Hello everyone, this is Max Boyer from
www.MaxRetroBaseball.net.
If you are looking for a Hybrid Modern League, this is your place. (real-life & fictional players)
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MMB League OPENINGS
Visit League Website:
MMB | [OOTP Online League]
SIM TIMES
Monday to Friday @ 12:30AM EASTERN TIME
Saturday & Sunday @ 10:30PM EASTERN TIME
:: SIM SCHEDULE ::
April, May & June: 2-games a day. (2-day sims) (Real-life 6 Weeks)
July, August & September: 1-game a day. (1-day sims) (Real-life 12 Weeks)
October: Playoff games everyday; days off are simmed after the games. (Real-life 2 Weeks)
Off-Season: Real-life 2 Weeks
Spring Training: Real-Life Week
Extra Days: About 10 Days
:: LEAGUE EVENTS ::
Arbitration: As soon as we hit the off-season, you have 48 hours to submit your numbers to the players/judge. We sim a lot of days all the way to arbitration.
Rule-4 Draft: 7-10 Days. With OOTPOU tools. Round 1, 2 & 3 are 1 round per night format 100% official. (excluding supplemental rounds). The rest, it will depends on auto-draft factors and draft lists.
Rule-5 Draft will happen in-game, on a one sim event.
Off-Season/Free Agency speed will ramp up has we go. First 5-days of the market are 1-day sim. After that, we will increase by several days/weeks all at once. Make your best offers as early as possible.
Of course, this is a guideline. We may change/adapt sim situations for our needs.
We started in 2013 simmed 3 full seasons so far. We are now running 2 years inside of 1, and makes things a little bit easier for rebuilding a franchise and having fun with the minor system. We are just about to start the 2015 Off-Season. When? Next week. (Will post again to confirm when we start).
We are looking for new members - veterans or rookies - to join us.
The Pros of our League:
- Great core of GMs who are taking care of their respective franchise;
- Always looking to help out newcomers or veterans;
- Great forum with all the links you need on daily basis;
- Good looking website that has a Wordpress feed attached to it giving bloggers an instant post on our home page; you just need to have a Wordpress Blog account, send me your html link, and voilą!;
- League twitter feed is also present, making things easier for anyone who doesn't like to blog to publish any information regarding their team;
- Export Tracker for you guys to see when was the last time you uploaded a team export to our server;
- League file is published every night, 7 times a week. Of course, there's a different procedure going on during the off-season, you can find all the info on the forum/website.;
- Commissioner is always available for help. I check my emails many times a day;
- League rules are fairly easy to follow;
- Full HTML reports available every night after the sim;
The Cons of our League:
- Any GMs that are going to be absent for an extended period of time have to post it on the forum in the "Leave Of Absence" section. This is a polite way of stepping out of the room without having others asking any questions. You don't have to explain in details, we respect your privacy and we will take care of your team while you are gone; It's in the cons because I will have no patience with people joining and not exporting anything for over a period of two weeks without notice.
- AI is off, so you are in charge of your complete organization.
- Morale is off, less challenge for some hardcore GMs. I'm not closed at turning on this feature eventually;
- Some GMs are very shy or invisible in our league. However, they do export and participate, but from far. Can be difficult to dive into this whole thing when you don't see all of our members on the chat or on the forum; my goal is to have everyone post something on the forum, especially a "journal entry" regarding players on the trade block and what the team is looking for.
- A full season can be a pain in the butt when losing. It's sucks. I've been there a few times myself, however, you need to find something positive inside your organization and work from it. This is why we are changing the pace a little bit in order to have our members more involved over the course of a season;
So, why join?
This is a very stable league. You can always count on a new league file the next day and there's a lot of emotions related to the success of your team and the amount of work you might be investing, especially on a very slow pace league like this one. Of course, we are moving away from a 1-day sim every night for the whole season. My new plan - starting now - is to have a full year done inside OOTP in 6 months real-life, split speed. April, May & June are gonna be 2-days per sim. July, August, September & October are 1-day sims. Also, we are open to any suggestions and we have our members vote and debate on upcoming changes that are on the table. We are always looking for improvement and looking for cool people in this community!
Please, reply to me here or by e-mail:
MaxModernBaseball@gmail.com
- Max Boyer