Allow Free Agents From Other Leagues

CaptainSuperman · 01-02-2025, 01:10 PM

While building my own fictional world, I left on the options for 'Allow Free Agents from other Leagues" as well as "Allow Free Agents to leave League" for most of the leagues in my game. I had assumed this meant free agents in the sense that they were essentially free agents to the entire world. But a few weeks into my season during a test run, teams from my USA league were negotiating with a player currently signed to a team from a league in another country. He eventually signed and left the team he was playing for to come play in my league.

So is this intentional? In reading the OOTPD manual, it reads like it should be only free agents to the league he belonged to, and not players belonging to a team. I'm looking to have my league be the top league in the world and love the idea of already generated players move to play there, but find it strange that a free agent could technically 'belong' to a league. And I do want to avoid players signed to a contract just leaving their team and league to do so

OutS|der · 01-02-2025, 01:14 PM

Check to see if the option to Allow players to purchased from other leagues is checked

CaptainSuperman · 01-02-2025, 01:27 PM

That save is gone as it was just a trial run, but I will be sure to double check that for my 2nd run. I'm almost 99% positive it was turned off for every league but I do have a large number of leagues and it is possible I missed that box in one of the leagues.

actionjackson · 01-03-2025, 09:43 PM

There are reams and reams of settings for this game. It feels tedious, boring, and silly to have to track them all down. Trust me, it's worth it. You may find another setting that you don't want to use, or a setting that you do. Best to line it all up the way you want it, so you don't have to keep starting and stopping. The game has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of how you want to set it up, it flows very well. Tailor it to what you want to get out of it, not how you think you "should" set it up.

01-02-2025, 01:10 PM	#1
CaptainSuperman Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 9	Allow Free Agents From Other Leagues While building my own fictional world, I left on the options for 'Allow Free Agents from other Leagues" as well as "Allow Free Agents to leave League" for most of the leagues in my game. I had assumed this meant free agents in the sense that they were essentially free agents to the entire world. But a few weeks into my season during a test run, teams from my USA league were negotiating with a player currently signed to a team from a league in another country. He eventually signed and left the team he was playing for to come play in my league. So is this intentional? In reading the OOTPD manual, it reads like it should be only free agents to the league he belonged to, and not players belonging to a team. I'm looking to have my league be the top league in the world and love the idea of already generated players move to play there, but find it strange that a free agent could technically 'belong' to a league. And I do want to avoid players signed to a contract just leaving their team and league to do so

01-02-2025, 01:14 PM	#2
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,722 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Check to see if the option to Allow players to purchased from other leagues is checked

01-02-2025, 01:27 PM	#3
CaptainSuperman Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 9	That save is gone as it was just a trial run, but I will be sure to double check that for my 2nd run. I'm almost 99% positive it was turned off for every league but I do have a large number of leagues and it is possible I missed that box in one of the leagues.

01-03-2025, 09:43 PM	#4
actionjackson Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 6,181	There are reams and reams of settings for this game. It feels tedious, boring, and silly to have to track them all down. Trust me, it's worth it. You may find another setting that you don't want to use, or a setting that you do. Best to line it all up the way you want it, so you don't have to keep starting and stopping. The game has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of how you want to set it up, it flows very well. Tailor it to what you want to get out of it, not how you think you "should" set it up.