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Old 01-03-2024, 03:45 PM   #3228
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Originally Posted by ayaghmour2 View Post
Excited to see how the longer draft effects the talent pool. I'm always a fan of more players/larger drafts, but I imagine this is more work on your end getting all the players right
The BMU will now become pretty much the "scrubs league," though I hope teams can at least partially develop players at that level. I have noticed recently that a few more players on bad teams are being promoted too soon mostly because teams have no players to play at that positon. A 23/80 player should not be on the CBO roster, but some teams just do not have anyone better so their young guys get to suffer bad seasons before they hopefully get a ratings boost.

I am also hoping that this would solve some of the cutting players early problems. I set roster limits only at the MML level with 25 players. The BMU will be age-restricted to 18+ but can have an infinite number of players. The GBRL has a 16+ rule with no roster limits.

Since I am adding a few more youth teams, I may just keep the draft pool at 15. I had the problem in previous years where players were leaving the youth teams too soon but I think that was because of a lack of draft-eligible players who were seniors??? Hopefully, that is a problem the CBO will not have in the future and hopefully the 100th prospect of future years is higher than a 20/40 rating. I want the possibility that former stars get pushed out because the younger players outplay them. There is no loyalty in the wastelands, only survival!

At the same time, "good" farm teams may have one or two pitchers in their system that appear to be starter ready and very few have pitchers that look anywhere near where the likes of Beachboy Nut, Nuke Laloosh, Derek Green, and Sheng Kawolski are.

Naming is not too tough. I keep an Excel file of the intended names within the leagues. I go to each youth league once the freshmen are added and then edit names from there. One part of my naming conventions I find interesting is to see how past name files have certain themes. There is a big hint for the first overall player, but the second overall gives it away. Looking through the draft log, I can see what pop culture influence was used for that freshman class. These days, I have been adding on names here and there, so I just have a list that I random rearrange, use the names that are selected, and then kick the other names to the next year. Therefore, the names lists are a little more mixed up from recent additions.
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