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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

Best way to debug is to at least give screenshots of your various setting pages, or upload league files for us to have a look. But the main things to watch out for:

-Do not disturb flag being set: if so, the AI is in control
-Only acting as, not actually hired: again, ai is in full control
-AI Manager controls lineups: shouldn't let you drag+drop in the lineup page anyways

Otherwise, when you go to a game, the only changes between your default lineups and what shows up there are any subs for tired/injured players (or in spring training, players will tend to sit out more often, so spring games may show weirder lineups). If you're properly hired by the team, not on vacation/do no disturb, then the lineups should come up as you expect them to. If not, as I said, a few screenshots at the very least will help shed some light on what might be happening.

Thanks Matt. I believe I've discovered the issue/problem. In all previous versions it's been my practice to leave a few lineup spots "open/un-filled" as follows. I do this intentionally for positions where I don't want a specific starter. A game day decision as it were.

Always in the past, the pre-game options/lineups would load this lineup as is, empty spots and all.

Now what I get at startup is a completely filled lineup, of someone's choice.

I'm about as certain as I can be that this is not a settings issue. I've tried and double checked all options in both the game you see here (imported from 18) and in newly loaded mlb roster sets as well. Also, FWIW, I'm about certain this changed with the first patch.

Let me know if you'd like more info from me.

Again, thanks for your efforts.