[WooBallFan43]

Before we get into listing the teams, I just want to say that pretty much all of these team names were made with the help of ChatGPT. I also made 7 logos with AI before I realized that it looks tacky and stopped. (Didn't help that Chat got significantly worse at following my instructions, often being a hinderance instead of a helper) If AI logos offput you, I completely understand (same here), but what's done is done and I'm not changing them.


The USBL. The league system that American baseball runs through. 4 tiers of pro-rel goodness allows any of the 102 teams scattered across the map to win the highest league in the land, and in extension, the world. Here's how the system works:

Tier 1: Major League Baseball (MLB) (Tier 1) (20 Teams, 2 Relegated)
Tier 2: National Baseball Championship (NBC) (Tier 2) (24 Teams, 2 Promoted, 2 Relegated)
Tier 3: American Baseball League (ABL) (Tier 3) (26 Teams, 2 Conferences [East, West], 1 Promoted per Conference, 2 Relegated per Conference)
Tier 4: Frontier Baseball Association (FBA) (Tier 4) (32 Teams, 4 Divisions [Northeast, South, West, Midwest], 1 Promoted per Division)

As you can see this is heavily inspired by European soccer and particularly the Premier League, the best league in the world. Think of the USBL as the EFL of baseball in this universe. Unlike soccer, however, every league has playoffs, as we can all agree the best thing in sports is playoff baseball. So here's the playoff system for each league.

MLB: Top 8 teams make it, simple playoffs from there to determine a champion.
NBC: Same format as MLB, but the 2 teams that make it to the championship series are promoted.
ABL: 2 Conferences, Top 4 teams from each conference make it. Again, the 2 teams that make it to the championship series are promoted.
FBA: 4 Divisions, Top 2 from each division make it and battle against each other in the first round to decide promotion. The rest is purely for pride and glory.
First round series are 3 games, Divisionals are 5, and LCS/World Series go 7.

As you can see, the playoffs decide promotion, not the regular season. Sure, you can have a great year and get the 1 seed with 100 wins. But you're not guaranteed promotion. You still might lose to the 82 win 8 seed in the first round. A fate that is scarily common in the game, at least according to Reddit.

Now that we got the overall league format set, lets meet the teams, starting with the top tier, Major League Baseball.