Milf

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 02:31 PM

It's been a long time since I've had a sustainable, fictional dynasty going. I joined FOBL, then I started FOOL and there was just no more time to play solo. Well, I'm back to my roots as I'm not playing in any baseball leagues online at the moment, preferring to get back to my solo fictional roots.

The league I'm going to be profiling here is actually the subject of a dynasty already, but it wasn't very good and I was still playing in leagues when I started it.

The premise is the same. I've taken my fictional quickstart that I started in OOTP9 and that now had 216 seasons under it's belt and will be playing out and see what we can make happen.

I've rebranded FOOL-D, as MILF: Modern Independent League of Fast-Sim

Mostly because I don't want to confuse people anymore and also because it took me that long to come up with a name and acronym that was half as clever as FOOL.

I'll give you an introduction to the league, it's teams and some of the players next. I already know what team I plan to take over, though I do plan (big shock for those who've read me over the years) to move them before I officially take the helm.

RchW · 05-01-2010, 02:53 PM

Are there any hotties in MILF?

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 03:06 PM

At the moment, MILF is comprised of two leagues: the Allied League (AL) and the Federal League (FL).

Each league has 20 teams, with four divisions of five teams each. This past season was actually the first year of that new alignment, with playoffs being consolidated on an experimental three-year basis from 8 teams in each league back to just four (only division champions). This might change after the three year experimental period, but it was one of the concessions necessary to get owners to agree to expansion and also, to facilitate a cap increase. (Which led to a pretty widespread improvement in revenues for all teams top to bottom)

Here's the league alignments in the form of this past year's standings:

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Federal League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Boston Yanks		90	72	.556	-
Philadelphia Quakers	87	75	.537	3.0
Almendares Alacranes	83	79	.512	7.0
New York Gothams	75	87	.463	15.0
Jersey City Mammoths	54	108	.333	36.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Minneapolis Millers	87	75	.537	-
Chicago Blue Collars	85	77	.525	2.0
Pittsburgh Yellowjackets81	81	.500	6.0
St. Louis Terriers	81	81	.500	6.0
Eau Claire Paws		79	83	.488	8.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Kenora Thistles		103	59	.636	-
Seattle Pilots		94	68	.580	9.0
Los Angeles Aztecs	83	79	.512	20.0
San Francisco Peanuts	81	81	.500	22.0
Victoria Cougars	63	99	.389	40.0

Southern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Tupelo Moonshiners	83	79	.512	-
Houston 36ers		82	80	.506	1.0
Dallas Haymakers	80	82	.494	3.0
Charlotte Hornets	77	85	.475	6.0
Baltimore Wrens		72	90	.444	11.0

Allied League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Brooklyn Originals	127	35	.784	-
Toronto Blueshirts	85	77	.525	42.0
New York Knights	76	86	.469	51.0
Cleveland Broncs	73	89	.451	54.0
Milwaukee Creamers	72	90	.444	55.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Colorado Gold Sox	88	74	.543	-
Detroit Robins		85	77	.525	3.0
Kansas City Scouts	80	82	.494	8.0
Edmonton Whiskeyjacks	66	96	.407	22.0
Chicago Comets		65	97	.401	23.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Rio Grande Roadrunners	98	64	.605	-
Hawaii Islanders	83	79	.512	15.0
Salt Lake City Elders	80	82	.494	18.0
Los Angeles Silverhawks	78	84	.481	20.0
Compton Brothers	74	88	.457	24.0

Southern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Charleston Seagulls	86	76	.531	-
Washington Maroons	83	79	.512	3.0
Miami Amigos		79	83	.488	7.0
Habana Leones		72	90	.444	14.0
Atlanta Firecrackers	70	92	.432	16.0

Here's how the post-season shaped up:

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ALDS
Brooklyn d. Charleston 4-1
Colorado d. Rio Grande 4-2

FLDS
Tupelo d. Kenora 4-3
Minneapolis d. Boston 4-0

ALCS
Brooklyn d. Colorado 4-0

FLCS
Tupelo d. Minneapolis 4-2

2016 DAYLIGHT SERIES
Brooklyn d. Tupelo 5-0

The salary cap changes at the end of the post-season, just as the off-season starts. I use my salary cap calculator to determine the cap number. The cap for the upcoming 2017 season is $150,124,500. Each team gets $75m in media revenue from the joint media contract, which went up for $66m a few years ago, again thanks to expansion.

I don't plan anymore expansion for a long time, this was the first orchestrated expansion in decades. Usually, I'd just fold teams after a while and replace them with new ones without an expansion draft and that's how it went down for about 70 years or so, IIRC.

I like the 40-team alignment, the playoffs might be tinkered with over time, but that's up in the air. The other thing is, save for the team I'm about to take over and move, team moves should be on ice too for decades. I've spent the past ten seasons or so tinkering with that getting everything how I like it, uniforms, cities and all of that.

