Simplicity vs Complexity

[cavebutter]

tl;dr - What are the best settings for an indy league that will feed the ML draft or should I just use feeders?

I'm a serial league starter. I constantly set up elaborate universes, spend hours upon hours creating unis and logos, tweaking financials, sim 20 years, pore over the history, play for a season or two, then start over with an entirely new universe.

I decided to see if a simple universe- 1 fictional ML (currently 28 teams expanding by 2 every 5 yrs) with full minors, no feeders- would keep my attention longer. It has! I'm in my 5th season and am fully engrossed. But I'm beginning to feel the itch to shake things up. Specifically, I want some history for at least some of the players entering the draft.

So, a feeder of some sort. I'm torn between setting up an indy league for 17-23 year olds that feeds my ML draft and just creating some HS and COL feeders. The indy league seems like it would be more interesting, but creating one in the middle of a game is complicated (and you have to use the Wizard. Why?!)

The financials for the indy league are tricky- I set them to 1980 (my ML is in 2017 with evolving financials and strategy), and while overall budgets for the teams seem high, it will probably work out.

The real issue is PCMs. Using the wizard only gives me control over sabermetric PCM's. Would setting them to the equivalent of a college feeder be realistic? Is there a better way to do it? Or should I just can the idea and use pre-fab feeder leagues? Any advice would be appreciated.