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Old 05-03-2023, 05:27 PM   #1
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Your Recommended Team Nicknames, By City (A Crowdsourced Project)

If you expanded MLB, what team names would you select?

Have you ever wanted to get nickname ideas from others, but didn't want to wait for the responses or comb through old threads? Well, maybe this spreadsheet will come in handy in the future. Just fill out the below form to give your input first.

I've started this project a few times before, but in the past I've just gone through old nickname threads for different cities and sooner or later I just gave up as it's a pretty tedious task. But then it occured to me yesterday, we could make a Google form that would not only make it interactive and catch input in the future, but it would also greatly cut down on the work.

Who knows, if we get enough data maybe we can convince OOTP to pull expansion team nicknames based on the city from a curated list.

Form #1 is for the following cities (based on the recent odds of what cities will get expansion teams):

Nashville, Tennessee
Charlotte, North Carolina
Salt Lake City, Utah
Portland, Oregon
Montreal, Canada
San Antonio, Texas
Austin, Texas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Mexico City, Mexico
Orlando, Florida

I have more planned (30+ more cities), but I wanted to get this one posted first. I'll probably even do up forms for alternate names for cities that already have teams.

EDIT: Form #2 teams (based on the cities OOTP likes to expand MLB to):

Columbus, Ohio
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jacksonville, Florida
El Paso, Texas
Memphis, Tennessee
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tucson, Arizona
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fresno, California
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

EDIT: Form #3 teams:

Virginia Beach, Virginia
Brooklyn, New York
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Hartford, Connecticut
Louisville, Kentucky
Havana, Cuba
Monterrey, Mexico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Form #4 teams:

Honolulu, Hawaii
Omaha, Nebraska
Raleigh, North Carolina
Buffalo, New York
Newark, New Jersey
Providence, Rhode Island
Richmond, Virginia
Riverside, California
Sacramento, California
San Jose, California

Form #5 includes the top 10 markets of cities that already have teams (for fictional leagues or in case someone someone wants to give that city another MLB team):

New York, New York
Los Angeles, California
Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia, PA
Dallas, Texas
Atlanta, Georgia
Houston, Texas
Washington, DC
Boston, Mass
San Francisco, California

Form #6 includes the next 10:

Phoenix, Arizona
Seattle, Washington
Tampa Bay, Florida
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Denver, Colorado
Miami, Florida
Cleveland, Ohio
St. Louis, Missouri
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Form #7 includes the last 10 for cities (and boroughs) that currently have teams:

Baltimore, Maryland
San Diego, California
Kansas City, Missouri
Cincinnati, Ohio
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Oakland, California
Anaheim, California
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bronx, New York
Queens, New York

Form #8 includes the top 12 for Japan:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Osaka, Ōsaka, Japan
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan
Saitama, Saitama, Japan
Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

I'm especially looking forward to any Japan responses as the current league I'm playing is based in Japan.

Form #9 includes another 12 for Japan:

Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Sakai, Ōsaka, Japan
Niigata, Niigata, Japan
Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Okayama, Okayama, Japan
Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Form #10 includes the top 10 for Canada (not including Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal which were already included in forms 3, 7, and 1 respectively):

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Form #11 includes another 10 for Canada:

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
St. Catharines – Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Form #12 includes the top 12 for South Korea:

Seoul
Busan
Incheon
Daegu
Daejeon
Gwangju
Suwon
Ulsan
Changwon
Goyang
Yongin
Seongnam

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Old 05-03-2023, 10:44 PM   #2
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If I had a wish list, I'd have OOTP put, under Game Settings, empty slots for pre-qualified expansion team cities and names. I could then load the city/name combos such that if the league auto-expanded, it would choose from those. Heck, maybe even percentages so when it expands, it just runs the percentages the way it does for the draft lottery. Maybe a separate lottery for the city and then a random choice of up to three names I give it? I'd have the uniforms and logos for all ten already in the folder so when the news announcement came, the game could put the logo front and center of the article. Yeah, it's the little things sometimes...
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Old 05-03-2023, 11:06 PM   #3
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Yeah, I'd be down for that too. Of course we could always change it to whatever we want, but it's always nice when you get something random that just fits. I'm sure we've all seen too many anatopistic names like the Indianapolis Canucks and Memphis Tsunamis.

If we get enough input I'll create a randomizer that can take either from the data from the forms or other names one can input. That's how I generate some of my team names. But yeah, it'd be cooler if the game generated them from a list we gave it.
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Old 05-03-2023, 11:35 PM   #4
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Nice cash-in on an obscure 50 cent word, sir!

The Charlotte Racers...they do have the NASCAR HOF.
The San Antonio Rebels...Remember the Alamo.

Portland can't even keep Walmart in town, so their prospects have taken a major hit. Vegas will get the A's. Charlotte & SA are both vibrant, strong local economies. My 2 cents. Probably about all it's worth, too.
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Old 05-03-2023, 11:51 PM   #5
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Nice cash-in on an obscure 50 cent word, sir!

The Charlotte Racers...they do have the NASCAR HOF.
The San Antonio Rebels...Remember the Alamo.

