Players coming from nowhere

[Pirates]

I started a Historical league, year 1890.
I imported all stats up to that point.
I had the inaugural draft.
I set import historical rookies.
I checked use random rookies from all eras (1891-2015)
I also UNCHECKED enable reserve clause.

In year 2 of simulation a group of new players who where not yet in my game became free agents.
Example
Babe Ruth 34 years old
Jeff Bagwell 33 years old
Milky Cabrera 29 years old
and so on.

Where are these players coming from?
How do I stop them from coming in as free agents?

Note: The random players draft is working correctly.

Thank you.

[Pirates]

Note:
Started new season, 1890.
All variables remained the same except this time I CHECKED enable reserve clause.

This time it added all the players into the RULE 5 draft.
I had 186 players eligible for the Rule 5 draft in 1890.

I running the mac version of this game.

[mitchkenn]

Originally Posted by Pirates

I started a Historical league, year 1890.
I imported all stats up to that point.
I had the inaugural draft.
I set import historical rookies.
I checked use random rookies from all eras (1891-2015)
I also UNCHECKED enable reserve clause.

In year 2 of simulation a group of new players who where not yet in my game became free agents.
Example
Babe Ruth 34 years old
Jeff Bagwell 33 years old
Milky Cabrera 29 years old
and so on.

Where are these players coming from?
How do I stop them from coming in as free agents?

Note: The random players draft is working correctly.

Thank you.

i think your problem is: "I checked use random rookies from all eras (1891-2015)"

i've never used it, but i suspect the game is just gathering players at random and placing them in your free agent pool. Just a thought, not certain.

[Pirates]

Update:
Started new season, 1890.
All variables remained the same except this time I CHECKED enable reserve clause.
And, I UNCHECKED rule 5 draft.

This time it added 40 random players to each teams roster.
Some players were playing on 2 different teams at the same time.

[Bowtie]

I don't play historical yet but I'm thinking that mitchkenn may be correct. Try UNCHECKING the "use random rookies from all eras" and see if that corrects your issue.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by mitchkenn

i think your problem is: "I checked use random rookies from all eras (1891-2015)"

i've never used it, but i suspect the game is just gathering players at random and placing them in your free agent pool. Just a thought, not certain.

That is the random debut historical game function. I'm not sure how it works with historical minors enabled, but I would think it could create a bit of a hot mess. Again not sure because historical minors is all so new. If you want to use random debut, you can set it up so that players come into your draft pool or come in as free agents. It all depends on whether or not you have the amateur draft enabled, and whether you choose to start with an inaugural draft to divvy up the players equitably.

I suggest either playing random debut historical without historical minors, or straight up/vanilla historical with or without historical minors (your choice here because it's straight historical) until we know for sure if random debut historical and historical minors can truly co-exist. There's the other complication that random debut historical probably works better with neutralized stats, and you can't use neutralized stats with historical minors, as the minor leaguers have no neutralized stats. There's been a sea change between OOTP16 and OOTP17, and until we get the lay of the land a little better, it's probably better to play it safe.