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Aumakua · 05-06-2013, 06:26 PM

I just started a new league (1900) that is fictional although I import about 2 real players every year. Using a feeder for the first time, it gives me about half the players I need for the draft (16 team pro league, only 1 minor league, 8 team college feader league). I set up the college feeder as the Ivy League and figure I will add more as my league expands. Since the feeder only gives me half the players needed for the draft the AI generates the other half as younger players (17-20 year olds) where my college league gives me all 21 year olds. So far through 5 seasons I really like it. To me it makes the game a little more fun. Eventually I plan on having all my rookies come from college teams, sort of like football and new basketball rules, but will still use the international scouting and complex (speaking of which does anyone know if you can set the minimum age to say 20 for your league, but have younger players in the international complex?)

Every year I look at who won the College league and save their "team picture", love that new option, and I also manually create baseball cards of the top hitter and pitcher awards. By spending just 5-10 minutes looking at the feeder league each season you get a feeling of who the top picks will be, one guy won the best hitter award 3 straight years, and sure enough he was the #1 pick, had a pretty great rookie season too.

If doing a fictional league (even semi fictional) I suggest using feeders.

05-06-2013, 06:26 PM	#2
Aumakua Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Flat lands Posts: 424	I just started a new league (1900) that is fictional although I import about 2 real players every year. Using a feeder for the first time, it gives me about half the players I need for the draft (16 team pro league, only 1 minor league, 8 team college feader league). I set up the college feeder as the Ivy League and figure I will add more as my league expands. Since the feeder only gives me half the players needed for the draft the AI generates the other half as younger players (17-20 year olds) where my college league gives me all 21 year olds. So far through 5 seasons I really like it. To me it makes the game a little more fun. Eventually I plan on having all my rookies come from college teams, sort of like football and new basketball rules, but will still use the international scouting and complex (speaking of which does anyone know if you can set the minimum age to say 20 for your league, but have younger players in the international complex?) Every year I look at who won the College league and save their "team picture", love that new option, and I also manually create baseball cards of the top hitter and pitcher awards. By spending just 5-10 minutes looking at the feeder league each season you get a feeling of who the top picks will be, one guy won the best hitter award 3 straight years, and sure enough he was the #1 pick, had a pretty great rookie season too. If doing a fictional league (even semi fictional) I suggest using feeders. Last edited by Aumakua; 05-06-2013 at 06:29 PM.