It seems that support for VMware Player is limited because of its free nature. I also have found this frustrating. I am using Player 17 and the vmware-netcfg automatic bridge will default to always selecting all available network adapters. You can manually change /etc/vmware/networking but the netcfg tool will always show all adapters. If you need to prevent bridging, just remove the lines that contain add_bridge_mapping [adapter] 0 for any adapters you don't want to be automatically selected.  The netcfg tool is suppose to change the 0 to a -1 for any adapter that is deselected. However it seems that every time the the service starts it changes them back to 0. I am still testing that this is permanent. So far I have rebooted and it seems to keep.

The problem is that virtual adapters show has selectable bridges. vmaware selects the first adapter that comes available at start of service. So if a virtual adapter is available before a physical adapter, then it is chosen. You can run vmware-netcfg and change the bridge network from automatic to a specific adapter. However, this will only allow you to have 1 adapter chosen. So if you go from wired to wifi, you will need to change it to every time.