[JAttractive]

Background Notes:

In this thread I will follow my attempts to build a fictional Montreal Expos team into a World Series dynasty team. I began this league in the year 1960 with fictional players and a semi-fictional league (it contains 24 real life ML teams some of which were not in existence at this time) using a player draft. The teams were given the modern day team info from the Ghost Rolen set so that the Expos are hindered to start with a 2/100 for fan rating, Good team market and Poor fan rating. This resulted in a much lower than average team income of 60 million (approximately). While this may not be realistic for a new league, where one would expect a city to be excited about the team, having a challenge is more important to me than realism.

Note that in this league I will have some house rules I follow though I don't really set anything in stone. Instead I tend to play by a philosophy that I don't make moves/trades that seem too unrealistic ex. if a team is rebuilding I am not going to trade for their prospects, I don't send down my aging stars into the minors just to get them to retire and get me off the hook etc. This is more of a situational idea and I decide on a case by case basis.

As well each year I set the teams to human controlled and play out spring training by the default numbers (5s) as I feel otherwise the AI ruins too many players or turns them all into complete package types and their is not enough diversity.

Finally I also changed the league settings just slightly so that relievers are only used Often instead of Very Often as I found the starting pitchers are replaced too quickly and often. It is still not perfect though and I may play with this later.

Edit note: I almost forgot... I am using Talent Only when viewing players as a further challenge though I find this also keeps things more interesting too.