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One thing to clarify here and to add to what Alex said, a re-install of the game will never corrupt your files. If saved games or other files are corrupt, then it's as a result of something on your system outside of the game itself interfering with the files.
There are a few things that can cause corruption. This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes especially while a league is saving, bad sectors on the hard drive the game is saved to, memory glitches on your computer (especially possible if the league is left open for very long periods of time without the game being shut down or restarted) or occasionally interference from other programs.
I can't tell you offhand which problem caused your issues, but it was likely one of the above.
Some of what you might do to prevent that from coming up again would be to regularly defrag your hard drive as well as check it for errors, make sure to occasionally shut your computer off or at least restart it and also run as few other programs in the background at the same time as OOTP as possible. For programs that need to be running at the same time, like an anti-virus or firewall, it's a good idea to add OOTP to their whitelist.
If you do all that, it's quite unlikely you'll run into issues with corrupt files again. Hope that info helps!
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