Help with some math related to league configuration

ZepTepi · 07-10-2024, 04:39 PM

I'm exploring how to set up some developmental fall leagues and am running into some league configuration issues.

I have an association(Western States Professional Baseball League) with 7 state leagues for which I would like to set up several fall leagues. Rather than set up separate fall leagues for each association league I wanted to have 2 or 3 fall leagues, each having multiple association leagues contributing players to the fall league. The issue I'm running into is figuring out how to configure it so the total # of association teams in a given fall league total a number that can be divided equally in terms of how many association teams contribute players for each fall league team.
Using the RL Arizona Fall League where each of the 6 teams have 5 MLB teams associated with them with each MLB team contributing 7 players each.

The leagues in my Association are based in the following states:

Arizona - 30 teams
California - 40 teams
Hawaii - 16 teams

Idaho - 24 teams
Nevada - 16 teams
Oregon - 24 teams
Washington - 30 teams

I originally wanted 2 fall leagues based in Arizona and SoCal and I first thought of configuring it as:

Arizona Fall League - AZ+WA+OR which totals 84 teams. Unfortunately the RL Arizona Fall League model of 5 MLB teams affiliated with each Fall league team doesn't work math wise. It does work if I have 4 MLB teams affiliate with each Fall league team though that would mean the league would have 21 teams which isn't ideal especially in that I couldn't have divisions with an even # of teams. 3 divisions with 7 teams each is the only configuration that would work but were still dealing with an odd # of teams.

SOCAL Fall League - CA+ID+HI+NV which totals 96 teams. Again, the 5 MLB teams per 1 AZ Fall League team model doesn't work but the 4 teams does which gives me a Fall League with an even 24 teams. I could have each Asso.team contribute 7 players but that would only total 28 players so I would likely go with 8(32 players) or 9(36) per team.

In this configuration the SOCAL league league works well but not the AZ league.

I then tried multiple other set-ups with CA, AZ, and HI hosting their own fall leagues but no matter how I split up the 7 leagues among them one of them doesn't work math wise in one way or the other.

Aside from changing the # of teams per association league in order to get to #s that work how would you address this?

07-10-2024, 04:39 PM	#1
ZepTepi Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2016 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 141	Help with some math related to league configuration I'm exploring how to set up some developmental fall leagues and am running into some league configuration issues. I have an association(Western States Professional Baseball League) with 7 state leagues for which I would like to set up several fall leagues. Rather than set up separate fall leagues for each association league I wanted to have 2 or 3 fall leagues, each having multiple association leagues contributing players to the fall league. The issue I'm running into is figuring out how to configure it so the total # of association teams in a given fall league total a number that can be divided equally in terms of how many association teams contribute players for each fall league team. Using the RL Arizona Fall League where each of the 6 teams have 5 MLB teams associated with them with each MLB team contributing 7 players each. The leagues in my Association are based in the following states: Arizona - 30 teams California - 40 teams Hawaii - 16 teams Idaho - 24 teams Nevada - 16 teams Oregon - 24 teams Washington - 30 teams I originally wanted 2 fall leagues based in Arizona and SoCal and I first thought of configuring it as: Arizona Fall League - AZ+WA+OR which totals 84 teams. Unfortunately the RL Arizona Fall League model of 5 MLB teams affiliated with each Fall league team doesn't work math wise. It does work if I have 4 MLB teams affiliate with each Fall league team though that would mean the league would have 21 teams which isn't ideal especially in that I couldn't have divisions with an even # of teams. 3 divisions with 7 teams each is the only configuration that would work but were still dealing with an odd # of teams. SOCAL Fall League - CA+ID+HI+NV which totals 96 teams. Again, the 5 MLB teams per 1 AZ Fall League team model doesn't work but the 4 teams does which gives me a Fall League with an even 24 teams. I could have each Asso.team contribute 7 players but that would only total 28 players so I would likely go with 8(32 players) or 9(36) per team. In this configuration the SOCAL league league works well but not the AZ league. I then tried multiple other set-ups with CA, AZ, and HI hosting their own fall leagues but no matter how I split up the 7 leagues among them one of them doesn't work math wise in one way or the other. Aside from changing the # of teams per association league in order to get to #s that work how would you address this?