What's your baseball world like?

zroberts1991 · 04-21-2013, 06:17 PM

I'm looking to start a new universe with this version and I was wondering how everyone else here plays, might even provide me with a spark. Do you use the modern MLB start up, historical or have you created your own universe with many different leagues within it?

bwburke94 · 04-21-2013, 06:32 PM

This thread gets created like 100 times a year...

Anyway, I play a lot of fictional and a bit of Majors quickstart.

zroberts1991 · 04-21-2013, 06:41 PM

Ha sorry just curious and looking for inspiration

Neolithic · 04-21-2013, 06:56 PM

Any chance you could give me your explanations on your signature bwburke? at least the league evolution, and the minor league settings one?

I'm just overly curious what I've missed, that apparently were big enough issues to make a signature. ( I mean no jest or anything, I am really curious what the issues were that prompted the telling is all )

megamanmatt · 04-21-2013, 06:59 PM

league evolution can cause things to change if you don't make sure they are off and league settings don't always update, especially in long running leagues.

Klew1986 · 04-21-2013, 07:03 PM

I am doing a 22 team fictional league based in the US. I have all the teams in cities that currently don't have a MLB team. I am simming from 1990-2012 to get some league history and then will expand to 24 teams and take over one of the new teams in 2013.

It will be 3 divisions per league, with 4 teams per division.

Bluenoser · 04-21-2013, 07:13 PM

League evolution works as long as you understand the ramifications of using it. There is a long list of things it can change. The good thing is, they are user selectable.

jm47048 · 04-21-2013, 07:23 PM

I want to start a league that has the 30 clubs from the majors with todays rosters plus to fictional teams all as part of major league baseball.

NateAndStuff · 04-21-2013, 07:37 PM

I'm in 2052 off a Pokemon Baseball League that I started in OOTP 13. I started out coaching college ball before taking a minor league job. After a few years I was offered a job by the Oklahoma City Squirtle Squad. I spent a handful of seasons there before deciding it wasn't for me. I left and took an offer to run the Seattle Scyther who hadn't made the playoffs in 15 years. After a few years of getting to know the people in Seattle and building a great core, we were finally able to get the teams first playoff berth in 20 years and somehow managed to dogfight our way to the franchise's first Poke Series win. Its been 9 years and we are the team to beat in the PBL.

Honorable_Pawn · 04-21-2013, 08:19 PM

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The Game · 04-21-2013, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by zroberts1991

I'm looking to start a new universe with this version and I was wondering how everyone else here plays, might even provide me with a spark. Do you use the modern MLB start up, historical or have you created your own universe with many different leagues within it?

My main league started with 1999 MLB in 2003 I added the 1st of my fictional leagues which is the league I play in. In 2005 i add another fictional league. in 2008 i add the ***, In 2010 I add the Australian league. In 2012 I add another fictional league. In 2015 the ABL folds and becomes part of the World Baseball League. In 2023 1 fictional league folds and the all stars join my main league I play in. i have a quickstart available for this with and without MLB with rules on when to add teams. Email me for more info.
My other main league is my 16 team ABF started in 2000, which is a combo of fictional and real players. Features myself and each year the rookie class is a combo of people i know as clones of former MLers and game created players. 4 levels of minors. Some teams are real most are fictional. i also have another version of this using real teams. quickstarts for both.
All 3 are on 13, since I dont have 14 til these bugs get worked out. If you dont have 13 you can download the demo and convert from there. Also if you are a White Sox or Cubs fan I have a quickstart for that also. see my thread for that one.

Cras · 04-21-2013, 09:29 PM

I am in November of 1965. MLB historical with fictional players. I have a bunch of minor leagues, I add in the real leagues as they came into existence, and only add the ones that still exist today, so no defunct leagues. I try to follow a sort of historical progression down there, but now I am just adding teams as they come and maintain them as they currently are, in terms of city, nickname, and stadium. I try to keep them affiliated as they are now, but sometimes I need to take some liberty with that to keep leagues even.

I have the Mexican league, which has been around now since sometime in the 50s, dont remember exactly. And I have both Nippon leagues, added them a few years ago.

zroberts1991 · 04-21-2013, 10:07 PM

Does anyone have a template or way where you can separate players so only black players would appear in the negro leagues, and white players in the ml. I want to recreate a fictional baseball history.

I had one in 13 but for the life of me I can't find it again.

dward1 · 04-22-2013, 12:50 AM

league starts in 2043, have 9 leagues and 64 teams, planning to slowly expand to 250 or so (and add in Oceanic league). here's a look at a few

currently playing the World Cup (I know season started, but hey I just thought of WC idea so I rationalized it by deciding the teams go through spring training and a week of games so the national squads would be ready). group stage is over

and the knockout stages have begun

hfield007 · 04-22-2013, 01:01 AM

still working on the basis of my plan as they work all of the bugs out of OOTP 14 to start my second long term fictional ever.

MLB with 24 teams, AAA, AA, A, R minors
18 all-state high school feeder league
56 team ncaa feeder league
10 team pacific foreign league
10 team latin-euro foreign league

all fictional players and the mlb will only be 44% american. Very diverse universe where the MLB is the main focus and the World Baseball Classic that will run every three seasons between 32 teams will be the second focus.

elfsutton · 04-22-2013, 01:22 AM

I start in 1871. I change teams but as the leagues change, I dont delete the other leagues, I just keep them going along. National Association continues with the teams that might have been. In the end, by the time you get to 1901, you have The National Association, Union Association, Players League, American Association and the MLB. I try to keep the teams as close as I can but some times I have to make changes.

Usually disable the evolution for each league until the league would have ended, i.e. National association consists of teams that were in the NA at some point but did not move to the National League. Turn on evolution in 1876 and the league runs as a ficitional league from then on. Same goes for them all.

Start by importing real rookies to the NA, then to the National, then to the mlb, redo each main league when they change.

It proves to make for some interesting scenarios for teams. Lots of teams in some cities that may or may not be able to support extra teams. End up with four teams in Washington, 4 in Baltimore, 3 in Cleveland and 2 in KC, it is very interesting.

Havent really paid much attention to how those mulitple team cities handle it but in my next incarnation, gonna do some moving and what not with financials being a bigger deal.

zroberts1991 · 04-22-2013, 04:57 PM

All very cool!

BMD · 04-22-2013, 05:50 PM

There are 4 types of leagues I have been running the last couple years occasionally switching between them to keep it fresh.

1. Start with a modern MLB league then run an inaugural draft. The twist? Years ago I created an Excel spreadsheet (I have posted it in the past) to script who I take in each of the first 50 rounds by position and age range. For example, I just opened it up and if I were to use this one, the first pick has to be a 2b between the ages of 23 and 25. The 2nd pick would be a closer between 34 and 36. Next, a right handed starter between 18 and 22. This lets me use the inaugural draft to put some of my favorite players on the my team, but makes it more challenging by guaranteeing I have the least talented roster.

2. Start a fictional league around 1980 then sim until the early to mid 90's. I then create myself as a draft eligible player fresh out of high school or college depending on the year. I then continue to sim a year at a time, stopping to watch how the league develops as well as how I develop ad a player. Once my playing career is over, I sim another couple years before taking a front office job. I select my team depending on my playing career. Once when I did this, I played my entire career with one team so my decision was easy. Another time, I was a journeyman pitcher that played for a lot of teams. I happened to notice though that early in my career at one stop my local popularity rose above insignificant. That is the team I went back to.

The first front office job I take is as special assistant to the GM in charge of the amateur draft. I will stay in commisioner mode only and for 2 or three years I will only draft for my team. After that, I take the GM job and turn off commisioner mode. Doing it this way, takes a while to set up the league, but I have a fictional league that has a lengthy history - that includes me! When I take over as GM I am very familiar with the organization having watched it for a couple years plus the minors already have some of "my guys." I find this a great way to be immersed in a fictional league from the start of my GM career.

3. Modern MLB expansion team

4. The Pirates

sdf4977 · 04-22-2013, 06:09 PM

Started in 1960. I have 20 teams

04-21-2013, 06:17 PM	#1
zroberts1991 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 216	What's your baseball world like? I'm looking to start a new universe with this version and I was wondering how everyone else here plays, might even provide me with a spark. Do you use the modern MLB start up, historical or have you created your own universe with many different leagues within it?

04-21-2013, 06:59 PM	#5
megamanmatt Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeville, Minnesota Posts: 2,416	league evolution can cause things to change if you don't make sure they are off and league settings don't always update, especially in long running leagues. __________________ "The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting.

04-21-2013, 07:23 PM	#8
jm47048 All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,247	I want to start a league that has the 30 clubs from the majors with todays rosters plus to fictional teams all as part of major league baseball. __________________ The New York Yankees World Series Champions 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009 American League Champions 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2024

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Honorable_Pawn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tampa Bay Posts: 6,407	Sometimes a picture is worth a dozen or six half something or others...whatever... 6 levels ML AAA AA A SA R Attachment 283089 Attachment 283090 Attachment 283084 Attachment 283085 Attachment 283086 Last edited by Honorable_Pawn; 12-16-2015 at 06:56 PM.

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04-21-2013, 06:32 PM	#2
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,522	This thread gets created like 100 times a year... Anyway, I play a lot of fictional and a bit of Majors quickstart.

04-21-2013, 06:41 PM	#3
zroberts1991 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 216	Ha sorry just curious and looking for inspiration

04-21-2013, 06:56 PM	#4
Neolithic Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 110	Any chance you could give me your explanations on your signature bwburke? at least the league evolution, and the minor league settings one? I'm just overly curious what I've missed, that apparently were big enough issues to make a signature. ( I mean no jest or anything, I am really curious what the issues were that prompted the telling is all )

04-21-2013, 07:03 PM	#6
Klew1986 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 2,727	I am doing a 22 team fictional league based in the US. I have all the teams in cities that currently don't have a MLB team. I am simming from 1990-2012 to get some league history and then will expand to 24 teams and take over one of the new teams in 2013. It will be 3 divisions per league, with 4 teams per division.

04-21-2013, 07:13 PM	#7
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 14,489	League evolution works as long as you understand the ramifications of using it. There is a long list of things it can change. The good thing is, they are user selectable.

04-21-2013, 07:37 PM	#9
NateAndStuff Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 231	I'm in 2052 off a Pokemon Baseball League that I started in OOTP 13. I started out coaching college ball before taking a minor league job. After a few years I was offered a job by the Oklahoma City Squirtle Squad. I spent a handful of seasons there before deciding it wasn't for me. I left and took an offer to run the Seattle Scyther who hadn't made the playoffs in 15 years. After a few years of getting to know the people in Seattle and building a great core, we were finally able to get the teams first playoff berth in 20 years and somehow managed to dogfight our way to the franchise's first Poke Series win. Its been 9 years and we are the team to beat in the PBL.

04-21-2013, 09:29 PM	#13
Cras Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: LEO Posts: 3,789	I am in November of 1965. MLB historical with fictional players. I have a bunch of minor leagues, I add in the real leagues as they came into existence, and only add the ones that still exist today, so no defunct leagues. I try to follow a sort of historical progression down there, but now I am just adding teams as they come and maintain them as they currently are, in terms of city, nickname, and stadium. I try to keep them affiliated as they are now, but sometimes I need to take some liberty with that to keep leagues even. I have the Mexican league, which has been around now since sometime in the 50s, dont remember exactly. And I have both Nippon leagues, added them a few years ago. __________________ The Chicago White Sox 1906, 1917, 2005 World Series Champions 1900, 1901, 1906, 1917, 1919, 1959, 2005 American League Champions 2000, 2005, 2008 American League Central Division Champions 1983, 1993 American League West Division Champions OOTP \| Orbiter \| SSMS \| FSX \| LoL \| MLP:FIM!

04-21-2013, 10:07 PM	#14
zroberts1991 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 216	Does anyone have a template or way where you can separate players so only black players would appear in the negro leagues, and white players in the ml. I want to recreate a fictional baseball history. I had one in 13 but for the life of me I can't find it again.

04-22-2013, 12:50 AM	#15
dward1 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 934	league starts in 2043, have 9 leagues and 64 teams, planning to slowly expand to 250 or so (and add in Oceanic league). here's a look at a few currently playing the World Cup (I know season started, but hey I just thought of WC idea so I rationalized it by deciding the teams go through spring training and a week of games so the national squads would be ready). group stage is over and the knockout stages have begun

04-22-2013, 01:01 AM	#16
hfield007 All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,737	still working on the basis of my plan as they work all of the bugs out of OOTP 14 to start my second long term fictional ever. MLB with 24 teams, AAA, AA, A, R minors 18 all-state high school feeder league 56 team ncaa feeder league 10 team pacific foreign league 10 team latin-euro foreign league all fictional players and the mlb will only be 44% american. Very diverse universe where the MLB is the main focus and the World Baseball Classic that will run every three seasons between 32 teams will be the second focus.

04-22-2013, 01:22 AM	#17
elfsutton All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Cadiz, Ohio Posts: 946	I start in 1871. I change teams but as the leagues change, I dont delete the other leagues, I just keep them going along. National Association continues with the teams that might have been. In the end, by the time you get to 1901, you have The National Association, Union Association, Players League, American Association and the MLB. I try to keep the teams as close as I can but some times I have to make changes. Usually disable the evolution for each league until the league would have ended, i.e. National association consists of teams that were in the NA at some point but did not move to the National League. Turn on evolution in 1876 and the league runs as a ficitional league from then on. Same goes for them all. Start by importing real rookies to the NA, then to the National, then to the mlb, redo each main league when they change. It proves to make for some interesting scenarios for teams. Lots of teams in some cities that may or may not be able to support extra teams. End up with four teams in Washington, 4 in Baltimore, 3 in Cleveland and 2 in KC, it is very interesting. Havent really paid much attention to how those mulitple team cities handle it but in my next incarnation, gonna do some moving and what not with financials being a bigger deal. __________________ Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians fan Rewriting Cubs History, a Dynasty Report Baseball History, What Might Have Been Rewriting Cubs History Poll

04-22-2013, 04:57 PM	#18
zroberts1991 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 216	All very cool!

04-22-2013, 05:50 PM	#19
BMD All Star Reserve Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Somewhere raising the Jolly Roger Posts: 515	There are 4 types of leagues I have been running the last couple years occasionally switching between them to keep it fresh. 1. Start with a modern MLB league then run an inaugural draft. The twist? Years ago I created an Excel spreadsheet (I have posted it in the past) to script who I take in each of the first 50 rounds by position and age range. For example, I just opened it up and if I were to use this one, the first pick has to be a 2b between the ages of 23 and 25. The 2nd pick would be a closer between 34 and 36. Next, a right handed starter between 18 and 22. This lets me use the inaugural draft to put some of my favorite players on the my team, but makes it more challenging by guaranteeing I have the least talented roster. 2. Start a fictional league around 1980 then sim until the early to mid 90's. I then create myself as a draft eligible player fresh out of high school or college depending on the year. I then continue to sim a year at a time, stopping to watch how the league develops as well as how I develop ad a player. Once my playing career is over, I sim another couple years before taking a front office job. I select my team depending on my playing career. Once when I did this, I played my entire career with one team so my decision was easy. Another time, I was a journeyman pitcher that played for a lot of teams. I happened to notice though that early in my career at one stop my local popularity rose above insignificant. That is the team I went back to. The first front office job I take is as special assistant to the GM in charge of the amateur draft. I will stay in commisioner mode only and for 2 or three years I will only draft for my team. After that, I take the GM job and turn off commisioner mode. Doing it this way, takes a while to set up the league, but I have a fictional league that has a lengthy history - that includes me! When I take over as GM I am very familiar with the organization having watched it for a couple years plus the minors already have some of "my guys." I find this a great way to be immersed in a fictional league from the start of my GM career. 3. Modern MLB expansion team 4. The Pirates

04-22-2013, 06:09 PM	#20
sdf4977 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 46	Started in 1960. I have 20 teams Attached Images Last edited by sdf4977; 04-22-2013 at 06:41 PM.