Need help with multiple players being released at start of league

[Highlander]

I am trying to run a custom league with multiple teams of a single franchise playing in a league against each other. For example, I have a league of a bunch of different teams in the Philadelphia/Kansas City A's franchise. I go through all of the steps to create the league and I get to the initial league page, there are immediately a number of players who have been released from a few of the teams. Many of them are different versions of the same player....for example, 3 different versions of Hector Lopez were released. It was only 26 players and they come from maybe 5 different teams or so....some aren't great, but some are very good players. I can't figure out what is causing it and if there is something I checked or unchecked that I just can't see. Any help is appreciated....I usually do pretty well with this kind of thing, but this one is frustrating. I can go through and sign the players back to their teams, but I am going to be doing a lot of these types of sims and don't want to have to deal with it every time. Thanks again!