OOTP Historical League

[vtbub]

For me that seems to be the missing puzzle in my OOTP experience, any interest in starting a new one?

[BFleming]

I'd be interested...maybe something close to what Marmel is doing in his solo league...start with 8 teans, expand.move as necessary, etc....I definitely think it would be a good time

[Alan T]

Hmmm.....


I don't like doing alot of leagues at once because I would rather be more dedicated to less leagues than less dedicated to more leagues...

but I am a little like you, in that I am not doing a historical league right now either... What timeframe did you have in mind? I think I would be interested in joining or even helping however was needed (from things like hosting a site, forums, or whatever.)

[BFleming]

Not to ideajack vtbub, but just thinking off the top of my head...

In theory, we would only need a small contingent to start depending on when the league would start...As little as 16 I think if we started as far back as like 1903 (1st world series)...

Another idea would be to either sim longer blocks of time or sim more often to make up the years quickly...

Again, just thinking out loud so take it all accordingly...

[vtbub]

Have webhosting and message boards set, thanks.

Was thinking 16 teams, 4 divisions of 4. Two rounds of best of 7 playoffs.

3 14 day live sims a week, sun,tue,thur. Piggy back on JBL.

Era doesn't really matter too much, at one point in time tossed around a 1901 league, but any era is fine.

[Alan T]

A 1901 league does sound like fun :) I'm in if you want me :)

[BFleming]

Same here....I'm in if you want me...

[BFleming]

dola,

I'm definitely for starting early..if we're going to do a historical league, might as well go back as far as we safely can...I think it would add a lot more to the record books et al.

[ahbrady]

I would like to get in too. I love the idea of a historical league. If we get to pick teams, I would like the Red Sox. If they are already taken, I'll take any team though. Except the Yankees, of course.:)

[BFleming]

Weren't the Yankees the Baltimore Orioles back in 1901?? Don't remember...

[JeeberD]

Argh, all these leagues with openings and I can't join them all...

Edit:

Aw hell, sign me up. Looks like my Astros were snagged before I could get them in HA's new league, and a historical league sounds like real fun.

What teams are we going to have available?

[Senator]

I might be - depending on what year it starts.

[3ric]

Would it be acceptable for a newbie to OOTP to be part of this league? I have had OOTP5 for a while, but haven't found single play to be any fun yet... hoping league play will let me have my money's worth out of the game!

(Edit: forgot a word...)

[vtbub]

My thought was a 1945 league based in Europe.

Not opposed to '01 but to simulate the entire history of baseball at a pace of one sim month per week would take 19 years.

As always, I am open to suggestions, but London beating Moscow, or worse losing to Moscow is intriguing.

[vtbub]

Dola,

Yes newbies are always welcome ;)

[JeeberD]

Europe, eh? Give me the Stuttgart Stallions, the school I went to my freshman year of high school....

I wish I could move back to Germany... :(

[vtbub]

Bump, Vatican City Cardinals here.

If people would prefer 1901, please say so, if there is enough interest, we'll do that ;)

[3ric]

I'd prefer 1901, please. Actually, that's a requirement for me...

[korme]

1955

[BFleming]

either or is ok here

[Alan T]

I kind of was looking forward to 1901 myself as well :)

[vtbub]

Well if JeeberD is ok with 1901, then I guess we will proceed from there.

'55 is an interesting year, I'm doing a solo 1960 league, and my team sucks. ;)

The key thing is to get to 16 as soon as possible so timelines can be set up, and since I chose Vatican City, to have one of my arch-nemisises take Rome, are you reading this SirFoz?

Either way, we should have a lot of fun with this and hope to get started soon.

[JeeberD]

I have no problem with 1901... :)

[BFleming]

Belfast Bombers sounds like I plan for me...anyone for London?

[vtbub]

OK, Keep going and I'll have a board up in a day or two.

We have four, we need twelve more.

[sooner333]

I'd like to be in this league, always have been looking for a historical league to be a part of. Anyway, not sure about what European city I'd want to be a part of, but...I'll figure it out. Count me in for now though fellas.

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by sooner333
I'd like to be in this league, always have been looking for a historical league to be a part of. Anyway, not sure about what European city I'd want to be a part of, but...I'll figure it out. Count me in for now though fellas.

Stuttgart needs a rival in Germany, so a Berlin, Frankfurt, or Munich team would be a perfect fit...

[Senator]

I will be the London Churchills.

