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Originally Posted by mgom27
The Central and Midwest you have wouldn't happen in real life.
Lets try one with Ramdomized Cities.
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I'm curious as to why you don't think this would happen in real life. If you look at the NFL, for instance, teams are not always placed in the ideal division, geographically speaking. (Just look at the Cowboys in the NFC East instead of the South or even West.) In fact, I would argue that a league with perfectly-aligned divisions would not necessarily happen in real life. Granted, MLB did a pretty good job of realigning after the '90s expansions. However, with the 2 cities we're working with here, it's unlikely that some of the established intra-divisional rivalries would be broken up just to ensure a correct geographical configuration. As I said, I think there are better choices for expansion cities than Hartford and probably more
realistic options than Montreal. But if these are the locations, I really think this would be the ideal alignment... except that now I really think I should've switched Atlanta and Washington. Again, not geographically ideal, but it makes more sense to keep the Braves/Mets intra-division rivalry and Nats/Orioles interleague rivalry intact.
Btw, I just realized that this configuration places all the teams in each division in the same time zone, except for Arizona and Colorado since they're the only 2 in the Mountain Zone.