Alright, so I figured "enough screwing around. This time I'm going to do it right."
The basic idea is this: a Time Warp/PBRL-type league of fictional players in a historical setting.
Like those aforementioned classics and also my own Completely Fictional History of Baseball, readers will be able to contribute players, but I'll only be taking names and possibly positions with "general" notes on ability that may (or may not) be able to be incorporated.
Unlike TWB and PBRL, The Baseball Chronicle will begin in 1871. Here's where the fun part comes in. Because I've had a ton of troubles getting this to work to my satisfaction in OOTP 8, I'm going to use 6.5 even though I know I've got some serious workarounds in front of me to get the leagues straight.
I've done major testing and re-run seasons over and over again. I've hand-edited the Catobase to remove the divisions I have to use when a league has over 10 teams (as the NA did in 1872).
I've run tests to make sure the methodology I dreamt up to get the UA and PL to work correctly (as well as going from the single league NL to a two league NL/AA setup - and then back to single league NL - then to two league NL/AL works). Sound complicated? It is. But I want to get to 1901 with all the players having stats, full Catobase and then take this thing into an online league.
Here's the website:
The Baseball Chronicle
Signups are welcome. Originally I was not going to take team requests, but have changed my mind. No one's going to get their hands on these teams for another 20 seasons or so anyway, therefore it doesn't really matter - you could be taking a cellar dwellar just as easily as a defending champion.
I will create a second thread for player creation as well. With a couple seasons already played, I probably won't introduce reader-created players til 1876.
We'll likely go "live" for the 1892 season, so the first twelve signups will get a nine-season headstart on the last four.
EDIT: We are now live as an online league and are using OOTP 9. There just aren't enough 6.5 users around any more....