I have also had similiar problems recently, players i listed to start have not started. The first time was in my game against Horned Frogs on 07/05/08, i set Marty Anderson to start at Small Forward, but instead Shannon Ransom who was filled into the backup role started. The same thing happened in game against Sin Armor on 07/08/08 with Ransom starting over Anderson. Having read the forum and wondering if it was because I hadn't filled in all of the secondary reserves, i set my lineup for the scrimmage game, and filled in every thing, all the tactics, all the backups and all the reserves, as well as saving it to my default and this time, I had put Antonio Bosque in to start at Power Forward, and Maik Herwath to be his backup, but instead when game time rolled around Maik Herwath started instead of Antonio Bosque, in all 3 games i set substitutions to "Coach Picks from Depth Chart" but I didn't think that would cause him to pick a different starter. Is it then that the engine is working correctly and I just need to chooose "Strictly From Depth Chart" in order to get my starters to actually start, or is it just a bug?