Just take out the guards or tackles on offense and two defenders; usually the corners.
See, I coach at a small highschool and we play nine-man. Combine that with the facts that I'm just getting back into MF for the first time since I was a kid so I don't have many teams, and several of my teams have broken players so I don't have all eleven anyway.
Finally, the real nine-man game is played on a narrower field than eleven man. My old Tudor field is small and less bodies makes for more room to run.
Put all that together and it works great for me.
What I've done is start a small solitaire league in which each team is based on an actuall opponent my real team faces. I break down a game tape, draw up the plays the team I'm scouting runs, and play them.
So far I'm having a blast and it seems to be helping my offseason preparations for next fall.
If I could just take some pliers and 'tweak' my real players.
Sorry if this hijaks this thread. I'll have to start a new thread about my solitaire league.