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Originally Posted by gmo
As far as the AI handling where to assign players (how to promote/demote), it could just look at his ratings and see what level at which those ratings are the best fit. All that seems to me basically how it works the minors now and could be applied to whatever leagues and levels.
I may have a completely wrong idea about all this, but I am now a bit more comfortable in thinking the AI will be able to handle well any universe and not just one with a major league plus three levels of minors. Other details like allowing only certain ages and experience levels in places like low minors seem like simple hard-coding (or coding user-specifications  ) where there are no AI decisions to be made. |
I totally agree with what your analysis, but I think you may have misunderstood my point. Here you are talking about multiple levels of minor leagues. My question is about using only a couple of levels of minor league, or different levels of minors for two different big leagues (say US and Japan):
Say my computer does not allow me to run as many leagues as I might want. Will cutting down the number of minors
below what could be considered the norm affect development?
For example, as you say hard-code the AI so young players play in A and older play in AAA. What if you have only one level of minor-league? In OOTP at the minute development is tied to being in the right level of the minors - a too young player in AAA will have his development harmed.
If the link between being at the correct minor league level and player development continues into OOTP7, then I can't see how having only one level of minor league (for example) won't affect development. If you don't have rookie ball, will high-school draftees perform worse than college picks? Moreover, as devleopment is tied to minor league levels in OOTP6, if you had one league with full minors and one with just one level, then you'd get 'better development' in the one with the bigger minors. Right?
This isn't really about the AI - it's about how minor-leagues affect development. And if being at the correct level does affect development, it stands to reason that having more or less minor leagues will affect the curve, and having two different leagues with two different minor league systems (each with a different number of levels) will create two entirely different curves.