[hefalumps]

I've had this happen for a few versions now.

For example, if I advance from 1959 to 1960, anyone in the ML who was playing in 1960 in real life but had retired in my league (either due to injury or ineffectiveness) would suddenly reappear on their real life 1960 teams' DFA list. I'd have to manually re-retire all of them - it was a pain.

I got around this by unchecking "import real rookies" when advancing from postseason to offseason, then immediately rechecking it after. This made the problem go away, and since I was importing real rookies for a draft and not onto their real teams, the correct "debut" players would import when the draft rolled around. But if you are setup to import rookies to their real teams, this workaround is no good because it will keep ALL players from importing - the ones that had retired AND the rookies making their debut.

I originally thought my issue was due to the fact that I'd been importing this league from much older versions of OOTP (probably back around OOTP14 or OOTP15), and so I think the player ID format changed somewhere in the middle there. My theory was that the game was seeing players with the new player ID format that played on Team A in 1960, didn't see that player ID as part of my league, and imported the player - even though that player with his old player ID had already retired. I never investigated more to find out if that theory was correct, because once I found the workaround I mentioned above, I let it go.

Is this league you're playing with one that you've been playing through several OOTP versions and could potentially still be using and old player ID format?