Help Recreating Independent League?

[brksmik]

So my city's most recent baseball team was part of a 6-team independent league in the southeast US. I'm starting work to recreate the league in ootp because the two short seasons hold such special memories for me.

The gist is...although the league wasn't affiliated with MLB or MiLB at all, a player or three made it to farm systems with big league clubs after being noticed and receiving tryouts.

What's the best way to emulate this sort of sporadic "feeder" to the MLB in ootp?

[ohiodevil]

Originally Posted by brksmik

So my city's most recent baseball team was part of a 6-team independent league in the southeast US. I'm starting work to recreate the league in ootp because the two short seasons hold such special memories for me.

The gist is...although the league wasn't affiliated with MLB or MiLB at all, a player or three made it to farm systems with big league clubs after being noticed and receiving tryouts.

What's the best way to emulate this sort of sporadic "feeder" to the MLB in ootp?

Hope this helps:

Adding Independent Minor Leagues

Minor leagues created through the Add Minor League action menu are automatically affiliated with the selected league, meaning that the teams in the minor league will "roll up" to a team in the parent league. General management decisions will be made by the parent league club. If you wish to create an independent minor league, add a new fictional league, and then use the League Level drop-down on the Structure screen to set the league level to the desired level of play.

An independent minor league behaves just like any parent league. For example, an independent minor league could have a first-year player draft, and could potentially have affiliated leagues underneath it as well.

Note: You cannot affiliate an independent league with another league after creation. For example, you could not have a league that is independent for several years, and then affiliates with a major league.

[ohiodevil]

To add to my previous post, the game does a decent job replicating these leagues and does have some independent leagues in the MLB Quickstart. In games that I have played, I have seen plenty of guys get purchased from these leagues by the AI and I have also done the same thing, I even had a couple guys become solid contributors and even found a two time all-star.