but you could bring the argument also for the offseason scrimmages before
indeed. I did play them last off season which was dumb in 20/20 hindsight (but then again, that was my very first off season, and you live and learn..)
at least the earlier off season scrimmages before the reset (of which I have had a few since I was also dumb enough to finish 5th - another learning experience....) now carry no injury downside risk, so for non-supporters with no PL games, they at least represent a chance to mess around with tactics a bit, and hence have a tiny bit of value even when training stamina or FT.
that very limited value would not seem matched by the injury risk for the first scrimmage after the off season processing, though, if minutes played that week have no influence on GS, and for teams training stamina or FT (which I would imagine would be the majority), it really should not be booked.