Oregano County HS Baseball (OOTP + Sim City 4) - Page 4

darkcloud4579 · 06-05-2007, 04:35 AM

One thing is for sure. Oregano County is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. It's hard to keep people away from a great place once they hear about it and clearly, people have heard about the Oregano County area and are moving here faster than we can manage to get jobs for them. Luckily, the commercial and industrial sectors of the region are growing too.

Oregano County is the economic powerhouse of a state that was once so rural that it had a population even smaller than Wyoming, the otherwise smallest population state in the union.

Now, the state has several of the fastest growing communities in the nation:

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From Money Magazine
Oakley, Jeffer., is the fastest growing city of more than 100,000 in the United States, according to the latest estimates from the Census Bureau released Wednesday.

The young city, located in Jefferson that incorporated only twenty years ago, grew by 11 percent to 260376 in the 12 months ended July 1, 2005.

Three other Jefferson cities joined Oakley on the top 10 list: Sandy Lakes (No. 3), South Charlestown (No. 7) and Brookmont (No. 10).

The MSA was finally listed in the most recent list of US Metropolitan areas by the US Census Bureau in its most recent (2005) report.

The Oakley-Charlestown, JF MSA totaled 1,548,209, ranking it the #37 largest MSA in the country, above Round Rock-Austin, TX and just below Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC.

"The thing is, this region hasn't hit its peak yet. We're still growing and people are still discovering the beauty of Jefferson and more specifically, what the Oregano County area has to offer," said County Commissioner Todd Paul.

"I think we'll experience even more [growth] in future years, as our offerings get more robust and refined."

darkcloud4579 · 06-05-2007, 04:42 AM

The integration of Oakley and West Oakley has continued in recent years as the cities have grown from their humble beginnings.

This has resulted in a boom in residential and commercial properties in West Oakley, as Oakley becomes more congested, developers and buyers have sought out better opportunities out west.

The pro soccer stadium development was conducted in West Oakley and has a subway stop, the first one on the line, though now there are over 20 in cities throughout the county, with the goal being one in each before the end of the decade.

Here is West Oakley State U.

Here's a skyline view of West Oakley, including the new international airport and both schools in the town now for post-secondary ed.

Tyke · 06-07-2007, 04:17 AM

darkcloud, there's a question in the general forum about adjusting league totals in leagues that play significantly fewer than 162 games. Did you do any "tweaking" with the totals in the Oregano High School League, for example? Inspired by your linkage between SimCity & OOTP I am working on a small town league with games only played on a weekend - maybe a double header Saturday & one game on Sunday - which would give me perhaps a 60 game schedule for the season. Any advice greatly appreciated.

darkcloud4579 · 06-08-2007, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyke

darkcloud, there's a question in the general forum about adjusting league totals in leagues that play significantly fewer than 162 games. Did you do any "tweaking" with the totals in the Oregano High School League, for example? Inspired by your linkage between SimCity & OOTP I am working on a small town league with games only played on a weekend - maybe a double header Saturday & one game on Sunday - which would give me perhaps a 60 game schedule for the season. Any advice greatly appreciated.

You know, I started to do this at first. But then I decided that messing with league totals was bad news. So I messed with the modifiers some. And heck, I really didn't do a ton with it. I just let the results go where they did and for the most part, they stayed around people hitting .400-ish.

I'll go head there and see if I can help, but my experience is, it's better to affect the skills of the players so that really good players dominate the league (like real life) than bothering to mess with league totals, etc.

darkcloud4579 · 06-08-2007, 11:36 PM

This year, in the OCHSBL, the league leaders hit .471, 16 HRs led the league, 51 RBI and pitchers had 6 wins and an 0.28 ERA led all pitchers. So clearly the hitting needs ramping up to get the numbers closer to real life. This whole thing got me thinking about it and I'll do some testing for next season and beyond.

