Advice on getting the proper setup for my league...

[jduteau]

Hi all,

I've created historical and fictional leagues before and had success but they've been relatively simple - either one league with minors or one league without minors but reserve rosters. I'm trying to make something more complicated but not really that much more.

I want to have the major league with historical players (right now, from 1871). I then want to have another league that would be the equivalent of an AAA league except none of the teams are associated with the major league. My expectation is that it would be filled with all of the players that were not drafted/acquired by the major leagues. I'm hoping that setting the financials up right would allow the best players to be in the major leagues because they'd have more money. Finally, I'd have a AA league that had an initial set of fictional players. The expectation is that some of the better fictional players might make it to the AAA league and a select few would make it to the bigs.

The first thing that I did was create the historical and then add an associated AAA minor league but unaffiliated all of the teams. Then I created a fictional AA league. The AA teams got their fictional players, the major league had a draft for the real players, but the AAA teams didn't get any players. I simmed up to the opening day to see if they'd sign free agents but they didn't and then I couldn't go forward because none of the teams had players.

The next thing I tried was to create the leagues independently of each other. I couldn't seem to get the created players to be of the appropriate levels. I left the "Traditional Player Creation Modifiers" as they were but changed the "Sabermetric Player Creation Modifiers" to 0.600 for the AAA league and 0.500 for the AA league. I'm not quite sure that worked. As well, in the list of leagues, they are all noted as ML.

Can someone give me a few pointers to create the league setup that I want?

Thanks,

Jean

[jmknpk2]

Hey Jean,

I am no expert on these topics, and I don't have much experience in setups like you want, so take that into consideration.

I'm guessing that one problem your having is that minor league teams have no finances, no budget. When they are no longer affiliated with a major league club, they can't sign/draft players.

If I might suggest something to try: Set up the minor leagues that you want as major leagues. Name them as you would a minor league club. They would then have budgets and financials. Then adjust the player creation modifiers to be consistent with minor leagues. Also set the team financials (team market size, media revenue,...) consistent with what one would find in the minor leagues. Set the Super-star quality player,... salaries to something consistent with minor leagues.

Set the "Allow free agents from other leagues" option so that free agents from AAA are available to all leagues. Set the "Allow free agents to leave the league". Then your real major league teams who have the money, would be able to buy out the good players from your minor league teams.

You might set the amateur draft in your minor leagues, so that you get players coming up. You also might want to consider feeder leagues into both of your minor leagues. But I think you mentioned you wanted your players to be filled from the leftovers from the major leagues. If that's the case, you would want to have plenty of extra rounds of amateur draft in your majors to have enough minor league quality players in the free agent pool.

If you like you could try setting the age minimums and maximums in the league setup for your minor league. I'm not sure that's something you'd want though.

Not positive this would work, but I think it's worth a shot.

Good luck and let us know if this worked or not.