[italyprof]

I finally had a league I was ready to follow through on for the duration. Played the first season - 1940 with historical minors, ran a fantasy draft letting the AI draft my team and then made a trade or two to fill some holes. Season went great, ready for end of season First Year Draft and suddenly four of my players are free agents. I have reserve clause on, and financial system off.

So I don't know how there could be free agents, and when I look, there are dozens of players that are now free agents. Then I do something stupid, which is run a free agent draft to clean that up before the First Year Player draft, forgetting that having one draft before a scheduled one always confuses the system.

So that run, the AI has trouble distinguishing between the two drafts, and when I look at the draft pool the final nail in the coffin of the league is that the pool consists entirely of fictional players, which should also be impossible in a historical league with historical rookies, and historical minors - the latter should mean that there are all the players a league could ever want.

What happened? How could free agents develop in a reserve clause era league? Why fictional players? Anyway, along with today's new patch I need to start over anyway, but it would be nice to avoid whatever error I made that led to free agency in the first place.