I know there was a brief discussion about this last year, and I agree with a lot of the opposing commentary (wait and see, game handles talent well, blah blah blah) but after running a few solo leagues with feeder leagues over the past few months I've come to the conclusion that our feeder system is too small.
Personally, I've liked the results I've had when I have 2 college teams and 4 high school teams for each major league team.... for a 20-team league that would be 40 colleges and 80 high schools. We have just 20 colleges and 20 high schools.
Now, I don't expect you all to want the AFBL made to Chappy's preferences (although you should!!!!
) so I was wondering what OOTP would recommend the feeder league size should be for a 20-team league.
So how many teams does OOTP think you should have in your feeder system to support a league of this size?
If you take a 20-team fictional league with AAA, AA, A and R leagues and an 8-round draft (the game recommends 16 rounds, btw) and go to the 'league functions' page and choose 'add complete feeder league system', the game tells you it will add a system that "properly matches the currently selected league in terms of size".
This creates:
A college league consisting of 12 teams (8
less than we currently have)
A high school league consisting of 40 teams (20
more than we currently have)
It seems to me in the very least our high school league is too small.... thoughts?