[PhilM]

With real-life transactions and lineups turned on, the game will still allow one to limit active roster sizes and it seems that if a player who was in the line-up IRL isn't on the active roster the AI will allow the human manager to substitute another player and the AI will do so in auto-play or quick-play modes. I have seen this with both position players and pitchers.

The game crashes, however, if the human manager tries to change the starting pitcher if that starting pitcher is on the active roster. I can understand why the game would not allow this but wish an error message would alert the manager, much like a missing position message that pops up, instead of the game crashing.

Edited to add after further testing: under any circumstances with regard to roster size when playing with real line-ups, the human manger can alter the line-up swap out players, etc, for position players but cannot change the pitcher. This is even true using 25-man rosters where the real SP is not on the roster and the AI had made a substitution, trying to change that substitution results in the game crashing. Knowing this now, I will not make the mistake of trying to change the Sp with real-life transactions turned on. Any "fix" that takes away the flexibility in regard to position players is undesirable. Keep that flexibility, just have a pop up similar to what pops up when a position is not filled.