You seem to be casting your vote for nothing to happen until all the face scans are done and are approved. Or maybe…
The draft was 22 November, player numbers are assigned around 10 December. Do you think they should be getting scanned before Christmas? No doubt all clubs would offer unanimous support for the idea.
After that of course the AFLPA and player managers approve the images before anyone goes on holidays…BA speculates what the starting line ups are and work through Christmas testing the new patch. Hopefully downloading it by mid Jan meets your expectations.
Then the SPSS wraps late Feb and everyone does the same process again - hopefully before you notice anyone is missing.
Then a few rounds in all the starting rosters are updated and stats rebaselined. Voila! Expectations met.
You’re right, this is a great plan. Why aren’t we doing it already.