[Bristolduke]

In your set up when is the first year player draft held? I seem to recall if it is held before the season (maybe during) that it exhausts the pool and then generates fictional players. I always run historical drafts in November. That would be my first thought.

Second thought would be, in what year did the first fictional player occur (e.g. was there a or more fictional players in 1902) and what was the last real player taken. That might point to a bad record in the DB(the players taken for that year will need to be looked at alphabetically to find the bad record). Once it gets an error it will just stay with fictional.