How do you handle expansion drafts?

[SI52]

I'm about to hold my first expansion draft (adding 2 new teams to a 10-team fictional league), but I'm not sure how many players I should protect for maximum realism.

How many players do you normally protect on each roster? In a smaller league like mine, how many players do you think is reasonable to protect, and under what "auto-protect" settings?

Thanks!

[Orioles1966]

Larger leagues I protect 18 players. Smaller leagues I go with 20.

I just had a last minute expansion for the 2015 PCL and will cherry pick players from MLB 1977.

New teams:
Kentucky Colonels
Tulsa Roughnecks
Birmingham Bulls
Des Moines Bruins

Instead of re-generating the schedule I edited it so the new teams play each alot because these will be Independent teams and usually are better than farm teams filled from the MLB system.

[SI52]

Originally Posted by Orioles1966

Larger leagues I protect 18 players. Smaller leagues I go with 20.

I just had a last minute expansion for the 2015 PCL and will cherry pick players from MLB 1977.

New teams:
Kentucky Colonels
Tulsa Roughnecks
Birmingham Bulls
Des Moines Bruins

Instead of re-generating the schedule I edited it so the new teams play each alot because these will be Independent teams and usually are better than farm teams filled from the MLB system.

Awesome, thanks! Do you put in any specific rules about which players are allowed to be drafted? (AAA, AA, etc.)

[Orioles1966]

I let the computer handle the protected lists.