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This is a great thread, BC. i'm glad you started it. It's a good way to pass the time while waiting for the latest greatest, or at least a blog or some screenshots.
Anyway, like Rogmax, stuff like this always gets me searching for a pen and pad so i can move divisions around. And do some what if scenarios and i came up with a couple of ideas. Both might have been radical at the time, i'll let you guys be the judge.
i'm assuming that the PCL had some power in the dealings with the MLB and could dictate somethings. And like, LGO, i don't think that they would have gone with a two league, six division set up.
My thinking is that the PCL wouldn't want to lose their identity and rivalries. If all the leagues are on equal footing, why should they be absorbed into the other leagues and half of their rivals taken away? Plus, they would be at disadvantage because they'd be traveling across country twice as much as the east coast teams. Or they would have to take longer road trips.
My first idea was keep all the leagues separate. The league's identities and rivalries are intact. And travel would be the same. The playoffs would be the problem. i don't know if they would've decided on a wild card. So don't the three leagues idea would work. However, a way they could've done the playoffs with just the three pennant winners would've been to have a double elimination tournament, like the College World Series. It could've had the impact of a Super Bowl, except stretched over three or four days. The pennant winners meet at one spot. Seed the teams by record. i say do like the Super Bowl and rotate sites. But the highest seed could host. Everyday there's a double header. On the first day, the 2nd and 3rd seeds play first. The winner plays the 1st seed. When a team loses two games they are eliminated. The last team standing is the champion. i think a double elimination tourney with three teams would last three days, four at the most. A triple elimination tourney would last at least four days and, i think, five at the most. If they do a double elimination, start the tourney on Friday. If they do a triple elimination, start the tourney on Monday. Anyway, you couldn’t do that with OOTP. But it’s cool to think of such an event. I’m gonna’ have to pull out the Ken Burns documentary and look at the fifties era and imagine what an event like that would look like.
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