Draft with Relegation

[kq76]

Originally Posted by TurnerONU22

I used promotion/relegation last year as well, but this year I think I have found something to make it even better: disable amateur draft and have a deeper draft pool.

Now, I have four leagues (Premier League, League Championship, Division 1 and Division 2) (named very similar to the EPL) each with a rookie level minors (basically the junior team). Trading is disabled between leagues, but FA is allowed b/t all 4 leagues.

Ex: I used the New York Yankees as a PL team, and their rookie team is the New York Junior Yankees (but with no age limit)

In 2007, I have added the feeder leagues, with a bunch of college and HS teams, that feed to the Premier League. In the PL, I have a draft of 5 rounds, but the pool is so large, that after the draft, the other 3 leagues will pick up the extra players, which i feel is a good way to spread out some of the talent. Sometimes, I have found that a lower league has picked up a FA rookie that was undrafted, and they become so great, that they end up going back to the Premier League after they are free agents.

Another neat thing that I did was stagger in the leagues. I started with the PL in 1970, added LC in 1978, added D1 in 1984, and added D2 in 1994. I am starting to promote/relegate in 2003, with a US cup championship in the preseason for all teams.

I find it to run very well, and I am going to start as an expansion team in the bottom league in 2003, and see if I can make it all the way to the top!

Thanks for this idea. I'd really like to do an association with relegation, but I'm struggling with how to do a draft with relegation. I don't really like the idea of separate drafts for separate leagues (how do you tell yourself that is realistic with both leagues based in the same region?) and I don't really like the idea of not having a draft at all.

Ideally, I'd like to have multiple leagues (or league tiers if you want to think of it as one whole league) participate in the same draft with say the top tier drafting their 1st rd 1st then the next tier drafting in the 1st rd, then it going back to the 1st tier drafting in the 2nd rd. Or something like that. If someone knows of a way to do this, I'd love to hear it.

Alternatively, I wouldn't mind trying out a system where they share the same pool of players, but the first tier does all of their draft first and then the next league does all of their draft. That is, they don't take turns each round. One finishes their entire draft and then the next one does theirs. Any way to do this?

I read someone saying they actually have the best teams drafting 1st which is intriguing and something I would consider too as it makes a fair bit of sense when doing relegation.

As to the idea I quoted and bolded, however, I wonder: are these lower leagues really signing most of these undrafted players? What stops the 1st tier league from signing them and do they, or are they generally so bad that they're worthless? If this is as close as I can get to what I want (if the above two ideals are in now way doable right now), then I guess I'll try this, but I wonder how well the lower leagues go after these players.

EDIT: I originally posted this as a reply in another thread, but when I realized it was on the OOTP8 board and that it's kind of a different topic from the original, I decided to start a new thread with it.