Promotion/Relegation League Expanding For Season 3 - 10 New Franchises Available (USBA)
 

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Hi,

My name is Brett and I am the commissioner for the United States Baseball Association. We are fast approaching the close of Season 2. The off-season will begin next Thursday or Friday.

We currently use OOTP 14. We will likely upgrade after Season 3 (June/July timeframe). The inclusion of a league reputation function in OOTP 15 is critical to the structure of our league, and we're really excited to include it in our game.

Bottom Line Up Front: We need ten managers to establish new clubs in the Third League of our Association. These ten managers will create their own teams and have complete control over their existence. The Third League is the least popular of the three leagues in the Association, as it is not as prestigious as the leagues above. Expect to make about $60 million a year in the Third League.

Additionally, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Detroit Reapers are available in the Premier League. Managers wishing to take one of these two teams may change their name after a real-life month of activity.

Key Features of the League:

• Two teams promoted and relegated each season
• A playoff series consisting of a 3-game play-in series, #3 seed @ #2 seed, and then a 7-game championship series @ #1 seed
• 108-game season, consisting of four three-game series against every other team
• Custom financials: you have complete control over all of your team's revenue. No cash cap, no revenue sharing. Want to save up money to take a shot at a big-time player? Go for it. Take the Northern Virginia Retrievers, for example. They made a ballsy power play for a Premier League-caliber player, spending 30% of their payroll on one player in the hopes of getting promoted. Currently, they're three games out from first with five games remaining before the season ends.
• A M/T/W/T/F sim schedule, with each sim consisting of 3 games
• Each sim consisting of a live sim, with box scores updated every 20 seconds and the sim run at anywhere from 2x to 5x speed
• A custom inter-league tournament played throughout the season (modelled after the FA Cup in English soccer). The Boston Patriots took down the Grafton Middies this year to take first place and $15 million in cash.
• A commissioner open to any and all suggestions, criticism, and change

If you are interested in a new team: please post in the thread, PM me, or email me with the following:


Desired team name/location - this can be anything. At the end of the post, there are preset logos for new teams, made by one of our managers, mcrubo. Feel free to use your own logos/custom logos from anywhere else (i.e. justafan's) should you want a particular logo/team.


Your e-mail address - so that I may register you to our website/forums.


League history:

The San Diego Sea Turtles took down the inaugural season of the Premier League beating the Detroit Reapers in six games. Currently, Lexington BC has clinched a playoff spot, and has a magic number of 2 to take the first-round bye in the playoffs. Boston has also managed to secure either a second or third place finish, while Brooklyn and Atlanta battle for the final spot in the playoffs. In the Silver League, four teams battle for three spots. First place receives automatic promotion to the Premier League, and the New Amsterdam Republics stand ready to take that down with a magic number of 2. However, the Rocky Mountain Bears, the Northern Virginia Retrievers, and the Capitol District Templars are all withing 2, 3, and 4 games of first place. It will be a true battle to the finish to see which of these three excellent teams receive the second promotion to the Premier League.




Website link


Live sim link


League reports link




Thanks, and take care!




Brett



Logos available for new teams (created by mcrubo):


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Hey Brett,

I would be interested in joining.

I would like my Team to be the Thunder Bay Lumberjacks and my email address is swill1845 at g mail.com. It is easiest to contact me there :D

I sent a pm about being one of the 10 new teams

Contacting you now. Welcome aboard!

I PM'd back. We wont be switching to 15 until after Season 3.


5 teams remain--three new franchises, Brooklyn, and Detroit.

I'm interested in being a new team in your league.. I'd like to create a new team called the Philadelphia Hawks. I browsed around and couldn't find any rules and regs though so I have a couple questions. I can be reached via email at geoffmatt17 @ hotmail . com .

Thanks!

This league has my interest. Would love to have that Dallas-Fort Worth Franchise.

Email: hoffies.games@outlook.com

Philadelphia is yours, but we just had a new franchise take up the Chicago Hawks. Any chance you'd like a different nickname?

Lone Star BC is yours.

I'll be e-mailing both of you later tonight once I add you to the league file. We're in the middle of the season 2 playoffs. Expect to have your teams actually in the game next week, followed by an expansion draft.

I'm interested in either taking the Brooklyn team over... or one of the new teams....

I'll put you down for Brooklyn.

1 new franchise and Detroit remain.

great!!

Sent you a quick-start e-mail, but the e-mail you provided me is not valid so it did not go through.

2 new franchises and Detroit reamain--one new franchise backed out.

Also, the Championship Series is live! Games 1-4 are today at 2x speed. Check out the live sim here.

I did get an email from you, so it must have been a temp glitch. The address I sent is correct.

I'm down
 

i'd like to join, new to the online league so i don't mind working my way up. My team will be the Jacksonville Sharks, i have all the logos and jerseys already. contact me at htownwarrior324@yahoo.com

They're yours. E-mailing you now.

League already full?

I'm also interested if you have an opening. I like the schedule and regulation format.

We're full on new franchises but we have the following teams open (tentative teams are inactive but I am awaiting confirmation before recruiting for them):

Premier League
Grafton Middies (tentative)

Silver League
Detroit Reapers
Montreal Rivermen (tentative)

E-mail me through the function in my profile if you'd like one of these teams.

Id like Detroit but I only have OOTP15 so I guess I would have to wait.. Let me know when your doing OOTP15....

Any franchises still open? I would love to join (a new franchise if possible, I like to start from the bottom). My e-mail is damiranb@gmail.com

I'd be interested as well. Lowest tier is fine. Wouldn't mind St. Louis, but not a fan of the logo. Email is limey1978@yahoo.com I have OOTP 14/15.