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[metsgeek]

Over the past few weeks, I've been trying to come up with an idea for something with which to follow my RANDOM CHAOS thread, and after many hours of daydreaming and pondering (when I should have been working ), I've come up with what I think should be a good successor.

I've decided to run something with elements of Matt from TN's TIME WARP League as well as TigerFan's QUICK HOB REPLAY.

Here's how it will work:
[list=a][*]I will run a league from 1901-2000 using Ankit's database and as many bells and whistles as I find bearable....actual ballparks...franchise movement and name changes...expansion....DH and free agency, etcetera.[*]1901 will start with actual rosters, but subsequent seasons will be drafted based on order of finish.[*]In addition to the actual MLB players, I will be adding ONE fictional rookie per year.[*]Each of these rookies will be a forum member. [*]Imagine seeing how you develop compared to the all-time greats: Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Joss, Mathewson, Rose, Aaron, Mantle, Bonds....[*]I prefer that any submission have the person's actual name, along with a non-offensive, original nickname. if you would like to remain anonymous, choose a realistic name....Please, nothing ridiculous like Joey Bag-O-Donuts, etc....[*]Each rookie will be set up with the following:
- Age 18 at the beginning of his rookie season - month and day by choice of forum member
- GOOD talents across the board 75 in batting/pitching talents across the board
- Numerical ratings of 3 across the board 30 in batting/pitching talents across the board
- C defense and .980 fielding % in the position of choice, and C arm if Catcher or OF 50 defense and arm
- D defense and .960 fielding % in a secondary position (unless you choose to be a pitcher) 35 defense
- C Speed and Stealing 50 Speed and Stealing
- C Sac Bunt and Bunt for Hit 50 Sac Bunt and Bunt for Hit
- Durable Injury rating (Hey, we should have some advantage, right??? I want to make sure everyone has a good chance at a long career).
- Normal Loyalty
- Sometimes needs winner
- Some Leader ability
- GREAT clutch performance
- Good Consistency
- Normal hitter type
- B rating as SP or RP (whichever you choose)
- D rating in the secondary pitching position (unless you choose to only be an SP or RP) 75 Durability if you choose to be SP, 50 Durability if you choose MR/CL
- Pitching velocity = 7 Pitching velocity = Whatever is assigned
- Groundball % = 50

*Note- with the change to OOTP6, I had to adjust some of the original setup criteria to reflect the 1-100 rating scale which I am now using. The changes in RED are from 1928 onwards
[*]Debut years will be on a first-come first-serve basis. remember, only one fictional rookie per year, but there will be 100 openings. I will keep a list on this thread of which years are still available. If you submit a year that has already been taken, I will give you the closest available year.[*]If we end up needing a few entries, and submission have completely stopped, I'll just add rookies based upon fictional baseball characters (Roy Hobbs, Clew Heywood, Ricky Vaughn, Crash Davis, Nuke LaLoosh, Jake Taylor, Pedro Cerrano, ....)[*]For the actual historical rookies, the import settings will be the OOTP default.[*]I will begin the sim once I have fictional rookies signed up for 1901-25 and, if Random Chaos is still up, I will alternate updates with that league.[*]Updates will be yearly, with highlights from each season, notes on each fictional player (similar to Time Warp), and, when fictional players end their careers (either by retirement or otherwise), I will write a synopsis on each of them...similar to how TigerFan writes his summaries. [*]I will stop importing fictional forum rookies with the 2000 season, but will play out the dynasty until each forum rookie hascompleted their careers. From 2004 on, the draft pools will be fictional, but I will edit the names, positions and talents to reflect actual minor league prospects until I run out....at which point we will go with what is generated.[*]I expect the Dynasty to end around 2020.[/list=a]


Most likely, I'll be starting the actual sim in 3-4 weeks or so. This should keep me busy through the summer

[metsgeek]

I'll start off by submitting myself.

USE THIS AS A TEMPLATE FOR YOUR SUBMISSIONS

DEBUT YEAR: 1921
NAME: Pete Kahle
NICKNAME: Mr. Clean
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): CF
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): LF
BIRTHDAY: 2/1
HEIGHT: 6"1
WEIGHT: 220
NUMBER: 14
ORIGIN: Washingtonville, NY
BATS: R
THROWS: R

[metsgeek]

This post will be updated regularly with the debut years that have already been taken.

