Free-Agents going to other leagues when not enabled

southsidefan · 10-25-2009, 10:39 AM

Have MLB and Nippon league with free-agents disabled from leaving their leagues and with foreign free-agents enable to enter the Nippon league only.
Finally got to first post-season with X and have 10.4.29 patch, and now I have MLB and Nippon league free-agents intermingled in their respective free-agent pool. so I don't know if version X originally did this or the patch.Never had problems with the setting in other versions. Installed 10.29.4 patch during the season.

mjdoom · 10-28-2009, 11:40 PM

I think our league is having a similar problem. We have a Japanese International league that is set up to intentionally have larger contracts for their players so that when they become Free Agents they are generally expensive to sign away from Japan. Our main league is set to Enabled for "Allow Free Agents from other Leagues". The Japanese league has this unchecked. The idea is that we can potentially sign players away from Japan for relatively large contracts but Japan cannot sign anyone away from us.

This offseason though suddenly Japanese teams seem to be able to bid on our free agents and thanks to their pumped up financials they are signing away our players at contracts that our teams could never afford. With the exception of one isolated incident about 5 seasons back I don't recall a Japanese team ever signing someone away from our main league that was not originally in Japan and now it has happened at least 5 times in the first 2 weeks of free agency so something has changed.

I have double-checked that these checkboxes are set as expected in the league setup rules and they are. Was something changed here? Is there anything I can do to make this function the way it is supposed to again? Or am I going to have to take some drastic financial or other measures to try to stop this from happening?

Edit: I will add that our league is patched up to the latest 10.4.31 patch.

mjdoom · 10-29-2009, 07:44 PM

After investigating this further I've found that some players seem to be available to the Japanese league and some players are not but I can't find any reason why they should be different. I looked at my latest dump of my .csv files in the players.csv and compared two players (one who is available and one who is not) and can't find any notable differences. All of the league_ids look ok. If I sign a player with a Japanese team and then release them or otherwise remove them from the pool and return them they become visible to the Japanese teams again so this was not a 1-time error; it is some sort of persistent problem.

Being that this is an online league in the offseason we're stuck in a little bit of limbo. I'm probably going to have to take some temporary measures to get past it for this offseason but there is clearly some sort of problem here with some feature(s) that have been working for a long time and suddenly are not for whatever reason. I would be a bit disappointed if we had to modify a league that has been running for a significant number of seasons thanks to a bug being introduced that was never there before.

10-25-2009, 10:39 AM	#1
southsidefan Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 36	Free-Agents going to other leagues when not enabled Have MLB and Nippon league with free-agents disabled from leaving their leagues and with foreign free-agents enable to enter the Nippon league only. Finally got to first post-season with X and have 10.4.29 patch, and now I have MLB and Nippon league free-agents intermingled in their respective free-agent pool. so I don't know if version X originally did this or the patch.Never had problems with the setting in other versions. Installed 10.29.4 patch during the season.

10-28-2009, 11:40 PM	#2
mjdoom Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 37	I think our league is having a similar problem. We have a Japanese International league that is set up to intentionally have larger contracts for their players so that when they become Free Agents they are generally expensive to sign away from Japan. Our main league is set to Enabled for "Allow Free Agents from other Leagues". The Japanese league has this unchecked. The idea is that we can potentially sign players away from Japan for relatively large contracts but Japan cannot sign anyone away from us. This offseason though suddenly Japanese teams seem to be able to bid on our free agents and thanks to their pumped up financials they are signing away our players at contracts that our teams could never afford. With the exception of one isolated incident about 5 seasons back I don't recall a Japanese team ever signing someone away from our main league that was not originally in Japan and now it has happened at least 5 times in the first 2 weeks of free agency so something has changed. I have double-checked that these checkboxes are set as expected in the league setup rules and they are. Was something changed here? Is there anything I can do to make this function the way it is supposed to again? Or am I going to have to take some drastic financial or other measures to try to stop this from happening? Edit: I will add that our league is patched up to the latest 10.4.31 patch.

10-29-2009, 07:44 PM	#3
mjdoom Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 37	After investigating this further I've found that some players seem to be available to the Japanese league and some players are not but I can't find any reason why they should be different. I looked at my latest dump of my .csv files in the players.csv and compared two players (one who is available and one who is not) and can't find any notable differences. All of the league_ids look ok. If I sign a player with a Japanese team and then release them or otherwise remove them from the pool and return them they become visible to the Japanese teams again so this was not a 1-time error; it is some sort of persistent problem. Being that this is an online league in the offseason we're stuck in a little bit of limbo. I'm probably going to have to take some temporary measures to get past it for this offseason but there is clearly some sort of problem here with some feature(s) that have been working for a long time and suddenly are not for whatever reason. I would be a bit disappointed if we had to modify a league that has been running for a significant number of seasons thanks to a bug being introduced that was never there before.