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Even though you can't schedule two drafts at once, you can have two drafts in one year. I just tried it in 16, I assume it works in 15 too.
Run the traditional amateur draft in June, and then simply go into your settings and schedule another draft for July. Obviously, you'll have to alter the player creation options to give you 16 year old international players instead of 18-22 Americans and Canadians, just transfer over the percentages from the international player origin. And you'll probably want to shorten the draft, to the expected 4 rounds in real life or whatever you prefer. You also might want to turn off advance signing, just because I don't know how the game would handle having unsigned players and the accompanying compensation picks from two different drafts...come to think of it, you might want to have the international draft before the domestic draft's signing deadline so you don't get compensation picks in the latter. Just make sure you change all of the settings back before the next draft!
The only drawback is that, unfortunately, the players go right into your minor league system instead of the international complex. It's not as big an issue for franchise that have teams in the DSL and/or VSL, but it's obviously not ideal. At least it's only four players.
I have no idea if this has any unwanted long term side effects, so you might want to run a few test games yourself, but it appears it's possible to have both drafts.
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