I'm loving the reds jersey ordered mine today

I had to equip the numbers on sleeve to get them to show back up

If you doing player lock it's a glitch. Go in play game up to select pitcher screen back out then go in player look mode

have numbers show on sleeve and then will show on jersey like normal

No clue what the metrics are I used the Reds so getting high ranking players in the positions I needed might of been the biggest factor I went from 29th to 11th in RF and to rank 1 in starting pitching and few other improvements

I took top 2 guys, 6-7 more in the top 50 and couple 50 -75 as well and it gave me a 5 star A rank