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Playoff Clutch - Great Lakes League
After an extended absence, I'm trying something a little different here...
So, we all love the playoffs, right? Well, I've decided to take that idea and play the manager in that situation only. In my newly created Great Lakes League, a 20 team baseball league that is centred around the Great Lakes area, I will run each team as a CPU-controlled for the regular season - and when the playoff picture is formed, I will pick a team and try and win the series with them. After all, they all say the real manager comes out in the playoffs. The league is broken down into two Leagues... a Southeast league and a Northwest league.
Each of these leagues have two divisions, with 5 teams in each. The breakdown follows as such:
Southeast League
Ontario Division
Hamilton
Kingston
Kitchener
London
Toronto
Erie Division
Buffalo
Cleveland
Erie
Rochester
Toledo
Northwest League
Huron Division
Battle Creek
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Windsor
Superior & Michigan Division
Chicago
Duluth
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Winnipeg
The league has a 110 game schedule, with a two-round playoff structure of 7 games each. There's a full minor leagues and salaries and rosters are all enabled - a salary cap of 60 million is in place, in an attempt to make it as close to realistic as the size of the cities the teams are located in.
Although I'll be focusing on the playoffs, I'm hoping that the writing will give a good general impression of the entire league. With any luck, a dynasty will emerge and make for interesting stories.
Hope you read and enjoy - this is an idea I've been considering for a long while and thought it would be a good way to get back into the forums after Mark Jazzington's career story ended (cause my computer was formatted unknowingly and I lost a full season of the league).
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