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Old 05-07-2010, 10:12 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by robc View Post
Did you use this formula (from manual) to calculate the number of teams in the feeder leagues?

[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
No, but I don't believe that is the problem. Here is what I have, using that formula.

66 indie teams x 5 rounds = 330 players needed
330 / 6 = 55 feeder teams needed

I have 128 feeder teams. (Ok, I can probably tweak that to have slightly less, but this was just a test league after all.) Guys are being drafted by the indie league, staying for the two years before free agency and then never re-signing. I was thinking it might be because of the monetary disparity between MLB and the indies, but isn't a bad paying baseball job better than no baseball job?
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