Simplified, you get to pick 2 carded players, the other managers pick 2 of your players to be offlimts, and the other managers have the opportunity to acquire offlimits players as freeagents.
Novie, my thinking is, some groupings like STL & Boston would have a century's worth of reach for free agents, but the time-constrained ones would only be able to grab players from their era.
I can back off some of it if i need to. If it is too much, I would just simplify to the Offlimits players are just offlimits, and will not play in this upcoming season.............