[rmewett01]

Thanks for the heads-up about the checkbox on the Options/Ballpark page. I've been wondering the exact same thing and eventually figured you couldn't have the AI do one (adjusting depth charts, lineups, etc.) without the other (moving between levels). It's unfortunate that it's so counterintuitive -- you would think that selecting "Minor League Managers" in the Manager Home Page would set it up this way for you, while leaving promotion/demotion in your hands. It doesn't make a lot of sense for it to be set up this way.

Of note, I just had the AI exchange what looks to be almost every player on the two rosters between my two A teams. Has anyone ever seen this before, or have any good idea why it would happen (other than the AI being dumb)?

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Uhh... bad idea. Immediately after I did the Commissioner mode-checkbox thing, the AI demoted every minor leaguer in my organization to the Rookie League team and signed about a hundred minor league free agents. My minor league rosters are all currently empty... I'm checking to see if they come back after undoing it.

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Nope... and the game actually wouldn't let me continue because my minor league rosters had an invalid number of active players (0). So... uhh... don't try that, I guess.

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Well, that's awesome. I just eviscerated my farm system in one fell swoop. It's also pretty awesome that the game automatically saves the database when you try to load a saved game, so lo and behold the saved game that I'm loading is the same as my current game.

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Whew! One more continue and it fixed itself. I don't know where all my minor leaguers were hiding, but after I "continue"d again, it demoted all the new signings to the Rookie League teams and put everyone else back where they had been, it would seem. So now I have really really really really really deep Rookie League squads, I guess.