Post-season barnstorming as a tournament?

asrivkin · 03-09-2022, 12:22 PM

Hi,

I'm (slowly but surely) playing out a scenario that's currently in the late 1910s. I've made a bunch of period-appropriate stadia in non-MLB cities, which I've been using for Spring Training tours (as was the fashion). I'd also like to use them in some equivalent to the post-season barnstorming tours that would sometimes happen, and I'm looking for some advice and/or a reality check.

I already have a Florida-based Arizona Fall League-style developmental league set up, with 6 teams drawing early-career/reserve players from the 20 MLB teams, with each of those 6 teams assigned 3-4 MLB teams to draw from. I'd ideally like treat the barnstorming tour similarly, with 4 barnstorming teams, each of which draws from 5 MLB teams for a 20 (or whatever) game schedule but draws players regardless of career state. I know how to put a given day's games into a desired stadium.

What I thought I knew but apparently don't is how to do the actual setup--when I try to set up a tournament, I'm not given a Fall League-style option. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if I can't have more than one league classified as developmental, or what? I could set up the players on the teams manually, but I'd rather be hands-off with the player selection other than assigning given MLB teams to given barnstorming teams. I'm also willing to have these be classified as exhibition games rather than a tournament, but I don't know how to set up two temporary teams that play exhibitions and get players loaned to them (plus, as noted, I'd rather be hands-off with player selection if I can).

If none of this works, I'll be content to take the two second-place teams on a road trip like I did at the end of 1917, but it seems like there should be some way to make this work. Advice/opinions welcome!

03-09-2022, 12:22 PM	#1
asrivkin Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2020 Location: Maryland Posts: 325	Post-season barnstorming as a tournament? Hi, I'm (slowly but surely) playing out a scenario that's currently in the late 1910s. I've made a bunch of period-appropriate stadia in non-MLB cities, which I've been using for Spring Training tours (as was the fashion). I'd also like to use them in some equivalent to the post-season barnstorming tours that would sometimes happen, and I'm looking for some advice and/or a reality check. I already have a Florida-based Arizona Fall League-style developmental league set up, with 6 teams drawing early-career/reserve players from the 20 MLB teams, with each of those 6 teams assigned 3-4 MLB teams to draw from. I'd ideally like treat the barnstorming tour similarly, with 4 barnstorming teams, each of which draws from 5 MLB teams for a 20 (or whatever) game schedule but draws players regardless of career state. I know how to put a given day's games into a desired stadium. What I thought I knew but apparently don't is how to do the actual setup--when I try to set up a tournament, I'm not given a Fall League-style option. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if I can't have more than one league classified as developmental, or what? I could set up the players on the teams manually, but I'd rather be hands-off with the player selection other than assigning given MLB teams to given barnstorming teams. I'm also willing to have these be classified as exhibition games rather than a tournament, but I don't know how to set up two temporary teams that play exhibitions and get players loaned to them (plus, as noted, I'd rather be hands-off with player selection if I can). If none of this works, I'll be content to take the two second-place teams on a road trip like I did at the end of 1917, but it seems like there should be some way to make this work. Advice/opinions welcome!