Tyke · 06-09-2007, 04:51 AM

Thanks for your response, I'll look forward to seeing your conclusions. I must admit, I've never been one for messing with the settings & I've tended to let my leagues run out as they will. The lowest number of games I've had in a schedule so far was 100 and that didn't seem to pose any problems, but I've never gone as low as 60 before, so I'll have to try some testing myself.

number11 · 06-12-2007, 05:27 AM

More please! This is great.

darkcloud4579 · 06-12-2007, 05:37 AM

I just got back from vacation, so I'll get back into this in the coming days, etc.

rocknfire7 · 06-13-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by darkcloud4579

I just got back from vacation, so I'll get back into this in the coming days, etc.

Cool I'll get to see if Ducky wins state for Mannsylvania.

rocknfire7 · 06-13-2007, 04:28 PM

Any new shots of Mannsylvania, particularly the High School and ballpark.?

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 07:23 PM

Manneslyvania is anything but the sleepy town that it used to be. Now there are no less than half a dozen townships there.

But before we go there, let's see the Oregano County map in all of her metropolitan splendor.

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 08:12 PM

Here are some recent pictures of Mannesylvania, which now has over half a dozen new townships within its borders.

Here is Mannes HS, still the crowning jewel high school in the city. You can see the newly built baseball stadium that's actually for Mannes HS, but all of the teams in the city tend to use it.

The Oakley-Brookmont-Charlestown MSA has a population of 1.3 million currently and counting.

That means its the 40th largest MSA in the country, just above Jacksonville, FL and below Nashville, TN.

So what? Does that means we could have an NFL team and no other sport or an NHL team?

Who knows, but given that the population growth in Oregano County is the largest in the country at 39.38%, who knows how long the growth will last or if it'll trickle to other parts of the state, which would be an interesting thing if it did.

Other parts of the state, you say? Wondering what those places look like? Soon, you'll have the answer.

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 09:00 PM

Speaking of the 'other' parts of the state, Jefferson isn't just a coastal state. The mountainous part of the state is comprised largely of an area that has developed into something called the 'Silicon Canyon'. Because Jefferson is sandwiched between Oregon and California to its north and south, tech companies in recent years have consistently relocated to Southern Jefferson, because of the state's overall pro-business policies (no corporate or state income taxes) and an environment that's enticing many young families to move to the state to escape an otherwise sweltering housing market.

Of course, that's caused housing in Southern Jefferson to swell, but not at the same pace as surrounding states. But we'll talk more about the southern part of the state later.

Right now, we're going to head a little more to the west.

Here are some photos of the Canyon Valley region. It's actually in the Western pThe Silicon Canyon-Serinda-Southworth Combined Statistical Area (CSA) currently has a population of 1.6 million, with the anchor of that area being the Silicon Canyon having a population of over 550,000, Southworth and Figueroa, two once sleepy bedroom communities have combined populations of over 200,000 themselves.

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 09:05 PM

To get your bearings together between the two areas, Charlestown is about 188 miles from Silicon Canyon going north. It's a 3 hour and 40 minute drive. Or so Google Maps tells me anyway.

To get from Mannesylvania to Silicon Canyon? It'd be about a 5 hour drive or so, 282 miles away

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 09:06 PM

The southern part of the state is called the 'Gold Country'. It's still relatively agrarian compared to the mostly metropolitan areas throughout the rest of the state of Jefferson. There is one major city and the rest of that area is almost all farming and agriculture.

We'll profile that area next up, to give you the entire landscape of the entire state, population figures and all of that, as it'll build the next big part of what's going on in this storyline.

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 09:27 PM

Since I'm in a geographic mood..here are some other distances between cities:

Oakley to The Shire - 96 miles
North Curry to Lake Almonte - 88 miles
Lake Refuge to Charlestown - 77.6 miles
Serinda to Charlestown - 162 miles
Southworth to Oakley - 270 miles

darkcloud4579 · 06-13-2007, 11:07 PM

JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (JHSAA)
Starting in 2005, Jefferson State will award its first state championships in baseball. Other schools will join Oregano County Schools in a statewide baseball league, that is expected to attract some of the most talented players from around the state.

"We think this league will solidify Jefferson as one of the premier baseball states in the country," said T.J. Marston, Commissioner of the JHSAA.

I'll list the names of the other schools participating, as well as maps of the other cities that you haven't seen next.

darkcloud4579 · 06-14-2007, 03:38 AM

San Alberto County encompasses the entire city of San Alberto, the largest city in the southern part of the state. San Alberto annexed all of the surrounding communities and became a consolidated city-county. Conversely, all of the previously independent communities within San Alberto are part of the city of San Alberto, though some of the more 'prestigious' communities will use their names and are identify as census designated places (CDP) for the US postal service and US Census Bureau.

San Alberto is north of Lake County and the San Alberto river runs through the city. San Alberto is the state capital.

Here are photos of the city:

MattH3322 · 06-14-2007, 07:28 PM

I haven't read this yet but I love SimCity so I will be reading this over the next few days.

Great Job.

darkcloud4579 · 06-14-2007, 08:19 PM

Here are some photos of Terras County. The county seat is Allensburg and the entire county is serviced by Terras County High School. Northmont is the other incorporated community in the county, which totals about 17,000 people or so.

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06-13-2007, 07:23 PM	#71
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	Manneslyvania is anything but the sleepy town that it used to be. Now there are no less than half a dozen townships there. But before we go there, let's see the Oregano County map in all of her metropolitan splendor. Last edited by darkcloud4579; 06-13-2007 at 07:52 PM.

06-13-2007, 08:12 PM	#72
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	Here are some recent pictures of Mannesylvania, which now has over half a dozen new townships within its borders. Here is Mannes HS, still the crowning jewel high school in the city. You can see the newly built baseball stadium that's actually for Mannes HS, but all of the teams in the city tend to use it. The Oakley-Brookmont-Charlestown MSA has a population of 1.3 million currently and counting. That means its the 40th largest MSA in the country, just above Jacksonville, FL and below Nashville, TN. So what? Does that means we could have an NFL team and no other sport or an NHL team? Who knows, but given that the population growth in Oregano County is the largest in the country at 39.38%, who knows how long the growth will last or if it'll trickle to other parts of the state, which would be an interesting thing if it did. Other parts of the state, you say? Wondering what those places look like? Soon, you'll have the answer. Last edited by darkcloud4579; 06-13-2007 at 08:14 PM.

06-13-2007, 09:05 PM	#74
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	To get your bearings together between the two areas, Charlestown is about 188 miles from Silicon Canyon going north. It's a 3 hour and 40 minute drive. Or so Google Maps tells me anyway. To get from Mannesylvania to Silicon Canyon? It'd be about a 5 hour drive or so, 282 miles away Last edited by darkcloud4579; 06-13-2007 at 09:19 PM.

06-13-2007, 09:27 PM	#76
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	Since I'm in a geographic mood..here are some other distances between cities: Oakley to The Shire - 96 miles North Curry to Lake Almonte - 88 miles Lake Refuge to Charlestown - 77.6 miles Serinda to Charlestown - 162 miles Southworth to Oakley - 270 miles Last edited by darkcloud4579; 06-13-2007 at 09:34 PM.

06-05-2007, 04:42 AM	#62
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	The integration of Oakley and West Oakley has continued in recent years as the cities have grown from their humble beginnings. This has resulted in a boom in residential and commercial properties in West Oakley, as Oakley becomes more congested, developers and buyers have sought out better opportunities out west. The pro soccer stadium development was conducted in West Oakley and has a subway stop, the first one on the line, though now there are over 20 in cities throughout the county, with the goal being one in each before the end of the decade. Here is West Oakley State U. Here's a skyline view of West Oakley, including the new international airport and both schools in the town now for post-secondary ed.

06-07-2007, 04:17 AM	#63
Tyke All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Brighouse, West Yorkshire, U.K. Posts: 1,135	darkcloud, there's a question in the general forum about adjusting league totals in leagues that play significantly fewer than 162 games. Did you do any "tweaking" with the totals in the Oregano High School League, for example? Inspired by your linkage between SimCity & OOTP I am working on a small town league with games only played on a weekend - maybe a double header Saturday & one game on Sunday - which would give me perhaps a 60 game schedule for the season. Any advice greatly appreciated.

06-08-2007, 11:36 PM	#65
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	This year, in the OCHSBL, the league leaders hit .471, 16 HRs led the league, 51 RBI and pitchers had 6 wins and an 0.28 ERA led all pitchers. So clearly the hitting needs ramping up to get the numbers closer to real life. This whole thing got me thinking about it and I'll do some testing for next season and beyond.

06-09-2007, 04:51 AM	#66
Tyke All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Brighouse, West Yorkshire, U.K. Posts: 1,135	Thanks for your response, I'll look forward to seeing your conclusions. I must admit, I've never been one for messing with the settings & I've tended to let my leagues run out as they will. The lowest number of games I've had in a schedule so far was 100 and that didn't seem to pose any problems, but I've never gone as low as 60 before, so I'll have to try some testing myself.

06-12-2007, 05:27 AM	#67
number11 Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 9	More please! This is great.

06-13-2007, 04:28 PM	#70
rocknfire7 Banned Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,907 Blog Entries: 1 Infractions: 0/2 (4)	Any new shots of Mannsylvania, particularly the High School and ballpark.?

06-13-2007, 09:00 PM	#73
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	Speaking of the 'other' parts of the state, Jefferson isn't just a coastal state. The mountainous part of the state is comprised largely of an area that has developed into something called the 'Silicon Canyon'. Because Jefferson is sandwiched between Oregon and California to its north and south, tech companies in recent years have consistently relocated to Southern Jefferson, because of the state's overall pro-business policies (no corporate or state income taxes) and an environment that's enticing many young families to move to the state to escape an otherwise sweltering housing market. Of course, that's caused housing in Southern Jefferson to swell, but not at the same pace as surrounding states. But we'll talk more about the southern part of the state later. Right now, we're going to head a little more to the west. Here are some photos of the Canyon Valley region. It's actually in the Western pThe Silicon Canyon-Serinda-Southworth Combined Statistical Area (CSA) currently has a population of 1.6 million, with the anchor of that area being the Silicon Canyon having a population of over 550,000, Southworth and Figueroa, two once sleepy bedroom communities have combined populations of over 200,000 themselves.

06-13-2007, 09:06 PM	#75
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	The southern part of the state is called the 'Gold Country'. It's still relatively agrarian compared to the mostly metropolitan areas throughout the rest of the state of Jefferson. There is one major city and the rest of that area is almost all farming and agriculture. We'll profile that area next up, to give you the entire landscape of the entire state, population figures and all of that, as it'll build the next big part of what's going on in this storyline.

06-13-2007, 11:07 PM	#77
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (JHSAA) Starting in 2005, Jefferson State will award its first state championships in baseball. Other schools will join Oregano County Schools in a statewide baseball league, that is expected to attract some of the most talented players from around the state. "We think this league will solidify Jefferson as one of the premier baseball states in the country," said T.J. Marston, Commissioner of the JHSAA. I'll list the names of the other schools participating, as well as maps of the other cities that you haven't seen next.

06-14-2007, 03:38 AM	#78
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	San Alberto County encompasses the entire city of San Alberto, the largest city in the southern part of the state. San Alberto annexed all of the surrounding communities and became a consolidated city-county. Conversely, all of the previously independent communities within San Alberto are part of the city of San Alberto, though some of the more 'prestigious' communities will use their names and are identify as census designated places (CDP) for the US postal service and US Census Bureau. San Alberto is north of Lake County and the San Alberto river runs through the city. San Alberto is the state capital. Here are photos of the city: Last edited by darkcloud4579; 06-14-2007 at 03:42 AM.

06-14-2007, 07:28 PM	#79
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06-14-2007, 08:19 PM	#80
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,648 Blog Entries: 32	Here are some photos of Terras County. The county seat is Allensburg and the entire county is serviced by Terras County High School. Northmont is the other incorporated community in the county, which totals about 17,000 people or so.