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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Now, let's imagine that teams in the NL and AL could compete for the World Series, but they could also compete against top franchises from Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Japan, Korea, and other countries in a season-long professional team tournament. And then imagine that teams from all levels of baseball in the U.S. could compete in a season-long national tournament to crown a U.S. champion beyond just the World Series. Even a AAA or AA team could have a chance to shock everyone and win the U.S. title. This is similar to how club soccer competitions operate around the world, and amazingly there have been some lower level clubs that have won a national cup competition. It's rare, but it has happened.
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This sounds like all sorts of fun to create in OOTP. Markus added League Associations in OOTP13 which start to get at the ability to create some of these concepts.
I like the idea of promotion/relegation, but you it's really not as simple as just adding code that moves teams around based on record. The question about an aging vet getting demoted and then demanding a trade is something that I doubt the AI would have any idea how to handle to people's satisfaction. I also don't think the financial environment is robust enough to respond appropriately to drastic and sudden changes in a team's expected revenue for the coming season. There really is a LOT of work that would need to be done to make it work to people's satisfaction and the manual option isn't all that difficult to make work.
In the meantime, maybe Markus can work more on some of the things that would be required in order to make it work and also benefit more traditional leagues. An improved financial model would be a natural place to start that everyone could take advantage of. Improved decision making AI would also be nice.