Most championships won with a team

[falkonisback]

In my fictional league, I'm in the 1996 season and I've won the last 6 championships and 8 of the last 9. In 95 years, my teams has won the most championships overall with 22. What's the most you guys have won?

[conception]

I've got a fictional league I set up where I have won the league more than half of the seasons in its almost 20 year existence. Unfortunately the initial league setup made acquiring talent very easy, and I built up a farm system that keeps on producing enormous talent. I want more of a challenge but since I went so into detail with this league and team that I can't abandon it now.

[tcblcommish]

I am thinking of abandoning my league because of winning 7 championships in a row.

[Kelric]

I get bored after two or three championships. I doubt I could stick around for half a dozen or more.

[Vezna31]

After a few miserable seasons, I turned my team into an unbeatable dynasty in V6.5 that won 12 in a row or more...can't quite remember. I converted through the new versions and I currently have won 6 in a row. It will change in another year or 2 when my HoF pitcher retires. I don't have anyone to replace him in all of my minor leagues.

[Metsvir2]

I have been the only team to win the title in the franchise. It's only in its third year. I was lucky to draft good young players with the help of my 6-4-5 head scout in the inaugural draft, and everyone i drafted except for 1 player is still in the organization now.

I have never signed an outside free agent in 3 years. So I will win or die with all homegrowns. So all my players will come from drafts, and with that head scout and a good scout with 6 pitching (1-5 scale) i signed the past offseason, i have it in place

[falkonisback]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I get bored after two or three championships. I doubt I could stick around for half a dozen or more.

Well I've been pretty much keeping the same squad together for the last 7 seasons or so and they know how to win. But these players are starting to age and it is almost time to start looking for other talent. I have a few guys in my farm systems that will help me out, but I don't see myself winning another 6 in a row for quite some time. I think I just built a dominant team. I would probably get bored if I would change players every year via free agency and trade and still win the championship every year, but this is not the case. If I didn't have 2 or 3 players, I probably would die out in the playoffs. I'm nowhere near abandoning my league, I love my league!!! Looking forward to another 96 years!

[ctorg]

My experience with OOTP is that once you figure out how to make a team win, it's a cinch to keep them winning. I've had double-digit runs of World Series victories before.

[elmwood44]

Of course it's personal preference, but I would never abandon a solo league that I liked just because won too much.
If I am going to put in that much time in making a league (uni's, logos, ballparks, etc.) I am going to find challenges to keep it going.
I think I would move to the worst team in the league and try to build them up or expand and take over a new team.
Of course, like I said, it's up to what you like to do.

[tysok]

Originally Posted by ctorg

My experience with OOTP is that once you figure out how to make a team win, it's a cinch to keep them winning. I've had double-digit runs of World Series victories before.

I just suck then.
I have no problem keeping them winning, but the post season is more of a crap shoot. I have 35 years of history, missed the post season the first year and have 34 straight 100+ win seasons, 34 straight seasons in the top 3 in pitching, 34 straight seasons in the top 3 in hitting, 34 straight division championships...

I have 12 World Series wins, 18 world series appearances, and once had 3 World Series wins in a row. Most appearances in the World Series in a row was 5.

Call it the resurgence of the Kansas City Royals. I started off with an 80 million budget, it's currently at 148 million.

[jm47048]

Originally Posted by falkonisback

In my fictional league, I'm in the 1996 season and I've won the last 6 championships and 8 of the last 9. In 95 years, my teams has won the most championships overall with 22. What's the most you guys have won?

In a 100 or so year league, I won 20, with a stint of 6 in a row. It was fictional though and I let the computer handle the drafting.

[lencombs]

Yankees won 26 in around 75 years leading up to 2000, so your 22 in 95 years is close.

I sim week to week, and play all playoff games so I get about 15 seasons in a year played out between versions then start over. my best was 4 series in 15 years, with a ton of other playoff defeats in those 15 years.

I use a salary cap that keeps my team from becoming an all-star squad though.

[rwd59]

1. After I win it all, I always resign and take over a team with a losing record.

[lencombs]

Originally Posted by rwd59

1. After I win it all, I always resign and take over a team with a losing record.

the basketball coach Larry Brown method. win then move on.

[bucketsndimes]

The best I've done is in a fictional league I took over a team and won 4 in 10 years. I'm not very good at winning.

[ripwalk]

I have a fictional league that has been going 31 years now ..

I had a great stretch where I won 5 out of 7 championships but much to my delight (and frustration!) I haven't won another crown in almost two decades ...

I've put together plenty of quality teams and had playoff runs but either fallen up short of the pennant or haven't been able to get it done in the postseason.

In this my longest ever OOTP league I've found this really cool that my franchise has gone through a cycle where we used to be the most dominant franchise and now are struggling to regain previous glory.

