Historical Rookies Not Showing Up

nebben · 02-28-2021, 09:14 PM

Hoping someone can help me figure this out. Trying to play a historical game with historical rookies but no draft, so the rookies should appear as free agents in the offseason. But that's not happening. I've tried different things, yet no rookies appear as free agents. (Rookies appear when the draft is on, just not as free agents when the draft is off.)

Here are screenshots showing my settings for importing rookies as free agents and NOT disabling rookie free agents. Any idea what I'm missing?

nebben · 03-08-2021, 06:05 PM

So running a little experiment, it appears that having the "import and maintain historical minor leagues" box checked under League Settings prevents rookies from appearing as free agents. When the box is checked, no rookie free agents. When the box is unchecked, rookie free agents appear.

This strikes me as odd because it's not how I understand it should work. I thought, if you want rookie free agents, you disable the amateur draft, uncheck "disable automatic creation of free agents," and "import rookies as free agents." But it seems that you also can't have "import and maintain minor leagues" checked.

02-28-2021, 09:14 PM	#1
nebben Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 151	Historical Rookies Not Showing Up Hoping someone can help me figure this out. Trying to play a historical game with historical rookies but no draft, so the rookies should appear as free agents in the offseason. But that's not happening. I've tried different things, yet no rookies appear as free agents. (Rookies appear when the draft is on, just not as free agents when the draft is off.) Here are screenshots showing my settings for importing rookies as free agents and NOT disabling rookie free agents. Any idea what I'm missing? Attached Images

03-08-2021, 06:05 PM	#2
nebben Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2020 Posts: 151	So running a little experiment, it appears that having the "import and maintain historical minor leagues" box checked under League Settings prevents rookies from appearing as free agents. When the box is checked, no rookie free agents. When the box is unchecked, rookie free agents appear. This strikes me as odd because it's not how I understand it should work. I thought, if you want rookie free agents, you disable the amateur draft, uncheck "disable automatic creation of free agents," and "import rookies as free agents." But it seems that you also can't have "import and maintain minor leagues" checked.