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Old 06-12-2009, 01:13 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by goead View Post
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.
First you need to figure out how many draft rounds you need. I think there's a spot in the manual to help figure this out if you haven't done so already. So the real basic formula that a lot of people use is take your # of draft rounds x # of ML teams = # of players needed for the draft. Take that number divided by the max age - min age for your feeders (usually 4 or 5 in most leagues) and that will give you the number of teams you need.

Now as I stated in my long post above there are ways to get this much more accurate, but this is the basic formula to get it close.

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Another question. Say that I want to create a rather extensive feeder system (both HS and college) which is going to produce more players than I need for the draft each year. Should I nudge the Player Creation Modifiers down so that I don't get too many superstars?
The more players you create, the more talent you'll have in your draft. So if you have a 1000 player draft pool and on average 10 players are 5 star potential, then in a 10,000 player draft pool on average there will be 100 5 star potential players.

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Do you think it is better to have 1 256 team college feeder league or 8 32 team college feeder leagues?
Doesn't really matter except the larger league might have a huge playoff period depending on how your split up divisions.

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Originally Posted by risp2out View Post
I haven't used feeders much, but I have a question. When you have both high school and college feeders, do the high schoolers go exclusively to college or do some go to college and some go pro?
Unfortunately OOTP doesn't work like this. Probably the biggest gripe with feeders. All feeder players when they reach a certain age leave their league and enter the draft. They can't progress onto another feeder league.
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