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For people who add additional leagues...
If you don't want Japanese or Indy League baseball players moving to the MLB via Free Agency or whatever, what is the point of having the leagues in the first place? Do you just like to look at the other leagues Stats & progression, or something like that?
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Yep, that seems to add to sim times and file size for no reason. But, I guess you might want to see what happens to *** if left alone? We'll see what others say I guess.
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I disable trades between the MLB and any other league. However, I do allow Asian & Mexican league players to leave their league as Free Agents, if they're wanted by an MLB club. I also enable the Posting System and I allow MLB clubs to outright purchase players from those leagues - I set the amount very high, again, so MLB teams aren't just buying every good foreign league player.
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Makes sense to me, I have always heard that trades between major leagues are goofy (hard for the AI to value?) so I've always turned them off. Once I accidentally set the *** to allow trades with MLB and all of a sudden all the *** teams started peddling their best guys to my rivals, it was quite annoying.
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I can't remember exactly who, but a forum user explained to me several months ago that things like the Indy Leagues (or even overseas leagues) can often be a place for that struggling 2-Star Low-A Class player you've cut (because you can't promote him without hurting your High-A team) to go and continue playing baseball instead of retiring. Maybe he finally starts developing while playing in an Indy or Korean league exactly as you hoped he would when you had him and now you or some other MLB GM might picking him up as a AA or AAA organizational player, or maybe even an MLB position if he really continues to shine...
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Well that's what the Indy League people say in real life, so I hope so! I also like the old broken down slugger going to be Jose Canseco with the San Diego Surf Dogs
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Does anyone else create Additional Leagues with those goals in mind? If so, do you have any tips on settings for the other leagues?
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I don't care much about the indy leagues, and IRL there is huge turnover/upheaval every year in league membership, so just to compact the league list and clean up stats I often combine them into one league. I also use them sometimes to fill in minor leagues after expansion, faster to affiliate Pecos League teams than to sign a bunch of filler scrub free agents. Also, sometimes if I do an ABA/AFL/WHA style maverick pro league I'll just affiliate them as minor teams to the new major league.
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Finally, I was warned when I first started playing OOTP 7 months ago not to bother with adding Feeder Leagues, like High School & College leagues. I can't remember exactly why they suggested I stay away from them - I was so new and everything was kind of overwhelming at the time. What are people's thoughts on High School & College Leagues?
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Funny you ask that as I was just thinking about feeders the other day and considering adding them to an MLB setup. I was wondering if things have improved beyond where they were in v14-16 the last time I messed with them. I recall a couple of things, one to do with player ages and one with prospect skills. I don't recall the age problem, but it had to do with HS/college players coming out at the wrong ages. Maybe the college players stayed in too long? I forget.
The other problem was in talent bloat, IIRC feeders over time cranked out too many good players (maybe just relievers?). I don't know how that works nowadays, and no one seems to discuss feeder leagues on the boards much so I wonder if people have sort of gone away from them generally. Now that the game by default assigns players colleges/high schools, that's close enough for me. Stats-only folks must use them though, otherwise what stats would they use to draft?