PLAYERS: 

1901 Joseph Hill          3b/1b  Pittsburgh Pirates - No draft/FA
1902 Jaime Rousseau       C/2b   Cleveland Bronchos, #1 
1903 William McMillan     C/1b   Boston Beaneaters, #2 
1904 Garrett White        2b/SS  Chicago Cubs, #2 
1905 James Campbell       SP/RP  Boston Beaneaters, #1   
1906 Orville Thom         SP/RP  Brooklyn Superbas, #2 
1907 Matt DuVall          LF/1b  Chicago Cubs, #1
1908 Chris Joyce          SP/RP  Cincinnati Reds, #1 
1909 Mike Hanham          SP/RP  St. Louis Browns, #2 
1910 Jason Gallagher      CF/SS  Boston Red Sox, #1
1911 Michael Gallagher    LF/3b  St. Louis Browns, #1 
1912 David Gamache        SP/RP  St. Louis Cardinals, #1 
1913 Boudreaux Thibedeaux C/1b   Philadelphia Athletics, #1 
1914 Achineaux Thibedeaux SP/CL  Philadelphia Athletics, #1 
1915 Robert Gallagher     C/1b   Brooklyn Superbas, #1
1916 Ethan Speizer        2b/SS  Philadelphia Phillies, #1 
1917 Mak Dolnick          SS/3b 
1918 Jordan Speizer       CF/LF 
1919 Chris Reed           SP/C
1920 Jeff Watson          SS/2b 
1921 Pete Kahle           CF/LF 
1922 Scott Fite           SS/2b 
1923 Frank Vamos          CF/LF 
1924 Slugger 21           1b/LF
1925 Robineaux Thibedeaux SS/2B
1926 Bobby Boucher        1b/3b
1927 Mac Alford           RF/1b
1928 Frank Smith          SP/RP
1929 Joe Strano           CF/SS
1930 Tiger Fan            3b/LF
1931 Rob Tomlinson        1b/3b
1932 Will Chernetsky      1b/RF
1933 Olin Cook            1b/3b
1934 Michael Thom         1b/RF
1935 Trent Sano           C/1b
1936 Dan Waechter         C/1b
1937 David McKenna        SP/RP
1938 Harvey Gaunt         3b/C
1939 Doug Aiton           SP/RP
1940 Tom Shillito         C/1b
1941 Brady Knoxville      C/3b
1942 Gabor Katics         CF/LF 
1943 Ronald Cook          RF/LF
1944 Roy Hobbs            CF/LF
1945 Matt Alford          3b/LF
1946 Harris Rogner        SP/RP
1947 Kenny Wheeler        SP
1948 John Stabinsky       C/1b
1949 Barak Blackburn      C/SS
1950 Bill Hahn            CF/RF
1951 Chris Ramsey         SP/RP
1952 Steve DeWildt        1b/RF
1953 Shawn Clogston       RF/1b
1954 Christopher Fellows  3b/C
1955 Bobby Martin         2b/SS 
1956 Paul Woodworth       2b/3b
1957 Thomas Cramp         SP/RP
1958 Keenan Burley        CF/LF
1959 Sam Malone           SP/CL
1960 Max Rasmuth          SP/RP
1961 Bob Ritchie          CL/MR
1962 Gus Grimsley         SP/RP
1963 Tom Ward             LF/1b
1964 Craig Hayes          SP/RP
1965 Roger Smith          3b/RF
1966 Errol Knudson        SP/RP
1967 Kilroy Burley        SP/RP
1968 Eddie Ingram         2b/3b
1969 John Reis            LF/CF
1970 Jaque Rousseau       SP
1971 Ronin Kamikaze       SP/RP
1972 John Yuda            2b/3b
1973 Brian Cook           2b/SS
1974 Rob Chapman          3b/1b
1975 Lucas Alford         SP/CL
1976 Roseboro Melonfoot   SS/2b
1977 Crash Davis          C/1b
1978 John Heinz           1b/LF
1979 Bob Heinz            RF/LF
1980 John Finelli         SS/2b
1981 Clew Haywood         1B/RF
1982 Dalton Bigelow       3B/1B
1983 Paul Woodworth, Jr.  1B/3B
1984 Sidd Finch           SP
1985 Benito Sanchez       SP/CL
1986 Robert Hayes         3b/1b
1987 Rick Jolley          RF/1b
1988 Charlie Denton       SP
1989 Jeff Lawrence        2b/1b
1990 Nuke Laloosh         SP
1991 Jonathan Ullberg     LF/RF
1992 Ricky Vaughn         CL/MR
1993 Cody Hills           1b/LF
1994 Eric Alford          SP/CL
1995 Dante Demasiado      SP/RP
1996 Chris Hagan          C/RF
1997 Josh Rousseau        2b/CF
1998 Viktor Vajda         SS/3b
1999 Zigmund Rousseau     3b/1b
2000 
2001 Fanronia Hung        SS/2b
2002 Jay Soester          2b/SS
2003 Elijah Redbone       SP/RP

[HolyCow98]

DEBUT YEAR: 1973
NAME: Brian Cook
NICKNAME:
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): 2B
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): SS
BIRTHDAY: 4/5
HEIGHT: 5'11
WEIGHT: 179
NUMBER: 19
ORIGIN: Pensacola,FL
BATS: S
THROWS: R

Good luck with this....I'll be following along....

