[Gneilos]

I've decided to abandon feeder leagues until post WWII.

My initial test with the 4 original British teams went fairly well. I simmed all the way until the 1920's with 60 game seasons, and no new teams. As expected just about the time I stopped the first power hitters arrived on the scene, one guy hit 17 HR's in 60 games. Also, the two largest markets, London (by far) and Birmingham dominated combining for something like 40 pennants in 50 years, this too was expected to some degree.

However, my second test did not go as well. There were two main differences between the tests. First this time i eventually changed the length of the season to 90, then a full 154 games. This went fine. However, I also added 12 total new teams, 4 smaller markets in England, and 8 in continental Europe (I did decide to include Vienna.) However, these new news absolutely dominated, their randomly created rosters were far better then the ones of the established teams. Portsmouth, a team that I expected fold in the 1930's has become the greatest dynasty in Europe, won most of the Euro Series played to date. Mightly London now has a losing record for it's history, partly due to the increse in season lengths.

It seems the game has barely created enough players to fill the teams rosters,and most new players have seemed to be pretty marginal talents.

For my next text I may try dumped a lead of randomly created youngsters into the league every off season, about 5 per team. I want to see if that will help to increase the talent level.