So... after several years of not being in an online league, I've decided I'd like to run one again. The last time I did was when I was in high school, which was fairly successful and lasted several years (not just seasons, real life years).
Now I've got a masters degree and am done school, I think I have some time to begin a new league. For now, I'll just pitch the basic premise and see how many people would be interested. If there's a lot of interest, I'll start the actual work and people can start claiming teams.
The premise of this league is a geographical rivalry. There are 2 leagues (East and West) with 4 divisions in each. Each division is a major metropolitan area.
West:
Southland (LA)
Metroplex (Dallas)
Bay Area
Puget Sound
East:
New York City
Chicagoland
Golden Horseshoe (Toronto)
South Florida
within those divisions are four teams. Generally the most populous cities in the metropolitan area, but sometimes when there are several fairly equally populous cities within a region I'll just have a team represent a region (ie. Contra Costa County in the Bay Area).
Each team will play all teams outside their division within their league twice. Once at home, once on the road. that works out to 72 games.
The remaining 90 games will be played against the three teams within your division. 30 games each. This will be where the rivalries develop.
More importantly, there will be a rule that will need to be followed for each team.
Every team must have one player on their active 25-man roster from their region.
This shouldn't be too hard, as these regions all have more than 5 million people with the exception of Puget Sound, who I would allow for the purposes of this rule any player from Washington State (~6 million population). Assuming US and Canada born players make up about half the league (400 players), population wise that would mean 5 million people would be about 1.5% of that, meaning 6 local players for 4 teams. There would obviously be more, I'm just talking statistically speaking those SHOULD be on a major league roster regardless of if this rule was factored in.
Otherwise it would just be basic MLB rules... we can discuss whether or not we will use a DH.
So if you have interest, let me know. You can just post here, I'll be checking the thread.
Oh, and given the "city" issue, we would start with a draft, though we would only go 25 to fill the active roster... your future is up in the air initially.
Teams formally claimed:
Greater Golden Horseshoe
Toronto -
crackpott
York Region
Mississauga
Hamilton
Chicagoland
Chicago
Aurora -
mauboy
Rockford
Joliet
New York City
Manhattan -
Pete Grassi
Queens -
BHapp
The Bronx
Brooklyn
South Florida
Miami
Hialeah -
Shireman
Broward
Palm Beach
Puget Sound
Seattle
Tacoma
Everett
Bellevue
Bay Area
San Francisco
Oakland
San Jose
Contra Costa
Southland
Riverside
San Bernardino
Los Angeles
Orange County
Metroplex
Dallas
Fort Worth
Arlington
Collin County