I've had to resort to scouring all for the forums for every post that every mentioned the word "Feeder" in OOTP 14's 'new to game' and 'general' boards and I found an amazing post that pretty much got shrugged off or ignored...but I think it was a very valid observation into the root problem.
Reading this post was very insightful and I never really considered/challenged the section he quoted, but what he mentioned seems to be spot on to what might be causing issues:
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Originally Posted by Khan
I know below is the generally accepted rule, but you might want to rethink it depending on how your feeders are setup and how they interact with your major league. I don't know how others have their feeders setup but for me they are usually a short season, only a couple months.
I say this because right now the game creates new players for your feeder leagues when the draft pool players are released to the draft.
So let's say your in your 1st season of your feeder league consisting of a 18-21 years olds. Feeder league season ends and players are released to the draft, while a new batch of 18 year olds are created.
Unfortunately these new 18 year olds are being added to current crop of 18 year olds already in your feeder. This all depends on how long your feeder season is, but for me I only use short season feeders so the initial guys will have only aged 2-3 months before the new guys were created.
Also if you use a short season feeder, your newly created guys will age quite a bit possibly before they even play a game. ie some of the newly created 18 year olds will be 19 by the time they even play.
Just something to think about and why I asked for more control over feeder league creation of players in the "back to work" thread.
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Originally Posted by SunDevil
For College feeder leagues:
On the Rules screen, set the Age Minimum to 18.
On the Rules screen, set the Age Maximum to 21.
On the Options screen, set the Create Age Min. to 18.
On the Options screen, set the Create Age Max. to 18.
This will result in most college players playing for four years and entering the draft at age 22.
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Now I need to just figure out how to apply his thoughts into making the feeder system work better!! My first thoughts are having a nearly full season worth of college/hs (even though unrealistic, to avoid the 18yo's only aging 3months)...I'm hoping this helps keep the size of the draft classes from getting larger than expected. Possibly having to hold the draft in the offseason and just run the feeder leagues concurrently with the MLB/minors. (making college/hs almost like just another Minors, but below rookie ball and ending with a draft)
Although it would also help if I could keep the roster sizes under control.
Hopefully in the end I can figure this all out and get an ideal feeder situation setup! If I do I'll let people know what I had to do, because I'd imagine this being so hard to implement is why a big reason so many people dismiss using feeder leagues.
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Just read this info for the upcoming OOTP 15...looks like things are going to get better/easier!!
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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
Feeder leagues in OOTP 15 have been improved. From the new feature list:
- Added option to add full default feeder league system to a league, which calculates the number of feeder leagues / teams needed to function properly
- Added new option to define when players in feeder leagues are draft-eligible (relative to maximum age)
- Added new option to base AI lineup / pitching staff decisions either on potential or current ability, which is useful for feeder leagues
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