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boilermaker · 06-14-2006, 02:41 AM

Will the Rangers ever win past July?
Will I ever score again, a kiss before I die?
-Funland, "Sparkloser"

So I'm chugging along with my OOTP 2006 season, playing as my beloved Texas Rangers with a Lahman database season from 2005, when it occured to me that to help enhance my experience and increase my attachment to this particular road to ruin, I should probably write out my trials and tribulations.

I'm not a particularly good, much less interesting writer. If anyone cares to follow along, that's a bonus to me. But the purpose of this thread is nothing more than journal-style attempt to maximize my attachment to this particular save game. If anything, Dargone's FM Adventure is a mild influence.

The rest of this post will be a quick description of the universe set up and I'll save a reply for "catching up" on the season I'm currently in (I'm 113 games in to year one).

I have full minors systems with multiple AAA, AA, A, etc. leagues, all real teams and such. Fictional minor league players, but there's a good splattering of real players up and down everyone's farm system. I have two American indy leagues, the Cuban league, and the Japanese league.

I don't like crazy amounts of roster movement, so I have a low trade setting.

Roster rules? I'm not too big on anything kooky here, either, so I've just disabled expanded/40-Man altogether and left the active roster at 25. To keep this even more unrealistic, I pushed my amateur draft to December since I prefer to worry about that after the season, not in the middle.

No revenue sharing, no salary cap.

06-14-2006, 02:41 AM	#1
boilermaker All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,956	Will the Rangers ever win past July? Will the Rangers ever win past July? Will I ever score again, a kiss before I die? -Funland, "Sparkloser" So I'm chugging along with my OOTP 2006 season, playing as my beloved Texas Rangers with a Lahman database season from 2005, when it occured to me that to help enhance my experience and increase my attachment to this particular road to ruin, I should probably write out my trials and tribulations. I'm not a particularly good, much less interesting writer. If anyone cares to follow along, that's a bonus to me. But the purpose of this thread is nothing more than journal-style attempt to maximize my attachment to this particular save game. If anything, Dargone's FM Adventure is a mild influence. The rest of this post will be a quick description of the universe set up and I'll save a reply for "catching up" on the season I'm currently in (I'm 113 games in to year one). I have full minors systems with multiple AAA, AA, A, etc. leagues, all real teams and such. Fictional minor league players, but there's a good splattering of real players up and down everyone's farm system. I have two American indy leagues, the Cuban league, and the Japanese league. I don't like crazy amounts of roster movement, so I have a low trade setting. Roster rules? I'm not too big on anything kooky here, either, so I've just disabled expanded/40-Man altogether and left the active roster at 25. To keep this even more unrealistic, I pushed my amateur draft to December since I prefer to worry about that after the season, not in the middle. No revenue sharing, no salary cap.