Sweet baby Jesus... it worked.
I created a custom league with 8 teams, and there were pictures for every player. The only problem was they all had grey uniforms (not so bad). But also you had guys named Jose Valasquez who looked like they should be in an old karate movie (meaning that the ethnicity often did not match the face). But I am satisfied for now. I'm guessing Layton's utiliity takes this a step further.