Drafted players being placed onto 40-man rosters with major league contracts

[NICK_GIFF]

Hi,


I had this problem in OOTP 16 and am now having it again in OOTP 17, although after the 2017 Amateur draft (I didn't notice it after the 2016 draft).


Basically, when the drafted players sign their contracts a large number of them are being placed onto the 40-man roster of the team which drafted them and have major-league contracts. Last night I spent over an hour going through the draft log up to round 12 (before I gave up although there were only 2-3 per round by that point), changing each player's contract to a minor league one, wiping their service time and option years (it always said they had used an option year) and then waiving them to get them off the 40-man. 3 game days later I then had to go through and re-assign about 30 players who had been claimed by another team (Oakland alone was responsible for about 20!). Additionally, every draftee of mine (Blue Jays) was on a major league deal but a value of $0 and obviously they weren't on my 40-man roster.


This happened a bit in OOTP 16 but only for players up to about round 3 or 4, whereas this version is round 12 and presumably beyond.


I can't remember if i'm playing a standard MLB set up or a custom game but in any event I barely changed any settings. I'm also playing in Commissioner mode.


Have I inadvertently done something daft with a setting?


Any help would be appreciated.

[Markus Heinsohn]

I have not seen this before. Please upload your league files (see instructions in sticky post in this forum) and post the filename here.

Probably some setting combination you use screws up the AI.

[NICK_GIFF]

Thanks for your response Markus.

I've just uploaded my league to the FTP server. The file name is Nick_Giff.zip

Obviously things look relatively normal now because I went through and changed everything so you may need to sim to the 2018 draft to see if it happens again.

[Matt Arnold]

The file you loaded appears to be at the start of the 2016 season. Are you sure you loaded the correct one?

[NICK_GIFF]

Whoops! Have uploaded the correct save file which is called Nick_Giff_draft_issue.zip

Apologies for my stupidity.

[Matt Arnold]

Thanks. Did find a case where some guys who went undrafted and got returned basically missed a check and ended up with a major league contract, but it seemed to only be about 12 or so guys in your next draft. Maybe last year you had more guys in that case? Not sure - anyways, should be improved whenever we get our next patch out.

[NICK_GIFF]

Have now just had the 2018 draft in my game and the issue is definitely persisting for me. The transactions log looks all fine and normal...




But then when you go into the contract details of various players.....





As a result a few (but not as many as before it seems) starters or bench players with significant trade value have simply been waived from their team's 40-man to make space for these guys and subsequently claimed.

What can be going on in my game which didn't show up in your test?

(Sorry about the large screenshots, I couldn't work out how to make them smaller)

[Matt Arnold]

I'm not sure why. Sometimes it can be the smallest thing that causes problems. Your issue should be corrected in the next patch due out later this month.

[NICK_GIFF]

Thanks for the help Matt. Let's hope the patch helps.