Mostly with the release of 11, I needed to get things where I wanted them. I've done that now and so, you can get used to the stability to things being as they are by and large, unless there is some compelling storyline reason to alter that, but right now I'm pretty focused on getting immersed with a new generation of players and focusing on gameplay results.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RchW

Are there any hotties in MILF?

With all of the money being thrown around, you can't help but believe there must be someplace.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 03:30 PM

Let's be visual, shall we?

Here are the current and historical streaks in the league since 1800.

Charlie Hough · 05-01-2010, 03:35 PM

Funny ... a team called Cougars in a league called MILF.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 06:18 PM

Well truth be told, they were called that before I renamed it MILF which just happened like two seasons ago. They're one of the original franchises from 1800. It is funny though.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 09:44 PM

Despite the change in the number of teams over the 200+ years of league history, the number of games played in the regular season has always been 162. I've done this on purpose, to make it easier to compare players records and such to each others and I knew it'd be harder to do that if we had an inconsistent amount of regular season games.

I'm going to be taking over the Compton Brothers franchise. Founded in 1891 as the Santa Ana Oranges, the Brothers moved to Compton in 1918 as the Hawaii Islanders though they never actually played on the island for more than one series a year before adopting the Compton name in 1926.

Despite their tenure in the league, they have the fewest titles of any franchise founded before 1900. They won pennants in 1892 before moving to the AL in the early years of that league and winning AL pennants in 1899 and 1930. After their lone title in 1933, they didn't again appear in the Daylight Series until 2005, losing out to the Colorado Gold Sox, increasing the franchise's playoff drought that still lasts well into the next decade. The team's streak now lasts at 83 years and counting.

Since that time, Los Angeles adopted another franchise in the Nevada (now Los Angeles) Silverhawks who play in Riverside and are more popular than the Brothers who have a localized fan base who have continued to abandon them in recent years in favor of the flagship city team -- the Aztecs (formerly known as the Seraphs)

The Brothers were purchased this offseason by English publishing magnate Olney Cox, who intends to use his prowess at leading teams -- he turned the fortunes of moribund Newcastle in the English Premier League to make them one of the best teams in all of soccer -- to turn the Brothers around.

This is likely to include a move out of metro Los Angeles, as many believe the area just isn't built to carry three teams, even if they're somewhat separated from each other. Where that will lead the team, isn't exactly clear at the moment but it's expected we'll know in the coming weeks.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2010, 10:10 PM

Let's take a look at some of the records in the league.

HOMER, HOMER
Little did we realize that Domingo Mendez's record would still be standing close to 200 years after he retired in 1832. Yet, 886 remains the number to beat. The 800 home run club has six members to date and only one of them Albert Binaghi (831, 4th all-time) played in the 20th century. Hoyt McPherson (798, 7th all-time) is just two home runs away and is poised to break the record next year and he's a free agent, so it'll be interesting to see where he'll sign to allow us to witness history that we rarely get to see in this league.

Speaking of home-run records. Almost even more impressive, is that in a league where there are no injuries and there's over 200 years of history, the single-season home run record is still just 60. Only one man, Hall of FamerGreg Dean in 1845 has ever reached that threshold. Two men in the 1950s got close, Hall of Famers Larry Simpson and Rafael Marquis both had 58 HRs in 1954 and 1958 respectively. We do have an active player who crept closer than anyone else ever has, though. In his rookie year, Lee Chambers hit 59 home runs, but the Gold Sox star has yet to get back to that plateau since that time in 2006.

.400 IS STILL RARE
Another strange factoid is the fact that no one had ever hit .400 until Hall of Famer Bobby Starke did it in 1979. Prior to that Konrad Rodinger's .3996 average stood from the first year of the league in 1800 until Starke took it down. Since Starke's historic season, three other men have hit .400. All three of them did it during the juiced ball season of 1993 and so, few recognize their achievements as significant as Starke's historic year and remain pleased that he maintains the record to this day.

darkcloud4579 · 05-02-2010, 02:39 AM

MEET THE JUGGERNAUT

After decades of futility in Connecticut, the Bantam Originals moved from Torrington and Waterbury to Brooklyn in 2013. The move has been a boon for the franchise. They've made the playoffs eight of the last nine years dating back to their last days in the Nutmeg state.

Most notably, the team won a title in 2014, ending a championship drought that dated back to 2014 and felt so good about that, they reloaded and returned for more in 2016.

The defending champs are quickly becoming well known for their penchant for spending and assembling one of the most fearest rosters in the history of the league. That's a big term, but never before have we seen a team this dominant since the 1800s.

Here are some of the names to remember:

BILLY CHAPEL
He came over two years ago from Philadelphia in a trade that started the Originals floodgates of spending and dealing to get the best players the league has to offer, with other teams willing to make these deals. Chappy has been worth every penny and if it weren't for a teammate, he'd be collecting more Nelson Mares awards to add to the six he's already won.

