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Biggio509 · 03-22-2010, 04:57 PM

YMMV with drafts in feeders leagues in the beginning. Two things to note.
1. Make sure you have a bit more than minimum feeder teams for the number of draft rounds or you set the draft to feeders only. Default will add the same drafts that no feeders give if you fall short.

2. When creating feeders leagues the first 3 years are a crap shot. The problem is players are randomly generated from 18 to 21 in year one for college feeders. It may be 21 yo heavy or 18 yo heavy. So you might get a big draft class than a small one. The same go for HS just younger ages.

2 can be avoided. After creating the game or feeders, go to player creation modifiers and change your HS feeders to min 15 max age 15 and college to min age 18 and max age 18. This means each year colleges and high schools get feed a class of youngsters. Note make sure this is on the options page and not the rules page. If you change the rules then you only 15 yo in your HS leagues. If you do this in 4 years your first class are all seniors, you second class are all juniors, etc. So theoretically you should have ages balanced out in 4 years. If you don't do this the players are randomly generated from 18 to 21 again so you have 21 yo going into the draft with only one year of play and you might have some huge classes and some tiny classes.

I would suggest for the first 6 seasons or so keeping things set to draft feeders + computer generated players. This will keep enough prospects flowing.

03-22-2010, 04:57 PM	#3
Biggio509 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,027	YMMV with drafts in feeders leagues in the beginning. Two things to note. 1. Make sure you have a bit more than minimum feeder teams for the number of draft rounds or you set the draft to feeders only. Default will add the same drafts that no feeders give if you fall short. 2. When creating feeders leagues the first 3 years are a crap shot. The problem is players are randomly generated from 18 to 21 in year one for college feeders. It may be 21 yo heavy or 18 yo heavy. So you might get a big draft class than a small one. The same go for HS just younger ages. 2 can be avoided. After creating the game or feeders, go to player creation modifiers and change your HS feeders to min 15 max age 15 and college to min age 18 and max age 18. This means each year colleges and high schools get feed a class of youngsters. Note make sure this is on the options page and not the rules page. If you change the rules then you only 15 yo in your HS leagues. If you do this in 4 years your first class are all seniors, you second class are all juniors, etc. So theoretically you should have ages balanced out in 4 years. If you don't do this the players are randomly generated from 18 to 21 again so you have 21 yo going into the draft with only one year of play and you might have some huge classes and some tiny classes. I would suggest for the first 6 seasons or so keeping things set to draft feeders + computer generated players. This will keep enough prospects flowing.