Quite an ambitious setup. I run a smaller 3 tier pro/reg league with a total of 32 teams. The more tiers and the more teams means it becomes more complicated in regards to market sizes and finances.
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Will the lower leagues trade or sell players to other leagues?
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They will trade players if allowed in your settings. In my league I do not allow teams in the highest tier to trade with teams from the 2 lower tiers. The reason for this is to prevent star level players being traded from the highest league to a lower league. This just doesn't feel right to me, in real life players would never accept this. Surely the players organisation would demand the right to refuse such a demotion or at least these trades would be severely restricted to protect the players.
For each league there is the option to allow players to be purchased by other leagues for a fixed price. Never used this option myself but I think this option is more meant to be used between Major Leagues and Independent Minor Leagues. With this option enabled I believe the team losing the player has no say in it, no option to refuse or to negatiate. So not ideal for a pro/reg league it seems to me. In the past I used the posting system to generate some player movement between leagues. This worked quite well in OOTP23 with sometimes more than a dozen players being posted. But in OOTP24 this no longer works, usually only one player is posted per year so I stopped using this option.
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How should I set the market sizes for each team when there will be a large difference between markets?
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In my league each team has a fixed market size ranging from 1 to 20. If a team promotes or relegates they maintain their market size. So in my league market size mainly determines the size of the club. In the long run the teams with higher market sizes will play more often in the highest tier and the teams with smaller market sizes will spend more time in the lower tiers. With only a total of 32 teams this works quite well.
For your setup this would not work as there are not enough market sizes in the game (only 20). So you would have to set the market sizes relative to each league. Which means you would have to adjust the market size for each team that promotes or relegates relative to the new league. For example a team with a market size of 14 promoting would then have a market size of 8 in the higher league. You would have to determine how each league relates to the others in relative market size.
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I have the same question with media contracts. Do I set each level's baseline lower? How much lower?
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In my league I use the same baseline for all 3 leagues. I do this to prevent teams who are promoting from receiving too much extra revenue. If this happens these teams will be able to sign all the top FA and dominate the new league in their first year. Using the same baseline also prevent bigger clubs who relegate from getting into financial problems. In my experience most players will not opt out when relegated (only stars will) so the team will have a large payroll in the lower league they cannot afford anymore with the reduced revenue.
In your setup you will have to use different baselines for each league. A team that relegates would see their Media Revenue reduced but it's market size would increase (relative to the lower league) so the reduced revenue would be somewhat dampened. You will have to find the right balance between these baselines and relative market sizes to make the finances work properly. Seems quite complicated to me and I think you will never get it right. For example in you have a team with market size 20 in the highest league that relegates (and this will happen since it's baseball) it's media revenue will decrease with the lower baseline but there is no room to increase this teams market size since it is already maxed out. Such a team could then end up in financial trouble as explained before. Don't be surprised to see such a team relegate a few years in a row.