PETE CARROLL
With 302 career wins at age 36, Carroll is already considered an elite pitcher. He'd have even more wins if he hadn't spent eight of his years playing for subpar teams in Detroit and San Diego (7 in Detroit, one in San Diego) Two-time Mares award winner, with both coming since he's been in Brooklyn, the former 1st overall pick in 1999 seems like he'll keep on trucking well into his 40s.

LARRY HASENFUS
The latest addition to the monster staff in Brooklyn, the Originals targeted the former Boston pitcher and offered them a top prospect, their #1 pick and the Yanks bit figuring they'd lose him as a free agent this coming season. So far, the best pitching prospect to come along in a generation is riding a career ERA that's just a smidge over 2.00 (2.01) and at age 27, already has 155 career wins. History in the making? Seems like he's already making it, having already collected four Mares awards in his young career.

LEO BLUME
This 8-time all-star second baseman was toiling away in Pittsburgh before being rescued by the Originals three seasons ago. The heart and soul of this team in their new city, the Aussie is what team ownership call a guy who was "meant to be an Original." That might explain their signing him to a 7-year deal worth nearly $158 million that will keep him in Brooklyn likely until the end of his career.

AUSTIN HERBERT
The O's were in a saving mood, because when they picked up Blume, that same offseason they acquired Herbert, who just finished his 4th MVP season at age 27, hitting .398 and flirting with .400 with days to go in the regular season. Another Australian who is a fan favorite, the sweet swinging lefty leaves the Brooklyn faithful happy to have him on their side and not on the other team.

Of course, it's be a lot more fun to watch these guys if they were in the other league. But no, they play in the AL and any title run in Compton will go through them and that trains shows no signs of getting off track.

darkcloud4579 · 05-02-2010, 03:18 PM

COMPTON BROTHERS DAYS IN LA-AREA ARE NUMBERED

With the announcement that the Los Angeles Silverhawks would be moving to a new stadium development in Carson, CA, the Compton Brothers knew their time in the city was over.

An offer was made for the team to share the new development with the Silverhawks, who moved from Nevada in 2014 and despite having never made the playoffs were more popular amongst younger fans, due to their ownership by Viacom, who would broadcast team tie-ins on children's networks and other media holdings. The venerable Brothers franchise, who suffered from poor ownership for years were more popular with older fans, but the sign that a new stadium was going up for a team that's not the Brothers (due to a lack of anti-trust rules in MILF) was the sign the team's days in the Los Angeles area were over.

The Brothers have shored up their ownership situation in the form of new owner, English magnate Olney Cox, but now he found himself with a team and no city to play in.

The Brothers plan to make an announcement about their impending future in the coming days.

darkcloud4579 · 05-03-2010, 12:48 AM

2016 OFF-SEASON IN REVIEW

Just six pitchers remain on the active roster at the start of free agency. Team payroll is at $63.8 million at the start, largely due to the ridiculous contract that someone decided to give Kip Bray worth $84.2 million over three years. His numbers didn't seem to warrant it and when I saw the AI made the deal, I was befuddled by it. Three straight 100+ RBI seasons and a batting average over .300 notwithstanding, I just wasn't sure what made him so in demand.

Anyway, since it's not likely anyone would take him off our hands (and to increase the degree of difficulty anyway) we're going to be stuck with him and in the meantime, I need to go out and essentially build a pitching staff without going crazy. The cap this year $150,124,500 and I determined it using my salary cap calculator.

One of the things I've tried to do in recent seasons is try to get some separation between teams. Before, you'd notice there would be teams with one or two good players or maybe more, but never an entire squad that seemed capable of dominanting. The cap didn't really allow for it and I just thought it was a bit silly, so I created that tool in part to allow teams to have the freedom -- within the confines of the league's economic system -- to assemble talent capable of winning at a high level even if it meant they'd acquire more talent than other teams. I wanted to see stars together, it helps for immersion.

Compton won't benefit from these reforms to the degree that a team like Brooklyn will, because I intend to ensure it doesn't happen. I've used Accountant X for OOTP within GMExcel to tell me what the team's payroll will be this year, playing under the constraints that my owner is an economizer who believes we should spend somewhere in the middle of the league and not in the Top 10.

The payroll it generated for me was $68,352,820 and so, that's going to be our payroll budget this year. I'm going to try to deal Bray for whatever I can get for him, because that'll help a lot and then I'm going to assemble a pitching staff centered around guys who are under 31 and fill out the lineup (we specifically need a catcher...) and then I'll unveil the squad to you.

Last bit of news is, the team's not leaving Compton. We're going to become the Compton Browns and the LA Silverhawks are going to become the Hollywood Stars. Hopefully the updated links to player cards and such alike will keep this interesting for you and worth reading, I'm going to go at a brisk pace since this is a fast-sim league I run and I don't really want to get bogged down in details, but it's fun enough to share I think.

darkcloud4579 · 05-03-2010, 01:00 AM

WOULD YOU SIGN ARCHIE MOORE?

