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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
I don't use the draft. It just seem to bloat the league with too many players that would never make the active rosters.
I guess I will have an annual draft and see if the AI functions better and have more talent available.
What happens to all the draftees?
Are they purged from the system if no one signs them?
Do they glut up the Free Agents list ?
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Undrafted High School players go to college and can be drafted down the line. Undrafted players who pass their senior year of college get added to the free agent pool.
I’ve enjoyed adding fictional independent leagues as a sink for guys in the free agent pool. Can create and independent league with a top age of 26 and short term contracts that MLB teams can purchase to give to give marginal guys a crack at developing and as a source for marginal starters if you have an injury and your AAA is thin at the position. Can also make all ages leagues with longer contracts than can’t be purchase and set so teams can’t afford above average MLB starters, but can outbid MLB teams for marginal veterans that are aging to get them out of the pool.
Still haven’t found the right balance, but I think I need to decrease the overall potential of the draft pool and make development less reliable, since I think part of the equation is making aging veterans more viable… if you crank up your development budget, it seems anyone marginal over the age of 29 is just blocking a roster spot for a AAA prospect. Also seems that over time with drafts, targeting college players aren’t really viable as an overall strategy…the top end college prospects usually get chosen very early in the first round and the pool gets very thin very quickly… and almost all the best high school prospects get drafted out of high school and never go to college, so decreasing the overall potential of the draft pool should hopefully result in more undrafted high school players that develop in college (especially if you have summer developmental leagues enabled) to then make the pool of college players a little deeper… which has its own interesting risk of players that don’t develop quickly enough to reach their potential.