[HonusWagner]

Goal:

To organically grow tiered league system using feeders only.





Action:

I have successfully developed and stabilized a tiered feeder system, including high schools feeding colleges.

Now, I am adding a first independent league. I want the indy league (and any subsequent pro leagues) to draw from the universal pool of available players from feeders and from existing FAs who have exited feeder systems.





Problem:

The indy drafts do not "see" all FAs in the player universe. So the indy league gets filled with manufactured FAs. I have tried running the inaugural draft drawing from feeders only, from feeders and additional players, and with "disable automatic creation of FAs" checked. Regardless, the draft pool fills up with created FAs.

Have I missed a setting?





What is odd:


Is that the game does see the universal FA list elsewhere. For example, as a manager I can create shortlists of available FAs and can see every player since the beginning of time.

(which raises another question since it appears a human manager can sign players the AI managers can't access).

So it seems that once a player exits a feeder system they can only be signed by a human manager.

It would seem to be a somewhat simple thing, to make all non-signed players potentially available to a team's AI, since they are available elsewhere.