So, as you all know, I made a
whole boatload of European uniforms. When I was testing them out, I found myself setting up leagues. Then I found myself creating schedules. Then I started playing with League Associations. This is the semi-fictional result.
16 countries, 37 leagues, 365 teams.
What's real?
Logos, uniforms, schedules*, playoff structures**, park names, park coordinates.
What's fictional?
Rosters, roster rules, financials***, park dimensions and factors.
At the end of the regular season(s), which start as early as February, the 16 league champions square off in a single-elimination tournament
* - The schedules for Hungary and Croatia are fictional, or at least partly so, as I wasn't able to find the actual schdules online. Everybody else should be accurate, or at least reasonably so. You'll see mostly weekend games, and
lots of doubleheaders.
** - League playoffs are as realistic as OOTP will allow, and are accurate as far as I can find. A few leagues have a somewhat split season where the top X clubs have a round robin tournament to determine the final playoff spots, and OOTP just can't do that. Additionally, most of the leagues feature a "playdown" series between the 2-4 lowest finishers in the top tier, with the playdown loser having to win a Relegation Series against the second tier champion in order to stay in the top tier. Obviously, OOTP doesn't model these scenarios, although you could manually schedule these sorts of things if you're ambitious.
*** - While some financials surely exist, details on them and how they operate are so hard to come by that trying to emulate them would be pretty much impossible, so I'm not even going to bother. Financials are turned off for all leagues. Go ahead and turn them on if you want.
If you want to play with it, feel free. Leave me whatever feedback you may have, and I may fix things I missed. Have fun!
European Baseball.quick.zip