OOTP9 QuickStart Fictional League With Logos, RonCo Dev, SkyDog Stats.
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NABA OVERVIEW
The North American Baseball Alliance is a ready-to-go Quick Start league with 24 teams, 2 leagues, 6 teams in each division. The idea behind it was to create a league with teams in relatively large cities in North America, with nicknames and logos that are tied in some way to the city, thus making them easier to associate. Here's the league structure, along with stadium info for the teams:The "OVL" field in the table above represents the overall net effect of the park's factors, with the details out to the right. A value of 1.000 in OVL would correlate to a ballpark in which stats that are about average for the league are producted. Anything above 1.05, and that stadium will probably be a noticeable hitters' park. Anything below 0.95, and you're looking at a pitchers' park.
I'm not particularly good at unis, but here's a sampling. EASTERN CIRCUIT, NORTHEAST DIVISION
(Baltimore Blue Claws, Massachusetts Pilgrims, New York Enforcers, Philadelphia Freedom, Toronto Fire, Washington Federals)EASTERN CIRCUIT, SOUTHEAST DIVISION WESTERN CIRCUIT, COASTAL DIVISION WESTERN CIRCUIT, SOUTHWEST DIVISION EXPANSION TEAMS AVAILABLE TO DATE |
NABA STATISTICS This league uses RonCo's recommended player development settings, along with my recommended statistical settings, to produce statistical output that is something of a broad-brush of baseball from 1980-2004. The idea is that no changes need to be made in stats from season to season, so that a 40-HR season means the same thing in 2000 that it does in 2010, 2020, and 2090. 60HR in a season is possible, but not likely, and the low 40s might lead the league in a given season. League-wide ERAs will be a bit above 4.00, and it's possible for a stud pitcher to turn in an ERA under 2.00. Here's a look at the statistical leaders in the most recent season. First hitting:
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Here are a few league-wide numbers over those 25 years, compared to NL numbers from 1980-2004. (NL only, because this league uses no DH.)
As you can see, the difference is very tiny. As far as the leaderboards through 25 seasons, here they are:
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NABA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE I refer you to RonCo's thread for details, but my reasons for incorporating his dev settings into this league are as follows:
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SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PROCEED WITH LEAGUE I saved the QS on the day that the 2000 World Series ended. Here are several ideas:
Hope y'all enjoy this. |
This is a beautiful thing you have done. Downloading now so I can start my first longtime career game with it. I have done a couple myself but had not gotten the setup I like yet. I know I will like this one.
Thanks Ben. |
I just noticed an issue with this. The rookie league and short season A leagues are set to start on April 1st. Not sure why that happened, but with a June 15th draft, I'd recommend doing what I just did: change those two leagues to a June 20th start date. The other option would be to move to an offseason ammy draft so that they can start on April 1st. Sorry about that, guys. I'll fix it an re-upload in the morning.
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You just saved a lot of people a ton of time! I appreciate it Ben. If I have any feedback I will let you know!
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Great work, Ben. Can't wait to check this out!
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Mind if I host this on my site, once you re-upload? |
No problem at all. I'm a very early riser, so expect the new upload before 6:00am tomorrow.
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One tiny thing I noticed was the Louisiana team's city is listed as Louisiana, Missouri instead of New Orleans.. I am having a blast with this quickstart so far. I decided to take over Nashville because they are an aging team that I think needs a rebuild. The team has some tough salaries that I've tried to move without pissing off the fans too much. Great work Ben!
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New upload with a few changes. PadresFan, feel free to host this version.
ISSUES CORRECTED
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Where's the love for St. Louis?
:( Great work as usual Ben.. I'll have to try this out at some point. |
Thanks Ben, gonna try it out now!
