Fictional League

[jhart05]

I am using a feeder league system with both High School and College Levels.

I've already read the 7-page thread on the topic and done extensive testing on my own. (I'm up to Test V.36)


What is a reasonable average number of quality players I should expect to see in the draft each year?

I have 24 ML teams, with 4 levels of minor leagues, 1 College Level, and 1 High school level.

My drafts are 20 rounds, so 480 players potentially drafted. Draft pools seem to be consistently in the 550 to 600 range.

I'm only seeing about 20 players with 4+ star potential.

Is that good? Too low? About right?

Thanks.

[Déjà Bru]

At 4%, that seems somewhat low. I don't have an answer for you, though. It doesn't seem like there's anything with your setup, including the number of your draft rounds. I'm going to start tracking that percentage in my own drafts out of curiosity but I hope somebody else will come along with a better response to your questions.

[Bluenoser]

OOTP will try to keep a balance in your league. If there's plenty of TOP notch stars already in the league, draft classes tend to be weaker. Same thing the other way around. This makes perfect sense imo, otherwise you would eventually wind up with a league full of super-stars or duds.

[marc5477]

Originally Posted by jhart05

I am using a feeder league system with both High School and College Levels.

I've already read the 7-page thread on the topic and done extensive testing on my own. (I'm up to Test V.36)


What is a reasonable average number of quality players I should expect to see in the draft each year?

I have 24 ML teams, with 4 levels of minor leagues, 1 College Level, and 1 High school level.

My drafts are 20 rounds, so 480 players potentially drafted. Draft pools seem to be consistently in the 550 to 600 range.

I'm only seeing about 20 players with 4+ star potential.

Is that good? Too low? About right?

Thanks.

Think about it a sec, 20 star players a year is a lot... that is way too many and in this game they almost all make it to the majors which is game breaking. My 1st game was broken because it had too many four star or better players. I actually had to restart about a dozen times now to tweak the game to make it more realistic (a few time to fix financials).

Lower the PCM's. I have mine set to static values so that I can accurately control these problems. Besides, I dont want to relive the dead ball era or the juice era. I have it set to 1995 and I set the following adjustments to control rookie creation:

contact - 0.90
gap - 0.95
power - 0.85
eye - 1.00
K's - 1.00
stuff - 0.90
movement - 0.90
control - 0.90
stamina - 1.00
speed - 0.90
fielding - 0.90

This has worked wonderfully. 12 years into the league and the stats are great. No plethora of 350 hitters (usually just 1 or 2 max if any), no 60 home run juice mongers (58 is the record so far), no sub 1.20 ERA starters, and there arent 30 people with 40 or more steals.

Going through the teams, there are 2 or 3 star players max on each team unless they have a great farm which is how it should be. The farms are not getting clogged with great players (like my 1st few game) due to over abundance. I still get some overpopulation in relievers but that is normal since many starters get downgraded.

I did other stuff too, but 20 star players every draft sounds like too many.