North American Baseball Alliance (Full History)

[bwyant32]

Full League Name (Initials): North American Baseball Alliance (NABA)
Main URL: http://thenaba.net/
Reports URL: http://thenaba.net/game/lgreports/index.html
Boards URL: http://thenaba.net/forum/
Commissioner(s) OOTP Forum Username(s): bwyant32
Email Address:bwyant32@gmail.com
OOTP Version: OOTP 12
Game Needed: Required
Players: Fictional
# of Teams: 16
Export Deadlines Days And Times: Sims M, W, F @ 7:00 AM EST
League Time Per Sim: 7 Days
First Season: 1998 - Simmed to 2012
Latest Season: Currently at Spring Training 2012
Special Rules & Settings: See Below
Currently Available Teams: See Below

Full League History

Preface
To add some value to this fictional league for OOTP 12, I have created an “alternate” history to professional baseball in the United States and Canada beginning with the 1994 strike. Keep in mind, nothing here is meant to be historically factual after the 1994 strike. This is simply meant to establish some background into this fictional baseball league. Enjoy.


History of the North American Baseball Alliance

Steroids were always suspected in Major League Baseball but solid evidence was always lacking. Fast forward to 1994 and the Major League season was cruising along, until that fateful August day when everything just suddenly stopped. Little did everyone know, this was the end of Major League Baseball as we knew it.
During the work stoppage, then Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum (huge baseball fan) stumbled onto a troubling epidemic within Major League Baseball; steroids. Of course when a Senator has a chance to run with something, they will. In a matter of just days, a Senate sub-committee met and began to probe Major League Baseball and what they found was just shocking. A steroid drug ring that encompassed most of the 30 Major League teams (except for the Pirates which explains their horrible last couple seasons up to the strike) and a large majority of the players union.
Following a grueling 4 and a half month sub-committee investigation, the US Justice Department interjected with a ruling that would change America’s former past-time forever; Major League Baseball shall no longer exist. Immediately all 30 teams and owners were forced to disband their respective organizations in the spring of 1995, America was without baseball.
All of this changed in the late fall of 1996 when Donald Trump stood before Congress with a proposal to bring professional baseball back to the US and Canada. His idea was a joint 16 team league with Canada, disallowing any former member of the player’s union and ownership of the now defunct Major League Baseball; the North American Baseball Alliance was born. This proposal was quickly drew up in Congress and passed with flying colors, born now was a new professional baseball league that would begin its play in 1998 featuring a lot of the same “rules” as the former MLB. These features include:


· *All minor league levels (Rookie through AAA)
· *16 teams featuring 2 leagues (Canadian and United States) with 2 divisions in each league
· *The DH was adopted by both leagues
· *No age min or max
· *25 Man active roster, 30 man expanded roster size, and the 40 man roster rules continue to apply
· *Waiver period is 7 days, while DFA Period is 14 days…. Sims are 7 days in length
· *Player options and right to refuse minor league assignment are active along with the adopted Rule 5 draft
· *The DL length will also be 14 days
· *The Amateur draft will be held yearly before spring training

*Most of the financials are fixed, teams started out with even market strengths with a luxury tax revenue sharing system
*The NABA will continue with a 162 game schedule with full interleague play and a balanced schedule
*Playoffs will consist of the 2 division winners and 2 wild cards per league. Playoff format will be 5/7/7


The NABA adopted a large portion of the rules that the former Major League Baseball group had with the exception of a few small changes as you can see. With all the ground work laid and play to begin in the spring of 1998, all that was left was to name the flag ship franchises. Here are the initial teams:


Canadian League
Eastern Division
1. Toronto Lake Monsters
2. Montreal Nordiques
3. Ottawa Capitals
4. Quebec City Quest
Western Division
1. Winnipeg Jets
2. Vancouver Ice Pilots
3. Calgary Bears
4. Edmonton Kodiaks
US League
Eastern Division
1. Miami Sharks
2. Long Island Liberty
3. Pittsburgh Steeldogs
4. Louisville Heat
Western Division
1. Seattle Seawolves
2. Phoenix Sidewinders
3. San Francisco Quakes
4. San Antonio Lone Stars


The NABA Today

Today, 2012 the North American Baseball Alliance will celebrate its 16th season. Following the simulated initial draft, 15 seasons of history were collected for historical purposes.

[bwyant32]

Bump... 3 owners in, 2 teams selected.

[offerman7]

I will take Toronto

[GhillieSuited]

Interested in Ottawa

[bwyant32]

Bump.... website info added!

[bigfatcat]

e-mail sent
hoping for Phoenix
thanks!
mark f.

