Players disappearing from the draft list

[jmknpk2]

In online leagues, draft list.

I select players and as I continue adding players, eventually, as I add someone at the bottom of the list, all of a sudden someone from earlier in the list disappears. I use an external list, so I am certain that I didn't select someone twice, also I just go back and pick the same player and he sticks again. However, seems like all of a sudden when the problem happens, random players start disappearing for several picks in a row. Then the problem goes away for a while.

I searched the tech forum for this problem but didn't find it. I am very surprised, because it happens every single time I create a draft list in all my online leagues. It has been happening since I first remember the draft list feature being added. And it's still in the game?

Version 10.4.31
Windows XP

[jmknpk2]

I believe I have noticed an improvement on this problem with patch 10.4.36. The problem is not gone, but has been reduced. I have some information that I hope can help debugging/correcting the problem.

I have recently made three draft lists and one of the three had no problem, but I noticed some behavior on the other two. I think the reason I did not have the problem with one of the lists is that it was short and didn't need a scroll down for the later rounds.

It appears that what happens, is that when I drag a player from the player list to a slot in the draft list, the game gets confused about where I dropped the player, it drops him in the wrong spot. Then when I notice that the player I just dropped isn't in the list, I drag and drop him again into the correct spot. When I do this, he disappears from the wrong spot that he previously fell in, leaving a blank hole where a player earlier in the list had rested. I am nearly certain that this is the problem in a nutshell. The game gets confused about where a player was dropped and drops him in a wrong, earlier slot.

O.k. So in two of the three lists where I had problems that's what happened. But there's a twist.

In the past, I noticed this problem occurring anywhere in creating the draft lists, early on, later on,...etc. But now, I am only noticing this problem when I am filling the draft list at the point where I need to scroll down to get additional draft list slots (past round 40).

I believe I noticed a correction of the long-existing problem in the early (prior to round 40 that doesn't need a scroll down in the list) rounds of the draft, but it still exists in the later (rounds 40 and up that need a scroll down) rounds.

If you could apply the fix you made to the earlier rounds of the draft to the later rounds, the problem may be completely resolved. I believe I noticed this fix in the 10.4.36 patch, but maybe it was with the 10.4.31. Anyway I'm pretty sure I noticed a correction in one of the recent patches.

I'm hoping this helps. I think from a coding perspective these observations would help Markus and crew identify where the problem is.

[battists]

Thanks very much for this information! While we won't be able to get this fixed in OOTP 10, I'll be sure to have the OOTP 11 beta team go over this in as much detail as possible!

Thanks,

Steve