New MLB Universe with Summer College & Perfect Game Feeder Leagues

[ashburnandyawkey]

I will not be deterred. I will build a functioning MLB universe with college & high school feeders.


While I sort the issues with my other build, I decided to put a couple days into building a universe that features a deep feeder system that includes summer college leagues, as well as 19U, 18U & 16U tournaments.

This universe includes the full Major League Baseball System, including the Arizona Fall League.

It also includes all current independent leagues (down to the Pecos, anything with a lower reputation than that, is just a rec league).

Added Leagues:
Appalachian League (col)
Pioneer League (indy)
California Winter League (winter league for indy ball players)

Alaska Baseball League (col)
Futures Collegiate Baseball League (col)
New England Collegiate Baseball League (col)
West Coast League (col)

American Legion World Series (19U)
Area Code Games (18U)
Perfect Game World Series (18U)
PONY Palamino World Series (18U)
Perfect Game National Select Championship (16U)

I also added back in Liga de Mexicana de Beisbol (Mexico) and Serie Nacional de Beisbol (Cuba)

That brings the total numbers to:
Professional Leagues - 26
College Leagues - 9
19U Leagues - 1
18U Leagues - 3
16U Leagues - 1
Total Leagues - 40

The world template file is still around 70mb smaller than the other universe's v0.4 build, that is the most current (and most troublesome).

With the perfect game, Pony, Legion & ACG tournaments, in order to get players some games, I added a pre-tournament season. This way when players scout draft eligible high schoolers, they have more than 4 games worth of data to look at.

High School Teams
American Legion
The American Legion league is split into 8 regions (the 8 regions that are represented in the World Series at Cary, NC). Each region has 1 team for each state in that region.

Area Code Games
The ACG is an 8 team showcase using MLB team branding. Each team represents a region in the US, and that's been translated directly to this template.

PONY
The Palamino World Series is an 8 team tournament with 5 US "zones", and teams from Europe, Asia and Mexico. I used a little magic for the European & Asian zone teams, where the draft regions are Europe at Large and Southeast Asia, even though an individual nation (Germany & Taiwan) represent those zones.

Perfect Game WS & SNC
For the PG World Series, I selected the 48 top 18U baseball programs according to the current Perfect Game national rankings.

Same for the SNC, but for the 16U division, I took 24 teams of the 48 or 50 that are registered.

I also edited all league options to rename awards and championship titles.

For my game, I did the leg work to get logos for all the teams (including the 72 PG teams.

I've also set caps & jerseys for all the teams. The PG teams get the black Perfect Game cap, and a variety of the PG t-shirts for their jerseys (as kindly provided on the boards by someone with more patience than me).

ACG teams I gave an ACG hat, and a jersey from the MLB team they're branded for. American Legion, I actually used mostly NCAA caps and jerseys for the states. Pony teams are using their country's WBC cap & jersey set.

If people are interested, I can try to parse out the logos, caps & jerseys I'm using and post a zip with it. Just remember I didn't create the majority of the graphics, and they're almost all available via the search this board function.

Anyway, short story long, here is the Summer College Feeder template, version 1.0.

Download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQy...ew?usp=sharing

[willboat75]

You forgot the Savannah Bananas' Coastal Plain League!

[ashburnandyawkey]

Originally Posted by willboat75

You forgot the Savannah Bananas' Coastal Plain League!

[Insomniac]

Giving this one a shot! Thanks!

As I've been testing, I've been doing something I've never done before -- I created my own 15-year old son and put him into the game. In your v0.4, I added his as a HS freshman and watched him progress. Now I'll have to add him to a 16U team and see what happens.

[ashburnandyawkey]

Originally Posted by Insomniac

Giving this one a shot! Thanks!

As I've been testing, I've been doing something I've never done before -- I created my own 15-year old son and put him into the game. In your v0.4, I added his as a HS freshman and watched him progress. Now I'll have to add him to a 16U team and see what happens.

Here's to getting your kid to the show.

[Insomniac]

So I had to do the same workaround that I did for your other template -- create a fictional league, add the template without the graphics check, then remove the fictional league. It's got to be my resources.

I have not had too much time to look at this since then. The changes you made to the HS level look like it will make it more manageable. And I appreciate you adding additional summer leagues to the system.

[Insomniac]

Originally Posted by ashburnandyawkey

Here's to getting your kid to the show.

Oh, and he flamed out in AA before bouncing around the Indy leagues for a while.

[ashburnandyawkey]

Originally Posted by Insomniac

Oh, and he flamed out in AA before bouncing around the Indy leagues for a while.

Well...let's hope he took the team up on their tuition money. lol.

[ashburnandyawkey]

Starting an online league with this build if anyone wants to join:
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=338551

[Insomniac]

So finally playing with this a bit. Noticed that the PG 16U level had players ranging from early teens to mid-20s when the rosters were filled. Took a look at league settings, but was not seeing anywhere to set player age limits. Am I missing it?

Also, continually seeing roster issues around reserve roster limits. I'm finding it easier just to set the reserve rosters to no limit. Are you seeing the same?

[nutt]

Do you have the CWL artwork?

[ashburnandyawkey]

Originally Posted by Insomniac

So finally playing with this a bit. Noticed that the PG 16U level had players ranging from early teens to mid-20s when the rosters were filled. Took a look at league settings, but was not seeing anywhere to set player age limits. Am I missing it?

Also, continually seeing roster issues around reserve roster limits. I'm finding it easier just to set the reserve rosters to no limit. Are you seeing the same?

I found the same resolution best for the reserve limit problem.

I'll double check the settings. I thought I had them set to age limit correctly.

@Nutt - It's on my PC (I'm on my laptop right now). I'll upload it when I get a chance.