What's your latest creation(Historical/Fictional Leagues)?

[Orioles1966]

I started out with Historical MLB (with complete minors) from 1967.


Next I took Historical MLB(with complete minors) from 2015 and imported them to 1967.


Next-I will keep the 2015 MLB teams in place also forming(with them) an 64 team AL-NL.


Since there will be 34 expansion teams(no expansion draft) ,I will cherry pick players from the minor leagues(2015 and 1967) and fill up rosters that way.


Players from MLB 1967 will be used also too fill up rosters.


There will be no minors(doubt if the game would be functional with that many teams).


Schedule-6 games vs 7 divisional opponents
3 games vs 24 other opponents in same league
3 games vs 16 opponents from other league
(subject too change)

[JMGC]

I created a fictional alternative MLB universe, following the hitting and pitching eras of real life. One major change is that I added the DH for both leagues in 1921, and Free Agency started in 1961. I relocated and expanded teams around the same time as they did in real life, but chose teams to relocate based on poor attendance and fan support. Its been pretty cool, I had a pitcher in the 30's, 40's and 50's win the Pitcher of the Year and Player of the Year 16 times in a 17 year stretch, most amazing thing I've seen in OOTP. I started in 1901, and now its 1989. I'm gonna expand and add a team in Miami that I will control.

[Orioles1966]

I am undecided if I will use the DH in the NL.

There will be DHs(double-headers).

[SI52]

I play a 10-team league of suburban teams around my hometown (still playing OOTP 16). I won the 2015 championship (year 1), and lost in the WS after winning 114 games in Y2. Missed the playoffs by a game in Y3, and lost in the Championship Series Y4.

I decided to keep the league small so that I could learn all the players and get a good grasp of the league's history. Hopefully I end up playing 50+ years in this series, so I have a whole lore and whatnot.

[grmagne]

I'm starting a fictional league in 1960 with real financials and hitting/pitching trends. I so enjoy signing star players to 6-digit contracts and watching my starters throw 140 pitches. No DH but I am using the modern draft, IFA & QO system.


It's a 16-team league from The Americas with randomly created franchises in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Medellin, Maracaibo, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Guayaquil and a few others I can't remember. I mostly kept the original cities but reconfigured the divisions to make travel times more realistic.


It's got dynamic evolution. At the end of the 1st season they extended the DL to 22 days, which I don't really like but oh well. I'm mostly interested in seeing future expansions but I leave all the evolution options checked for variety.


I found the first season to be very high scoring but 1963-1968 will fix that

[andyhdz]

In my alternate universe for whatever reason (nyc sued them, airplanes were never invented, etc) the Dodgers and Giants never moved out west allowing the PCL to take that last extra step and become a major league. I started my universe in modern times with the 16 team PCL having a combination of modern PCL teams (Fresno, El Paso) and some of the founding teams such as the LA Angels, SF Seals, and Portland Beavers.

I never liked 18 and 19 year olds in the minors so I abolished international discoveries and setup an exclusive college feeder system that plays it's games in from Nov to March (had to setup retractable roofs so weather wouldn't be a factor). That allows me to not have to setup up rookie leagues and only have A, AA, and AAA.

Now I'm thinking of setting up a smaller 14 team rival MLB on the east coast and have the same setup but include modern mlb teams and the two NY teams that never left. I don't want to have free agents crossing over but I'll allow trades. Then I'll setup an association and will get to watch them battle it out in an American Classic Championship every year. BTW, MLB will refuse to implement the DH rule.

[grmagne]

Originally Posted by andyhdz

I never liked 18 and 19 year olds in the minors so I abolished international discoveries and setup an exclusive college feeder system that plays it's games in from Nov to March (had to setup retractable roofs so weather wouldn't be a factor). That allows me to not have to setup up rookie leagues and only have A, AA, and AAA.

I've never tried a league that overlaps calendar years like that. When the season runs from November to March, which year appears in the "Year" column in the stats column? The first or second year?


It's funny how different our opinions are on teenagers. I like having more young players in the minors so I often add extra rookie leagues and set the IFA pool size to the maximum.

[andyhdz]

To tell you the truth the first year of college ball was a normal april schedule so the year showed up as 2019. Then I made the change and had the second season start that Nov. still in 2019. But of course that confused OOTP so players who played the first year now had the second season stats attached to their original 2019 stats line. I didn't care too much since it's just feeder league but it also messed up the championship history page. The UT Longhorns won the second season championship but since it was still 2019 they didnt' show up in the champions page and first season 2019 winner Long Beach State is still there. Oh well I chalked it up to an NCAA violation which stripped the Longhorns of the title.

So now I'm finally on track and going to start the 3rd college season Nov 2020. The stats line will show as 2020 and I'm assuming when it bleeds over to the next year it will still say 2020 (crossing fingers). I made the change because I wanted to have a natural progression of college ball, draft, professional ball.

And yea I work in higher education so seeing teenagers waste their time trying to make it in the minors irks me.

[Silent_Thunder]

I've been doing a fictional MLB history using the Alternate MLB Jersey setup, that essentially follows the MLB 1-1, but with teams having new names and jerseys so their history is their own when you play it. Always felt weird otherwise, with say, the 1940 Yankees being a mid-market team with no success and an entirely fictional roster etc. Just works better when even if the team is still the Yankees, it isn't "the Yankees", know what I mean.

It's a bit more tedious as you have to adjust it manually each year, but it's great because besides having a unique history, in the early years you get to see the rise and fall of all the other major leagues.

I started in 1871 and did comissioner mode hands off untill 1892, when I became GM of the fantastically awful Brooklyn Blue Stockings (later to become the Blue Sox, and are the analogue to the Dodgers). I don't even think my "new expansion era" Louisiana Black Bears in the 2016 MLB start are as ruined as this team. In their 8 seasons of existance, the first 6 of which weren't even in the NL but a lesser ML, the team has compiled an amazing overall WPct of .386, and has never gone above .450 in a season.

In those 20 years we've already had some players whose names will be remembered, such as Steve Parker of the now defunct Indianapolis Champions, who went berzerk in 1888 and scored 40 home runs, before having his career ruined by joining an upstart league after his team released him, and having that upstart league fold a year later.

And as I mentioned, my other save is a New Expansion Era MLB, where every 5 or so years another 2 teams are added untill the league reaches 26 teams, so one new one in each division. The first teams are the Portland Whalers and Louisiana (New Orleans) Black Bears, who joined the NL and AL West respectively, which I feel works fairly well geographically, if not entirely market size wise.

And here are the uniform threads for both.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...1-present.html

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-revamped.html

[iverbure]

Originally Posted by Orioles1966

I started out with Historical MLB (with complete minors) from 1967.


Next I took Historical MLB(with complete minors) from 2015 and imported them to 1967.


Next-I will keep the 2015 MLB teams in place also forming(with them) an 64 team AL-NL.


Since there will be 34 expansion teams(no expansion draft) ,I will cherry pick players from the minor leagues(2015 and 1967) and fill up rosters that way.


Players from MLB 1967 will be used also too fill up rosters.


There will be no minors(doubt if the game would be functional with that many teams).


Schedule-6 games vs 7 divisional opponents
3 games vs 24 other opponents in same league
3 games vs 16 opponents from other league
(subject too change)

love this thread. I like reading about others create a league ideas. I spend more time thinking about leagues to create than actually playing the leagues.

[andyhdz]

Originally Posted by iverbure

I spend more time thinking about leagues to create than actually playing the leagues.

me too! If my wife knew what I was thinking she'd think I was crazy