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Originally Posted by UKRedsFan
When I changed a few affiiliations, the players stayed with the minor league club they were already at, and their old parent club lost them to the new parent club.
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I hadn't gone as far as changing affiliations yet, so I didn't realize this is what would happen. Obviously most people, who are trying to more or less follow the modern affiliation model, will see this as a bug or flaw.
However I should point out that this is actually the CORRECT approach if you're trying to mimic the earliest days of farm-team arrangements. In those days the minor league teams were more like today's independents than like today's affiliated minors. The minor teams were pretty much responsible for finding their own players, their primary interest was in being financially successful in their own towns and competitive in their own leagues (as opposed to developing players for the big club), they received little direct support from the major league organization, and their affiliation agreement simply meant that they would, from time to time, sell the contracts of certain players to that major league team, and not to any others.
In THIS scenario, if a minor club changed affiliations, they WOULD keep all their current players; it would mean only that, henceforth, their occasional sales would be to a different major club.