Let's hear about your planned universes.

[chimanbj]

Originally Posted by CBL-Commish

Continuation of my universe from OOTP2006, part of which has been going on since 1988.

Its current incarnation is:
The real majors
The Continental League, a third major league with 20 teams
Real minor leagues, some players fictional
Three levels of Continental League minors
Five or six real indy leagues, mostly fictional players
The Timberline League (fictional indy league with all teams in high-altitude towns in the Rockies)
Southern Maryland fictional indy league
Far North fictional indy league with teams in northern Canada
Japanese League with real players and one level of minors
Korean League
Australian League
Mexican League with fictional players
Cuban League with fictional players
German, Dutch, Italian leagues with fictional players
Fictional Sao Tome and Principe League
Dominican, Mexican, and Venezeulean Winter Leagues
Fictional Greenland Winter Ice Baseball League

You must have a powerful machine to get all that in there...

[ctorg]

Originally Posted by marc

This: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=140779

Will be taking up most of my time.

Whoa. Good luck with that. No way I'd be able to pull off something that big. I'm fretting about whether to even have one foreign league.

[haveband]

I plan on doing a "real world" league starting in 2007 with hopefully updated rosters that are being worked on. Gonna have:

MLB (with full minors, AAA, AA, Hi-A, Low-A, SS-A, R and Venezuelan and Dominican summer leagues)
Japanese League, Cuban League, Mexican, Korea, China, Taiwan and some of the American independent leagues, and a few feeder leagues for MLB and I may consider doing feeders for the other leagues.

hb

[darkenigma510]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

You may have seen this site but thought it may interest you if you hadn't.

http://attheplate.com/wcbl/index.html

Didn't know of that site, thanks. Its sad, though, that baseball in Canada has kind of died off somewhat.

I should try to get to some Calgary Vipers games before they eventually leave town.

[chimanbj]

Originally Posted by darkenigma510

Didn't know of that site, thanks. Its sad, though, that baseball in Canada has kind of died off somewhat.

I should try to get to some Calgary Vipers games before they eventually leave town.

Of course, you could assemble the players stats and continue the Canadian League yourself...

[ootpFox07]

I had a pretty firm idea of the universe I expected to play in 2007, but listening to many other people talk about restarts, I'm suddenly torn. If I don't restart my 2007 game will consist of two OOTP 6.5 league conversions merged into one universe.

1) A continuation of my long time fictional solo league. This league actually started back in the Hardball days and I converted it to OOTP last year (no small chore). I went back and starting in 1968, simmed back history through 2006, adding key players along the way. While the stats were night and day, the final standings were amazingly similar. I played out the 2006 season and surprised myself with a WS victory (several of my top third year pitching prospects exploded). I ran an expansion in the off-season and am now up to 32 teams. I like this league a lot but am torn if I want to continue or restart with a smaller league.

2) International Baseball League. Consists of a sixteen teams, in a 2 /4/ 4 set-up with each team representing a different non-US nation. This league is basically an international feeder league for my primary solo league, as free agents from the league can enter the solo league free agent pool in the off-season (but not vice-versa). So far, I've simmed two seasons and converted 12 players from this league with pretty good results. Like many people, I like to restrict teams to only drafting players from their own nations, which required me to manually updated my rookies names and origins in 6.5. I have a new plan for doing this in 2007 using a separate universe with 16 individual international leagues that will only run an amateur draft and contribute players to the main International league teams. It's a hack, but better than having to update 200+ players with unique names and countries every year.

I may also run a modem 2007 baseball sim using the roster sets when they're released. We'll see how much time I have left over.

[CBL-Commish]

Originally Posted by chimanbj

You must have a powerful machine to get all that in there...

It was pretty good a year ago. I built it with OOTP2006 in mind, just so I could run a universe like this.

[chimanbj]

I love what-if scenarios. For instance, I'd go back to when Ron Santo was drafted and follow his career to see if I could help him become a true Hall of Famer...

Or turn the St. Louis Cardinals of the 70s and 80s into a dynasty that would rival the Yankees.

Something that I would love to tackle is to create a MLB league with a parallel Negro League that was not integrated until 1947, and then slowly but surely fold up. I'm sure there's a way to allow for players to leave via free agency, but not to allow others into the league. And of course, it would require a solid database for Negro League baseball...which is not easy to come by...

[Jestor]

I'll likely start with a small fictional league and gradually expand like I usually do.

I'm not sure what year I'll start in though, or even if I'll have it be based in the US.

I may tackle a completely fictional world like I've thought about doing in the past.

[silvam14]

I will be continuing my fictional league from 2006.

I have the Following Leagues

US Baseball League (as of now 12 teams, 148 game schedule)
Presidential League (AAA)
Minuteman League (AA)
Pioneer League (A)

Canadian Baseball League (8 Teams, 140 game schedule)
No minors

With the preview version I was lucky enough to get, I was able to create Uniform and cap templates for every team which I will be posting on my photbucket soon.

I am 15 seasons in (started in 1940) and plan to expand both major leagues soon after 2007 comes out. I may also add some new leagues as I get more and more ambitious.

[DreamTeams]

I'll be continuing my solo Metro Leagues. I started over with version 2006 and will continue in version 2007. I run a 16 team major league with a 24 team Indy Circuit, no minors. I might introduce a couple eight team feeder leagues. One called the Dairy League and the other the Industrial Packers League or something. We'll see about that.

[Kemp]

I'd never do this because I'm WAY too "traditional" but has anyone ever done an interplanetary league? 1 team to a planet? It could be interesting if you made up "races" and played around with the PCM's for various leagues. Maybe start with independent leagues by planet and let them all become FA's early in their careers so that the better one's could head over the the "Major" league.

Just a random idea that popped into my head.

[No Pepper]

UKhotstove, how will you simulate your touring teams?

I plan to follow the history of Latin baseball. Cuba mainly, but with Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico etc following as appropriate, and the Negro Leagues. That and along with MLB could provide for some interesting situations that happened in real life, such as integration, Mexican League jumpers, baseball all year long, that sort of thing - all made more possibly, hopefully, by OOTP '07.

[darkcloud4579]

I have no idea. But so long as I'm able to start from April and actually get through some universes early, then my creativity should be bubbling by the summer. Last year was a resurgence for me and so, I'm looking forward to the myriad of things we'll be able to do with this new version.

[Overkill]

A replay of some historical times for me!

Start off in 1901 and simulate right up to the end of the 1976 season. After this, take control of the Toronto Blue Jays! This way, there is bound to be an abundance of free agents due to not beginning at 1977, and it will also give me new records to break (maybe easier, maybe harder).

Basically, my goal is to bring a World Series title to Toronto prior to 1992, hopefully by 1985. I'll still make it a goal to win it all in both 92 and 93 anyways.

I'll pick up players earlier than the real Jays did. ie Paul Molitor in 78, Rickey Henderson in 79, Roger Clemens in 84, Dave Winfield right off the bat, etc. I may also hold onto players a little longer such as John Olerud and Juan Guzman.

Having guys like Olerud, McGriff, Fielder abnd Delgado come up through the system will be a HUGE jam at 1B. So I may deal McGriff and Fielder in deals for Alomar and Cone, but we'll see what happens.

[bleachercreature]

Originally Posted by PadresFan

My universe is going to be relatively simple. 24 team association with a Metropolitan League (bigger cities) and a Great American League (smaller cities). What makes it fun for me is that all of these locations are are either places I've lived (5), or places I've visited on business travel or vacation (19). Going to have custom logos for each team (already up on my website) as well. Also, no minor leagues to keep it simple. It's going to be called the Millenium Baseball Association, and I will sim from 2000 through 2006, and then manage the San Diego team starting in 2007.

Thanks for an idea. Reading this gave me the idea of a big market vs small market league. Probably put 12 teams in learger cities in one sub league, and twelve teams in smaller cities, probably places where there is no MLB in the other league. My concern with this is its a departure from what I usually do, and it may require me to know more aobut how the game works. I forsee a problem with a big market vs small market set up. I could see the one league being overly dominate, even with revenue sharing. I'm thinking I may have institue a salary cap in this league.

[bleachercreature]

Usually I create a custom league using major league palyers. I generally scale the league down to something less then thirty teams, and move some of them around. I may do this.

I was also thinking about a Jersey Shore league, or a league where teams are based all over Jersey. The problem I have with this is that I don't know what effect it would have on the game, having all these teams this close together, as far as attendance, and such.

Two leagues, one of big cities, and one of smaller towns. Again, this brings up issues with competitive balance.

As a test, I might just import in 1901, and let the game run for 105 years of baseball history and see what happens. I've never done this, but tester blogs have me curious.

Something else I've never done. I may actually do a completely fictionally league.

I may do an online league. I would have to get some questions answer first, as I have never done this. I understand the game will export most if not all reports. How much work do you have to do to set up your site? I've never done much with webpages. I've seen some really nice sites, but I imagine, those aren't just from exporting from the game. I would think a lot of extra work went into them.

Any combination of the above. In short, I don't know!

[gglennwill]

Here's an idea I haven't heard mentioned yet; what about an all time Angels (or any other team) league? A league with every Angels team in history, to find out which team is the best. Of course, there are about 50 or so Angels teams. My concern is I don't know how the game handles teams from different eras, so I don't know how the 1966 Angels would play against the current ones. But you could put the 60s Angels in one division, the 70s Angels in another, etc. Doing the Cubs might take too long with all the teams!

[John]

All fictional,though I will edit some names to bring some of baseball's greats into the universe (Ruth, Kiner, etc), some not so greats with memorable names (Possum Whitted, Sailor Stroud, to name a few), and some favorite fictional characters from other walks of life (Jed "Hillbilly" Clampett is usually a stellar shortstop, Rocky Squirrel a slick 2B, and Zeddicus "the Wiz" Zorrander an ace southpaw, to name a few more). Finally, one stud youngster named after myself!!!! This takes a bit of time at the start but really helps me with the "immersion factor".

The Premier Baseball League operates an Eastern League (Harlem, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Newark, Boston) and a Frontier League (Pittsburgh, Cincy, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, Milwaukee, 2 other cities to yet be finalized). Each team has a minor league affiliate at 3A, 2A, A, Rookie. An independant league operates in Mexico. Keeping the universe small also helps with my "immersion issues".

Play begins in 1901, after the collapse of most other organized baseball in the US of A (though I use settings to approximate the mid-1980's for stat purposes - just a personal preference).

And I am really looking forward to the improvements in 2007. Oh, I'm also a habitual re-starter. The furthest I've gotten with any previous OOTP version is through 5 seasons.

[Can of Corn]

I prefer the standard MLB setup