[funkadillo]

It sounds like you have to use ghost players until you'll be able to fill those rosters out.

I'm also trying to do one of these for the first time, and I'm running into some issues. I'm mainly doing this because I'd like to try challenge mode (also for the first time), but there's realism issues I have with the Tigers that make me want to not play with them (mainly that the game Tigers plan on slashing the payroll by 50% next year which is not something they're planning on doing in real life, and I don't see a way to change that in challenge mode).

Is there a way during league creation to say you want to do an expansion draft to start it off and be in charge of that expansion team?

If not, the issue I ran into is that you can either have the game auto-populate the new expansion team with coaches or not, and each option seems to create massive problems. If you say yes, they give them a GM and in challenge mode I can't replace that guy with myself. If you say no, you have zero coaches at any level and for some reason there's no free agent coaches to sign for me either.