Portland can't even keep Walmart in town, so their prospects have taken a major hit. Vegas will get the A's. Charlotte & SA are both vibrant, strong local economies. My 2 cents. Probably about all it's worth, too.
Those don't count until you fill them out on the form, Ty ;P
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Old 05-03-2023, 11:59 PM   #6
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Nice cash-in on an obscure 50 cent word, sir!
I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a diss (I had to look up "50 cent word"), but even if it is, that's okay. It's just a concept (out of place instead of anachronistic's out of time) that I thought there should be a word for and then one day I came across it. And now every once in awhile I have to look it up because I forget it.

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Those don't count until you fill them out on the form, Ty ;P
LOL, I checked to see if he inputted it too. Better posted than nothing at all I suppose. Maybe someone else will like them and input them.
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Old 05-04-2023, 08:27 AM   #7
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No, that’s not a diss. Too few people today speak eloquently. They live and die on the Dolch Sight Word list. Thanks for not being one of them. As for the form, I did overlook that. Got a lot on my mind of late. It’s why I’ve been scarce.
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Old 05-08-2023, 04:33 PM   #8
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Form #2 teams:

Columbus, Ohio
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jacksonville, Florida
El Paso, Texas
Memphis, Tennessee
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tucson, Arizona
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fresno, California
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

This second form focuses on cities that OOTP likes to expand to. I ran 6 sims expanding by 2 teams every year for 6 expansions to see which were the most popular. Excluding a few (Vegas, Charlotte, San Antonio), I was a bit surprised to see that the teams from form #1, the teams that have the best recent odds of getting teams, are not popular expansion cities with OOTP. The above all are.
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Form #3 teams:

Virginia Beach, Virginia
Brooklyn, New York
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Hartford, Connecticut
Louisville, Kentucky
Havana, Cuba
Monterrey, Mexico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This third form includes cities that aren't particularly likely to get an MLB team any time soon, but I've seen them mentioned by some sites and I could see some people wanting to expand their MLB league to them.

Form #4 will be similar, but will be exclusively US cities. After form #4 I'm going to do a series of forms for cities that do currently have teams and then I'm going to branch out and do other countries like Japan and Korea, and smaller cities in Mexico and Canada. If there's a US city you think should definitely be included in #4 that hasn't already been included, let me know. I have 11 right now, but I'd like to keep each form to 10 and maybe I don't yet have the best remaining 10.

EDIT: Here are those 11 remaining cities I'm mulling over for form #4:

Honolulu, Hawaii
Omaha, Nebraska
Raleigh, North Carolina
Wichita, Kansas - this is the city I'd probably drop; I never would have thought of it, but OOTP expanded to it once in my test sims
Buffalo, New York
Newark, New Jersey
Providence, Rhode Island
Richmond, VA
Riverside, California
Sacramento, California
San Jose, California

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Old 05-26-2023, 08:16 AM   #10
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For form #4 I went with the list I figured I'd go with:

Honolulu, Hawaii
Omaha, Nebraska
Raleigh, North Carolina
Buffalo, New York
Newark, New Jersey
Providence, Rhode Island
Richmond, Virginia
Riverside, California
Sacramento, California
San Jose, California
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Form #5 includes the top 10 markets of cities that already have teams (for fictional leagues or in case someone someone wants to give that city another MLB team):

New York, New York
Los Angeles, California
Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia, PA
Dallas, Texas
Atlanta, Georgia
Houston, Texas
Washington, DC
Boston, Mass
San Francisco, California

EDIT: I'm not including Toronto yet as the Nielsen ratings don't include them. Nor am I yet including cities like Anaheim that might be included in larger markets.

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Form #6 includes the next 10:

Phoenix, Arizona
Seattle, Washington
Tampa Bay, Florida
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Denver, Colorado
Miami, Florida
Cleveland, Ohio
St. Louis, Missouri
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Form #7 includes the last 10:

Baltimore, Maryland
San Diego, California
Kansas City, Missouri
Cincinnati, Ohio
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Oakland, California
Anaheim, California
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bronx, New York
Queens, New York
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Form #8 includes the top 12 for Japan:

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Osaka, Ōsaka, Japan
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan
Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan
Saitama, Saitama, Japan
Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

I'm especially looking forward to any Japan responses as the current league I'm playing is based in Japan.

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Form #9 includes another 12 for Japan:

Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Sakai, Ōsaka, Japan
Niigata, Niigata, Japan
Nerima, Tokyo, Japan
Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Okayama, Okayama, Japan
Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

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Form #10 includes the top 10 for Canada (not including Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal which were already included in forms 3, 7, and 1 respectively):

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Form #11 includes another 10 for Canada:

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
St. Catharines – Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Barrie, Ontario, Canada

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Form #12 includes the top 12 for South Korea:

Seoul, South Korea
Busan, South Korea
Incheon, South Korea
Daegu, South Korea
Daejeon, South Korea
Gwangju, South Korea
Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Ulsan, South Korea
Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Yongin, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea

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Form #13 includes another 12 for South Korea:

Bucheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Cheongju, North Chungcheong, South Korea
Ansan, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Namyangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea
Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea
Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Gimhae, South Chungcheong, South Korea
Pohang, North Chungcheong, South Korea
Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Jeju, Jeju, South Korea
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Form #14: Since the forms for cities in Canada have elicited so many great responses already (thank you!) and in case the contributors have any ideas for even more cities, I'm doing a third Canadian form:

Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Milton, Ontario, Canada
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Including Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, which were included in the first 7 forms (Ctrl+F to find them), that brings us up to 33 Canadian cities. While I imagine some of us Canadians create 24-32 team Canadian leagues, I doubt many create more than that so we're probably good for Canadian cities.
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