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Old 09-20-2019, 03:50 PM   #2
joefromchicago
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This certainly is ambitious

Looks like you have everything planned out. Once you get into playing the games, I recommend posting in the Dynasty Forum. That forum rolls over every time there's a new version of the game, so a dynasty that spans multiple versions won't get lost in the shuffle. The Fictional Forum, in contrast, is tied to the current version of the game. So if you posted your dynasty here, it would get consigned to the island of lost forums once OOTP came out with version 21.

Another point: you mention San Francisco, Dallas, and Honolulu as having teams in your leagues. You should check historical population statistics so that you're placing teams in appropriate locations. Los Angeles, for instance, had a smaller population than Evansville, IN in 1890, or about one-sixth the size of San Francisco and only slightly bigger than Oakland. San Diego was even smaller - it didn't crack the top 100 cities in the US until 1920. That, in fact, is one of the reasons that the PCL never quite made the jump to the big leagues - it didn't have the same sort of population base that the NL and AL had until the 1950s, about the same time the established leagues invaded the west coast.

Here's a census bureau list of the top 100 cities in every census from 1790 to 1990. You might also take a look at a spreadsheet I compiled a while back that converts historical population statistics into OOTP-usable numbers.

EDIT: you should also check the PCL schedules that have been posted in the historical minor-league schedules thread, including the ones posted by Outlaw Jim. The PCL traditionally played seven-game series from Tuesday through Sunday, with double-headers on Sundays and holidays. Mondays were set aside as travel days. That was due to the long distances that teams had to travel by train to get to their opponents. Note that California teams frequently played double-headers on Admission Day (Sep. 9).

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