Associations for HS and college feeders

[ra7c7er]

It would be neat to be able to associate high schools and colleges that are used as feeders to play for state championships (high school) and the college world series.

I don't know if many people go as far as I have but my high school feeder leagues are real team in real conferences. It would be cool to be able to associate them so at the end of their season they can play for a state championship. Players could also do the same for college feeders with their seasons ending in a college world series.

This could also be used to expand the storylines and news feature that a lot of people are wanting to see.

[Marinersfan51]

How big is your feeder system? Do you have any problems with too many players being generated? I have toyed with the idea of creating full high school systems, but since regions are still messed up, I shelved it.

[moonlightmerc]

I have my HS and college Feeders in Associations. Just dont have them affiliated with a ML. My Feeder Leagues is independent which allows them to join an Association. Just make sure have you select each ML league you want to feed. On the Rules Page for each league.

[ra7c7er]

Originally Posted by Marinersfan51

How big is your feeder system? Do you have any problems with too many players being generated? I have toyed with the idea of creating full high school systems, but since regions are still messed up, I shelved it.

What I did was used the default feeder system to get the number of teams I needed then I broke it down and instead of having one large 32 team HS feeder I created 4 feeders (12, 8, 6, and 6 teams each) to mimic real conferences in the state. As I add more teams (either minor leagues or another ml league) I add another conference or two depending on how many teams I need. I've actually created a template for every current high school conference.

As for the college teams since I am trying to create a in state only world (eventually going to expand to other states and the world) I couldn't really get some of the real world conferences to work. (i.e. having a two team big ten, one team WAC, one team MAC, etc). So I'm using a combination of real world conferences (Illinois schools only) and fantasy. Right now I have three college leagues; One is the Division III CCIW conference, another the NJCAA Arrowhead Conference, and the third is a fantasy of teams I like and teams of conferences that are to small to make individual leagues for (less than 3 teams). I would have liked to make the league level the national conference the teams play under but that didn't really work either as some only have a few teams (only 4 division II teams, 2 USCAA, 3 NCCAA, etc)

Whats wrong with the regions system? It seems to work for me, US State: Illinois, is all I've really played with though. I have noticed sometimes the game likes to change everything to Canadian Region: Western and randomize the team cities. Which is highly annoying.

[ra7c7er]

Originally Posted by moonlightmerc

I have my HS and college Feeders in Associations. Just dont have them affiliated with a ML. My Feeder Leagues is independent which allows them to join an Association. Just make sure have you select each ML league you want to feed. On the Rules Page for each league.

I tried that but i couldn't get it to work for me (I'll admit I was probably messing something up). The HS leagues wouldn't feed the college leagues. The just dumped any drafted guys into free agency. So I wasn't getting any HS - College - ML progression.