I can't speak to scout issues cause I don't use them but I can say I have never seen the computer go over my head and sign a coach so if that really happened there has to a setting that is wrong.
If you have 1500 free agents I would guess your draft is too big. You have too many players and not enough places,majors or minors, for them to play. I have a fictional league of 20 teams in its 34th year and I have never touched the free agent list to cull out anybody and currently it sits at 345 players.
You say after a little wheeling and dealing you dominated. When I see this it usually means that the player is not playing realistically. Set the trading to "hard" I don't care about neutral or favor prospects but make it hard or very hard so you can't trade your back up CFer and a minor leaguer for Mike Trout.
Also by realistically I mean that there are other things a real life GM has to consider when making deals such as the fact he is dealing with real human beings and not names on a list so he doesn't make 15 trades a year.
As for peoples fears being realized I have to disagree as OOTP 13 is by far the most challenging and most polished release to date. If you were on the forums for the past year you would have seen countless people express the same sentiment
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