven’t played around with it much.
Not sure what kind of changes you are making, I guess the only way to confirm is to see if the changes you made appear in your franchise.
October 2022
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