OOTP 9 quickstart- minor league thread

[Raidergoo]

One of the minor leagues for the OOTP 9 quickstart will be the Golden Horseshoe League, based in Ontario, Canada.

Cities:

Ajax
Brampton
Brantford
Guelph
Hamilton
Keswick
Kitchener
Mississauga
Oshawa
Peterborough
Pickering
St. Catharines
Thornhill
Vaughan
Uxbridge
Welland

I need a clever logo for each team, and uniforms. Think 1950's-60's, and be simple with the uniforms. City name in a script would be great (like the Dodgers are).

No team names or colors have been selected yet. Try to use the city name. If you want to be inventive, come up with your own.

If someone already comes up with a team uniform, you can still offer your own up. We'll hash out which one to select.

[justafan]

Maybe this for the league logo...



and maybe something simple for the team logos...



if you like 'em, I'll do the rest

[Raidergoo]

The team logos are on target, and excellent!

I do not care for the league logo much. Could you give it another shot? Maybe more red, and less blue? Hmm, I'll have to research the Canadian flag from that era.

How do other people like the league logo?

[Ambermonk]

Loved the team logos (with the baseball concept), but didn't like the league logo. Hard to say why. I agree that it could use more red, but I also didn't like the black - too much like a pen & ink drawing.

[Ambermonk]

The horseshoe logo reminds me of a true World War II story that I read. A German U-Boat with a horseshoe logo, similar to the one above, was damaged & eventually sunk by the Allies. Most of the crew was rescued, and the logo of the sinking ship was also a horseshoe - but with the ends facing up instead of down.

The sinking ship captain commented to the sub skipper that the sub's horseshoe was upside down and all the luck had run out!

[BoofBonser26]

I must be alone here, but I really like the league logo.

[knuckler]

Originally Posted by BoofBonser26

I must be alone here, but I really like the league logo.

No, I actually like it, too. The only thing I would do is simplify the horseshoe itself to have less detail.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by knuckler

No, I actually like it, too. The only thing I would do is simplify the horseshoe itself to have less detail.

Hmm. Not a bad concept.

Justafan, want to try that out?

[No Pepper]

While it is good to keep the team logos simple, would it not be beneficial to have the logos distinct from one another? On screens (well mine anyway) like the schedule, these may not be readily identified from one to the next, as in, if you are colorblind, could you tell Brampton and Brantford apart, if you also couldn't read the text very well? The Pittsburgh Pirates "P" is quite distinct from the Philadelphia Phillies "P" is my point.

I can offer a go on the uniforms, if just for a style check.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by No Pepper

While it is good to keep the team logos simple, would it not be beneficial to have the logos distinct from one another? On screens (well mine anyway) like the schedule, these may not be readily identified from one to the next, as in, if you are colorblind, could you tell Brampton and Brantford apart, if you also couldn't read the text very well? The Pittsburgh Pirates "P" is quite distinct from the Philadelphia Phillies "P" is my point.

I can offer a go on the uniforms, if just for a style check.

No Pepper,

That might be a good idea for the major league clubs, but for the minor league teams, it does not really matter. They just need to get done. If you had the time, give it a shot and try to do something better, with a different font or look for each. If you can come up with some simple unis, that would be great. They don't have to be complicated, just neat looking.

The real effort will be on the major league stuff, and that should kick off Friday.

[justafan]

OK fixed up the league logo. Better?

I will mess with the team logos more and see if I can come up with something better.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by justafan

OK fixed up the league logo. Better?

I will mess with the team logos more and see if I can come up with something better.

I think that the new one is a winner.

[justafan]

OK, how about these...

[Raidergoo]

Each one is solid. The Oshawa one is the best, in my opinion.

[justafan]

No Pepper, if you are going to do the uni's, it may help to know the fonts and colors I used.

Team: font - color 1 - color 2

Apex: Abbess - bf0000 - 8081ff
Brampton: TGIFriday - 00bf02 - fffc00
Brantford: QuillPerpendicular - 00bfbf - ff8200
Guelph: Allstar - 000140 - 999999
Hamilton: Bosox - 804100 - 00bf02
Keswick: Ballpark - bf6200 - fffe80
Kitchener: Belshaw - 004001 - 80ff81
Mississauga: BoisterBlack - 000140 - 8081ff
Oshawa: MLB Tuscan - ff8200 - ffc180
Peterborough: Brussels - 000000 - 80ffff
Pickering: ChocolateBox - 004040 - ffc180
St. Catharines: Cimbrian - 8081ff - fffc00
Thornhill: Deneane - 808080 - 80ffff
Uxbridge: Penhurst - bf0000 - ffffff
Vaughan: Erasmus - 000180 - fffe80
Welland: Maranallo - 40003f - 8081ff

If you think anything needs changing on the logos, lemme know.

[ootp3to6]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

One of the minor leagues for the OOTP 9 quickstart will be the Golden Horseshoe League, based in Ontario, Canada.

Cities:

Ajax
Brampton
Brantford
Guelph
Hamilton
Keswick
Kitchener
Mississauga
Oshawa
Peterborough
Pickering
St. Catharines
Thornhill
Vaughan
Uxbridge
Welland

I need a clever logo for each team, and uniforms. Think 1950's-60's, and be simple with the uniforms. City name in a script would be great (like the Dodgers are).

No team names or colors have been selected yet. Try to use the city name. If you want to be inventive, come up with your own.

If someone already comes up with a team uniform, you can still offer your own up. We'll hash out which one to select.

I looking forward to this Canadian minor league. I am afraid I cannot be of any assistance in creating logos,etc. The logs that have been created look great and I am thinking that I will use this Canadian minor league setup as my first OOTP 9 quickstart league. Great work. bring on OOTP9.
To everyone who is working on OOTP 9, thanks for all your tremendous work.

[No Pepper]

Originally Posted by justafan

No Pepper, if you are going to do the uni's, it may help to know the fonts and colors I used.

Argh, I went to bed early last night and didn't see your post before I did jerseys up to Keswick, with, you guessed it, different colors! I'll be home sick today so I'll change up the colors with yours and have these done, hopefully. Thanks for the color picks, logos look great!

[zukes]

London Ontario has a rich tradition of baseball. It has the longest continually used ballpark in the world Labatt Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Labatt Park (yes named after beer)> Add them.

Otherwise, nice job.

[Raidergoo]

Google Maps

Here is a map of the teams.

[ricko]

zukes is right about London baseball, but it would be a stretch to call London part of the Golden Horseshoe.

Then again, my Hamilton (Ontario) Redbirds used to belong to the New York Penn League...