[Chappy]

DEBUT YEAR: 1974
NAME: Rob Chapman
NICKNAME: Chappy?
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): 3B
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 1B
BIRTHDAY: 8/3
HEIGHT: 5'10
WEIGHT: 165
NUMBER: 13
ORIGIN: Delray Beach, FL
BATS: S
THROWS: R

So I'll be a rookie around August or so I guess...

[Lindros 2 Leetch]

DEBUT YEAR: 1902
NAME: Jaime Rousseau
NICKNAME: Hockey (thats why my friends call me :P)
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): C
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 2B
BIRTHDAY: 3/31
HEIGHT: 6'1
WEIGHT: 185
NUMBER: 8
ORIGIN: Stratford, CT
BATS: R
THROWS: R

[Tiger Fan]

DEBUT YEAR: 1930
NAME: Tiger Fan
NICKNAME:
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): 3B
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): LF
BIRTHDAY: 4/17
HEIGHT: 6"1
WEIGHT: 210
NUMBER: 33
ORIGIN: Ontario, Canada
BATS: R
THROWS: R

[cubfan377]

DEBUT YEAR: 1955
NAME: Sam Kingma
NICKNAME: Sambo
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): 1B
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 3B
BIRTHDAY: 12/13
HEIGHT: 6'4
WEIGHT: 235
NUMBER: 17
ORIGIN: Lowell,IN
BATS: R
THROWS: R

[goroyals]

DEBUT YEAR: 1950
NAME: Bill Hahn
NICKNAME: Big Bill
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): CF
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): RF
BIRTHDAY: 10/30
HEIGHT: 6"1
WEIGHT: 205
NUMBER: 7
ORIGIN: Independence, MO
BATS: R
THROWS: R

[metsgeek]

So far, we've only had people sign up as batters. Interesting.......

[tward13]

DEBUT YEAR: 1963
NAME: Tom Ward
NICKNAME:
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): LF
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 1B
BIRTHDAY: 8/29
HEIGHT: 5'11"
WEIGHT: 185
NUMBER: 13
ORIGIN: West New York, NJ
BATS: L
THROWS: R

[Rasmuth]

DEBUT YEAR: 1960
NAME: Max Rasmuth
NICKNAME: Junkball
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): SP
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): RP
BIRTHDAY: 4/10
HEIGHT: 5ft, 10
WEIGHT: 175
NUMBER: 6
ORIGIN: Churchville, NY
BATS: R
THROWS: L

[metsgeek]

There we go....our 1st pitcher!

[LivnLegend]

DEBUT YEAR: 1922
NAME: Scott Fite
NICKNAME: Living Legend
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): SS
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 2B
BIRTHDAY: 8/19
HEIGHT: 6"1
WEIGHT: 200
NUMBER: 6
ORIGIN: Brookings, SD
BATS: Both
THROWS: R

[Tavarin]

DEBUT YEAR: 1917
NAME: Mak Dolnick
NICKNAME:
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): SS
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 3B
BIRTHDAY: 9/1
HEIGHT: 5"11
WEIGHT: 190
NUMBER: 10
ORIGIN: Evanston, IL
BATS: Both
THROWS: R

[Carlton]

DEBUT YEAR: 1905
NAME: James Campbell
NICKNAME: The Trojan Bullet
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): SP -1905 I should have A endurance
SECONDARY POSITION RP
BIRTHDAY: 1/16
HEIGHT: 5"11
WEIGHT: 198
NUMBER: 11
ORIGIN: Troy, NY
BATS: Both
THROWS: R

[metsgeek]

Now, now, Mr. Campbell.... This is a family-oriented message board.

You start talking about your "endurance" and soon people will be chiming in with comments about "scoring" and "choking up", etc...

[Carlton]

Oh and I thought you were gonna chide me for my Trojan Bullet nickname...

[metsgeek]

Originally posted by Carlton
Oh and I thought you were gonna chide me for my Trojan Bullet nickname...

Better than Trojan Horse...at least you're modest.

Okay, this is going downhill and picking up speed.

[lgkeeper]

DEBUT YEAR: 1935
NAME: Trent Sano
NICKNAME: "The Sandman"
PRIMARY POSITION (DEF=C, FLD%=.980): C
SECONDARY POSITION (DEF=D, FLD%=.960): 1B
BIRTHDAY: 10/28
HEIGHT: 6"3
WEIGHT: 238
NUMBER: 8
ORIGIN: Glens Falls, NY
BATS: S
THROWS: R