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Be a part of baseball in Japan... PEBA style!

Now in our second year of baseball, the PEBA has been fortunate enough to cultivate a quality core of owners for its 24 franchises. With relative stability within the ranks and a growing waiting list of interested applicants, the time has come to move towards a controlled expansion of our membership. While the PEBA itself will remain a 24-team league, we are preparing to convert one of our AI-controlled international leagues into a human league.

The League of the Rising Sun is our 12-team Japanese league. Like the PEBA, the LRS is 3 years into its history. We would like to bring in 12 quality owners to man each LRS team and begin building their own histories. This will not be a promotion/relegation setup. The LRS will serve as a bridge to PEBA ownership, though. When a PEBA vacancy arises, we will look to the LRS ranks rather than advertise here on the forums. A scoring system that will factor in both LRS success as well as league participation will determine who gets promoted (the system will be spelled out to all new owners so that there’s no mystery to the process).

This is a unique opportunity for incoming owners: a chance to shape the development of an established league. While the setup and rules of the PEBA are codified and developed at this point, the LRS is virgin territory. There’s nothing saying that things must work as they do in the PEBA. In fact both leagues are already set up quite differently. Inaugural LRS owners will be solicited for suggestions on creating a setup for the league that sets it apart from the PEBA. There is a detailed plan in place and a very clear vision of how the league as a whole should develop, and certain design choices will remain non-negotiable parts of this expansion. At the same time there’s quite a lot on the table to discuss and I believe incoming owners will enjoy feeling like they can have an influence on the league they’re participating in. Of course all inaugural LRS owners will have the option of naming/relocating their new franchise as well as overseeing the creation of custom team art.

PLEASE NOTE: The PEBA is a participation league. It's our belief that involved owners make for an involving experience! That philosophy carries both privilege and responsibility. Privilege in that owners can count on being heard. In the PEBA your opinions matter and your voice carries weight. Responsibility in that owners are expected to contribute to the betterment of the league. Whether it's writing articles, maintaining a team blog, recording a podcast (coming soon!), creating art assets, providing technical know-how or simply being active members of our forums, every contribution makes our league that much stronger. It's one thing to silently sim through the seasons, quite another to cultivate an immersive fiction and an inviting social atmosphere. We aim for the latter goal.

If you share our passion for a quality fictional league with creative, participatory owners and an emphasis on the social side of things, you've just found your landing spot. Get in touch with me right away and get in on the ground floor of the PEBA's Far East expansion!