calculating minor league/feeder teams needed

[canadiancreed]

Hello all

I'm trying to figure out how many teams in the minor leagues and feeder leagues would be needed for a 92 team league. It would be only one level of minors if that helps.

Also if a feeder league is added, will it be the only source of players in the league or coudl their be outside players added to the draft randomly?

[myasu]

The link to the manual below should help you.

Once you create the feeder leagues, you will find an option in the Rules page where you set # of draft rounds, to either draft players from only the feeder leagues, or mix feeder league players with "non-feeder league players".

From my experience, draft with ONLY the feeder league players leads to a relatively minor issue.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ear-draft.html

I remember somebody mentioned the work around somewhere, but I do not remember where I saw it...

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Link to the Manual

OOTP Baseball Manual - Adding Minor Leagues

From the manual

For example, let's say you have a 16-team major league, and a 5-round (note! = 1 minor league teams. If you have 3 minors, it becomes 15-rounds) first-year player draft. You need 16 x 5, or 80 players in your first-year player draft each year. We divide 80 by 6 and round up, getting 14. If you have 14 feeder league teams, you should get enough players from your feeder leagues to populate your first-year player draft entirely with feeder league players.

[canadiancreed]

So 92x5 = 460 / 6 = 77

Sounds good although a lot less feeder teams than I figured Id' need.

One thing though, where did the bolded six come from in the equation?

[myasu]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

So 92x5 = 460 / 6 = 77

Sounds good although a lot less feeder teams than I figured Id' need.

One thing though, where did the bolded six come from in the equation?

It is actually 6.25.
25 (# of roster of your feeder leauge teams) devided by 4 (# of years/grades each college/HS teams have, if you know what I mean) =6.25. In other words each feeder league team generates 4 players/year for the draft every year.

So, you have to remember to set the # of roster for all the feeder leagues you have to 25, and then set the age min/max to 18/21 (can be 19/22), or 15/18 (4 years in anyways) when you set up your game.

[myasu]

[quote=canadiancreed;2663352]So 92x5 = 460 / 6 = 77

Sounds good although a lot less feeder teams than I figured Id' need.quote]

Also, see thomamon's post here.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ce-vent-2.html

I think setting up the appropriate # of feeder league teams is very tricky.
I test simmed my league with the feeder leagues, changing the # of teams several times, and could not come up with the result I like.
If you over increase the # of teams, the league will be filled with talented players in years, and if you decrease it a bit, the opposite happens.

I suggest you test sim with various settings before you get what you want. Somebody (I think it was 1998 Yankees) said he set the # of feeder league teams fewer than the parent league needs, and mix the "feeder league players + non-feeder league players at the draft, and got pretty good result. (He might have said something different, but I could not find his post)

[myasu]

I think this thread will help you much.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ent-draft.html

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by myasu

I think this thread will help you much.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ent-draft.html

I offer this once again: