The PBA is recruting!

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Full League Name (Initials): Pinnacle Baseball Association (PBA)
Message Board URL: Boards
Website URL: Website
Reports URL: Reports
OOTP Version: OOTP 27
# Of Teams: 30
Exports: Every four days during season. Every other day in Offseason
League Time Per Sim: 7 days
Current Season: 2036 Offseason
Constitution: Constitution
StatsPlus:StatsPlus

The PBA is early in the 2036 season, year 19 of a 2017 MLB quickstart. The PBA tries to be as realistic as possible, not taking shortcuts with several things most other leagues don't want to deal with.

• For example, Scouting is on (High accuracy), coaching is on, suspensions are on (suspensions set to very low), injuries are normal, there are overbudget restrictions, and rain outs are on. Scouts create variance in player evaluation, coaches affect development, some players try to bend the rules, some players can't bend their bodies, bosses suck, and sometimes, it rains. These affect baseball in real life, and affect baseball in the PBA.
• Both leagues use a DH to help mitigate some questionable AI decisions.
• Ratings are 1-10
• Draft picks and recently drafted players can be traded.
• If a team goes more than $5 million over budget, they have two months to get under or face adjustments to their draft and scouting budgets in future years.
• Five foreign leagues run in the background.
• There are cosmetic rewards (nicknames, minor league stadium name changes) for those who are active writers in the league
• Finally, we use Slack to communicate and use StatsPlus to draft and trade.

To allow GMs the experience of taking in the full scope of the league, we sim every four days in-season with a faster offseason.

If you're interested, we have three open teams:

• St. Louis Cardinals
• Washington Nationals
• Minnesota Twins

The St. Louis Cardinals went 104-58, winning the NL Central and making it to the NLCS last year, a season after winning the title. They've succeeded on the back of a radical strategy of not using any starting pitching, instead relying on a collection of elite bullpen arms and using the starting pitching savings to build a strong offense. A number of position players have left in free agency, but the team has roughly $100 million to spend in free agency and is set to contend again in 2036.

https://statsplus.net/pba/team/56?page=roster

The Washington Nationals are coming off a 75-87 season where they won the NL East. On one hand, this team had a losing record. On the other, they made the playoffs. Yes, the PBA NL East is quite terrible. The Nationals have a respectable talent base, plus some exciting young talent. Combined with a terrible division, they'll be a factor for 2036 by default. They have a decent budget, though there are some terrible salaries on the books for another year, and they have a mid-pack farm. Not quite a rebuild, not quite a contender, a GM can take Washington in a number of different directions.

https://statsplus.net/pba/team/60?page=roster

The Minnesota Twins are coming off a 56-106 year in the middle of a rebuild. The farm is okay, ranked in the mid-pack, but there's a lot of good young talent in the majors. The team also has an MVP-caliber player. However, the finances aren't good and some of the best players likely need to be traded to accelerate the rebuild.

https://statsplus.net/pba/team/47?page=roster



Reply here or PM if interested in joining!

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Bump for Oakland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis being claimed, while Washington and Atlanta have just opened

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bumping for Atlanta being claimed and St. Louis reopening.