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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
How historical are you constructing this league? Does it contain the historical 16 MLB cities, or is it a fictionalized mix of cities?
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It's a fictional league actually. Based in Canada, the teams are location in every province except for New Brunswick and PEI. The team locations are as follows
Eastern: St. Johns, Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, Guelph, London
Western: Thunder Bay(called Fort William at the time), Winnipeg (2), Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver (2)
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
As to train travel times, a New York to Chicago train run took around 16½ hours in 1937; in 1930, a Chicago to Los Angeles train trip took 63 hours, later reduced to 58 hours.
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Hmm ok so in my context:
Halifax to Toronto = roughly 18 hours
Thunder Bay = 60 hours or 2.5 days non-stop
OK i'm going to have to sacrifice some historical accuracy.
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
The interleague schedule format that was proposed for the majors several times would have seen 4 games played against each of the teams in the other league, or 32 games in all. Games against league rivals were to be played 18 times each, or 126 games in all. Together, however, this made for a 158 game schedule; to keep it at 154 games, it was suggested that a club would play two teams in interleague matches only twice instead of four times. The lower number of contests against certain interleague teams could be rotated over a period of years to keep things even in the long-term.
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Well I could bump it to 162 games, giving eight games (four home, four away) agaisnt each interleague team, and having the eighteen games agaisnt their division. However with the travel time that I mentioned, i wonder if it would extend right into November with playoffs?