the problem with the MLB example is you had 2 expansion teams and 28 major league teams. you are fielding 4 teams from 16 here. the numbers do not match. only solution is some other source of players for expansion teams.
Completely agree with this part. We are expanding by 25%, which means the league also needs an influx of players - 4 extra teams means 500 players needed to fill the ML and minor league rosters for each organisation. We only have just over 100 FA's - this is the issue that most needs to be dealt with, where do these extra players "suddenly" come from.
I see something as follows:
- No team loses more than 1 player per round
- Each round is made up of 16 picks (4 picks per expansion team)
- That means every round every existing team loses one player
- Expansion draft goes for 10-15 rounds - this means each team loses 10-15 players, and each expansion team drafts 40-60 players
- The four expansion teams then have a FA draft for X rounds from the existing FAs AND some new random FA's that are produced that are all aged under 25y/o but with no super stars created so that each expansion team gets to an organisation size of at least 70-80 players and can then gradually build through FA and drafting