What will be your first expansion teams?

[Orioles1966]

I currently have 2 Worlds with 4- 200 plus team leagues. They will be carried over to OOTP17.


Federal League (4)
Nashville Outlaws
Carolina Thunder
Las Vegas Knights
New York Warriors(Previous NY Warriors moved to Albuquerque,NM)


Midwest League Triple A (6)
Little Rock Lightning
Oakland Outlaws
Tampa Bay Outlaws
Los Angeles Cobras
Miami Orioles
Orlando Thunder


Continental Baseball Association (6)
Oklahoma Cavalry
Anaheim Arsenal
Long Island Vipers
Sacramento Gold
Jacksonville Bullets
Sacramento Senators


American Baseball Association Triple A (6)
Quad Cities Riverhawks
California Condors
West Palm Beach Barracudas
Jacksonville Teamen
Miami Seahawks
Phoenix Coyotes

[cxs018]

My first game is going to be modern MLB, and therefore, I'll just let the league expand whenever it wants to.

[Caporegime]

In MLB sims, I always add expansion teams in Portland an San Antonio respectively. Since commish Manfred seems so enamored with the notion of placing expansion teams in Montreal and Mexico City, perhaps I'll give that a shot in 17.

[mgom27]

Orlando for one and like Casselberry,Altamonte Springs if Randomize Cities.

[GoBucsGo]

Modern day MLB game, Portland and Mexico City. Or, Portland and Charlotte.

[bwburke94]

Originally Posted by cxs018

My first game is going to be modern MLB, and therefore, I'll just let the league expand whenever it wants to.

Welcome to the forums, and please turn off league evolution before it screws you over.

[Masson26]

i pretty much always do expansion teams in Vegas and Oklahom City, onces in awhile Vancouver or MOntreal (often use these as AAA locations for expansion teams(

[Padreman]

Well mine was different I started a MLB game and change a lot of it so it's basically fictional I relocated the White Sox to Indy the Mets to San Antonio and Angels just changed back to Anaheim and the Blue Jays to Memphis so that's that but I expanded to make 16 teams in each league eventually 36 but the first two teams was Portlant and Las Vegas since west has fewer teams

[mm7607]

Originally Posted by mgom27

Orlando for one and like Casselberry,Altamonte Springs if Randomize Cities.

I used to live in Apopka and worked in Altamonte Springs.

[StanfordBerkely]

If you're also curious about relocation, I was pushing a San Antonio agenda in my game for a while. The White Sox were in bad shape financially so I took them out of Chicago. Even made my own logo for them.

[Padreman]

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[sdorman22]

I'll be carrying over my league from '16, which has two expansion teams:

Las Vegas Outlaws - I ripped the team name, logo, and look right off of the XFL franchise. It was the only thing I liked about that league and it makes a pretty cool looking baseball team.

Alabama Mustangs - I'm from Alabama, so even though it's a pretty terrible market I wanted to start a franchise in my home state. This is the one I control. It's also kinda hard to come up with a good MLB team name for Alabama other than stealing the Birmingham Barons name...so I just went with my High School mascot.

[scootermojo]

I usually start out with the current MLB setup then sim a few years followed by the following expansion teams:

Las Vegas Aces
Richmond Virginians

Then I'll sim a few more seasons (at least 4) and add the following teams via expansion:

Portland Beavers
Oklahoma City Jacks

I'll sim at least 10 or more seasons after that then do a massive expansion by adding at least 4 teams at once and do a realignment of the leagues and divisions to the point where I have 4 divisions in each league composed of at least 4-5 teams each.

Some of the teams I've added in the past:
Montreal Barons
Vancouver Emeralds
Nashville Outlaws
Louisville Sluggers
Alabama Dixies
New Orleans Jazz
Memphis Pilots
Charlotte Knights

Usually my goal is to get up to at least 40 teams, 4 divisions in each league, 5 teams in each division so only division winners make the playoffs and I eliminate the Wild Cards and Wild Card rounds. I've never really gotten any farther than that.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Padreman

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Ugh. Four-team divisions. A thousand times no!

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

Ugh. Four-team divisions. A thousand times no!

Agreed

[pauwoo]

Ottawa & Las Vegas.

And... I do the dreaded four team division setup. Don't hate!

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by pauwoo

Ottawa & Las Vegas.

And... I do the dreaded four team division setup. Don't hate!

I just left it

[Masson26]

Originally Posted by Padreman

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I will never understand why people believe so hard that Montreal needs a new teams. Do people not remember how terrible they're attendance records where? Even when the were dominating in 94 they barely broke 20k a game. And dont give me that crap about them just needing a new stadiums, fans go to games to see the game not the stadium.

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by Masson26

I will never understand why people believe so hard that Montreal needs a new teams. Do people not remember how terrible they're attendance records where? Even when the were dominating in 94 they barely broke 20k a game. And dont give me that crap about them just needing a new stadiums, fans go to games to see the game not the stadium.

I also agree with you they don't deserve a team

[legofarley]

I have a world with four different leagues of 24+ major league teams each. In my American league I have a rule that any team who misses the playoffs for 25 straight years may move. So I think there will be some city shuffling happening before I expand.