I'm not sure anyone will reply to this before I make a decision, but I'm still curious anyway. Here's Archie Moore, he's the best FA hitter on the market, the sort of guy that adds credibility to your franchise and puts butts in the seats. I feel like, he'd be the sort of guy that if I bring him in and replace Bray, it'd be a good long-term move for building the team's presence in the community.

He's not going to come cheap though, he's asking for $117.5 million over 5 years and you can be sure that'll jack up as teams start to bid for him. So the question is, do you go after him or pass? I'm not sure what I'll do yet, but...it's an avenue I might pursue.

CatKnight · 05-03-2010, 01:17 AM

I'll assume 23 million or so per year is doable, or you wouldn't be asking.

I'd say IF you can find someone to take Bray at any price - give him away if a team will take him. Otherwise 51 million for two players (Bray & Moore), when your whole budget is about 68 million, may be just a little much.

darkcloud4579 · 05-03-2010, 02:04 AM

Compton-Chicago Deal Confirmed
Thursday, November 10th, 2016: The Compton Browns have parted ways with 29-year-old first baseman Kip Bray in a trade with the Chicago Comets for 32-year-old starting pitcher Pierre Lejeune, 28-year-old catcher Chris Vina and 38-year-old reliever Marc Roux. The Browns general manager confirmed the deal in an announcement this morning.

Bray has a lifetime .318 batting average and .344 on-base percentage in his 1065-game career with 1415 hits and 171 home runs.

Lejeune has a lifetime ERA of 5.51 with a record of 50 wins and 65 losses. He also has struck out 783 batters in 985 innings and allowed 1115 hits.

Compton, Hollywood Trade Made
Monday, November 14th, 2016: According to BNN there were mixed emotions by the players involved in the trade between the Compton Browns and the Hollywood Stars. As part of the deal, the Browns swapped 35-year-old right fielder Coy Winston to the Stars getting 36-year-old starting pitcher Wyatt Peckford in return. The players indicated it was good to get a fresh new start in another city, but it was difficult to leave your friends on the old team. Lucky for these too, the drive from Hollywood to Compton just isn't that far.

In his career Winston has racked up 1993 hits with a .300 average and .381 on-base percentage. His numbers include 247 doubles, 57 triples, and 100 home runs, along with 1067 runs scored and 775 RBIs.

Lifetime Peckford has posted 176 victories and 172 defeats with a 4.56 ERA.

darkcloud4579 · 05-03-2010, 02:22 AM

Hernández and Dalton Dealt
Monday, November 14th, 2016: Sometimes a change of scenery can be a beneficial to a baseball player. That is the hope in Compton and Boston as the teams came to an agreement today which sends 32-year-old center fielder Pedro Hernández, 26-year-old starting pitcher Jorge Ortíz, 20-year-old starting pitcher Norm Anderson and 21-year-old minor league second baseman Roberto Cabrera to the Yanks and 29-year-old starting pitcher Brendan Dalton and 22-year-old right fielder Bo Picot to the Browns. "In the end, it was hard to pass up a talent like Bo Picot, I felt like this improves our team now and in the future and not many deals offer that sort of benefit. This one did." said the Compton GM.

In his 1396-game career Hernández is batting .299 with 230 doubles, 41 triples, 161 home runs and 743 RBIs. He has stolen 65 bases and scored 828 times.

Since coming into the league, Dalton has a 68-70 mark and a 4.18 ERA. The 29-year-old hurler also has struck out 926 batters in 1283.2 innings and permitted 1336 hits.

darkcloud4579 · 05-03-2010, 02:27 AM

2016 FREE AGENCY, PRE-STAGE ONE

After all of that dealing, our payroll now stands at $30,497,750. We went from six pitchers to eight pitchers and now we actually have at least three guys in tow who'll start for us in some capacity this coming season. You can't beat that.

How signings go is like this. I give the AI a week to make offers and I make mine all in one day. Then I turn off all AI roster changes, sim for a few weeks and see where the chips fall. Then we do it one more time (That's FA2, the first time is FA1) and then we start the season.

I don't have spring training turned on, so we won't go through that. We'll have a draft just before the season starts, then start the year in mid-March.

darkcloud4579 · 05-04-2010, 03:48 AM

After making some signings and clearing payroll, I was trying to figure out the best move to make. Most of the deals I went after were piecemeal signings. I don't expect we'll have the chops to contend this first year.

At the same time, I've managed to take what was already here -- a decent number of prospects and some core players -- and build what I think is a serviceable major league ballclub.

Archie Moore threw everyone a curveball, taking $104 million to play in Eau Claire for the next three years.

Meanwhile, in Compton we took the route of trying to build a team on a budget. Lucky for me, where inheirted some talented young players who are either at or near where they can be in order to be impact players in this league. That includes Sidney Johnson and Alfredo Calderon.

