[Pelican]

I hate to ask, but do you have any prior saves? It sounds like something got corrupted in the last backup, and I would have no clue how to un-corrupt that. But if you have a prior save, the issue may be absent there, when you load it. Hoping that would only involve a few games, not your entire post-season. [And I gather you do not have any issues with storage capacity for your saves, which after twenty-five years could be very large files, I'm sure.]. I have a fear of this same thing, and that makes me save and backup quite frequently, just in case something goes awry.