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Originally Posted by norva13x
In my league which has had 21 seasons so far, I have a team called the Cleveland Captains, they never made the playoffs in the history of the team/league (they were a charter franchise). The team had a great 3-4 year period a few seasons ago when they won more then 85 games each year and twice won over 90, but as if God himself hates the team the division they played in during that period was by far the most insanely tough division I have ever seen. One year they finished with 93 wins, were in third place that year, and 14 games back. 93 wins and in THIRD!!!
And that is with an unbalanced schedule!
The poor poor Captains.
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I hear that. There's a team in my league called the Chicago Indians. This team, despite its huge market, tends to stick with young, quality, cheap players that it has developed through its farm system, as well as through trades with big spending teams. They have established themselves over the period of my league as one of the better, almost elite teams.
However, what keeps them from attaining elite status is their inability to make it to the postseason. This is no fault of their own, but rather my playoff eligibility requirements, which allows only the four division winners of each sub league to move on. They happen to be in a four team division with the Baltimore Emperors, the Yankees of my league.
Three years in a row, the Indians have finished three games or less back at the end of the season, yet they have been in the top three in winning percentage of the sixteen teams in the sub league each season. They have made the playoffs just twice in the fifteen year history of the league, with the Emperors winning the division eleven other times.
That division has churned out seven Presidential League Championships (the main championship), but none from Chicago. If only they were in a different division, and did not have to play the Emperors thirty times a year, they would probably have at least a few PL Championship appearances under their belt.
Maybe they will eventually just give up on development and go free agent crazy.