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BirdWatcher · 07-04-2018, 08:13 PM

Loving this new Historical Exhibition Tournament feature and couldn't stop myself from setting up a multi-group project involving 256 great MLB teams in 16 separate tournaments which will culminate in a final tournament matching up the 16 champions from the previous tourney's to crown the all-time best MLB team.
My starting point, in terms of picking the teams for the grand tournament, was an article at FiveThirtyEight entitled, The Best MLB Teams Of All-Time, According to Elo. It's not that I think this list is any more valid than the many others that exist out there, but it seemed like a decent place to start and it is an exhaustive list so it went well beyond the 256 that I required.
I am setting up each grouping with 8 American League teams and 8 National League teams. Given that the FiveThirtyEight list featured so very many New York Yankees teams I did need to go beyond number 256 to get an even number of A.L. and N.L. teams and I did need to skip over some Yankees clubs. Still, the Yankees are extremely well-represented in this grand tournament.
Also, the list was through 2015 and I added in a four teams since then: the 2016 Cubs and the 2017 Astros, Indians, and Dodgers.
In terms of how I structured the various groupings, there wasn't any super scientific grand plan. Mostly I tried to make sure that each grouping had representatives from various levels of the list and that teams with multiple appearances (other than the Yankees) mostly get spread out through different groupings. As for the Yankees, well, every group has at least a pair of Yankee teams in it. And several times, in order to try to avoid having the Yankees just completely dominate the final tourney, I have matched Yankees squads from different eras in the first rounds of their group.
I should probably say now that I don't like moving too quickly through such things. So this isn't a set it up and sim kind of project. I will be watching at least one game for every day of play in these tournaments. To the extent that it is possible (shorter series/series sweeps will make this not completely possible) I will try to watch at least one game involving every team in this grand tournament schedule. Also, this is not my primary OOTP project so progress here might be in fits and starts. But I am enjoying it a great deal so far and I'm sure I'll find room in my schedule to keep this going and hope to have final results within a year or so.

The first round of Group 1 is completed and already there are a few major upsets and some great 7-game series. (All series, throughout the tournaments, will be best of 7.)
Hope you enjoy following along!

07-04-2018, 08:13 PM	#1
BirdWatcher Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 4,263	Great Teams Tournament Loving this new Historical Exhibition Tournament feature and couldn't stop myself from setting up a multi-group project involving 256 great MLB teams in 16 separate tournaments which will culminate in a final tournament matching up the 16 champions from the previous tourney's to crown the all-time best MLB team. My starting point, in terms of picking the teams for the grand tournament, was an article at FiveThirtyEight entitled, The Best MLB Teams Of All-Time, According to Elo. It's not that I think this list is any more valid than the many others that exist out there, but it seemed like a decent place to start and it is an exhaustive list so it went well beyond the 256 that I required. I am setting up each grouping with 8 American League teams and 8 National League teams. Given that the FiveThirtyEight list featured so very many New York Yankees teams I did need to go beyond number 256 to get an even number of A.L. and N.L. teams and I did need to skip over some Yankees clubs. Still, the Yankees are extremely well-represented in this grand tournament. Also, the list was through 2015 and I added in a four teams since then: the 2016 Cubs and the 2017 Astros, Indians, and Dodgers. In terms of how I structured the various groupings, there wasn't any super scientific grand plan. Mostly I tried to make sure that each grouping had representatives from various levels of the list and that teams with multiple appearances (other than the Yankees) mostly get spread out through different groupings. As for the Yankees, well, every group has at least a pair of Yankee teams in it. And several times, in order to try to avoid having the Yankees just completely dominate the final tourney, I have matched Yankees squads from different eras in the first rounds of their group. I should probably say now that I don't like moving too quickly through such things. So this isn't a set it up and sim kind of project. I will be watching at least one game for every day of play in these tournaments. To the extent that it is possible (shorter series/series sweeps will make this not completely possible) I will try to watch at least one game involving every team in this grand tournament schedule. Also, this is not my primary OOTP project so progress here might be in fits and starts. But I am enjoying it a great deal so far and I'm sure I'll find room in my schedule to keep this going and hope to have final results within a year or so. The first round of Group 1 is completed and already there are a few major upsets and some great 7-game series. (All series, throughout the tournaments, will be best of 7.) Hope you enjoy following along!