Your League Setup?

[MidnightPyro]

Hey everyone,
I've played OOTP since version 4, but pre-ordered 2007. The last version I've played is 6.5 so 2007 is like a whole new game for me, especially with league setups with additional parent leagues, multiple levels of minors, feeders etc.

I was just wondering whether you could share the way your league was setup so hopefully I (and others) could get a general idea of what people are doing and what works well?

Thanks in advance!

[professor ape]

I'm just getting my feet wet with 2007. I am doing a 24 team fictional league with full minors. I am running some seasons to tweak finances. At this point I have no salary cap, the visiting team gets 35% of the gate receipts and have a $25MM cash maximum with revenue sharing. I cut the average media contract in half to $12.5MM and that seems to be working well.

I have not touched the player creation levels or modifiers and it looks like it is giving statistical results similar to the mid 80s which I like. 50 HR is an achievement and the leage ERA hovers around 4.00 (no DH).

I have the Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Cuban and Mexican leagues but no winter leagues because they don't operate properly yet. I have it such that free agents can move between international leagues but there is no trading.

I am trying the feeder leagues and like them. I am trying to find the right balance but think that I will be setting up an abreviated version of the NCAA for the college feeders (8-10 conferences). I will have a number of US high school teams but will also set up some foreign "high school" leagues to represent the youth development programs in Latin America and a few other countries.

I figure that I am going to spend about six and a half years setting up these leagues with logos and custom colors for everything except the HS level. Then I might actually play a game.

[cbbl]

I've been a fan of OOTP since version 5, but haven't heavily played it yet. I was hoping to with 2006, but well, we all know why that didn't happen.

I am a solo fictional league player, and my league starts in 1947 as a four-team regional league with a single set of minors. Thanks to the ability to expand (a BIG plus in my enjoyment of the game), the league will grow slowly over time, adding both more teams to the major-league level as well as additional levels of minor leagues.

While financial information is on, for now free agency, Rule 5, arbitration, etc. are all turned off. This is for two reasons -- one, historically, these items didn't exist until later in the century, and two, it allows me to slowly graduate into more complicated financials. If I jumped into full financials all at once, I'd be overwhelmed!

So far I've done an inaugural draft, tweaked, re-started, re-did the inaugural draft, and then played out spring training rather meticulously. My league is ready to start regular season play, but I'll probably abandon it to go back to restart the inaugural draft and spring training as I continue to learn more about the software. I'll probably play out half-a-dozen spring trainings and maybe even a portion of the regular season before finally settling on what I want to do.

I'm not huge on making my league's performance totals replicate reality, as my league plays a different number of games and such flucutations aren't important to me (provided the differences aren't outrageous -- a 100-HR season would likely cause me to start over and adjust the modifiers).

My financials right now are simply imported from the historical financial database, although I'll probably tweak them when I restart to better reflect that this is a start-up league, eventually increasing the numbers to their true historical values.

Eventually, I'll have 24 or so teams with full minors and full financials -- but it'll take 30 seasons or so before I get there (and probably a number of weeks in real time before I even "officially" start year 1).

Who knows, if I get good enough at understanding OOTP, I may join an online league!

cbbl