Since I originally had plans of starting this league in 1919 with the NBL (see this thread :
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=146168 ) I will do a quick rehash of 1919 before going into greater detail beginning with 1920.
Major League Baseball will be front and center in this dynasty but we will also chronicle the other major sports of the era. I will solo sim out the other sports using a number of different games including:
College Football - using excel based Quick Play football with real college schedules.
National Football League - beginning in 1950 using Second and Ten
Hockey - Using APBA cpu hockey
Boxing - using TBCB2
Golf - using Total Pro Golf2 from Wolverine Studios when released
College Basketball - using Total College Basketball
Pro Basketball - using DDS: Pro Basketball
Horse Racing - using a dice game called Down The Stretch
Indy 500 - using Thomas Mink's Indy500 DOS game
Nascar - beginning in 1949 using Mink's Nascar DOS game
All of the sports except for golf and basketball will use exclusively real athletes and try to replicate real life conditions (league size, rules of the era, etc) as close as possible. Golf will be a mix of real and fictional athletes since I just do not have enough information on golfers of this era. I really wanted to use Gary Gorski's two great basketball games so the hoops will be the least realistic. Since both TCB and DDS:PB are designed to mirror modern basketball there will be a lot of differences - three point shots, shot clock, college stars turning pro early and the NCAA tournament beginning in 1918 with a full 65 team field to name the main differences. Basketball will also be almost exclusively fictional players but I will edit in real life NBA stars as we get into the 40's and beyond.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy following this alternate semi-historical replay based in the 1920's.
To start with I will post the remaining articles for 1919 that I had created for the NBL and I will also give a quick recap on the 1919 World Series but before I get started here is some brief history on baseball. I started simming in 1901 using the 3 year recalculate option. Rookies assigned to their original teams. Free agency turned off. Trades set to Low, injuries to low and position player fatigue to average.
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LEAGUE CHAMPIONS AND WORLD SERIES WINNERS
YEAR AL PENNANT NL PENNANT WORLD SERIES WINNER
1901 Chicago White Sox Cincinnati Reds Chicago White Sox
1902 Baltimore Orioles Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates
1903 Cleveland Naps Pittsburgh Pirates Pittsburgh Pirates
1904 New York Highlanders Philadelphia Phillies New York Highlanders
1905 Washington Senators Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia Phillies
1906 Washington Senators Pittsburgh Pirates Washington Senators
1907 New York Highlanders Pittsburgh Pirates New York Highlanders
1908 Washington Senators Pittsburgh Pirates Washington Senators
1909 Boston Red Sox Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds
1910 Boston Red Sox Pittsburgh Pirates Boston Red Sox
1911 Philadelphia Athletics New York Giants Philadelphia Athletics
1912 Boston Red Sox Chicago Cubs Boston Red Sox
1913 Philadelphia Athletics Brooklyn Superbas Philadelphia Athletics
1914 Boston Red Sox Chicago Cubs Chicago Cubs
1915 Boston Red Sox Cincinnati Reds Boston Red Sox
1916 Philadelphia Athletics Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia Athletics
1917 Cleveland Indians Boston Braves Boston Braves
1918 Philadelphia Athletics Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds