Cooperstown Diamond Legends will be expanding for 1993, our 25th season.
For some people reading this post, this might be the first you have heard of the CDL. The CDL was founded in July 2001 with the 1969 season using OOTP 3. There was a partial re-draft that spread the players out through the original 24 teams and laid the foundations for the tremendous parity the CDL enjoys. (Every original CDL team has made the playoffs at least once, which is quite rare in any sim league.) The CDL has strived to follow history throughout the last two and a half years through edited rookie pools that successfully reflect players’ actual careers. However, we have made one improvement over history by shifting to a three division set-up, which allows more owners to make the playoffs every season, adding to everyone’s enjoyment.
For those interested in the nuts and bolts of how the CDL works or how the CDL has managed to sim 24 seasons in a little over two and a half years, here is our schedule and commitment. The CDL sims on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with 15 days per sim, which are never missed or rescheduled. We tend to have a very quick turnaround into the offseason, which also helps us march through history so quickly. This bodes well for potential expansion owners who will not have to wait as long as their first few seasons slowly pass.
Even more importantly that what the CDL is or when the sims are run, I should talk about the CDL owners themselves. The reason most of you have probably not heard of the CDL is that we almost never have to replace one of our great owners. Personally, I can say that I’ve been playing in sim leagues online for seven years now and have never had the privilege of playing with a better group of people.
The opening will be for the Florida Marlins as we have found an owner for the Colorado Rockies. We will wait a few days so everyone who is interested can get in touch with us, especially since this is the first time we have announced any openings in the CDL since the end of January, 2003.
I encourage everyone to go to the
CDL website and take a look around. Those who are interested in applying should fill out an
Application.