So I've been quietly working on a project the last couple of weeks, as it includes the main quickstart build along with some semi-fictional leagues (Leagues and Teams are real, some stadium names real, everything else---players and financials, are fictional).
Here is the catch for the European Leagues: no short 20/40/60 game seasons! They play anywhere from 100-144 games.
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Some of these leagues have history, either with the weekend season or a full MLB/***/KBO style!
Other things to note:
Cuba split into two sub-leagues, starts in April
Triple-A merged into one league with two sub-leagues
ALL MiLB leagues renamed to fit their regions (South Atlantic League renamed Mid-Atlantic League)
Italy has ALL 34 Serie A teams, but split into two sub-leagues (one with 18, the other with 16)
The French League has a 12th team added, the St. Aubin Blue Jays, to balance out the league at 12 teams (two sub-leagues of six).
Now, onto the questions......
What is this?
This is the MLB + Full international and independent league quickstart with the World Baseball Classic, as well as the Olympics and Arizona Fall League activated. This also includes the Belgian League with real players, as well as the European Super League, Mavericks League, Puerto Rican Independent League, and the Southern States Independent League. It also features over 50 leagues from around the globe. Some teams are real, others are fictional (thus semi-fictional), with fictional players.
What roster build is this off of?
This is off of 22.2.39.
Do the European Leagues play the weekend series?
No. I adjusted each league to play anywhere from 90-162 game seasons to where they weren't just "weekend warriors" and play a full season.
What about the Australian Baseball League? Did you make any changes?
Yes, I did. They will no longer be a Thurs-Sun or Fri-Mon weekend league. They will play 90 games from October to January with their current playoff format in place (Top two in each division plus a wildcard), but adjusted to where the Claxton Shield is a Best-of-7.
Did you make any other changes to leagues?
Not that I can recall.
How are the finances?
They are balanced out to create and mimic a smaller hybrid independent/international model, where most likely the minimum salary is $40k/year.
What about League Reputations?
Just like finances, the vast majority are all 5 and below. This prevents a Tommy Edman or Blake Snell from playing in Sweden or Vietnam.
India, Pakistan, Egypt, Wales? Really? Why so in-depth?
These leagues were created mostly for a back story, or going back farther. Isedelyrod came up with the Indian League idea and I took my own spin on it, creating the league in 1951. Over the course of 70 seasons, expansion, rule changes, and other things have came along. I did the same with Egypt and Pakistan. There is a thing called Welsh Baseball that dates back to 1898, but I had the league begin in 1948 and is the
ONLY league in the database to not have a Designated Hitter in a sub-league or the entire league.
Will I need to add anything to the game?
Possibly. This save has all of the realistic ballparks created on the Stadiums sub-forum. That's if you want to play 2D or 3D games outside of MLB. My AIO has been applied to this already and is good to go (but shameless plug the link is now in my signature below!) so no worries there.
Why no club tournaments?
You have to manually adjust them however you set it up to be (annually, every X years).
The European Championship is 16 teams and not 32. Why did you make it 32?
I did this because it is much easier than do a second or third tier championship to work your way up. Just to throw the personal bit in here, I've opted for my Champions Cup to be 64 clubs and not eight, to avoid the five tier system CEB has.
Where's college baseball?
OOTP cannot properly replicate college baseball so it will not be in any version unless things change. I cannot bring myself to do sixteen regionals, then have two teams advance to a Round of 32 and so forth. If the winner of a round-robin could advance, then Round 2 could be the Super Regionals. But then, you can't pod them off again for the College World Series, which would take the two pod winners for a fourth round championship series.
Special Thanks:
Isedelyrod (artwork and the IPL idea), PSUColonel (logos and the idea to add ALL the Serie A teams), CD, Low, Robo, cephasjames, golem64, itsmb8, TXRanger (all for artwork), silvam14, Lawn Loaf, eriqjaffe, (art and 3D stadiums), Adion, neilsonCP, gohorns98 (3D stadiums), FancySkunk (facegen), D.R. Park III (where this idea spun off from but I had to supersize it)
ETA:
Approx. May 15th