The word from jdavidbakr is that the only thing he can do regarding the mass release of players by Detroit is to roll back the league to the previous sim. Then we can go in and fix Detroit from making all those cuts. But there is a downside. When we roll back the league, we lose the last sim - including game results. So the playoff results could come out differently.
What do you think? If we don't roll the league back, the players will hit waivers and everyone can go crazy placing their claims on the players.
I've reached out to Detroit's owner too to see what happened. Current speculation from jdavidbakr is that it looks like Detroit bid on too many players and got over the cap and roster limits and the CPU did mass culling.