Add minor league mid-season? / Draft question

[samifan24]

My league just held its first amateur draft in mid-June. I assigned nearly all of my draft picks to my rookie affiliate (I'm playing AAA-AA-A-R minor league system) but noticed that they hadn't played any games after a few days. I checked the league schedule and the league schedule ran from April to early June. I tried to add games to the schedule but the game won't let me. Is there any way to alter this in-season? It makes no sense that a rookie league team's season would end in the middle of the year. If they're short-season, they should start playing in the middle of June, not finish playing.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by samifan24

I checked the league schedule and the league schedule ran from April to early June... It makes no sense that a rookie league team's season would end in the middle of the year. If they're short-season, they should start playing in the middle of June, not finish playing.

OOTP uses a generic April 1st start date for all created leagues regardless of their classification. If you want your short season leagues to start in June, change the starting date in the off-season. As a general rule, any league structural or schedule changes should be made during the off-season.

Alternatively, if you set up leagues which match real-world short season leagues in terms of size, alignment, and schedule length, OOTP should then import matching schedules automatically. Enable the "Auto adjust starting date if matching XML file found" option also.

For any short season league, use any of the following setups and a matching schedule should be imported automatically when you first create the league:

14 teams, 76 games, 4-6-4 alignment.
8 teams 76 games, 4-4 alignment.
10 teams, 68 games, 5-5 alignment.

The above have no interleague play and use unbalanced schedules.