[ahbrady]

I'll be any team. I'll take one in Luxemborg if possible, but it really doesn't matter.

[Alan T]

Sure, I will be Berlin. I need to think of a good team name though for them. (Everything i can think of right now is inappropriate).

[3ric]

I'm the Marseille Mistrals.

More name suggestions:
Moscow Tsars, St. Petersburg Cosacks, Rome Gladiators, Vienna Wieners, Geneva Lakers, Madrid Menace, Munich Bears, and a tip to Alan: Berlin Thunder

[BFleming]

Good suggestions 3ric...Got some funny looks at work when I burst out laughing over the Viena Wieners...another idea for Berlin-- Berlin Blitzkreig

[sooner333]

Okay, I think I'll be the Helsinki Hellmen

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by sooner333
Okay, I think I'll be the Helsinki Hellmen

Yum! I love mayo... ;)

[BFleming]

Since we have Senator and I in the same geographical area, how about 2 more UK/Irish teams to form our own division?? Dublin Drunkards maybe??

[vtbub]

ok you can read the rules (http://www.ronjuckett.com/mlbeurorules.htm) here.

[Senator]

rules???

This is my first online baseball league. Somebody better hold my hand.

[vtbub]

I won't tell if you won't ;)

[Senator]

We should use this board for all our league play comments, so my post total will increase!

[vtbub]

Yeah, and get disrespected like the hattrickers.

[Neuqua]

Originally posted by Senator
We should use this board for all our league play comments, so my post total will increase!

Hmm, in that case, I want in!

[vtbub]

If they want to make us a board, I have no trouble, less work on my part.

[vtbub]

bump

[ahbrady]

Who all is in? I'll take the Cork Screws or the Glasgow Goats.

[BFleming]

Looks damn good so far vtbub

[vtbub]

Here's what we have so far:

Jeeberd-Stuttgart
vtbub-Vatican City
BFleming-Belfast
Senator-London
AlanT-Berlin
3ric-Marseille
sooner333-Helsinki
ahbrady-Cork

We are at 8:)

Keep it coming.

[Alan T]

Looks great to me too :)

[ahbrady]

It sounds good. What is the timetable for everything starting?

[vtbub]

We have 8. I'd love 16. We could go with 12. Hoping for a draft next week.

[BFleming]

Could always check the RWBL boards to see if anyone there wants in too...mostly FOFCr's there too

[cartman]

Count me in.

I'll take the Monte Carlo Millionaires.

[vtbub]

OK, I'm going to give it another evening here before advertising elsewhere.

Right now, we have 9 teams, 7 left for a full league. ;)

[Senator]

Do I need to start studying players from 1901? I am moving this weekend, so I can let the wife direct the movers and I can log in with the laptop at the baseball database. It is all about delegation my friends.

[vtbub]

I have the draft list in HTML, I probably will have a link tonight.

[JeeberD]

bump :)

[vtbub]

Draft HTML can be found here. (www.ronjuckett.com/euro/rookies.html)

[Alan T]

Ahh .. I forgot how much fun it was looking over some of the players of this era :)

[vtbub]

Posted over at .400 for openings.

The message board is about 50% ready.

Finally hope to have a working web page tomorrow. If this interests you at all, please sign up :)

[Alan T]

I am flying tommorrow and probably being taken out for my bday. but I will sign up once its ready and I am back home :)

[vtbub]

You did, you took Berlin.

[Alan T]

I thought you meant sign up on the message board :) Maybe I need to start sleeping more than 2 hours a night :)

[vtbub]

Haven't posted a link to that yet. ;)

[BFleming]

FWIW vtbub,

There are 2 players in the html that have ages of -2...Farmer Burns and Pete Dowling...they need birthdays...Can't wait to start otherwise

[vtbub]

Bump

We still need 7 suckers..err..owners:)

[vtbub]

Message board can be found here. (http://www.ronjuckett.com/mlbeuro)

[Alan T]

So I couldn't sleep , woke up at 5am, decided to fly out on the 8am jet instead of the 2pm one. (Love Delta's easy plane changing via computer!) so got home early and registered on the board :)

THis should be fun when we get 7 more owners in :)

So the MLB players are worried about SARS when they play in Toronto.. I wonder how the MLBe players will like away games in say 1919.. Some teams might have a significant home field advantage :) :)

[vtbub]

Paris is taken.

Magic number for a full league is 6:)