the 5 players is just when I forget to set my line-up. It happens more than I'd like to admit lol but even with having a back up line up in place only 5 get played. I've been playing 7-8 for the past two weeks because two of my players are injured and I put one on the market right before they got injured. I'm still trying to fill that void. I like to run 9 deep ideally I just have lost a whole lot of bids in a row on the player market. Once again though game shape is effected by that but injuries are random.