Feeder League + No Draft Issues

Rain King · 05-17-2016, 04:52 PM

Has anybody else ever run a feeder league but chosen not to have a draft? I keep hoping that teams will sign the feeder league players as free agents once they "graduate" from the feeder, but it doesn't seem as if those players ever go into the free agent pool. In fact, they seem to go into some kind of limbo where I can't find them anywhere except for looking at the feeder league history.

andyhdz · 05-17-2016, 05:17 PM

what I've noticed is that teams from the main league that the feeder is supposed to feed into will not sign the players but if you have outside leagues and you allow free agents they will scoop them up. I have several independent and intl leagues and they gladly take my high school and college rejects. However some players who choose to "return to school" do not show up as free agents and they are the ones that hang around the feeder and show up in the subsequent drafts. They are aged out so they can't play anymore in the feeder but don't want to play anywhere else so they just hang out and eventually go away after a certain age OR sometimes teams will actually draft them the second or third time around.

Rain King · 05-17-2016, 06:00 PM

What I worry about with an independent league instead of a feeder league is that it will not create the players at the correct development level and/or potential level I want. That seems a lot harder to control without it being tied to the main league.

Bluenoser · 05-17-2016, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain King

What I worry about with an independent league instead of a feeder league is that it will not create the players at the correct development level and/or potential level I want. That seems a lot harder to control without it being tied to the main league.

You can control those things using PCM's and development speed.

andyhdz · 05-18-2016, 05:35 PM

I see what you mean. You have your indy league setup to create it's own players. Yeah I couldn't tell you what type of PCMs to use for that. My Indy leagues are setup to not create any players and it depends on the castoffs of my major leagues and non-drafted players for its roster.

05-17-2016, 04:52 PM	#1
Rain King Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3,323	Feeder League + No Draft Issues Has anybody else ever run a feeder league but chosen not to have a draft? I keep hoping that teams will sign the feeder league players as free agents once they "graduate" from the feeder, but it doesn't seem as if those players ever go into the free agent pool. In fact, they seem to go into some kind of limbo where I can't find them anywhere except for looking at the feeder league history.

05-17-2016, 05:17 PM	#2
andyhdz All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Fresno, CA by way of Texas Posts: 1,754	what I've noticed is that teams from the main league that the feeder is supposed to feed into will not sign the players but if you have outside leagues and you allow free agents they will scoop them up. I have several independent and intl leagues and they gladly take my high school and college rejects. However some players who choose to "return to school" do not show up as free agents and they are the ones that hang around the feeder and show up in the subsequent drafts. They are aged out so they can't play anymore in the feeder but don't want to play anywhere else so they just hang out and eventually go away after a certain age OR sometimes teams will actually draft them the second or third time around. Last edited by andyhdz; 05-17-2016 at 05:20 PM.

05-17-2016, 06:00 PM	#3
Rain King Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3,323	What I worry about with an independent league instead of a feeder league is that it will not create the players at the correct development level and/or potential level I want. That seems a lot harder to control without it being tied to the main league.

05-18-2016, 05:35 PM	#5
andyhdz All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Fresno, CA by way of Texas Posts: 1,754	I see what you mean. You have your indy league setup to create it's own players. Yeah I couldn't tell you what type of PCMs to use for that. My Indy leagues are setup to not create any players and it depends on the castoffs of my major leagues and non-drafted players for its roster.