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I haven't read much of the OP or any of the responses BUT I'm new to OOTP and use feeders very successfully. I'll briefly share how I get them to work.
When I initially set up the leagues, I create about 65% college and 35% high school using the recommended formula.
I then set college creation age to 18 to 21. I set high school to the 14 to 17. I set age limits the same. As soon as the feeders are created, I change "creation" age for college to 18 to 18. Then
change "creation" age for high school to 14 to 14. You have to change these before you start the inaugural season.
And that's pretty much it. It results in draftees typically playing for 4 years and coming out at ages 19 and 22.
One more note, I personally use a very small JUCO league as well with creation and roster ages 18-19. Of course after initial creation, you also have to creation back to 18 to 18. This gives me 20 year olds in the draft with two years of stats. But make sure the league is EXTREMELY small (maybe 6 teams) and adjust the number of college and high school teams back two teams for every one JUCO team. That's because half the two-year JUCO team is draft eligible each year instead of a quarter of the four-year college and high school teams.
I always get a nice number of superstar quality (maybe the first 2-4 picks) with much of the first round typically yielding quality players.
I also had a diamond in the rough pop up in the 16th round -- a future triple crown winner. But usually I'll find a few decent major leaguers as late as the 6th or 7th rounds, but they aren't at all common. It all just feels very realistic.
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