AI assigns goalie to affiliate

[Bam_Margera]

Using TBL Rosters 8.1, in year 2020 during the training camp with EDM. I have 4 G contracted and 4 G on a try-out, using 4 teams in TC. In between the training camp scrimmages I play EXH games. After every EXH game the AI assigned one G. After the first EXH-game G Eriksson Ek got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. Then after EXH-game 2 G Oliver Lafreniere got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. After EXH-game 3 G Michael Demers got sent back to Juniors by the AI, which one cannot revert for the current season. Luckily I had planned to send him back to Juniors anyway, but this could have been a pain in the ass if I had planned to develop him in the AHL.

Has anybody experienced this as well? Does anybody know why this is happening? Maybe the amount of G that are currently on the roster is the reason?
GM options: "Use current team selection" and "Use current lines" are the only GM-options activated.

[CeeBee]

yeah, happens to me too. I just make sure I only have 3 goalies in camp on the day of exhibition games. Not sure if it's been mentioned in the bug list or not.

[RomaGoth]

Using TBL Rosters 8.1, in year 2020 during the training camp with EDM. I have 4 G contracted and 4 G on a try-out, using 4 teams in TC. In between the training camp scrimmages I play EXH games. After every EXH game the AI assigned one G. After the first EXH-game G Eriksson Ek got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. Then after EXH-game 2 G Oliver Lafreniere got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. After EXH-game 3 G Michael Demers got sent back to Juniors by the AI, which one cannot revert for the current season. Luckily I had planned to send him back to Juniors anyway, but this could have been a pain in the ass if I had planned to develop him in the AHL.

Has anybody experienced this as well? Does anybody know why this is happening? Maybe the amount of G that are currently on the roster is the reason?
GM options: "Use current team selection" and "Use current lines" are the only GM-options activated.

Make sure you have the correct settings for "Go On Vacation":

Set how to renew contracts: None

Set how to handle status of players: Do not change

Set how to react to receiving an offer for players: Reject all

Set who to make offers for: None

Also, under General Manager options I only answer Yes to "head coach takes control of exhibition games" and "use current tactics".

With these settings I have never had a player traded/released/demoted without doing it myself.

[Bam_Margera]

Using TBL Rosters 8.1, in year 2020 during the training camp with EDM. I have 4 G contracted and 4 G on a try-out, using 4 teams in TC. In between the training camp scrimmages I play EXH games. After every EXH game the AI assigned one G. After the first EXH-game G Eriksson Ek got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. Then after EXH-game 2 G Oliver Lafreniere got assigned to BAK, I recalled him immediately. After EXH-game 3 G Michael Demers got sent back to Juniors by the AI, which one cannot revert for the current season. Luckily I had planned to send him back to Juniors anyway, but this could have been a pain in the ass if I had planned to develop him in the AHL.

Has anybody experienced this as well? Does anybody know why this is happening? Maybe the amount of G that are currently on the roster is the reason?
GM options: "Use current team selection" and "Use current lines" are the only GM-options activated.

Make sure you have the correct settings for "Go On Vacation":

Set how to renew contracts: None

Set how to handle status of players: Do not change

Set how to react to receiving an offer for players: Reject all

Set who to make offers for: None

Also, under General Manager options I only answer Yes to "head coach takes control of exhibition games" and "use current tactics".

With these settings I have never had a player traded/released/demoted without doing it myself.

I'm never on vacation with my NHL-GM. Plus, it worked fine for the last 5 seasons^^
I willtry it though and see what happens.

And I also posted this in the official SI games bugs forum.

[Bam_Margera]

From SI Forum:

There's a roster limit that's not mentioned anywhere at 65 players for any (exhibition) game. You should get a warning that the game cannot proceed without roster changes but might not get it if you're on vacation. You don't say how many players you have total on your training camp roster but have a look to see if that might be it.

PS. When you go on vacation there's an option in that dialog box "Set how to handle status of players". If you have that set to "Allow changes" then your assistant GM will make changes if he encounters the 65 player limit. Demoting Goalies is what is likely to happen in that case.

I'm never on vacations with my NHL-GM. Funny thing though: When I played and encountered this the first time the warning did not plop up. Now that I've reloaded the game it does happen...
And yeah, there are exactly 65 players on my roster. Would be good if this was mentioned in the warning and not that "the roster is incomplete".

Thanks for the hint to this.