Was trying to play sandbox mode with a friend. We're running into some rather frustrating issues.

for one, we can't seem to sign free agents during the regular season. signing off the player tab does not work. free agency during the offseason still works, and so do contract extensions

secondly we can't sign staff. my season is ended and i was forced to stick with my mediocre coach and signed two random coordinators.

we just wanna play the game. are we doing something wrong or is this a known issue with sandbox?

The free agency menu point is only for the free agency sims.

To sign free agents during the season, use the roster management button on the team screen, from there you can 'sign free agent'.

You should be able to sign staff in sandbox, but you may need to go into the team management and set the teams as non CPU team. Let us know if it still doesnt work after that and we will double check.

Coaches are still not able to be signed (hired or fired) in sandbox. This is true even when teams are under human control.

ok thx, will look into this. (Maybe brooks knows more - ill check with him)

I definitely have had the same issue with coaching staffs in Sandbox Mode. Whether you have the teams set to CPU control or not, you cannot fire/hire/re-sign during the staff signing period. Fixing this would do wonders for immersion. I can live with the AI not making changes if I can instead.

Yea, fixing FA and Coach issues in sandbox for next patch.