Hi. I forgot to mention it appears to be a bug in the original game. There is a thread about it here where someone proposes using Game Genie codes to fix it, but I have not had luck using them. I only recently ran into it on your ROM while running a playoffs with two players. I was hoping it was fixable with code.
BTW, I love your mod. I've played about 40+ games with this and your previous end-of-season version.