So I've been trying to figure out how to get feeder leagues properly set up in my fictional league set up. I apologize ahead of time if I am hijacking this thread, but I have been going off of what can be found in the online manual about how I should go about setting this up.
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If you want your parent league's first-year player draft to be fed completely by feeder leagues, you will need to do some math to determine how many feeder league teams you will need to fill out your draft class completely. So, using the default of a 5-year age range, we calculate as follows:
Feeder leagues with 5-year age ranges (18-22, for example) typically feed 6-9 players per team to the parent league each year. Smaller age-ranges result in more players entering the draft each year.
[Number of teams in your parent league] x [Number of rounds in your first-year player draft] = total # of players needed in first-year player draft
[total # of players needed for draft] / 6 (rounded up) = minimum # of feeder league teams required
For example, let's say you have a 16-team major league, and a 5-round 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.
Of course, it's always better to err on the side of more teams. If you end up with more players than you need for the draft, then the undrafted players will simply enter the free agent pool.
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That portion can be found in the online manual and actually I am happy that my first fictional league only has 16 total teams, so their example makes figuring this out a bit easier. My concern is, do I only need that many teams for the Majors level? Do I need to take into account any minor leagues that I might have for my majors?
For instance then I have 16 total teams, then say I go with 16 college teams for my feeder league. Now if I have a 16 team triple A set up in my league as well, do I need to make an additional 16 teams in my feeder league? I love baseball but I am not too well read on the details of stuff like this, any help would be appreciated.