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The Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance (PEBA)

HTML Reports URL: Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance Home
News Archive: PEBA/LRS News Archive
Forums: PEBA League Forum
IOLD: PEBA IOLD Profile
Commissioner: Corsairs @ OOTP forums / PEBA Commissioner @ PEBA forums
OOTP Version: 10.4.31
Format: Fictional
League Structure: 24 human teams (each with 4 minor league affiliates) plus 2 feeders. Extended universe includes the full LRS system plus 4 independent AI leagues.
Export Deadlines: Wednesday @ 8 PM ET / Sunday @ noon ET
Days Per Sim: 7
First Season: 2007
Current Season: 2011
Special League Features:

• The league Commissioner does not own a team to ensure impartiality.
• Enjoy one of the most creative and prolific group of story writers in the OOTP online world. With entertaining new articles being published all the time, you'll never lack for reading material!
• Participate in one of the most active online communities around. There's always a conversation happening!
• Do you like to trade? You've found your nirvana! Be a part of a bustling, dynamic trade environment. If you can't swing a trade here, you can't swing a trade anywhere!
• Coaching and Scouting are ON. Make personnel decisions that matter and prepare for the "fog of war" when judging prospects!
• Amateur Draft and Winter Meetings are conducted LIVE via the PEBA chat room. These have become greatly anticipated events on the league calendar.
• All-Star and Neo-Tokyo Cup Championship Series games are broadcast LIVE via Yugma. Watch the most important games of the season unfold in front of you!
• The PEBA and the LRS are beta testing homes of StatsLab, the outstanding OOTP online utility suite. League members will have access to new StatsLab features even before they're made public!
• A Contribution Points reward system allows owners to improve and customize their teams through writing articles and posting in our forums.
• Owners can impact the course of the league by voting on "floater" proposals during the offseason.
• Interaction with human-run LRS teams via the posting system; outbid the competition for the services of premiere Japanese players!

Currently Available Teams: None at this time

Don't forget to check for LRS openings

Join the PEBA today!

The PEBA is a 24-team fictional league currently entering its third year of existence and fifth season of play with franchises mostly located in the continental US. We have been fortunate to attract a quality group of friendly, competitive, active owners. We're always interested in getting to know more like-minded individuals with an interest in joining in our fun and would love to hear from you.

The PEBA looks for the kind of person who views an online league as an opportunity not just to compete but to socialize and share with a group of passionate baseball nuts. If you enjoy being active in forums, you're likely a great fit. The PEBA also places an emphasis on writing contributions. The amazing stories our creative owners come up with really help bring our fictional players to life! You don't have to be Shakespeare, but if you like exercising your brain as part of your online baseball experience then you've found the right league.

Creating an immersive and highly entertaining fictional baseball environment is the primary goal of the PEBA. We welcome any owner who would enjoy contributing to that goal regardless of their experience level. If you're an enthusiastic OOTP newbie or a seasoned vet looking for a friendly new group of people to compete against, the PEBA may be the perfect landing spot for you!

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Will you be the one to lead the Badgers past the mighty Sandgnats?

It seems like the Badgers have always been playing bridesmaid to Crystal Lake's bride. Despite a superlative 361-287 all-time franchise record, the Badgers have only been to the playoffs once (the 100-win '07 club made it in as a wild card). Try as they might, they just haven't quite been able to dethrone the Sandgnats as kings of the Great Lakes division. Now their initial window may be closing. Wins have been harder and harder to come by after that 100-win '07 season, and the team posted their first losing record (80-82) last year. The question now: Take another shot at the Gnats with what's on hand or blow the team up and start building for the future?

The decision is made tougher by presence of some potent weapons. Slugging 1B John Collins deservedly made his first All-Star appearance last year, a season in which he clubbed 34 HR and knocked in 104 RBI. Steady producer Brett Hurst would see his value increase enormously if trusted to play 2B, something the club waffled on last year for the first time. 3B Henry O'Halloran had a breakout season power-wise last year; now if only he can hit above .240! Maybe the greatest excitement for Badgers fans in '10 was generated when star prospect Joel Swedlove was called up mid-season. Sadly, his big league debut didn't live up to the hype, but he remains a bright hope for the future. Much further away from contributing but still highly promising are 1B River Adkins and Malaysian-born LF Ming-feng Sima.

Starting pitching has always been Kalamazoo's biggest strength. The staff isn't quite as strong as in previous years but still boasts an ace in 25-year-old Er Hang and a bona fide #2 man in José Chávez. Pat Paige and Geoff James both took steps backwards last year, although Paige still has a potentially dominating 94 MPH heater. The Badgers' front four remain a potent force.

With a payroll that's $20M below the team's budget, there's room to manuever. So what will it be? Use that space to make a splash in the free agent market, or sell off some of these assets in preparation for a new run in 2011? We'd love for you to make that decision. All you need to do is fill out this form to get the ball rolling. Join up today, create your own persona and lead the Badgers on to the glory they so richly deserve!

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The Badgers have their new owner. I'd like to thank everyone who sent in an application, and I'd also like to point out that the League of the Rising Sun is still looking for an owner for the Niihama-shi Ghosts. This is another route to PEBA baseball, albeit one that winds through the Far East. Read up about the Ghosts in the thread linked above, then head over to the PEBA homepage to Join the LRS!