Yet another feeder league question

[tcblcommish]

Ok, here is the league that I am using. I have a major league consisting of 16 teams, 8 Canadian, 8 American all with 3 levels of minor leagues.

I want to run feeder college and high school but when I did the feeders, I did a college and high school that was the same size as the major league one.

My question to the feeder league guys in the know, what would you suggest for feeder leagues? How many leagues and how many teams?

Here is what I was thinking. I was going to use 2 college leagues, both with 20 teams in it. One, a Canadian college league and the other, American. Then I was going to do basically the same with high school but probably bigger.

Any ideas?

[Cinnamon J. Scudworth]

This is from the OOTP manual:

How Many Feeder Leagues Should I Create?

The number of feeder leagues you create is completely up to you. However, most people who use feeder leagues prefer to set them up in such a way such that your parent league's first-year player draft will be completely populated with feeder league players. Because there are so many ways to configure your game, there isn't an easy formula for precisely how many feeder leagues you must create to accomplish this. However, here are some guidelines on how to decide about feeder leagues:


First, decide how many draft rounds you will need in your first-year player draft. The rule of thumb is that you will need five new players for each level of minors to replace players who retire, have long-term injuries, etc. Therefore:


# of rounds in amateur draft = 5 * the # of levels of minor leagues in your game


For example, you have a parent league with AAA, AA, A, and rookie leagues. That's four levels of minors. 4 x 5 = 20 You should configure your parent league to have 20 rounds in the amateur draft.


Next, decide on the number of feeder teams you will need to populate this draft. Each feeder team produces 6 to 9 players for the draft per year.



Taking the number of players needed for the draft and dividing by 6 gives you the minimum number of feeders you need. The guideline here is:


# of feeder teams needed = (number of teams in parent league x number of draft rounds)/6

So for you, you want (16 x 15)/6 = 40 feeder league teams. (Assuming you are following the standard "5 times the number of levels of minors" guidelines above for the number of draft rounds).


After you set them up, you also want to make sure to set the creation age for the feeder leagues to be the same as their minimum age. This ensures that players get 4 years of feeder stats, and also ensures that the size of the draft pool will be the more or less the same every year.