Ok I've spent a lot of time since my initial post
trying to figure out feeder leagues and I've simulated my league for numerous seasons and have been recording various things that are happening and
trying to find out how to fix the problem!!
League Setup for test = MLB Quick Start with AAA, AA, A, R. (30organizations / 150 teams total)...100 feeder teams(50 NCAA & 50 HS). Amateur Draft length is the suggested 20rounds for this league setup. (Amateur Draft is setup to be filled with "Feeder Players Only". This is what's recommended by the Feeder League Guide that everybody recommends. That's a fantastic guide, but
I don't think the feeder teams/leagues themselves are behaving how they are intended.
The initial feeder squads for year 1 were created via 'fill rosters with fictional players' with age creation range 14-17 & 18-21. (FR/SO/JR/SR all created). Then immediately afterwards I change the creation ages to 14-14 and 18-18 respectively as suggested for the best results, while keeping the minimum/maximum age limits of the leagues themselves the same. (No roster limits are enforced on the feeder teams, maybe I'll experiment with this next, but I read to not use them or else they create issues)
RESULT/STARTING POINT:
-1250 players for NCAA & 1250 players for HS league (via fill roster w/ fictional players)
-Exactly 25players for each team.
-This should give ~312.5 HS&COL players for a total of ~625 of the needed 600.
[NOTE:] During the Year 1 Amateur Draft(2013) I had 630 non-feeder players in the draft that are from the Real Life Draft Class...but after that I didn't run into any more problems having non-feeder players join the drafts.
Amateur Draft Pool Size: (need 600minimum for 20round draft...~625 preferred to accommodate supplemental draft picks with a few leftovers)
2013 Draft: 751 (121 only from feeders + 630 real life draft class guys)
2014 Draft: 790 (too many)
2015 Draft: 598 (nearly exact minimum)
2016 Draft: 659 (solid number here)
2017 Draft: 1734 (what the heck happened? 768NCAA/958HS)
2018 Draft: 945 (way too many)
2019 Draft: 623 (great)
2020 Draft: 570 (not quite enough)
2021 Draft: 1261 (way too many)
2022 Draft: 1023 (way too many)
After the 2017 draft it
inflated the MLB FA from 902players(pre-draft) to 2201 (day after draft) to 2357 (month after draft).
Feeder Teams after starting decide to increase their rosters to sizes ranging from
25 to 51 players PER TEAM...fluctuating wildly from year to year...which is easily seen in Total players playing on a NCAA/HS Team:
2013: 1250 HS + 1250 NCAA (starting point...2500players total)
2014: 1998 HS+1812 NCAA players
2015: 2491+2125
2016: 2137+1792
2017: 2223+1823
2018: 2572+2107
2019: 1894+1712
2020: 1965+1723
2021: ETC...too many
Some players played either 5 YR in highschool or 5 YR in college...a couple I noticed...(all were created in initial 2013 class, ran out of time to see if that would continue to happen down the road or not)
[Feeder players were created on 3/30/14(?) whatever the 1st day of MLB quickstart is]
MLB Draft Class players DOB's ranged from:
-youngest NCAA = 6/5/91
-oldest NCAA = 3/31/91
-youngest HS = 6/6/95
-oldest HS = 3/31/95
BAD SEEDS:
-5YR NCAA Player with DOB = 6/5/95
-5yr HS Player with DOB = 10/2/98 & 2nd player w/ 11/22/98 DOB
-example of 4yr HS+ 4yr COL players DOB = 5/8/98, 7/27/97, 11/7/97
There were a lot of both HS&COL in each draft...about 50-50 or slightly more HS because they had more players per team consistently for some reason. Also there are ~5-10 players from college who either failed to sign when drafted and thus re-enter the draft...or undrafted college player ---> re-enters next year. Also a lot of high school unsigned or undrafted going to college feeder league.
On the bright side...my computer was able to simulate a full calendar year in this league setup in about 5 minutes, not sure how good/bad that is, but good enough for me.
Why am I getting draft classes ranging from 570-1734 players when the Feeder League Guide says this is how I should do it and that I'd get 6-9 players per team and expect about 600-900(?) players.
Sorry this is all I can do for now, going to be late for work!! HOW CAN I FIX THIS??? 