I've had this is an idea about how college teams could be "farm teams" to a professional league, ever since I heard
Strat-o-matic was coming out with Computer Football. Until now it hasn't been possible, but since Strat has come out with Computer
College Football ... I've decided to gauge the interest in this potential idea:
The Herculean Football Association
(HFA) will consist of the Herculean Professional Football League (HPFL) and the Herculean Collegiate Athletic Association
(HCAA).
The HPFL will have 20 teams and the HCAA will have 4 - 20 team conferences. Each HPFL team will have an HCAA
team in each conference operating as a "farm team". Players that graduate college will "feed" the talent levels for the professional
ranks.
The HFA will have 20 franchise owners. Each owner can operate their 5 teams (1 professional and 4 collegiate)
as much as they want. Franchise Owners may "hire" coaches or coach/GMs for any of their teams to relieve the burden of having
to coach 5 games a week. (I am open to other ideas to alleviate the need to coach 5 games a week … like different auto-play
options).
Each conference/league will have a separate draft and players/picks may be traded among the franchises (but
players may not move between conferences or leagues).
Check out the
rules, they're about 90-95% done.
I'm SERIOUSLY thinking about changing up the "affiliation" rules and giving college teams the ability to be autonomous,
and instead have "affiliation" contracts with a pro team ... and then changing the pro league from a dynasty league (pro's
keep ALL their "affiliated" college teams' graduating talent) to allowing them to keep a set percentage of their
college teams' graduating talent (probably 50%+)
Dunno, give me feedback as the draft won't happen until this Nov/Dec '06.
