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enigk · 09-22-2004, 03:58 PM

BACKGROUND

The year is 3004. Major League Baseball has not existed since the late 2600's when Bud Selig VII was elected commissioner and subsequently ran the league into oblivion. A groundswell of support and nostalgia sweeps the nation after a recently discovered skeleton thought by most scientists to be alien in origin turns out to be that of Otis Nixon. So, a new league is formed. 26 cities pledge their support and are awarded teams.

Meanwhile, at the World Religion Caucus in Rome, what had started as a good-natured game of Scattergories leads to an extremely heated debate regarding which religion is the one, 'true' religion or, at the very least, the closest to it. So, the representatives of the 26 religions at the caucus decide that the only possible way to determine which religion is best is to summon up the deities and gods of their faiths and have them play baseball...

So, through meditation, prayer, rituals, etc. 26 higher beings are conjured into existence and enter the newly-formed league in America...to settle things once and for all.

SETUP

I came up with the above lame premise, but the meat and potatos is that I have created players within a new fictional league in OOTP6 - one for each of 26 religions. Their positions were random based off of whatever position the newly created character happened to be assigned to. (None of the created players will be pitchers - just batters). I then maxed all of their attributes (Batting Ratings and Batting Talent Ratings all set to 150, all positions' ranges and fielding %'s set to 100, etc). They are all Durable in Injury Rating, Extrememly Loyal to their team, don't need a winner, are Great Leaders, are Great in the clutch and goodly consistent. They are all identical in every single way. All parks are identical to maintain additional consistency. Financials are turned on.

The plan is to sim out 25 years and see which deity fares the best amongst his/her/its peers.

NOTES
I have been completely impartial in the setup and will continue to be. I am merely providing this as a humorous read for anyone out there who may be even remotely interested. You should not view this as a support or as a belittling of any particular religion or religion as a whole. (basically - I'm not trying to prove anything or praise any particular religion, I just think it's a funny scenario...)

PLAYERS
Below I have listed the participating religions as well as their representative in the league.

Aboriginal: Altjira
Aztec: Ometeotl
Babylonian: Apsu
Buddhist: Siddhartha Guatama
Christian: Jesus Christ
Confucianism: Confucius
Egyptian: Ra
Greek: Zeus
Hindu: Vishnu
Incan: Viracocha
Inuit: Tekkeitsertok
Irish (Celtic): Anu
Islam: Mohammed
Judaism: Abraham
Mayan: Hunab Ku
Norse: Odin
Pueblo Indians: Awonawilona
Pygmy: Khonvoum
Roman: Jupiter
Satanists: Satan
Scientology: A Thetan
Sikhism: Guru Nahak
Sumerian: Enlil
Taoism: Lao-tzu
Voodoo: Bondje
Zulu: uKqili

The draft will be held shortly - I will post the results as well as subsequent updates as frequently as I can.

09-22-2004, 03:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
enigk Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 116 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Deity Competition League BACKGROUND The year is 3004. Major League Baseball has not existed since the late 2600's when Bud Selig VII was elected commissioner and subsequently ran the league into oblivion. A groundswell of support and nostalgia sweeps the nation after a recently discovered skeleton thought by most scientists to be alien in origin turns out to be that of Otis Nixon. So, a new league is formed. 26 cities pledge their support and are awarded teams. Meanwhile, at the World Religion Caucus in Rome, what had started as a good-natured game of Scattergories leads to an extremely heated debate regarding which religion is the one, 'true' religion or, at the very least, the closest to it. So, the representatives of the 26 religions at the caucus decide that the only possible way to determine which religion is best is to summon up the deities and gods of their faiths and have them play baseball... So, through meditation, prayer, rituals, etc. 26 higher beings are conjured into existence and enter the newly-formed league in America...to settle things once and for all. SETUP I came up with the above lame premise, but the meat and potatos is that I have created players within a new fictional league in OOTP6 - one for each of 26 religions. Their positions were random based off of whatever position the newly created character happened to be assigned to. (None of the created players will be pitchers - just batters). I then maxed all of their attributes (Batting Ratings and Batting Talent Ratings all set to 150, all positions' ranges and fielding %'s set to 100, etc). They are all Durable in Injury Rating, Extrememly Loyal to their team, don't need a winner, are Great Leaders, are Great in the clutch and goodly consistent. They are all identical in every single way. All parks are identical to maintain additional consistency. Financials are turned on. The plan is to sim out 25 years and see which deity fares the best amongst his/her/its peers. NOTES I have been completely impartial in the setup and will continue to be. I am merely providing this as a humorous read for anyone out there who may be even remotely interested. You should not view this as a support or as a belittling of any particular religion or religion as a whole. (basically - I'm not trying to prove anything or praise any particular religion, I just think it's a funny scenario...) PLAYERS Below I have listed the participating religions as well as their representative in the league. Aboriginal: Altjira Aztec: Ometeotl Babylonian: Apsu Buddhist: Siddhartha Guatama Christian: Jesus Christ Confucianism: Confucius Egyptian: Ra Greek: Zeus Hindu: Vishnu Incan: Viracocha Inuit: Tekkeitsertok Irish (Celtic): Anu Islam: Mohammed Judaism: Abraham Mayan: Hunab Ku Norse: Odin Pueblo Indians: Awonawilona Pygmy: Khonvoum Roman: Jupiter Satanists: Satan Scientology: A Thetan Sikhism: Guru Nahak Sumerian: Enlil Taoism: Lao-tzu Voodoo: Bondje Zulu: uKqili The draft will be held shortly - I will post the results as well as subsequent updates as frequently as I can.