[bwyant32]

Open Teams



Calgary Bears
Last Season: 87-75, 1st CAN West
Projected Record: 80-82, 2nd CAN West
Minor League System Rank: 6th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 3rd, $113 Mil
Cash: $1.42 Mil


Edmonton Kodiaks
Last Season: 71-91, 3rd CAN West
Projected Record: 74-88, 4th CAN West
Minor League System Rank: 13th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 10th, $94 Mil
Cash: $1.36 Mil


Long Island Liberty
Last Season: 80-82, 2nd US East
Projected Record: 72-90, 3rd US East
Minor League System Rank: 11th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 7th, $102 Mil
Cash: -$870k

Louisville Heat
Last Season: 81-81, 1st US East
Projected Record: 76-86, 1st US East
Minor League System Rank: 2nd

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 9th, $97 Mil
Cash: $1.42 Mil


Miami Sharks
Last Season: 78-84, 3rd US East
Projected Record: 75-87, 2nd US East
Minor League System Rank: 12th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 5th, $109 Mil
Cash: $1.42 Mil

Montreal Nordiques
Last Season: 80-82, 4th CAN East
Projected Record: 87-75, 3rd CAN East
Minor League System Rank: 3rd

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 11th, $89 Mil
Cash: $1.42 Mil


Ottawa Capitals
Last Season: 90-72, 1st CAN East
Projected Record: 96-66, 1st CAN East
Minor League System Rank: 10th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 8th, $98 Mil
Cash: $852k

Quebec City Quest
Last Season: 81-81, 3rd CAN East
Projected Record: 68-94, 4th CAN East
Minor League System Rank: 8th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 14th, $80 Mil
Cash: $1.136 mil

San Francisco Quakes
Last Season: 83-79, 3rd US West
Projected Record: 87-75, 3rd US West
Minor League System Rank: 16th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 4th, $111 Mil
Cash: -$1.42 mil

Seattle Seawolves
Last Season: 95-67, 2nd US West
Projected Record: 95-67, T 1st US West
Minor League System Rank: 4th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 12th, $87 Mil
Cash: $852k


Toronto Lake Monsters
Last Season: 82-80, 2nd CAN East
Projected Record: 92-70, 2nd CAN East
Minor League System Rank: 15th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 1st, $148 Mil
Cash: -$780k

Winnipeg Jets
Last Season: 68-94, 4th CAN West
Projected Record: 77-85, 3rd CAN West
Minor League System Rank: 5th

Finances:
Payroll Rank: 16th, $78 Mil
Cash: $1.42 Mil

[Mr. Baseball]

Have you considered getting your site hosted by All Sim Baseball? It's very inexpensive, and easy to setup (tutorial videos).

The current forum your using is going to draw some serious issues in the future. You have a solid foundation for a great league, you just need a real forum/website to go along with it.

With that said, I will refrain from joining until I hear your response.

[bwyant32]

I've heard alot about it and I think I will set one up, once I get paid of course. I'll probably have something set up by the end of this week.

[Mr. Baseball]

Originally Posted by bwyant32

I've heard alot about it and I think I will set one up, once I get paid of course. I'll probably have something set up by the end of this week.

As soon as you've done this, I will join.

It's just not stable to run everything on separate hosts. What if one of them goes bad? The forum you have now will discourage people from posting. An active forum is essential to a successful league.

If you have any trouble settings it up, please contact me. You've caught my attention as you've obviously put a lot of effort into building a quality league. I can tell you'd make a good commissioner, and I'd love to be apart of it (once this issue is resolved).

Gavin

[bigfatcat]

Wow!
New website looks GREAT!
New forum is great.
File works...export works...great job!!!

Mark
NABA Phoenix Sidewinders

[bwyant32]

Bump... Just created the new website on the AllSim servers, check us out.

[bwyant32]

Originally Posted by bigfatcat

Wow!
New website looks GREAT!
New forum is great.
File works...export works...great job!!!

Mark
NABA Phoenix Sidewinders

Thanks Mark, the forum design is coming up in a little bit.

[bigfatcat]

Originally Posted by bwyant32

Thanks Mark, the forum design is coming up in a little bit.

[Good_Vibes]

Hey there,

Interested in Montreal, are you handling registrations on the forum/website?

Jim

[bwyant32]

Originally Posted by Good_Vibes

Hey there,

Interested in Montreal, are you handling registrations on the forum/website?

Jim

Sent PM Jim

[sdailey50]

I would be interested in the San Francisco Quakes.

Sent you a PM

[bwyant32]

Only the:

Ottawa Capitals
Winnipeg Jets
Edmonton Kodiaks
Calgary Bears
Long Island Liberty

Remain!

[bwyant32]

Rules posted,

Ottawa Capitals
Edmonton Kodiaks
Calgary Bears
Long Island Liberty

are left.

[sowders22]

I applied for Calgary on the website. Looking forward to it. Looks like a great setup.