Footballish Baseball League - the struggle to the top

gbwitheyes · 06-20-2014, 10:41 PM

I have been working on a game where I am attempting to infuse the feel of the English Football League.

My first attempts are significantly trimmed from what is the EFL. I have eight leagues, each with ten teams. 80 teams total. No minor leagues. Only reserves.

I have tweaked the financials between leagues. As well as the prestige. I am hesitant to make too many modifications until I sim a few decades to let things settle out.

I am using manual promotion and relegation.

These leagues have catchy names starting with Footballish Baseball League 1 down to Footballish Baseball League 8. I sense that your excitement is already building.

Which brings me to my first request for input.

Presently my teams use the name of their home city along with a nickname that is the combination of a unique number (I started with the first team as 001, down to 080) followed by the number of the leagues in which the team has played.

For example New York is 00111111. The team number of 001 with the suffix of 11111. I use this as an easy way to determine the leagues of which the team was within.

That works well but it sure is ugly. Are there any suggestions on how I might toss the ugly nicknames while still providing a quick method to follow the flow of the teams?

Thanks in advance.

Trebro · 06-20-2014, 10:51 PM

One thing to keep in mind with promotion/relegation is that it might mess with your history info, even if you use it during the off-season. I'll be curious to see how that plays out for you.

Re: Teams, what about Alpha, Beta, etc?
So the New York Alpha, the Atlanta Gamma, and so on, so you'd know which league they began in and it's not quite so, well, numeral?

06-20-2014, 10:41 PM	#1
gbwitheyes Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 271	Footballish Baseball League - the struggle to the top I have been working on a game where I am attempting to infuse the feel of the English Football League. My first attempts are significantly trimmed from what is the EFL. I have eight leagues, each with ten teams. 80 teams total. No minor leagues. Only reserves. I have tweaked the financials between leagues. As well as the prestige. I am hesitant to make too many modifications until I sim a few decades to let things settle out. I am using manual promotion and relegation. These leagues have catchy names starting with Footballish Baseball League 1 down to Footballish Baseball League 8. I sense that your excitement is already building. Which brings me to my first request for input. Presently my teams use the name of their home city along with a nickname that is the combination of a unique number (I started with the first team as 001, down to 080) followed by the number of the leagues in which the team has played. For example New York is 00111111. The team number of 001 with the suffix of 11111. I use this as an easy way to determine the leagues of which the team was within. That works well but it sure is ugly. Are there any suggestions on how I might toss the ugly nicknames while still providing a quick method to follow the flow of the teams? Thanks in advance.

06-20-2014, 10:51 PM	#2
Trebro All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 756	One thing to keep in mind with promotion/relegation is that it might mess with your history info, even if you use it during the off-season. I'll be curious to see how that plays out for you. Re: Teams, what about Alpha, Beta, etc? So the New York Alpha, the Atlanta Gamma, and so on, so you'd know which league they began in and it's not quite so, well, numeral?