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Old 08-11-2007, 08:40 AM   #8
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After fixing all the erroroneous releases, I checked the "Prevent AI Roster Changes" box for each team, and I ran another sim. This time it was 15 days, and I kept the commish portal setting of release if DFA time is X days or less set at 15.

The problem is not solved. Players were signed and then released during the sim:
* Salguaro signed on the 6th, released on the 12th
* Shetley signed on the 9th, released on the 15th
Note -- both 6 days later, when they would have reached the 15 days left in DFA matching the commish portal setting.

Further, a team (Hinsdale) sent an export with two players waived and designated for assignment, and this was imported on the 5th. The game released both of them on the 11th, 6 days later, when they had 15 days remaining on DFA.

All of this would seem to support Injury Log's theory and contradict everything that Kai and I had believed about the workings of the the DFA functionality of the Commish Portal. But if that is the case, why have a separate setting for this in the Commish Portal??? A check mark should suffice -- Release/demote players if they run out of DFA time. The entire matter makes no sense at all to me.

On the other hand, I am seeing a few other actions being taken in the middle of the sim that are suspicious: a player being placed on the active roster, some others being released... So it is still possible that GMs have inadevertently turned over control to the AI, without meaning to.
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