[American_Ernesider]

I've got a league that I'm trying to use the historical players through one of the databases, but that has the current league (all-minors included) setup. Each season the draft should include players who debuted that particular year (i.e. 1891), and I know that there is no way for those players alone to fill in the rosters without some outside assistance.

I've tried to setup a draft at the beginning of the season for the historical players and a subsequent draft later for the fictional/filler players (I can also just fill teams with fictional players as well).

Here's my problem: Almost every year I experience a situation where many of the teams (primarily the minors) have no pitchers, etc. on their active roster -- but the organization may have more than enough players to fill these spots. I can't go any further unless I fill those affected leagues (which sometimes involves most of them).

I'm sure that there are ample players in the current universe to support filling these teams, but they apparently can't/won't do this.

Has anyone experienced this? Is there any way around it?

Any other suggestions on how to get this to work?


Thanks so much!