Help with age limit on active roster

[lnpgaceta]

Okay, here's the deal.


My league is no-draft. Its lower affiliates (the equivalent of Rookie and A/A+) are supposed to be for younger players: the lowest level is meant for 14-18-year-olds (like a summer ball thing), the next-lowest for 18-22.


I didn't originally have an age limit on the active roster for the major league, and I noticed there were way too many teenagers getting signed and playing full seasons, so I limited active rosters to age 18 in the last offseason.


That resulted in a bunch of teams releasing major leaguers younger than 18, even though they could've just moved them to their developmental teams. Whatever; I moved on.


Since I wanted them to still be able to sign and develop younger players, I then enabled secondary rosters and made them big enough that teams could have all of their developmental players AND their major-league rosters on the secondary. Teams started signing the younger guys again. So far so good.


A couple weeks after that, I noticed that the younger guys are playing, even though they shouldn't be on the active roster to begin with. The age limit's still there, plain as day.


TL;DR: is there a combination of settings that gets me to:

• no players younger than 18 on the active roster, but
• teams still signing younger players and sticking them on their secondaries / minor league teams?

Any help is welcome. I'm happy to answer questions if need be.

[Rain King]

I think an Age Limit at the Major League level is probably a bad idea.

IMO, you need to figure out why teams were rostering and playing players that young and fix that.

[lnpgaceta]

Originally Posted by Rain King

I think an Age Limit at the Major League level is probably a bad idea.

IMO, you need to figure out why teams were rostering and playing players that young and fix that.

That's got a pretty simple answer: every offseason, a bunch of 15- and 16-year-old players generate fully developed. I suspect this is because there's no draft, but I haven't tested that.

[Rain King]

When you disable the draft, there is an additional check box option available called "Disable automatic creation of free agents". That will produce some randomly available fully developed free agents if left unchecked. Usually they aren't 16, but that might be related to your Fictional Player Settings if you have a Created Players Age Maxium?

If you want young players coming into your league without a draft, I would generally recommend using the International Amateur Free Agents and International Scouting Discoveries. You can set these to be from the same country as your main league (instead of the countries used as default).

[lnpgaceta]

Since I wanted to have those affiliate leagues, my current age range is set at 14-22.

At any rate, this actually makes me think it might be easier and faster for me to disable FA auto-creation and just create the FAs myself using the "Create Fictional Player" function.

I'm also still not entirely sure why the thing I'm actually asking about is happening—i.e., why the age minimum on the active roster isn't actually taking effect the way it should.