Arrgh! Need League Ideas!

dougaiton · 03-10-2004, 07:49 PM

Well, I just succesfully managed to destroy my CATObase and its three back-ups for a solo league which (following Sixto's example) I had created each one of the players for. I wrote over each previous database, without copying them again, because I'd forgotten to copy the files from 'leaguesite' to 'data'. That after I'd had my first power-breakout, my first true ace evolve, my first one-hitter, my first win for the 'lesser' league in the division. Good job, me.

So, I need some new ideas for a league. I don't mind spending some time setting it up (obviously) but having just thrown away about 20 hours of my free time, nothing too extensive.

Here's some I thought about:

1 -Following the end of the first world war, the AL and NL are reorganised (perhaps including Negro Leaguers). Although I'll start with a historical base, all future rookies will be fictional.

2 - I've set up tripleAAA style leagues (with a few big-leaguers), but the finances have always done my head in by the end. Perhaps starting in the 10s/20s/40s/50s, a new league (perhaps in Canada? Mexico?) starts up. I'll basically live through the trials and tribulations, from its height at the start of the century and the mid-50s, before it will decline in the 70s and 80s with the spread of MLB, and then rise from the ashes (if I ever get there) in 2000.

Anything else occur to anyone?

Skipaway · 03-10-2004, 08:53 PM

I've told this idea to someone else before: the Iraqi league. As the Iraqis used to play football for the pleasure of Saddam's sons, now they got to play baseball with the GIs!

You got teams like a Kurdish team in Mosul, a Baath Sunni in from Tekrit,or a Shia team in Basra. And of course a British team in Abadan, a U.S. Army team in Baghdad, and even a Navy team in the Gulf ( A extremely strage-shaped field on a carrier?).

And of course, the Iraqi teams would be full of single A level players, while the British one perhaps double A, with the American teams major league. The finance part could be even more fun to set up.

And with all the Cheney money going to Pakistan and India contract workers, perhaps they can have teams too. I'd imagine they'd got the best talent outside of the American teams with their strong cricket ties.

Oh, and there could also be a UN team. They can use some nice pitching from Japan.

dougaiton · 03-10-2004, 09:02 PM

I actually thought of something similar once, using port cities post-WWII, but it took me so long mucking about with names (every Dutch player was called Gus Van xxxxx). I still think about doing a Hundred Years War league, but I can't think of a way to simulate duchies switching hands!

Skipaway · 03-10-2004, 09:05 PM

Well, I just start fictional leagues in year 10000 and pretend they are Alpha Centauri leagues.

Skipaway · 03-10-2004, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by dougaiton
I actually thought of something similar once, using port cities post-WWII, but it took me so long mucking about with names (every Dutch player was called Gus Van xxxxx). I still think about doing a Hundred Years War league, but I can't think of a way to simulate duchies switching hands!

You can just install a rule asking all players entering the baseball league to be renamed by the league.

dougaiton · 03-10-2004, 09:10 PM

I think Cato might have kittens at that. Do cockroaches make up the majority of relievers?

dougaiton · 03-10-2004, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by Skipaway
You can just install a rule asking all players entering the baseball league to be renamed by the league.

How about a Prisoner league (did you guys get 'The Prisoner'?) where everyone is referred to by only their uniform number. Era settings are 1984

Skipaway · 03-10-2004, 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by dougaiton
How about a Prisoner league (did you guys get 'The Prisoner'?) where everyone is referred to by only their uniform number. Era settings are 1984

I was thinking about a robots league in which there are only a dozen different player name/rating sets!

Era settings are 2084!

Jonzard · 03-10-2004, 09:52 PM

I like the Iraqi league.... i may try it

Or how about a world league according to homeland.

Or a league where players 30+ have to go to the other league so one league has young guys but the other league has older guys
when they reach 30, they get drafted to the other league... but the two leagues still compete

Similarly you could have a senior tour league

Jonzard · 03-10-2004, 09:53 PM

Bizarro league where Michael Jordan and Garth Brooks are the best players ever

jmaness84 · 03-10-2004, 10:07 PM

Jonzard, your avatar freaks me out. Please change it or stop posting.

MannyTrillo · 03-10-2004, 10:09 PM

You could have a league where you change every player's name to Ross Gload. That would be hysterical!!!11!!

Jonzard · 03-10-2004, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by jmaness84
Jonzard, your avatar freaks me out. Please change it or stop posting.

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if u dont know what its from i recomend finding a copy of Chappelle's show season 2 episode 5..... hilarious stuff

attackemu · 03-10-2004, 11:04 PM

I have a fictional historical league. Those are fun.

Another one I had at one point was a baseball league that surfaced in the wake of the 1994 strike. Eventually, I started importing real rookies and MLB players who switched over. That was fun.

And why not a Scottish league?

Matt Uk · 03-11-2004, 06:04 AM

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Originally posted by attackemu
And why not a Scottish league?

Good idea. East Stirling could be Detroit!

dougaiton · 03-11-2004, 07:07 AM

I did set up a 40-team, promotion/relegation type league, but it was too much work to control all the sides.

fhomess · 03-11-2004, 10:12 AM

Arrgh! How about a Pirate league set in the Carribean back in like 1600? You could have all sorts of fun with team names and logos and such! Nicknames would be a blast. Hmmm... this might even be a cool online league idea...

matskralc · 03-11-2004, 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by MannyTrillo
You could have a league where you change every player's name to Ross Gload. That would be hysterical!!!11!!

I sort of did that once. Your biting sarcasm hurts me!

eriqjaffe · 03-11-2004, 12:19 PM

Ah, yes, I remember that thread...

