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Just found this thread and finished reading all nine pages. Have really enjoyed it so far.
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Thanks!
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I see you have altered the relegation rules again. (...) I would have relegated the White Stockings after their second season in the relegation zone. It would have been better to drop them and give them a chance to rebuild rather than having to give up a player each season, putting them in a perennial death spiral.
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Honestly, I don't know what to do with relegation. When I did my previous history thread (
Baseball's Reboot: the Birth of the Federation, 1893), I put all the teams under one roof and treated the divisions as if they were separate leagues, moving them around by hand. I created the "exemption" rule so that the big cities (NY, Chi, Phil and later LA) would always have representation in the top circuit. The White Sox are down to their last strike in 1896.
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Also, was Cleveland not a large enough city to claim a large city relegation exemption? Were the New York Giants denied an exemption because Mutual of New York are still in the top tier?
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Yes and yes.
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There seems to be a number of small market teams in the NA.
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I intentionally didn't fiddle with the market sizes at first, but it's obvious that the smaller towns have to go, even in a universe much larger than IRL. Part of the reason I created minor leagues in 1895 was to eventually ease the Keouks and Middletowns into the minors and out of "big league" baseball. (Maybe I could keep one of them, sort of the Green bay Packers of MLB?) Using historical census data, I determine how big the league cities are as compared to New York; right now, there are no fewer than 20 (out 60) teams that play in cities less than 5% the size of the Big Apple. (Middletown, CT had only 9,589 people in 1900, or 0.42% the size of New York!)
Suffice to say that this universe is gonna look a lot different once I get to the 20th century. (How? Dunno.)