[DustinthePOWERHOUSE]

Okay, I'm just going to dive in because frankly I had this thread in OOTP 13 and I don't want to bore people.

Warning this post may be rather lengthy

So here's the deal. I've set up a league with MLB/AAA/AA/A/R/College/HS

It took an enormous amount of time to gather all the logos and such, but heck I did it and was inspired by another user here whom I've forgotten his name (my apologies)

With my calculations:
That's 4 levels of minor leagues (AAA/AA/A/R)
One level of major leagues (MLB)
Two feeder leagues (College/HS)

In the College league I have 131 teams
In the High school league I have 30 teams (standard)

(Obviously my total is 161 a HUGE amount)

Now the standard formula according to the guide is: # of rounds in amateur draft can be determined by: 5x # of minor league levels and according to my estimation I have 4.

So therefore Logically: 5x4=20 is the amount of rounds I should have.

And #of feeder teams needed= # of teams in parent league x #of draft rounds divided by 6

So I have 30 parent league (standard MLB) x 20 rounds= 600/6 so about 100 is all I technically need. So I have way above the recommended amount.

So that's my description of my set up:

Now here are the issues/questions.

1st: I have set my amount of "generate players per x rounds" to 20 so I have 20 rounds and generating that many players. It seemed to work, HOWEVER, this leads to two more questions:

1) Will I run out of players because I'm under the amount recommended? (I figured I could resolve this by adding extra international free agents/amateurs to fill in rosters) Even though I'm using a feeder league that should hypothetically produce a solid amount of people per year

2) I've noticed recently that the players I thought were ghost players randomly added were in fact draft prospects? or players already drafted (like Mark Appell) which is great/fine, but is there a way to custom edit them for my game so I can give them their schools and what not before my season starts or do I have to find all of them first and do it before I even sim my first day? Reasonable question I think, but either way glad they're there.

3) I haven't gone through ALL the other players (non-high school/college) but if there aren't any through 20/20 would there be in 20/25 based on my settings? Or based on 20/30 (the recommended amount)

My issue here is perhaps the most important. I obviously don't want to run out of players, and I am fully willing to compensate by making extra international players (I'm just making them heavily USA/Canada but that's not relevant) but if I HAVE to go up do I have to make more feeder league teams? I'm willing to in terms of high school, heck there's a 60HS logo set out there so I can add +30 for a total of 191 if necessary- and perhaps add more college teams...but I'd rather stick to what I have since it's SUCH an arduous process.

So I guess my questions are:

1) Should I up my generate players per, and will it affect "ghost players" appearing in my drafts. And if I don't do it will I run out of players despite my international compensation.

2) Can I edit Mark Appel like players pre-game or do I have to do it pre-first day sim IN GAME.

3) Am I calculating the number of levels of minors incorrectly? Is AAA/AA/A/R 4 or am I wrong based on the fact that some teams have more than 1 A team or R team or whatever.

4) In the year after this one, 2014 I guess (after the Mark Appel draft) will the computer continue to add in players or is that only because OOTP crew added that feature to add realism (again I love the feature)

5) Is this thread to long and do you want to punch me, my apologizes I love the game and have been having this problem for 2? years now maybe more I don't remember and would LOVE to have it finally resolved.

As usual, if this is the wrong place please forgive me. If you don't want to answer obviously you're not forced to, BUT if you do I will be gracious and hopefully that'll make it worth it?