I love all the points and discussion. It really is helpful to find the right combination of ideas to get the expansion draft planned out.
Here's what I'm thinking for the timeline of events leading up to Expansion...
-finish 2016 season (regular, playoffs, awards, Ammy Draft)
-roll to 1/1/2017
-relocate AZ to NM & CA to MD; realign AFBL into 4 5-team divisions (FL West, FL East, PL North, PL South)
-push 'Expand league and schedule Expansion Draft' function in the game
-current teams submit Protection Lists
-30 players protected
-players that are 22 or younger on 1/1/2017 are auto-protected
-draft picks from 2014, 2015, and 2016 are auto-protected
-not sure if we'll have current teams get a chance to protect extra players (maybe for the first 5 rounds?)
-Expansion Draft on 1/5/2017
-15 rounds to allow Expansion Teams to end up with 60 players, each current team losing no more than 1 player per rd
-Free Agent Draft on 1/15/2017
-5 rounds with just Expansion Teams picking in serpentine reverse order of Expansion Draft to allow the 4 teams to add 20 additional players to bring total to 80
-sim up to beginning of Spring Training 2017 then back to normal sim scheduel
Any thoughts?