@bstar97 I think @frostycab 's figures for the potential benefit ratio are a little optimistic. Most downloading takes place when a torrent is new. It's seen on the first viewed pages when people look at what has recently been uploaded, and is often the torrent equivalent of an impulse buy.
As soon as you've uploaded 100% to someone, that person also becomes a potential seed. It doesn't always work out that way, of course, but it also doesn't work out that you get huge credit, even if a torrent is popular.
Example: I uploaded a 9.39GB torrent on the 25th April. My upload credit is now 21.5GB (228%). However, it has been snatched twenty-six times, and there are currently a dozen others seeding it. It is likely that many of those will only seed short term, then delete the torrent, if not the files themselves, so it will drop to only two or three seeders. I'll then get a bigger share of the pie again, but it's also likely that takers for that particular torrent will be infrequent as well. You're no longer offering to people thinking "ooh, that look fun" but to people looking to complete a collection, or who have just discovered a particular performer they'd not known about before, and are looking for more of his output, etc.
I'm with @frostycab on the solution being to increase your own local storage.
A tip that works for me is that I split my downloads into "Short term" and "Long term". Not only by tagging it so (I use qBittorrent where it's incredibly easy. Don't know about other clients) but literally. Once downloaded, most goes into the "short term" pot, and I copy it into a "holding area". Here I can prune, rename, restructure, convert format, etc., to my heart's content without disrupting my seeding ability.
I monitor my short term seeding space, deleting stuff when it no longer earns its keep and | or in accordance with space availability. Some of the stuff that I do decide to keep permanently can also be "long term" seeded, which both continually dripfeeds my ratio, and keeps torrents accessible to other members.