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Originally Posted by Trav876
Thanks for the thoughts but all of that has been accounted for. I have done this a bunch in OOTP 21 & 22 with no problems... yes had full minors, had left everything else on default (the default protected players, expansion lists, etc.). It looks like an OOTP 23 issue.
I had posted this issue in this same thread a month or so ago and got a response from a developer saying they had fixed some "expansion draft issues" in the newest patch. But this part appears not to be fixed. Feel free to give it a shot yourself (I entered in '92 and simmed the year for the 93 draft/season, like I've done before in OOTP 21/22).
For some reason, not all the teams fill their protection lists as well (which is another issue itself, as teams would rarely if ever do that... but should also allow more eligible players- if it weren't for the glitch), and there are still problems not allowing all of them to go into the draft pool.
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I have OOTP 21 and Steam 23 on the computer I'm at, so I ran it in 21 and sure enough, even with Florida and the Rockies getting their inaugural class, OOTP 21 had 1,090 players available in the draft, but OOTP 23 had 2. But then I noticed that as I went to look at the submitted protection rosters, the OOTP 21 default was "Auto-protect Players with less than 3 Pro Service Years" and for OOTP 23, the default was at 4 years so a whole swath of additional players got protected in OOTP 23. So, thinking that was it, I redid the OOTP 23 expansion draft with the change to 3 years.... 19 players appeared...
I looked at Nigel Wilson to see what else could be wrong and in OOTP 21 he shows as having 4 years of Service Time and in OOTP 23 he shows 0. So, that's the database error, I'd reckon OOTP isn't pulling the correct Service Time Years number and absent the field being populated correctly in the "Total Pro Service Years" line (seen in the player editor), it defaults to zero. I spot checked of several players from OOTP 21's expansion draft class and their mirror selves in OOTP 23 to confirm this. OOTP23 players are missing this field and it is defaulting to 0, hence they are auto-protected.