Amateur Baseball League

[mattynokes]

This is more in response to Hick's suggestion, but I want everyone to take notice. I'm definitely open for any ideas to make this better. But what I am asking is specifically how to make the High School League more appealing. Here's how I see the differences in the 2 leagues:

High School:
Draft out of Mogul's draftee pool (with no stats)
Play 36 games

College:
Draft out of the High School seniors (with stats)
Play 48 games
Have the ability to redshirt players
Have the ability to recoup a year of eligibility due to major injury

I would just think with the better players, more information known about incoming freshmen, ability get extra years of eligibility that College would seem more appealing. Just trying to give High School something to balance the scales.

A few ideas for HS challenges:
I know it happens in college too, but ineligibility, maybe? Guys could be deemed behaviorally or academically ineligible for certain periods of time based on die rolls or some kind of added "Discipline" measure for each player. This could also be used in smaller increments like suspensions or something, and it could be entered as an injury in BBM. So that way teams might not draft a kid with a "bad track record", kind of like in real life.

Also if there was a way to have two separate players for each HS student - one as a pitcher, one as a batter -then once one of the two was drafted, the other would be deleted, or designated "undraftable" for the rest of that draft. Then based on performance or team needs, the player could be re-designated as the other (pitcher if they were a batter, or vice versa).

I can brainstorm more on these later, but these would be two HS specific ideas to chew on/tweak.

I like the enthusiasm, but I think ineligibility would be getting a little too involved with the process. With making the HS regular season a little longer than it is in real life, injuries will probably have a decent enough effect, so it could also be compounding problems for teams.

Now, the 2nd idea I like. It's something I've been back and forth on about doing. I think what will happen is Mogul generated pitchers will be eligible to play 1B/LF/RF. It'd have to be simple to limit the amount of work for myself. Taking position players and giving them pitching predicteds can be done, but not something that I'd like to mess with. Obviously about any position in High School (even College) can pitch as well as play the field, but these positions will be the easiest to convert.

id be interested

Nice. That makes 4 now.