This is something that apparently just started.
A couple of weeks ago, I created the next season of a progressive, and immediately had problems manually adding AAA players. I sent in a tickets for myself and some owners, while other owners simply did it by switching players once the league schedule was created.
Today, another commissioner from a progressive I'm in (and also is in my league) sent us a sitemail saying that the same issue is occurring.
Maybe Admin can launch an investigation into this issue?