Our top free agent acquisitions were all players who make less than $4 million dollars. There were just too many holes to fill and not enough players that made me feel emboldened enough to really pursue them without breaking the piggy bank and our budget didn't really lend us that flexibility.

Some of the newcomers via the free agency route include Duncan Moores who should improve the offensive production of the team. The real story though is the work I did to get the pitching staff together. We lost pretty much the entire rotation in one form or another, but almost all of those guys were acquired via trade during the off-season.

Speaking of trades, there's one trade I'm about to make just before the season starts. Jeff Webb is a 25-year old shortstop who hit .275 last year with 59 RBI as a full-time starter. Emboldened by my theory that 1st round picks end up getting more money even though they don't warrant it, Webb was the 8th overall pick in the 2010 draft. He's got the pedigree, but he's earning $6 million this season and it's his walk year and the guy doesn't hit for power at all and strikes out too much for my taste.

I've managed to send Webb and a 5th round pick to Colorado in exchange for Freddie Beauregard and a prospect. Beauregard is 30 years old, in the last year of a deal that'll pay him over $15m this year, but even with the $9m salary increase, we'll be under our $68m salary mandate and I'll attempt to resign Beauregard immediately because he's that signature face player I was talking about. He played in Brooklyn for years before bolting for big money in Colorado three seasons ago. Best of all, he can play pretty much any position and so, you can't beat that sort of producitivity along with flexibility.

I think we'll be at, around or just over .500, but I'm not sure that's going to be enough to get us out of the AL West. Truthfully, I have no context for this division at all and so, we're all going to be surprised together when the results come down. Once I set the lineups and turn AI interference off, the game sims and I don't tinker until the season -- including the post-season -- is over.

darkcloud4579 · 05-04-2010, 03:42 PM

STANDINGS AS OF JULY 6, 2017

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Federal League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Almendares Alacranes	56	40	.583	-
Boston Yanks		53	42	.558	2.5
New York Gothams	46	49	.484	9.5
Philadelphia Quakers	45	51	.469	11.0
Jersey City Mammoths	39	56	.411	16.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Eau Claire Paws		53	42	.558	-
Pittsburgh Yellowjackets52	43	.547	1.0
Minneapolis Millers	46	50	.479	7.5
Chicago Blue Collars	39	57	.406	14.5
St. Louis Terriers	34	61	.358	19.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Kenora Thistles		60	36	.625	-
Los Angeles Aztecs	52	44	.542	8.0
Victoria Cougars	49	46	.516	10.5
Seattle Pilots		49	47	.510	11.0
San Francisco Peanuts	40	56	.417	20.0

Southern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Tupelo Moonshiners	58	37	.611	-
Charlotte Hornets	51	43	.543	6.5
Baltimore Wrens		50	46	.521	8.5
Dallas Haymakers	43	54	.443	16.0
Houston 36ers		40	55	.421	18.0

Allied League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Brooklyn Originals	72	24	.750	-
Toronto Blueshirts	53	43	.552	19.0
Cleveland Broncs	48	47	.505	23.5
Milwaukee Creamers	41	54	.432	30.5
New York Knights	40	55	.421	31.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Rio Grande Roadrunners	61	34	.642	-
Detroit Robins		52	43	.547	9.0
Kansas City Scouts	43	52	.453	18.0
Chicago Comets		40	56	.417	21.5
Edmonton Whiskeyjacks	31	65	.323	30.5

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Compton Browns		61	35	.635	-
Hollywood Stars		58	38	.604	3.0
Colorado Gold Sox	42	54	.438	19.0
Hawaii Islanders	41	55	.427	20.0
Salt Lake City Elders	36	59	.379	24.5

Southern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Atlanta Firecrackers	54	42	.563	-
Washington Maroons	52	43	.547	1.5
Charleston Seagulls	49	45	.521	4.0
Habana Leones		46	51	.474	8.5
Miami Amigos		35	60	.368	18.5

As I told you at the beginning of the season, I had no idea what to make of this division because I hadn't really been paying attention to it at all, so I had no context for how it would pan out.

So far, we're 4th in the AL in ERA, but our bullpen is 11th in team ERA and we're near the bottom of the league in strikeouts.

Offensively, we're somewhere in the top half in most categories. The Freddie Beauregard trade was a smart move, he's leading the team in hits and batting average, as well as RBI. Just so you know, Jeff Webb, the guy I traded away to get him also made the all-star team for Colorado.

We're still a flawed team and there's no telling whether we can hold on the rest of the year. Offensively, Hollywood is comparable to what we're bringing to the table, but they have worse pitching. So if we're meant to hold on, that'll be how we do it.

