motnahp
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This association uses only those players who appeared in All-Star games between 1969 and 2008. After about a week of setup and testing, it's ready to roll. Players who appeared in more than one All-Star game during that period were imported in the year of their first appearance (1969 or later). The association has twenty teams, ten AL and ten NL. There ended up being over 400 players in each league. AL teams ended up with 40 or 41 players and NL teams ended up with 42 or 43 players. All players were assigned randomly, with a balance at each position ensured. Thanks to retrosheet.org for the All-Star game boxscores. Players were assigned to an AL team if their first All-Star appearance (after 1969) was for an AL squad; same thing for NL. For the assn cities, I referenced wikipedia and selected twenty cities with just over 100,000 population each. The most fun part of the setup was choosing the nicknames. Here they are: AL North Berkeley (CA) Protesters (their logo is a peace sign) Billings (MT) Yellowstones (geyser logo) Daly City (CA) Quakers (no not that kind - the logo is a sidewalk with a fault line in it) Fairfield (CA)Jellybeans (corporate HQ for Jelly Bellies, I learned) Richmond (CA) Ohlones (not very PC here - Ohlones are American Indians) AL South Burbank (CA) Entertainers (logo is a star, but NOT from the Hollywood Walk of Fame) Norwalk (CA) Cerritos (apparently a cerrito is a small hill......yawn) Pueblo (CO) Racers (Nat'l Street Rod Assn reference) Ventura (CA) Chiles (HQ for Ortega, although Ventura Highways would've been cool) West Jordan (UT) Miners (I'd never heard of this place and I'm good with geography!) NL North Cambridge (MA) Puritans (logo is an ugly black top hat sort of thing) Erie (PA) Navigators (they have a state park with a lighthouse......yawn) Green Bay (WI) Puants (French for smelly, as in smelly green water.....look up the city history!) Lowell (MA) Moxies (first mass-produced soft drink was a Moxie; endorsed by Teddy Ballgame) Portsmouth (VA) Colonials (logo is a tall sailing ship.......forehead bangs into keyboard) NL South High Point (NC) Coltranes (home of saxophonist John Coltrane...name sounded cool!) Midland (TX) Derricks (Laura Bush came from here, but the logo is an oil well) Palm Bay (FL) Bombardiers (um.....a branch of the Bombardier Recreation Corp is here...yawn and rub eyes) Pompano Beach (FL) Pompanos (it's a fish, if you care) Wichita Falls (TX) Cyclones (area known for killer tornadoes, stadium is Twister Field) In case you're wondering (if you are, you're a "twisted" soul), Robin Ventura did NOT get asigned to the Ventura Chiles. Mike Lowell, however, DID get randomly assigned to the Lowell Moxies! Assn Parameters: DH in AL only No finances or AI trading (multiplayer with all teams under human control) Injuries ON (gotta find a way to get more players involved) Five-man rotations Modern Closer OFF (I wanna see some pitchers pitch 1-0 & 2-0 shutouts) I grabbed some fictional stadium dimensions and paintings, then tinkered with a few, as some teams had only one left-handed pitcher, no right-handed power, etc. I tried to make the park fit the roster. I imported a 20-team sked from the OOTP site. This sked has 80 games in-division, 70 games in league, opposite division, and 12 interleague.......Here we go.......If Berkeley and Cambridge somehow end up winning their leagues, I will know my computer has been hacked by super geeks!
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