[injury log]

What you're saying makes sense, Kai, but the manual implies that the process does indeed 'loop', i.e. that players are checked on each day of a sim. Or do I misunderstand? From the manual:

"Demote/release players with DFA time left of X days or less:
This will cause the automator to search for any players with X days or less
left on DFA. If it finds any such players, it will first attempt to demote them
to a minor league team in the team’s organization. If it cannot do this, the
players will be released.

This process happens is repeated after each auto-played day in the sim
session. So, if you’ve elected to auto-play 7 days, it will check the players on DFA after each day. "

This makes me think you'd want to set this box to DFA Time minus sim length, perhaps minus one. The only players who would then be auto-released would be those who had been in DFA during two different sims.

The option is to release players with DFA Time remaining of X days, not players who have been on DFA for X days. If in Beorn's example, this option is set to 4 days, the only players who could possibly be auto-released are those who have been on DFA for 17 days- i.e. during two different sims (his sim length is 16 days, DFA length is 21 days).