Feeder Leagues Set-Up

[Sabo17]

Is there a way to set up Feeder Leagues in the pre-made Major League game?

I have looked but simply cannot find the option for it if one does exist.

[Kelric]

Go to Game > Game Setup and then look in the bottom right where it says Add Minor League. I'm not sure if you can add the league to a pre-existing game, but I think you can.

[yoyoma]

just tried i and it works. has anyone tried to make two big feeder leagues and just have the draft be from the feeder leagues

[lahoward]

Originally Posted by yoyoma

just tried i and it works. has anyone tried to make two big feeder leagues and just have the draft be from the feeder leagues

This is straight from the 07/08 manual

3.4.5.1. Feeder Leagues
A feeder league feeds players into its parent league. Feeder leagues have minimum and maximum age
limits for players, and once players exceed their age maximum, the players go into the draft pool for
their parent league. When a new season starts in a feeder league, the rosters are filled up again with
players of the minimum age. So, the older players get drafted, or dumped into the free agent pool if
undrafted, and young ones get added automatically for the following season.
Each feeder league can feed players into only one league, and you cannot have a “daisy chain” of
feeder leagues. That is, you can’t have a high school league that feeds into a college league that feeds
into a professional league.
There are two types of feeder leagues: college and high school. These two types behave identically.
The names, like league levels, are mainly just for categorization.
Important: Feeder leagues are not meant to simulate real-world college and high school baseball.
There is no early entry into the draft, recruiting, redshirting, or similar staples of college and high
school baseball.
In past versions of OOTP, GMs knew relatively little about players in the upcoming first-year player
draft pool, other than their scouted ratings. Feeder leagues add immersion, providing a draft pool full
of players with several years of statistical history leading up to the draft, in addition to scouting
reports. This gives general managers much more information on which to base draft decisions. This is
additionally helpful in leagues that allow the trading of draft picks, because GMs can make intelligent
decisions about how strong a particular draft class looks by scouting and researching the draft class in
advance.
Feeder leagues behave very similarly to minor leagues. Players in feeder leagues have minor league
contracts and share all the rules of the parent league.
Players in a feeder league will appear in the first-year player draft pool of the major league once they
are no longer eligible for their feeder league. Your first-year player draft will also be supplemented
with enough fictional players to fill out the draft, if necessary.
Feeding First-year player drafts Completely through Feeder Leagues
If you want your parent league’s first-year player draft to be fed completely by feeder leagues, you will
need to do some math to determine how many feeder league teams you will need to fill out your draft
class completely. So, using the default of a 5-year age range, we calculate as follows:
Feeder leagues with 5-year age ranges (18-22, for example) typically feed 6-9 players per team to the
parent league each year. Smaller age-ranges result in more players entering the draft each year.
[Number of teams in your parent league] x [Number of rounds in your first-year player draft] = total #
of players needed in first-year player draft
[total # of players needed for draft] / 6 (rounded up) = minimum # of feeder league teams required
For example, let’s say you have a 16-team major league, and a 5-round first-year player draft. You
need 16 x 5, or 80 players in your first-year player draft each year. We divide 80 by 6 and round up,
getting 14. If you have 14 feeder league teams, you should get enough players from your feeder
leagues to populate your first-year player draft entirely with feeder league players.
Of course, it’s always better to err on the side of more teams. If you end up with more players than you
need for the draft, then the undrafted players will simply enter the free agent pool.

[yoyoma]

So i would need about 150 feeder teams in order to have enough players for a 30 round draft with 30 teams

[yoyoma]

I have made a quickstart with 3 different feeder leagues. One is college with about 40 teams. One is high school with u.s. teams and puerto rico teams and the last is venezuelan, dominican, and taiwan teams. The reason i made the last different is so the players are younger when they are draft eligible so it is like when they sign as 16 and 17 year olds from those countries. The first year is thin on player but after that there is enough.

My question is if I had made-up players draft eligible the first year is there a way to turn off that feature after the first year? When i tried it the second draft still seemed to have some uruguayans and italians in the draft as well as other nationalities that usually don't show up in mlb.