America does not rise to the top in random world

madjac74 · 06-15-2020, 01:37 AM

I did a fun simulation experiment where I created an 8 team league starting in 1900 and made all players in the inaugural draft and amateur drafts 100% random origins. I wanted to see which countries rose to baseball power and were invited to the 8 team World Cup every four years.

As of 1910, the only country without a player representing them is the USA despite the league's nationality being American. Tahiti & French Polynesia has the most with 15 players and lost to England in the 1908 World Cup. Even Greenland has 4 players!

In this league I started with every country as non-existent baseball quality because I tried a previous simulation without changing the baseball quality. The excellent quality countries still rose to the top despite the complete randomness (Again...except for the USA). The Dominican, Japan, Venezuela, Puerto Rico still showed up at the World Cup every 4 years.

I am slowly raising the baseball quality of the countries who start to have the most players show up. Eventually if a country gets a large amount of players or a certain number of years pass I will add a league to that country and maybe let them dominate the world.

Very fun! Thanks for reading. Let me know if anyone has done anything similar and why the host league nation doesn't get any love. It would be really sweet if I could randomize players for 10 years before even creating a league

OMG! After writing this...the USA has made it to the 1912 World Cup ...still with zero players in my universe. Reigning champions England and silver medalist Tahiti & French Polynesia are back! The US pulled in a bunch of players who have American listed as a second nationality.

06-15-2020, 01:37 AM	#1
madjac74 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 133	America does not rise to the top in random world I did a fun simulation experiment where I created an 8 team league starting in 1900 and made all players in the inaugural draft and amateur drafts 100% random origins. I wanted to see which countries rose to baseball power and were invited to the 8 team World Cup every four years. As of 1910, the only country without a player representing them is the USA despite the league's nationality being American. Tahiti & French Polynesia has the most with 15 players and lost to England in the 1908 World Cup. Even Greenland has 4 players! In this league I started with every country as non-existent baseball quality because I tried a previous simulation without changing the baseball quality. The excellent quality countries still rose to the top despite the complete randomness (Again...except for the USA). The Dominican, Japan, Venezuela, Puerto Rico still showed up at the World Cup every 4 years. I am slowly raising the baseball quality of the countries who start to have the most players show up. Eventually if a country gets a large amount of players or a certain number of years pass I will add a league to that country and maybe let them dominate the world. Very fun! Thanks for reading. Let me know if anyone has done anything similar and why the host league nation doesn't get any love. It would be really sweet if I could randomize players for 10 years before even creating a league OMG! After writing this...the USA has made it to the 1912 World Cup ...still with zero players in my universe. Reigning champions England and silver medalist Tahiti & French Polynesia are back! The US pulled in a bunch of players who have American listed as a second nationality. Last edited by madjac74; 06-15-2020 at 02:13 AM.