[David Watts]

Originally Posted by professor ape

Over the past couple of years I have been continuing to buy the new versions as they come out but admittedly have barely played. Regardless of my lack of playing regularly for a few years, I have always been happy to put my dollars behind Markus' and the team's work to make such a great game.

With 17 coming out, I'm looking to get back into the game this year. I tend to play a fictional game and am thinking about how to build some player history before taking over. If the game can support it, my idea is to start in 1870 with a number of small local independent leagues. There would be about 60 teams total with no minor league system. My thought is to let that run for thirty years and then have the "Major League" form in 1900. It would be made up from the big-city teams from the independent leagues with the other teams/cities forming an initial minor league. The league would build from there.

Any thoughts about how I should get this going and any issues that I may run into?

Cool idea.