The CPU has also just put together a great dynasty as a team in the other league just rattled off four straight league championships (eclipsing my record of 3) and then lost in game 7 (2-1) of the semis to fall short of their fifth straight crown.

I love this game!

[Metsvir2]

Now it's 2 titles in 3 years. I had a 1-0 lead against the Cards in the NLCS, only for them to reel off 4 in a row. They lost to the Royals in the World Series.

No way i'm bored with my legacy

[Manny 14]

I get bored when I win all the time so I've started a brand new solo league that I plan on sticking with. I'm almost done importing logos, jerseys and ball parks so i'm excited

[Khrog]

I have 3 solo leagues that I dabble in currently and have had varying levels of success. The first one was one of my first leagues and is a holdover from a OOTP 2006 creation. My team after an okay start became a powerhouse and has a string of 120+ win seasons that stopped at 8(where we won 118). 11 straight championships and 15 of 17 after the first 2 seasons. Once they eclipsed the 100 win mark they have never won less than 100(162 gm season). I didn't know about the international prospect scounting slant so I used international scouting heavily for the first 4-5 seasons. I quit when I saw the intense skewing of results, but unless I actively attempt to pursue bad trades...the team will remain a powerhouse.

My second league is much more evenly setup with me being the Chicago Glaciers. My team there has won 3 championships in 10 seasons and lost 2 World Series. Only one back to back championship there...this is probably my favorite solo league as I really enjoy my 2 core players that have been there since the beginning. 1B Faro Ramirez and SS Shinsaku Kosaka. Ramirez has hit 185RBIs in 3 straight seasons at one point and had 150+ RBIs in 8 straight. Kosaka is actually the better hitter and had a streak of 50+ HR seasons at 6. Kosaka recently was injured and is playing out his final contract year(at $27 or $29M/yr) and is batting a miserable ~.225 w/ power, but not much else. His injury has wrecked him and he has informed me of his intent to retire after 21 seasons. His numbers are staggering.

My third league, I built one team up and managed to win 2 championships with over 3 seasons. I actively intervene in some of the stupidity that the GMs of the other teams mess with. My goal is to help rebuild lousy teams and to fill missing pieces in otherwise strong teams to ensure that the league doesn't get unbalanced. I found that was effective in making the playoffs difficult at the least. I have since moved on to another team and have made them over from a 60 win team to a 95 win team. I may win a championship with them in my 4th season managing them as they are ready to compete.

I've found that the reason that its so easy to keep a team winning is that finding mid level - upper mid talent from trades is very easy. Some become gems and become studs later on. Trading superstars also bring other superstars in kind often at much lower salary. So once you have the winner as ctorg said, it's only a matter of trading the right pieces to get prospects/younger stars to keep the engine going. At least that has been my experience.

[ashantewarrier]

Originally Posted by Khrog

I have 3 solo leagues that I dabble in currently and have had varying levels of success. The first one was one of my first leagues and is a holdover from a OOTP 2006 creation. My team after an okay start became a powerhouse and has a string of 120+ win seasons that stopped at 8(where we won 118). 11 straight championships and 15 of 17 after the first 2 seasons. Once they eclipsed the 100 win mark they have never won less than 100(162 gm season). I didn't know about the international prospect scounting slant so I used international scouting heavily for the first 4-5 seasons. I quit when I saw the intense skewing of results, but unless I actively attempt to pursue bad trades...the team will remain a powerhouse.

My second league is much more evenly setup with me being the Chicago Glaciers. My team there has won 3 championships in 10 seasons and lost 2 World Series. Only one back to back championship there...this is probably my favorite solo league as I really enjoy my 2 core players that have been there since the beginning. 1B Faro Ramirez and SS Shinsaku Kosaka. Ramirez has hit 185RBIs in 3 straight seasons at one point and had 150+ RBIs in 8 straight. Kosaka is actually the better hitter and had a streak of 50+ HR seasons at 6. Kosaka recently was injured and is playing out his final contract year(at $27 or $29M/yr) and is batting a miserable ~.225 w/ power, but not much else. His injury has wrecked him and he has informed me of his intent to retire after 21 seasons. His numbers are staggering.

My third league, I built one team up and managed to win 2 championships with over 3 seasons. I actively intervene in some of the stupidity that the GMs of the other teams mess with. My goal is to help rebuild lousy teams and to fill missing pieces in otherwise strong teams to ensure that the league doesn't get unbalanced. I found that was effective in making the playoffs difficult at the least. I have since moved on to another team and have made them over from a 60 win team to a 95 win team. I may win a championship with them in my 4th season managing them as they are ready to compete.

I've found that the reason that its so easy to keep a team winning is that finding mid level - upper mid talent from trades is very easy. Some become gems and become studs later on. Trading superstars also bring other superstars in kind often at much lower salary. So once you have the winner as ctorg said, it's only a matter of trading the right pieces to get prospects/younger stars to keep the engine going. At least that has been my experience.

What is your trade difficulty?