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Originally Posted by kq76
First, thank you very much for this. It's quite an impressive effort!
A few questions and a suggestion:
1) You have a lot of links available, but I don't know which I should use. I think I want to use the 1950s quickstart, but why might a person want to use the first two, the ones with templates and why do some of the others list 2 years?
2) I read through the thread and see that you played it out with some teams changing. Does this happen automatically when using a quickstart or do we need to do that manually? Either way is fine, it just didn't occur to me that OOTP had this capability with fictional quickstarts.
3) 24 team leagues are probably the most popular setup. Instead of having the user have to choose set A or B and miss out on some teams, why not make the extra teams all expansion teams that come in at some point? I thought maybe it was tradition, but I see *** didn't always only have 12. I like what both of you and 39_Ringo have done, I don't really want to have to choose only one.
4) Before I decided I should just play yours, I was envisioning making a league with one division, or even one whole league, with Tokyo area teams only and the other divisions with non Tokyo area teams. If you were to go even further away from ***'s setup, would you maybe do this or does it not make sense somehow? I don't know much about Japan.
Again, thank you very much for all of this. It's unfortunate what lead to it, but I think it's great that this is the result. |
Considering how many historical identities we have it is totally feasible that one could run 24 different teams in this league, if we ignored how many teams Tokyo would have as a result (Kinshi, Jaguars, Express, Power, Blue Sox, and Bruisers, and that's being harsh-you could also have the Meteors in Tokyo too). I do like the idea, though. However it's like shoving 24 teams into the California League, I just don't think it'd work out too well logistically, especially with how many extra stadiums we'd have to use as a result.
Personally, if you were crazy enough to do a 24 team league, I'd keep the two league structure (this time with 12 teams each) with 2 divisions of 6 teams each:
Higashi Nihon Division: (Nihon League, East Division)
Sendai Hawks
Sendai Woodpeckers
Sapporo Bruisers
Sapporo Cranes
Kawasaki Meteors
Chiba Pirates
Nishi Nihon Division: (Nihon League, West Division)
Tokyo Kinshi
Tokyo Jaguars
Tokyo Power
Nagoya Dolphins
Saitama Panthers
Yokohama Astrals
Higashi Zenkoku Division: (Zenkoku League, East Division)
Kansai Cubs
Osaka Stars
Kobe Thunder
Kyoto Aces
Osaka Bulls
Hyogo Gladiators
Nishi Zenkoku Division: (Zenkoku League, West Division)
Shimonoseki Typhoons (Original concept for this idea, will get to)
Hiroshima Phoenix
Fukuoka Marines (would need to make historical jerseys for them anyway)
Fukuoka Clippers (same as Marines)
Fukuoka Vipers
Matsuyama Arrows