I guess we'll see how it goes.

darkcloud4579 · 05-04-2010, 03:53 PM

We have one more season of division winners only in the post-season before we need to decide what to do with it next. Should we go back to 16? Let the top 4 teams in per league regardless of division? I mean, it's fine when a team wins their division by a ton, but what happens when we have a situation where teams are close? Or where the 2nd best team in one division is clearly better than the division champ of another? Or when you play in a tough division?

Eight teams always felt like too many, but when you have 20 teams in each league that's not that many. No interleague play either and the schedule is unbalanced (18 games in division per team, 6 per team outside of it)

Thoughts?

05-01-2010, 02:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Milf It's been a long time since I've had a sustainable, fictional dynasty going. I joined FOBL, then I started FOOL and there was just no more time to play solo. Well, I'm back to my roots as I'm not playing in any baseball leagues online at the moment, preferring to get back to my solo fictional roots. The league I'm going to be profiling here is actually the subject of a dynasty already, but it wasn't very good and I was still playing in leagues when I started it. The premise is the same. I've taken my fictional quickstart that I started in OOTP9 and that now had 216 seasons under it's belt and will be playing out and see what we can make happen. I've rebranded FOOL-D, as MILF: Modern Independent League of Fast-Sim Mostly because I don't want to confuse people anymore and also because it took me that long to come up with a name and acronym that was half as clever as FOOL. I'll give you an introduction to the league, it's teams and some of the players next. I already know what team I plan to take over, though I do plan (big shock for those who've read me over the years) to move them before I officially take the helm.

05-01-2010, 03:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	At the moment, MILF is comprised of two leagues: the Allied League (AL) and the Federal League (FL). Each league has 20 teams, with four divisions of five teams each. This past season was actually the first year of that new alignment, with playoffs being consolidated on an experimental three-year basis from 8 teams in each league back to just four (only division champions). This might change after the three year experimental period, but it was one of the concessions necessary to get owners to agree to expansion and also, to facilitate a cap increase. (Which led to a pretty widespread improvement in revenues for all teams top to bottom) Here's the league alignments in the form of this past year's standings: Code: Federal League Standings Eastern Division W L PCT GB Boston Yanks 90 72 .556 - Philadelphia Quakers 87 75 .537 3.0 Almendares Alacranes 83 79 .512 7.0 New York Gothams 75 87 .463 15.0 Jersey City Mammoths 54 108 .333 36.0 Central Division W L PCT GB Minneapolis Millers 87 75 .537 - Chicago Blue Collars 85 77 .525 2.0 Pittsburgh Yellowjackets81 81 .500 6.0 St. Louis Terriers 81 81 .500 6.0 Eau Claire Paws 79 83 .488 8.0 Western Division W L PCT GB Kenora Thistles 103 59 .636 - Seattle Pilots 94 68 .580 9.0 Los Angeles Aztecs 83 79 .512 20.0 San Francisco Peanuts 81 81 .500 22.0 Victoria Cougars 63 99 .389 40.0 Southern Division W L PCT GB Tupelo Moonshiners 83 79 .512 - Houston 36ers 82 80 .506 1.0 Dallas Haymakers 80 82 .494 3.0 Charlotte Hornets 77 85 .475 6.0 Baltimore Wrens 72 90 .444 11.0 Allied League Standings Eastern Division W L PCT GB Brooklyn Originals 127 35 .784 - Toronto Blueshirts 85 77 .525 42.0 New York Knights 76 86 .469 51.0 Cleveland Broncs 73 89 .451 54.0 Milwaukee Creamers 72 90 .444 55.0 Central Division W L PCT GB Colorado Gold Sox 88 74 .543 - Detroit Robins 85 77 .525 3.0 Kansas City Scouts 80 82 .494 8.0 Edmonton Whiskeyjacks 66 96 .407 22.0 Chicago Comets 65 97 .401 23.0 Western Division W L PCT GB Rio Grande Roadrunners 98 64 .605 - Hawaii Islanders 83 79 .512 15.0 Salt Lake City Elders 80 82 .494 18.0 Los Angeles Silverhawks 78 84 .481 20.0 Compton Brothers 74 88 .457 24.0 Southern Division W L PCT GB Charleston Seagulls 86 76 .531 - Washington Maroons 83 79 .512 3.0 Miami Amigos 79 83 .488 7.0 Habana Leones 72 90 .444 14.0 Atlanta Firecrackers 70 92 .432 16.0 Here's how the post-season shaped up: Code: ALDS Brooklyn d. Charleston 4-1 Colorado d. Rio Grande 4-2 FLDS Tupelo d. Kenora 4-3 Minneapolis d. Boston 4-0 ALCS Brooklyn d. Colorado 4-0 FLCS Tupelo d. Minneapolis 4-2 2016 DAYLIGHT SERIES Brooklyn d. Tupelo 5-0 The salary cap changes at the end of the post-season, just as the off-season starts. I use my salary cap calculator to determine the cap number. The cap for the upcoming 2017 season is $150,124,500. Each team gets $75m in media revenue from the joint media contract, which went up for $66m a few years ago, again thanks to expansion. I don't plan anymore expansion for a long time, this was the first orchestrated expansion in decades. Usually, I'd just fold teams after a while and replace them with new ones without an expansion draft and that's how it went down for about 70 years or so, IIRC. I like the 40-team alignment, the playoffs might be tinkered with over time, but that's up in the air. The other thing is, save for the team I'm about to take over and move, team moves should be on ice too for decades. I've spent the past ten seasons or so tinkering with that getting everything how I like it, uniforms, cities and all of that. Mostly with the release of 11, I needed to get things where I wanted them. I've done that now and so, you can get used to the stability to things being as they are by and large, unless there is some compelling storyline reason to alter that, but right now I'm pretty focused on getting immersed with a new generation of players and focusing on gameplay results. Last edited by darkcloud4579; 05-02-2010 at 02:48 AM.

