Fictional League Setup Questions

[Mordrehl]

Ok took the plunged with OOTP on sale

Haven't in fact started a season, been mucking around with the Fictional League wizard

My question is as follows

I setup the main major league (FBL) and it's 5 levels of minors (AAA,AA etc)

I then add in feeder leagues to an appropriate level (did the research, each team produces about 6 players destined/capable of the big leagues)

Now, I could just start there ... but ... my plan is start with a small major league (8 to 12 teams) in 1901 with enough feeder teams to actually man a 30 team league in the future

If I create secondary leagues, set their financials to be below the major league (max salary, salary of a star etc) ... I plan on only having a reserve roster for these 2nd Tier teams ...

1) Is it better to have drafting turned on for these 2nd tier leagues? Do they draft from the same pool as the major league with player rights tiered appropriately? ie rights can belong to Team A in Tier 1 league and Team C in Tier 2 League?

2) If I leave drafting off for the 2nd tier leagues will they sign players that are undrafted and/or unsigned by the top tier league?

[Mordrehl]

Since nobody has responded I'll expand upon what I'm asking ...


Major League - FBL (Fictional Baseball League)
FBL AAA
FBL AA
FBL A
FBL Short Season
FBL Rookie League

Various College Feeder Leagues
Various High School Feeder Leagues

That is the "base" that I desire ... to which I want to add :

3-4 Professional leagues in North America
Say, 3 in the USA (NE, Midwest and West Coast) and one in Canada

I plan on setting the minimum salaries and max (super star) salaries for these leagues that even the highest salary would be below the FLB minimum salary. I plan to use a reserve roster system for these teams rather than a minor league system for each.

So my question is, how do these "lesser" professional leagues get stocked?

A) Draft? If I enable a draft for these leagues, is it a seperate pool of players from the FLB league? Or do they all draw from the same Feeder leagues?

B) No Draft. If there is no draft, do these lesser leagues get the oppurtunity to sign any undrafted/unsigned players from FLB? Or do they get a completetly seperate pool of Free Agents to sign from?


I'm trying to find a solution that does not create too many players and that the Feeder leagues are the predominant means for the FLB and 3-4 lesser professional leagues to stock their rosters.

[TGH-Adfabre]

Your question is above my pay grade.

If you are patient I am pretty sure someone will post with similar experience. Your set up is pretty aggressive, which is cool. You may have a hard time getting a spot on answer because the conditions are so specific. I would be shocked if you did not get any answer at all.

Good luck,
Tom

[Mordrehl]

heh yeah, hoping for an answer so I don't go through the pain of setting up the 2nd tier professional leagues for nothing :P


My point to have them, is to give the undrafted/unsigned players somewhere to play ... my plan being to have enough feeder leagues to stock 30-40 major league teams.

But, I only want to start with 8 teams in 1901 and expand the league at different intervals ... so as you can see, in the first decades there will be 20-30 teams worth of players just hanging about doing nothing :P

Worst case, I set it all up and test it out I spose

[MUFC1878]

Originally Posted by Mordrehl

Since nobody has responded I'll expand upon what I'm asking ...


Major League - FBL (Fictional Baseball League)
FBL AAA
FBL AA
FBL A
FBL Short Season
FBL Rookie League

Various College Feeder Leagues
Various High School Feeder Leagues

That is the "base" that I desire ... to which I want to add :

3-4 Professional leagues in North America
Say, 3 in the USA (NE, Midwest and West Coast) and one in Canada

I plan on setting the minimum salaries and max (super star) salaries for these leagues that even the highest salary would be below the FLB minimum salary. I plan to use a reserve roster system for these teams rather than a minor league system for each.

So my question is, how do these "lesser" professional leagues get stocked?

A) Draft? If I enable a draft for these leagues, is it a seperate pool of players from the FLB league? Or do they all draw from the same Feeder leagues?

B) No Draft. If there is no draft, do these lesser leagues get the oppurtunity to sign any undrafted/unsigned players from FLB? Or do they get a completetly seperate pool of Free Agents to sign from?


I'm trying to find a solution that does not create too many players and that the Feeder leagues are the predominant means for the FLB and 3-4 lesser professional leagues to stock their rosters.

A) Separate pool. Each league has its own draft.

B) Yes. All leagues share free agents, unless you check the option to not allow free agents from another league or to leave the league.

[Mordrehl]

Originally Posted by MUFC1878

A) Separate pool. Each league has its own draft.

B) Yes. All leagues share free agents, unless you check the option to not allow free agents from another league or to leave the league.

So option B sounds like what I want to accomplish ... feeder leagues get drafted by FLB major league, any unsigned/undrafted can then get signed by the secondary pro leagues

Excellent, thanks for the info

[JWay]

I really recommend using the save quickstart function. Set up the league how you want it, start it, sim 10 years, and view the leagues. Are the desired results achieved? No? Edit and try again.

When you find something you like, hit go and have fun!

[Mordrehl]

Originally Posted by JWay

I really recommend using the save quickstart function. Set up the league how you want it, start it, sim 10 years, and view the leagues. Are the desired results achieved? No? Edit and try again.

When you find something you like, hit go and have fun!

At work, so can't check OOTP but I presume the option to save it as a Quickstart is somehwere in the create game/wizard menu?

[The Game]

Originally Posted by Mordrehl

Ok took the plunged with OOTP on sale

Haven't in fact started a season, been mucking around with the Fictional League wizard

My question is as follows

I setup the main major league (FBL) and it's 5 levels of minors (AAA,AA etc)

I then add in feeder leagues to an appropriate level (did the research, each team produces about 6 players destined/capable of the big leagues)

Now, I could just start there ... but ... my plan is start with a small major league (8 to 12 teams) in 1901 with enough feeder teams to actually man a 30 team league in the future

If I create secondary leagues, set their financials to be below the major league (max salary, salary of a star etc) ... I plan on only having a reserve roster for these 2nd Tier teams ...

1) Is it better to have drafting turned on for these 2nd tier leagues? Do they draft from the same pool as the major league with player rights tiered appropriately? ie rights can belong to Team A in Tier 1 league and Team C in Tier 2 League?

2) If I leave drafting off for the 2nd tier leagues will they sign players that are undrafted and/or unsigned by the top tier league?

You can associate the league and have them share a draft. I have that for MLB and a fictional CBF league in 2015. finances for these 2 league are 2103 (plus a bump of 2-3 % since I am past 2013) & 1995. Not entirely sure what you mean by the 2nd part of !. They will get drafted by a team in the shared draft, if they dont sign with that team they go back into the draft, they can not be drafted by 2 teams in 2 different leagues in the same draft.
2. yes. although this league would also create A rookies each year, not sure on how many and some will be ½ star some 5 star.

Game - Advanced - save as Quickstart.