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Great Lakes Division (Eastern Circuit) Buffalo Chicago Cleveland Detroit Milwaukee Toronto (add Pittsburgh to NE) Heartland Division (Western Circuit) Des Moines Kansas City Memphis (move Nashville franchise to Memphis, add Columbus, GA to SE) Minneapolis Oklahoma City (add Las Vegas to SW) St. Louis As mentioned, I've already added Columbus and Pittsburgh in 2001. |
Please forgive me because I'm an OOTP rookie but how do I install this quick start so that OOTP will recognize it in the "load quick start" game list?
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Unzip the file into the quickstart folder.
..\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\quickstart_games\ |
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Thanks. I had no problems installing the game but when I load the quickstart I get an error message that the "game world could not be found." Any ideas? |
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I see... please accept my apologies. ;) |
Along with the expansion does anything need to be changed in the league settings.. Like should I raise the number of rounds in the draft or should that not matter?
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Nope. No need to do that.
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I started up a new test league with the NABA QS and ran it overnight, with injuries and fatigue both set to average. I'm *thrilled* to report that even with the slowed dev, accelerated decline, and injuries bumped up to average, some very appropriate milestones were reached. Here's a quick synopsis:
BATTING AVERAGE Single-Season: .4000. Yup. Dead-even. 29-year-old Stanford Mann was 232 for 580 in 2069.HITS Single-Season: 240. Tom Hopkins did it twice, at age 28 and age 30. Speaking of college players, he was drafted in June 2045 as a 22-year-old. He started out in Low-A ball, was promoted to A before 2045 was over. He spent most of 2046 in AA, but was promoted to AAA by the end of that year. HE started at 2047 as a 24-year-old in AAA, but was an NABA starter at age 24 by midseason, and collected 335 ABs that year.HOME RUNS Single-Season: 61. Two players reached the magical 60. Thom Kendrick hit 61 at age 27 in 2017. Juan Arteaga had 60 at age 27 in 2040. Arteaga is another college player who made it to the bigs quickly. He was drafted at age 21 in 2034, played thre rest of that season in A ball, half a season in AAA, and by midseason at age 22, he was a full-time starter in the NABA. (He had 322 ABs that year with a respectable .787 OPS).STOLEN BASES Single-Season: 107. Hector Villa had 107 at age 30. Looking at his numbers makes me believe that 120 or 130 may well be possible. His OBP that year was only .337. I would suspect that a player could be generated with a better batting eye and similar speed. Rickey might not be as safe as I'd originally thought. ;)EARNED RUN AVERAGE Single-Season: 1.461. 26-year-old Julio Negron went 19-6 with a 1.46 ERA in 2057 to set the all-time mark.STRIKEOUTS Single-Season: 347. 26-year-old Gonzalo Costa mowed down 347 NABA hitters in 249IP in 2049. 300 Ks in a single season was achieved 26 times.WINS Single-Season: 26. It was done four times, at ages 22, 26, 24, and 31.SAVES Single-Season: 58. Nick Lewis set this all-time mark at age 29. 16 guys had 50 or more. |
Just had this guy win the Triple Crown in my MLB quickstart fictional league.. NOT THE NABA
24yrs old - 0.340 - 73 hr - 202 rbi - 0.731 slug * Well, this is only year #4 for this universe.. so I'll give it some time and check stats later on as I build up history. |
Is there any way to post the quick start with it expanded out to 32 teams? I would be most interested in that. You would be a god!
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*bump* Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? |
I don't think anyone knows. Try re-downloading, maybe?
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I grabbed it last night and it worked for me, no problems.
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Ben, is it OK to use these initial players, or have you found that they are much better than the players generated later in the game? I'm running a test sim with this league but I deleted the league history and had a redraft starting in 2001. I thought I remembered reading something over at the OOTP boards that concerned you about the first players, and you recommended deleting the first 25 years of history or something like that. Is that under control now?
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But point being, the league is "cleansed," shall we say, so there should be no fluctations beyond that which you'd normally see with a league that uses the same settings for 100 seasons. |
Ah, OK. That's great. Maybe I'll restart my test sim then so I can give a report and it'll be apples-to-apples with the existing records in place. I'm not used to running with so many minor leagues, so the test sim is taking FOREVER on my 4 year old laptop.