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05-01-2010, 03:30 PM	#5 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Let's be visual, shall we? Here are the current and historical streaks in the league since 1800.

05-01-2010, 03:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
Charlie Hough All Star Starter Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,501 Thanks: 50 Thanked 294x in 155 posts	Funny ... a team called Cougars in a league called MILF.

05-01-2010, 06:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Well truth be told, they were called that before I renamed it MILF which just happened like two seasons ago. They're one of the original franchises from 1800. It is funny though.

05-01-2010, 09:44 PM	#8 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Despite the change in the number of teams over the 200+ years of league history, the number of games played in the regular season has always been 162. I've done this on purpose, to make it easier to compare players records and such to each others and I knew it'd be harder to do that if we had an inconsistent amount of regular season games. I'm going to be taking over the Compton Brothers franchise. Founded in 1891 as the Santa Ana Oranges, the Brothers moved to Compton in 1918 as the Hawaii Islanders though they never actually played on the island for more than one series a year before adopting the Compton name in 1926. Despite their tenure in the league, they have the fewest titles of any franchise founded before 1900. They won pennants in 1892 before moving to the AL in the early years of that league and winning AL pennants in 1899 and 1930. After their lone title in 1933, they didn't again appear in the Daylight Series until 2005, losing out to the Colorado Gold Sox, increasing the franchise's playoff drought that still lasts well into the next decade. The team's streak now lasts at 83 years and counting. Since that time, Los Angeles adopted another franchise in the Nevada (now Los Angeles) Silverhawks who play in Riverside and are more popular than the Brothers who have a localized fan base who have continued to abandon them in recent years in favor of the flagship city team -- the Aztecs (formerly known as the Seraphs) The Brothers were purchased this offseason by English publishing magnate Olney Cox, who intends to use his prowess at leading teams -- he turned the fortunes of moribund Newcastle in the English Premier League to make them one of the best teams in all of soccer -- to turn the Brothers around. This is likely to include a move out of metro Los Angeles, as many believe the area just isn't built to carry three teams, even if they're somewhat separated from each other. Where that will lead the team, isn't exactly clear at the moment but it's expected we'll know in the coming weeks.

05-01-2010, 10:10 PM	#9 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Let's take a look at some of the records in the league. HOMER, HOMER Little did we realize that Domingo Mendez's record would still be standing close to 200 years after he retired in 1832. Yet, 886 remains the number to beat. The 800 home run club has six members to date and only one of them Albert Binaghi (831, 4th all-time) played in the 20th century. Hoyt McPherson (798, 7th all-time) is just two home runs away and is poised to break the record next year and he's a free agent, so it'll be interesting to see where he'll sign to allow us to witness history that we rarely get to see in this league. Speaking of home-run records. Almost even more impressive, is that in a league where there are no injuries and there's over 200 years of history, the single-season home run record is still just 60. Only one man, Hall of FamerGreg Dean in 1845 has ever reached that threshold. Two men in the 1950s got close, Hall of Famers Larry Simpson and Rafael Marquis both had 58 HRs in 1954 and 1958 respectively. We do have an active player who crept closer than anyone else ever has, though. In his rookie year, Lee Chambers hit 59 home runs, but the Gold Sox star has yet to get back to that plateau since that time in 2006. .400 IS STILL RARE Another strange factoid is the fact that no one had ever hit .400 until Hall of Famer Bobby Starke did it in 1979. Prior to that Konrad Rodinger's .3996 average stood from the first year of the league in 1800 until Starke took it down. Since Starke's historic season, three other men have hit .400. All three of them did it during the juiced ball season of 1993 and so, few recognize their achievements as significant as Starke's historic year and remain pleased that he maintains the record to this day.

