[dawg_gone]

First, let me say sorry for the long post, but I don't know how to ask this in a brief way.

I started up a historical game, and didn't pay too much attention to settings I didn't understand at first.

Partway through the year, I realized there were only a few players on my minor league rosters, and I recognized them as players who reached the bigs at some point in their careers. I searched the forums and learned that the historical rosters don't include the full minor league rosters. So I wondered how the game was simulating the minor leagues with incomplete rosters, and that's when I learned about the ghost players option. I saw that I had the "enable ghost players" option checked.

So I'm well into my first season when I realize this. I go to the game options and select "fill rosters with fictional players." Voila, all my minor league rosters are now full.

Now I'm into the following season, and I'm finding a few players on my minor league rosters who appeared on January 1st of this new year. I presume these are fictional players, but I thought that was a one-time deal. I thought that the draft would fill up all the rosters.

Q1. I'm pretty sure all rosters were more or less full at the end of the year. Are these January 1st guys showing up to fill the voids of players on the DL at each team? In other words, if I have 3 players on the DL at season end, and therefore 3 roster holes throughout my system, then I'm getting 3 January 1st kids show up?

Q2. How do I keep these January 1st players from showing up in the future? I know about the "prevent fictional players from reaching the bigs" toggle, but I'd like to keep my rosters populated only through the drafts, if possible.