Official Recruiting Thread for the Pro Baseball Circuit! A 16-Team Daily-Sim Fictional League

[jpeters1734]

The Pro Baseball Circuit is purposely designed to be unique and small with a little bit of a classic feel. With 22 regular season sims, each completing a 4-game series, the seasons will be quick without sacrificing the day-to-day immersion!


Full League Name (Initials): Professional Baseball Circuit (PBC)
League Website: www.probaseballcircuit.com
Interest Form: Join the PBC!!
StatsPlus Home: PBC StatsPlus
League Reports: PBC Reports
OOTP Version: OOTP 25. (yearly upgrade required)
Players: Fictional
# Of Teams: 16 total. 2 divisions of 8.
Exports Days: Daily Export deadline 6 AM MT / 8 AM ET
League Time Per Sim: 5 days
Season Length: 88 games
Current Season: 2009 (10th Season)

Distinctive Features of the PBC

The PBC aims to stand out among online leagues. This is a distinct, fictional league in a fictional baseball world. While the core of the game remains, elements like finance, schedules, and roster regulations might diverge from the MLB.

Our league has three defining characteristics:

1. Financial Fairness: We've established a salary cap and balanced finances to ensure fairness. This levels the playing field, preventing any one team from gaining an edge just through financial strength. Every GM in the PBC has the power to determine their team's path.

2. Draft Mechanics: The PBC uses a unique method to determine the draft order each season. We use a draft lottery, but we don't simply give weaker teams better odds. League activity such as exporting and voting for awards/all-stars account for almost half of the lottery odds. Additionally, all teams are included in the lottery.

3. Free Agency: Instead of standard extensions, players will enter free agency to negotiate new contracts. Trust us, this is a lot of fun! However, home grown players may be tagged as a “Face of the Franchise” to retain them throughout their career. This is all laid out in the rule book.

History of baseball prior to the PBC formation

Throughout the 20th century, baseball was largely a regional sport, with players participating in amateur and semi-pro leagues. Notable leagues during this era included the Northeastern Diamond League (NDL), Atlantic Coast Baseball Alliance (ACBA), Midwest Majors Baseball Association (MMBA), Lone Star Baseball Confederation (LSBC), and Sunset Coastal Baseball League (SCBL).

By the late 1980s, major cities like New York and Boston from the NDL, Washington and Philadelphia from the ACBA, Chicago and Detroit from the MMBA, Dallas and Houston from the LSBC, and Los Angeles and San Francisco from the SCBL transitioned to be fully professional teams. Consequently, these pro teams greatly overshadowed their amateur and semi-pro counterparts, primarily due to financial advantages.

In the 1990s, as the digital age dawned with the rise of the internet, whispers of a new fully professional super league grew louder. By spring 1999, these whispers materialized into the Professional Baseball Circuit, which boasts teams from cities including New York, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Houston. The inaugural season began on June 7th, 2000.

In the wake of this baseball landscape transformation, many teams from the established amateur and semi-pro leagues sought affiliation with the new pro teams, aiming to serve as reserve and developmental squads. This shift resulted in the modern minor league system. Consequently, non-affiliated regional leagues faded into obscurity, as aspiring professional baseball players now primarily set their sights on the pro circuit.

Game and Sim Schedule

The PBC operates on a unique 88-game schedule, where each team plays two 4-game series against all teams in their division and 1 4-game series against each team in the opposite division.

We sim every day, typically at 8 AM ET, for 5 in-season days per sim, 4-game series and an off day.

If interested, send me a PM with your name, email, and team you would like to manage.

Teams of the Atlantic Division


Teams of the Pacific Division

Logos generously provided by the wonderful modders within our community.

[jpeters1734]

Currently New York is available, and we're taking applicants for the upcoming 4-team expansion

[jpeters1734]

2 expansion teams are claimed. NYC and Dallas are open

[jpeters1734]

Las Vegas is open. They are one of the 4 expansion teams and they are open in the middle of their 1st season

[jpeters1734]

Vegas is open

[MasAmericano]

Any more openings?

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by MasAmericano

Any more openings?

We are filled up with a few people on the waiting list. If you PM me your info, I can put you on the list

[jpeters1734]

We are still accepting people onto the wait list

[tylerdarrin]

Interested

[Blue Crew]

Interested in joining the waitlist.

[Skipple]

The PBC is honestly the best online league I have played in my years of OOTP. I've personally managed the Houston Mavericks since day one.
Come join the fun. Head over to our league website and fill out our join form to get on the waitlist.

[jpeters1734]

Salt Lake City is Open

[RT24]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

Salt Lake City is Open

I will take them please

[jpeters1734]

Boston is available. We just got to the start of 2009 regular season. If interested, please register at https://www.probaseballcircuit.com/en/join

[jpeters1734]

Salt Lake City is open and available. We're winding down the 2009 season so it's a great time to jump in. Next season, SLC is relocating to Detroit.

If interested, please register at https://www.probaseballcircuit.com/en/join

[Skipple]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

Salt Lake City is open and available. We're winding down the 2009 season so it's a great time to jump in. Next season, SLC is relocating to Detroit.

If interested, please register at https://www.probaseballcircuit.com/en/join

Wow, what a great looking website. Whoever designed it must be very smart and good looking.

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by Skipple

Wow, what a great looking website. Whoever designed it must be very smart and good looking.

You are so modest, lol


We also have a league opening for New York City. We just got to free agency so it’s a great time to jump in.

[jpeters1734]

Rare opening in the league. Houston will be available at season's end, which is sometime next week.

[emswartz]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

Rare opening in the league. Houston will be available at season's end, which is sometime next week.

Submitted an application!

[jpeters1734]

Houston and Tampa Bay are now open. Just completed the 2010 season.