AI is releasing star players in online league

Killebrew · 04-26-2007, 12:38 AM

Ack. Several players that were traded during a pre-season trade in an OOTP 2007 online league were released during a sim tonight.

FWIW, the trade was on 02-15-2019, the releases took place on 02-25-2019, and the sim was set to autosim for 45 days (from 02-15-2019 to 04-01-2019). That means there was no commish moves done on the day of releases.

I had a complete league back up (manually zipped) so I could re-run the sim, the the same thing happened on the same days in the re-sim. Is there some game logic significance to February 25th? I'm going to try a 3rd re-sim but done "manually" using the auto-play sim dropdown option. If I am able to sim OOTP 2007 without the game releasing recently traded players I'll post my workaround here.

If anyone has any immediate ideas on how to prevent this within the game I'm all ears, otherwise I hope this gets addressed ASAP. Assuming we have not done anything in the games settings to allow this, this is a crippling bug.

Killebrew · 04-26-2007, 01:06 AM

Okay - it's the DFA box thing. I did not have "release DFA's" checked in autosim but it looks like you need to manually move these traded players from the DFA box for owners after any trades, and that will prevent the AI from releasing the player. Is there any other way to do this, or am I missing some kind of obvious global setting? TIA if anyone has any idea's.

DougWyatt · 04-26-2007, 01:25 AM

Hasn't it always been like this ?

We used to (old versions) process trades after the sim to solve this - but with 45 day sims; that'd be tough. Then again, if your plan was to just let 'em sit in the DFA - no biggie.

Sometimes the commish would do it before, if both GMs really, really, wanted him to, and left specific instructions as to where to place the players.

Another work around (though more time) could be to have download/upload days just for trades & new roster moves.

sporr · 04-26-2007, 07:41 AM

Actually, I would just turn off the auto-release DFA option in cases where you might run into this. You can then turn it back on for the regular season.

DougWyatt · 04-26-2007, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by sporr

Actually, I would just turn off the auto-release DFA option in cases where you might run into this. You can then turn it back on for the regular season.

Ahh. Must be why you're a moderator. I didn't even notice they were in the off season, just seen the 45 days.

Killebrew · 04-26-2007, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sporr

Actually, I would just turn off the auto-release DFA option in cases where you might run into this. You can then turn it back on for the regular season.

I will look into this tonight, thanks guys

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BTW, the auto-release DFA option you refer to, is that the one on the Commish Portal or something else under league settings? The DFA option in the Commish Portal was unchecked in my attempts above, though I notice that some of the games check boxes will "stick" and that could have happened here since I recheck the league file and html generation settings frequently before pressing the execute sim button. By check-boxes sticking I mean that sometimes when you uncheck them, then move to a sub-screen of the current screen, then return to the original screen the check box will sometimes return to a checked state.

sporr · 04-26-2007, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Killebrew

I will look into this tonight, thanks guys

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BTW, the auto-release DFA option you refer to, is that the one on the Commish Portal or something else under league settings? The DFA option in the Commish Portal was unchecked in my attempts above, though I notice that some of the games check boxes will "stick" and that could have happened here since I recheck the league file and html generation settings frequently before pressing the execute sim button. By check-boxes sticking I mean that sometimes when you uncheck them, then move to a sub-screen of the current screen, then return to the original screen the check box will sometimes return to a checked state.

Yeah, I'm thinking of the one in the commish portal. I just had my last sim stop (during FA in the off-season) because a team had someone in the DFA box. The bad thing is that it is during the off-season where you really run into this problem since you are simming so many days at a time. The sim will stop automatically dozens of times, which is frustrating. Now if the game would automatically try to put the DFA guys on the active or minor league roster before releasing...

bp_ · 05-09-2007, 03:23 PM

Killebrew, your issue seems to be solved so I am going to close this. If there is still a problem please let us know. Thx.

04-26-2007, 12:38 AM	#1
Killebrew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,326	AI is releasing star players in online league Ack. Several players that were traded during a pre-season trade in an OOTP 2007 online league were released during a sim tonight. FWIW, the trade was on 02-15-2019, the releases took place on 02-25-2019, and the sim was set to autosim for 45 days (from 02-15-2019 to 04-01-2019). That means there was no commish moves done on the day of releases. I had a complete league back up (manually zipped) so I could re-run the sim, the the same thing happened on the same days in the re-sim. Is there some game logic significance to February 25th? I'm going to try a 3rd re-sim but done "manually" using the auto-play sim dropdown option. If I am able to sim OOTP 2007 without the game releasing recently traded players I'll post my workaround here. If anyone has any immediate ideas on how to prevent this within the game I'm all ears, otherwise I hope this gets addressed ASAP. Assuming we have not done anything in the games settings to allow this, this is a crippling bug.

05-09-2007, 03:23 PM	#8
bp_ Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 2,804	Killebrew, your issue seems to be solved so I am going to close this. If there is still a problem please let us know. Thx. __________________ Commish: Over The Mound

04-26-2007, 01:06 AM	#2
Killebrew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,326	Okay - it's the DFA box thing. I did not have "release DFA's" checked in autosim but it looks like you need to manually move these traded players from the DFA box for owners after any trades, and that will prevent the AI from releasing the player. Is there any other way to do this, or am I missing some kind of obvious global setting? TIA if anyone has any idea's.

04-26-2007, 01:25 AM	#3
DougWyatt All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,117	Hasn't it always been like this ? We used to (old versions) process trades after the sim to solve this - but with 45 day sims; that'd be tough. Then again, if your plan was to just let 'em sit in the DFA - no biggie. Sometimes the commish would do it before, if both GMs really, really, wanted him to, and left specific instructions as to where to place the players. Another work around (though more time) could be to have download/upload days just for trades & new roster moves.

04-26-2007, 07:41 AM	#4
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	Actually, I would just turn off the auto-release DFA option in cases where you might run into this. You can then turn it back on for the regular season.