http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/blogs/afino/ Out of the Park Developments is the creator of the baseball management simulation Out of the Park Baseball for PC and Mac and the PC boxing game Title Bout Championship Boxing. en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:26:38 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/blogs/afino/ http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/blogs/afino/20-national-hockey-league-baseball.html Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:36:13 GMT Hey everyone!

I've tried writing in the Dynasty thread, but the league I did that in turned out to be uninteresting and in the end, not what I was looking for. Also, I do a significant amount of writing for the GUBA (my online league), so writing for my solo league too seemed like a little overkill.

However, this awesome new blog utility may make things a little easier, because I do like sharing my solo league with people because of its unique setup.

As most of you may know, I'm a hockey fan as well as a baseball fan. So what I did was set up a universe similar to the world of hockey. Not an exact replica, as I had to take some liberties here and there and limited the amount of teams in the league, but close enough to please my needs :) Not only did I set up the real life leagues, but I also have a custom names and nations set to accurately reflect the world's hockey population.

Currently, I only have North American-based leagues, as adding in the KHL and other European leagues turned out to be too much of an issue.

NHL - 20 team league
American League
Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
Detroit Red Wings
New York Rangers
Washington Capitals
St. Louis Blues - my team
Pittsburgh Penguins
Philadelphia Flyers
Chicago Blackhawks
New Jersey Devils

Canadian League (current and past Canadian teams, plus one extra ;))
Ottawa Senators
Toronto Maple Leafs
Montreal Canadiens
Vancouver Canucks
Edmonton Oilers
Calgary Flames
Winnipeg Jets
Quebec Nordiques
Hamilton Tigers
Hartford Whalers

American Hockey League (AAA) - again, trimmed to 20 teams, real life affiliations where possible.
ECHL (AA) - same idea as AAA
Single A - generically filled
Rookie - generically filled

High School Feeder - In its entirety, the Canadian Hockey League. All three leagues. Ages 14-17.

College Feeder - Generally follows U.S. College Hockey. I took the most significant conferences in America and took 5-7 teams from each one. I only did this because I didn't want too MANY feeder players to overpopulate the draft and I didn't want to trim the HS Feeder.

League Settings
- 94 game schedule
- No interleague play
- Offensive production slightly below Major League averages - league ERA in the 4.20 range and a .260-.265 average.
- Draft pick trading on
- Compensation on
- Free Agency and finances on - finances dialed down to 1950's levels (I started in 1950)
- No automatic adjustment of league modifiers or financial data - I will do them manually if I feel like it.
- Hidden players on
- Dev and Aging modifiers at .600 all the way around
- Player Talent Randomness at 50
- Holy crap, did I forget anything?


Anyways, this is the intro post. I will go over the general history so far (I am currently in 1958 - season 9) and an overview of each team as it stands today in a future post :) ]]> Afino http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/blogs/afino/20-national-hockey-league-baseball.html