The coach will sometimes use his own judgment to decide what the proper balance is between starters, backups, reserves, and even players on the bench but not in the depth chart at all.
There is nothing contradictory in this game manual's sentence(otherwise it would need editing for that too...) nor there is anything taken out of context, it is self explanatory, official and leaves no room for misinterpritation or garbage time and other exceptions.
Since the coach CANNOT use his judgement at all regarding the depth chart, if a manager sets a postition's depth chart with one player in every and all three slots, then the player should play 48mins and not be subbed unless and only if injured.
So, yes, there is need for editing the game manual.
p.s we should inform whomever is reading us that all this is just a friendly warm up for tomorrow's private league game!
