an interesting free agent bug

[tecraccoon]

If I do contract negotiations after the world series but before the free agency date, any players I release, even star players in their prime, are not listed in the free agent list, nor are they signed by anyone. The computer just dumps them out of baseball completely.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

[ScorpioPrimus]

If I do contract negotiations after the world series but before the free agency date, any players I release, even star players in their prime, are not listed in the free agent list, nor are they signed by anyone. The computer just dumps them out of baseball completely.

Has anyone else noticed anything like this?


I had this happen one season, with two players, both stars in their late 20s who had outrageous salary demands. If I remember correctly, one of the players had stats that would have put him in line for MVP, while the other was a solid starting pitcher (16-6, 3.25 or something like that), yet their combined salary demands would have increased my payroll by $30 million. Negotiations were going nowhere, so I released both of them. They both chose retirement rather than the market.

[dps]

I'm not sure if this is the same bug or a related one, but in BBM2K4 sometimes a player would vanish after the end of a season if you didn't give him a new contract. He wouldn't be listed among the free agents, and if you searched the text file for retirements he wouldn't be there either. Nor would he go into the HOF.

Aside from having observed it in BBM2K4, the other reason I'm not sure it's the same bug is that the times I saw it, I hadn't released the player before the free agency period, but rather at the start of the free agency period.