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Ah yeah, that's what I need to do - disable facegen! I couldn't believe how much difference there was in my historical sims between having player pics and not.
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Ah hell, you have facegen off, so I guess the slow-ass sim speed is going to continue.
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I'm averaging 2 simmed seasons every 30 minutes. :( I did look at it long enough to see that some guy named Benton hit 63 HRs for Philadelphia in 2002.
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NO.. SORRY!!! This is with the default MLB quickstart - fictional instead of real players. |
This is very slick Ben. I'm hankering to pick up a baseball game and have been debating whether to get Baseball Mogul or OOTP.
My hesitation with OOTP has always been the amount of work to get a league set up the way I want to play it, but with this, I may even be able to download and start playing the same night. Great work. |
Uni sampling added to second post in thread.
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OK. One history completed yesterday. I had to restart the other early this morning, and it's nearly complete now. Some team histories aren't up yet. They should be finished by noon Eastern or so.
ACTIVE NABA LEAGUE WITH 2 EXPANSION TEAMS, FULL FACEGEN, 1976-2006 TEST NABA LEAGUE, NO FACEGEN, 2088-2177 The first league above is great for getting the feel of the league, teams, uniforms, and the current stars if you choose to keep the existing players and history. The second is best for long-term stats checking. |
I really love the HR leader board of the 90-season league:
Oh, and KSyrup, I suspect you'll like this guy: http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/...ayer_2085.html He pretty much gives the finger to that 1.75 aging modifier, huh? ;) |
Thanks, I'll take a look through this when I get a chance. My sim is going so extraordinarily slow, that I think I'll stop in 2055 (where I am now). It took from 2pm yesterday until 6am today to sim from 2001 to 2055! I need new computers.
When I checked the stats last night around 2035, I had a guy who lead the majors in both career hits and HRs, and I think he was the guy who played until he was around 44 or so at a high level. |
So this is pretty cool, although probably just a coincidence...the guy I mentioned above who lead the NABA in my sim in both HRs and Hits played until he was 44. In his last year, he hit .310 with 16 HRs in 350 ABs between 2 teams. So I thought, age aside, perhaps he shouldn't have retired. And then I looked at his transactions - at the deadline he was traded from the last-place Georgia team to the 1st place OK City team, where he won the World Series (he hit .341 for OKC after the trade). Then he retired. Maybe a coincidence, but nice to see that the trade system worked pretty well and it looks like, at his age, he decided to retire after getting a ring, even though he probably could have continued playing. Not sure the game factors in that kind of thing in determining whether to retire, though. Does it?
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Oh, and Lake ended up with 749 HRs and like Hank Aaron, his career high was 47.
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Man, I'm looking at a guy right now with some insane numbers and incredibly bad luck, injury-wise. He's like Rich Harden, Mark Prior, and Kerry Wood combined.
2049: 6-3, 2.41 ERA, 74.2 IP, 57 HA, 40 BB, 114 K (rookie year, age 20) 2050: 24-5, 1.82 ERA, 232 IP, 164 HA, 101 BB, 323 K September, 2050 - herniated disc, out 12 months 2051: 1-0, .59 ERA, 15.1 IP, 10 HA, 1 BB, 18 K 2052: 16-5, 2.09 ERA, 249.1 IP, 162 HA, 91 BB, 323 K 2053: 4-1, .70 ERA, 38.1 IP, 21 HA, 14 BB, 54 K May, 2053 - back spasms, out 7 months 2054: 14-7, 2.58 ERA, 220 IP, 172 HA, 89 BB, 299 K September, 2054 - fractured elbow, out 11 months That's where I stopped simming. I'm going to have to sim ahead just to see how this ends. His ratings were outrageous at one point - 26/21/11 - and now are at 18/14/12. Good stuff. |
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Now I'm kinda interested whether championships factor into retirement decisions, because I just ran across a guy who went 17-2 with a sub-3 ERA at age 38, won the WS with that team, then retired.
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