Age Variation In Feeder Leagues

[Hotwheelz]

I have a league with 4 college feeders and 4 high school feeders. As it stands now I have 19 and 21 year old players coming into the leagues draft and that is it. I would like a wider variation in age. I was told in another thread, which I cannot find, that I can change the age max to fix this issue. However, I have a couple questions.

What I would like for college are players in the draft ranging from 20-22 years of age. First, is this a good age range? If I set one league to 18-20, a couple to 18-21 and the other to 18-22......is it going to give players enough time to develop enough for the draft? Same thing for the HS players, although I only want a range of 17-19 for high school.

I guess it boils down to whether players in feeder leagues need the full range to develop into a prospect that will advance through a full minor league system?

[Afino]

A more ideal solution is to create several smaller feeder leagues and adjust the min/max in each one.

Here's an example. Instead of 24 feeder teams in high school and 24 in college...
- 14-17 HS league (8 teams)
- 15-18 HS league (8 teams)
- 16-19 HS league (8 teams)
- 17-20 COL league (8 teams)
- 18-21 COL league (8 teams)
- 19-22 COL league (8 teams)

That should give you the variation you desire. As far as your other question, players develop in feeder leagues. The more time (or less time) they have there, the more (or less) time they have to develop in there. However, they don't develop anywhere near the full speed they do in a regular minor league. So yes, hypothetically, the shorter time in feeder will stunt their development, but not nearly enough to worry about.

[Hotwheelz]

Originally Posted by Afino

A more ideal solution is to create several smaller feeder leagues and adjust the min/max in each one.

Here's an example. Instead of 24 feeder teams in high school and 24 in college...
- 14-17 HS league (8 teams)
- 15-18 HS league (8 teams)
- 16-19 HS league (8 teams)
- 17-20 COL league (8 teams)
- 18-21 COL league (8 teams)
- 19-22 COL league (8 teams)

That should give you the variation you desire. As far as your other question, players develop in feeder leagues. The more time (or less time) they have there, the more (or less) time they have to develop in there. However, they don't develop anywhere near the full speed they do in a regular minor league. So yes, hypothetically, the shorter time in feeder will stunt their development, but not nearly enough to worry about.

My only problem is I have already created these feeder leagues. If I try to delete teams or leagues all of those players will be dumped to the free agent pool. Won't they?

[Afino]

Yeah - they'll all go to FA.

[Hotwheelz]

Originally Posted by Afino

Yeah - they'll all go to FA.

So really at this point I am stuck with what I have.

[Carplos]

You could always do a .csv export of the rosters and reimport them (changing their teamID to one of the new teams.)