Ben Music · 03-11-2004, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by dougaiton
I actually thought of something similar once, using port cities post-WWII, but it took me so long mucking about with names (every Dutch player was called Gus Van xxxxx). I still think about doing a Hundred Years War league, but I can't think of a way to simulate duchies switching hands!

Have the duchies be the teams and have them switch leagues.

A HYW league would be cool!

03-10-2004, 07:49 PM	#1
dougaiton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Location: Posts: 3,414	Arrgh! Need League Ideas! Well, I just succesfully managed to destroy my CATObase and its three back-ups for a solo league which (following Sixto's example) I had created each one of the players for. I wrote over each previous database, without copying them again, because I'd forgotten to copy the files from 'leaguesite' to 'data'. That after I'd had my first power-breakout, my first true ace evolve, my first one-hitter, my first win for the 'lesser' league in the division. Good job, me. So, I need some new ideas for a league. I don't mind spending some time setting it up (obviously) but having just thrown away about 20 hours of my free time, nothing too extensive. Here's some I thought about: 1 -Following the end of the first world war, the AL and NL are reorganised (perhaps including Negro Leaguers). Although I'll start with a historical base, all future rookies will be fictional. 2 - I've set up tripleAAA style leagues (with a few big-leaguers), but the finances have always done my head in by the end. Perhaps starting in the 10s/20s/40s/50s, a new league (perhaps in Canada? Mexico?) starts up. I'll basically live through the trials and tribulations, from its height at the start of the century and the mid-50s, before it will decline in the 70s and 80s with the spread of MLB, and then rise from the ashes (if I ever get there) in 2000. Anything else occur to anyone? __________________ tThis shower of clowns My park-adjusted, historically split Born in '69 league file! (also at Joe's wonderful site +BBSC)

03-10-2004, 08:53 PM	#2
Skipaway Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Where you live Posts: 11,017	I've told this idea to someone else before: the Iraqi league. As the Iraqis used to play football for the pleasure of Saddam's sons, now they got to play baseball with the GIs! You got teams like a Kurdish team in Mosul, a Baath Sunni in from Tekrit,or a Shia team in Basra. And of course a British team in Abadan, a U.S. Army team in Baghdad, and even a Navy team in the Gulf ( A extremely strage-shaped field on a carrier?). And of course, the Iraqi teams would be full of single A level players, while the British one perhaps double A, with the American teams major league. The finance part could be even more fun to set up. And with all the Cheney money going to Pakistan and India contract workers, perhaps they can have teams too. I'd imagine they'd got the best talent outside of the American teams with their strong cricket ties. Oh, and there could also be a UN team. They can use some nice pitching from Japan. __________________ Jonathan Haidt: Moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as a high priest.

03-10-2004, 09:02 PM	#3
dougaiton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Location: Posts: 3,414	I actually thought of something similar once, using port cities post-WWII, but it took me so long mucking about with names (every Dutch player was called Gus Van xxxxx). I still think about doing a Hundred Years War league, but I can't think of a way to simulate duchies switching hands! __________________ tThis shower of clowns My park-adjusted, historically split Born in '69 league file! (also at Joe's wonderful site +BBSC)

03-10-2004, 09:05 PM	#4
Skipaway Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Where you live Posts: 11,017	Well, I just start fictional leagues in year 10000 and pretend they are Alpha Centauri leagues. __________________ Jonathan Haidt: Moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as a high priest.

03-10-2004, 09:10 PM	#6
dougaiton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Location: Posts: 3,414	I think Cato might have kittens at that. Do cockroaches make up the majority of relievers? __________________ tThis shower of clowns My park-adjusted, historically split Born in '69 league file! (also at Joe's wonderful site +BBSC)

03-10-2004, 09:52 PM	#9
Jonzard Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,647	I like the Iraqi league.... i may try it Or how about a world league according to homeland. Or a league where players 30+ have to go to the other league so one league has young guys but the other league has older guys when they reach 30, they get drafted to the other league... but the two leagues still compete Similarly you could have a senior tour league __________________ For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. — Sir Peter B. Medawar FTB

03-10-2004, 09:53 PM	#10
Jonzard Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,647	Bizarro league where Michael Jordan and Garth Brooks are the best players ever __________________ For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. — Sir Peter B. Medawar FTB

03-10-2004, 10:07 PM	#11
jmaness84 All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,685	Jonzard, your avatar freaks me out. Please change it or stop posting.

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03-10-2004, 11:04 PM	#14
attackemu All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 972	I have a fictional historical league. Those are fun. Another one I had at one point was a baseball league that surfaced in the wake of the 1994 strike. Eventually, I started importing real rookies and MLB players who switched over. That was fun. And why not a Scottish league? __________________ "Disguised in EMU's Blunt and sometimes hostile post is actually very sound advice. I think you would be wise to consider what he said." -ihatenames

03-11-2004, 07:07 AM	#16
dougaiton Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Location: Posts: 3,414	I did set up a 40-team, promotion/relegation type league, but it was too much work to control all the sides. __________________ tThis shower of clowns My park-adjusted, historically split Born in '69 league file! (also at Joe's wonderful site +BBSC)

03-11-2004, 10:12 AM	#17
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,693	Arrgh! How about a Pirate league set in the Carribean back in like 1600? You could have all sorts of fun with team names and logos and such! Nicknames would be a blast. Hmmm... this might even be a cool online league idea... __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.

03-11-2004, 12:19 PM	#19
eriqjaffe Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Under The Christmas Fish Posts: 7,727	Ah, yes, I remember that thread... __________________