Longest Running OOTP leagues?

[rglass95]

The Hickory Baseball League had its 2001 Opening Day on July 8, 2001, and will be simming the 2030 playoffs this Sunday.

[jdw]

TWB (Time Warp Baseball)
Orginal Big Thread
Current Boards
Launched Solo: 08-22-2003
Launched Online Live: September 2004
Started with version : ?
Current version : OOTP 6.5
Seasons Solo: 1901-46
Seasons Live: 1947-89 (as of 04/01/09)

Two sets of commish. Lots of nice fighting on the boards over the years... even back when it was on these boards. Still around.


John

[genghisdunn]

The RLPA (Replacement Level Players Association) started in early 2004. We're coming up on our 25th season. In addition, we spawned a spinoff league back in 2006 - the Historical Baseball League - that has simmed another 11 seasons.

[cheddah]

Originally Posted by genghisdunn

The RLPA (Replacement Level Players Association) started in early 2004. We're coming up on our 25th season. In addition, we spawned a spinoff league back in 2006 - the Historical Baseball League - that has simmed another 11 seasons.

While true, I think what probably tells the real story of the RLPA is that the current forum (again, remembering the first one was destroyed in a fire) has 218,101 posts, including 18,388 in the Completed Trades forum alone.

[chrisj]

Originally Posted by kq76

The Canadian Baseball League, which was founded in April 2002 real time, is currently in its 28th season. I honestly don't know how chrisj does it. He founded it almost 7 years ago and has been commishing it ever since. Seems to me even if some leagues last several years, the commish usually burns out a few years into it. Not Chris, though, not yet and not any time soon I don't think.

Originally Posted by Long_Long_Name

Running a league since 2002 and in my 27th season myself, I can say that it gets more fun as time passes. I can spend hours looking at my history, and discussing league material with fellow league members. We opened our HOF last season, and that was a lot of fun. I don't really see it as hard work, I see it as a hobby, and perhaps that's why it's been so much fun. Perhaps it's similar for chrisj.

What L_L_N said is true - it's a lot more fun as time passes and you have the history. I still look back at the league greats like Don Session, Patrick Mather, Pete Trump, etc and think "these players these days don't live up to the guys of old!".

I don't see getting burned out - if anything ever does me in, it will be work. When I started the league in 2002 I was in university and had all the time in the world to run it. Not so much anymore.

[eMLBCommish]

Just because this thread keeps living, an update on eMLB:

We're entering our 19th season, and our last one before upgrading to OOTPX.

eMLB was founded on July 19, 2000....yes, we're turning 9 years old in a couple weeks! And I still have 7 of my original GMs!

I still love doing it to this day. My waiting list is 18 deep...so big I decided, with unanimous support to allow the Nippon League in my file to occupy 12 new owners.

We've also begun being followed on Twitter. Examples of people to follow are here.

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