[Zimmer]

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

I would use commissioner mode to move him to a minor league team and then put him on the DL. The game won't let you put him directly on the DL because he's not on any roster at the moment. It's a loophole that probably should be closed somehow.

Also, stay safe, man.

Thanks to both of you for responding. I was in commissioner mode from the get go so that doesn't help. I can "assign to DL" and the message comes up to select 10 day or 60 day, I do that, click OK, but the player remains frozen on the DFA list.

This is such a bummer. Maybe my last day on earth and I can't play OOTP.

UPDATE: Here is how I fixed it.

I went to the editor and saw that he had 11 days of injury but 0 days on DL. I added 10 days to the "days on DL". However, that didn't fix it as it still had the player frozen on the DFA, unable to assign to a team.

Then, I went to the section to "add an injury". I added a new injury, went back to the DFA screen and was then able to move the player to the DL. Thanks to both of you about mentioning "commissioner mode" and although I was already in commissioner mode, I didn't think about using the editor until you mentioned that.

Unless I overlooked it, I did not see anywhere in the editor that allowed me to add days to the 10 day (?) countdown to assign or release because that would have possibly worked to, but by adding a new injury through the editor, that did fix it. Thx again

BTW, re your, "I would use commissioner mode to move him to a minor league team" ... I was in Com Mode and still couldn't move him to a minor league team. Maybe you implied using the editor to move him to a minor league team. I didn't see anywhere in the editor that allowed a change of team, in fact, I don't see in the editor that it even says what team they are on in any combo box.

Seems to me this is a bug that ought to get fixed.

The game designers might note that if I had not been playing Com Mode, this could have been a fatal flaw and I may have had to scrap the entire game. I would like to play in non-Com mode for the challenge but here is a case where playing in Com Mode allowed me to escape a bug and a frozen game. Looks like I will be playing in Com Mode forever for the ability to work around certain bugs.