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Originally Posted by blackrussian
please note that most feeder league are set to 18-21 now, so adjust accordingly.
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What exactly would be the proper adjustment to account for this? For feeder leagues with 5-year age ranges you expect about 6 players to graduate each season. How many should you expect to graduate with a 4-year age range?
Our league is currently experiencing the "too many players in the pool" problem in our second year of existence. We're a 24-team ML system with 4 levels of minors (we just added the 4th level this season) and a 10-round draft. Our feeder system boasts 60 teams (20 HS / 40 college). It seems we need to trim that number and/or increase the size of our draft.
The accepted formula for draft rounds indicates we should be using a 20-round draft. That might be a bit much for an online league, although I suppose we could always auto-draft the second half. I'd certainly be willing to make the change if it meant the feeder leagues wouldn't be over-saturating our free agent market. And if a 4-year age range feeder system should be expected to graduate 8 players each season, that would mean we'd be spot-on with our 60 feeder teams (480 players needed for draft / 8 = 60).