05-02-2010, 02:39 AM	#10 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	MEET THE JUGGERNAUT After decades of futility in Connecticut, the Bantam Originals moved from Torrington and Waterbury to Brooklyn in 2013. The move has been a boon for the franchise. They've made the playoffs eight of the last nine years dating back to their last days in the Nutmeg state. Most notably, the team won a title in 2014, ending a championship drought that dated back to 2014 and felt so good about that, they reloaded and returned for more in 2016. The defending champs are quickly becoming well known for their penchant for spending and assembling one of the most fearest rosters in the history of the league. That's a big term, but never before have we seen a team this dominant since the 1800s. Here are some of the names to remember: BILLY CHAPEL He came over two years ago from Philadelphia in a trade that started the Originals floodgates of spending and dealing to get the best players the league has to offer, with other teams willing to make these deals. Chappy has been worth every penny and if it weren't for a teammate, he'd be collecting more Nelson Mares awards to add to the six he's already won. PETE CARROLL With 302 career wins at age 36, Carroll is already considered an elite pitcher. He'd have even more wins if he hadn't spent eight of his years playing for subpar teams in Detroit and San Diego (7 in Detroit, one in San Diego) Two-time Mares award winner, with both coming since he's been in Brooklyn, the former 1st overall pick in 1999 seems like he'll keep on trucking well into his 40s. LARRY HASENFUS The latest addition to the monster staff in Brooklyn, the Originals targeted the former Boston pitcher and offered them a top prospect, their #1 pick and the Yanks bit figuring they'd lose him as a free agent this coming season. So far, the best pitching prospect to come along in a generation is riding a career ERA that's just a smidge over 2.00 (2.01) and at age 27, already has 155 career wins. History in the making? Seems like he's already making it, having already collected four Mares awards in his young career. LEO BLUME This 8-time all-star second baseman was toiling away in Pittsburgh before being rescued by the Originals three seasons ago. The heart and soul of this team in their new city, the Aussie is what team ownership call a guy who was "meant to be an Original." That might explain their signing him to a 7-year deal worth nearly $158 million that will keep him in Brooklyn likely until the end of his career. AUSTIN HERBERT The O's were in a saving mood, because when they picked up Blume, that same offseason they acquired Herbert, who just finished his 4th MVP season at age 27, hitting .398 and flirting with .400 with days to go in the regular season. Another Australian who is a fan favorite, the sweet swinging lefty leaves the Brooklyn faithful happy to have him on their side and not on the other team. Of course, it's be a lot more fun to watch these guys if they were in the other league. But no, they play in the AL and any title run in Compton will go through them and that trains shows no signs of getting off track.

05-02-2010, 03:18 PM	#11 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	COMPTON BROTHERS DAYS IN LA-AREA ARE NUMBERED With the announcement that the Los Angeles Silverhawks would be moving to a new stadium development in Carson, CA, the Compton Brothers knew their time in the city was over. An offer was made for the team to share the new development with the Silverhawks, who moved from Nevada in 2014 and despite having never made the playoffs were more popular amongst younger fans, due to their ownership by Viacom, who would broadcast team tie-ins on children's networks and other media holdings. The venerable Brothers franchise, who suffered from poor ownership for years were more popular with older fans, but the sign that a new stadium was going up for a team that's not the Brothers (due to a lack of anti-trust rules in MILF) was the sign the team's days in the Los Angeles area were over. The Brothers have shored up their ownership situation in the form of new owner, English magnate Olney Cox, but now he found himself with a team and no city to play in. The Brothers plan to make an announcement about their impending future in the coming days.

05-03-2010, 12:48 AM	#12 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	2016 OFF-SEASON IN REVIEW Just six pitchers remain on the active roster at the start of free agency. Team payroll is at $63.8 million at the start, largely due to the ridiculous contract that someone decided to give Kip Bray worth $84.2 million over three years. His numbers didn't seem to warrant it and when I saw the AI made the deal, I was befuddled by it. Three straight 100+ RBI seasons and a batting average over .300 notwithstanding, I just wasn't sure what made him so in demand. Anyway, since it's not likely anyone would take him off our hands (and to increase the degree of difficulty anyway) we're going to be stuck with him and in the meantime, I need to go out and essentially build a pitching staff without going crazy. The cap this year $150,124,500 and I determined it using my salary cap calculator. One of the things I've tried to do in recent seasons is try to get some separation between teams. Before, you'd notice there would be teams with one or two good players or maybe more, but never an entire squad that seemed capable of dominanting. The cap didn't really allow for it and I just thought it was a bit silly, so I created that tool in part to allow teams to have the freedom -- within the confines of the league's economic system -- to assemble talent capable of winning at a high level even if it meant they'd acquire more talent than other teams. I wanted to see stars together, it helps for immersion. Compton won't benefit from these reforms to the degree that a team like Brooklyn will, because I intend to ensure it doesn't happen. I've used Accountant X for OOTP within GMExcel to tell me what the team's payroll will be this year, playing under the constraints that my owner is an economizer who believes we should spend somewhere in the middle of the league and not in the Top 10. The payroll it generated for me was $68,352,820 and so, that's going to be our payroll budget this year. I'm going to try to deal Bray for whatever I can get for him, because that'll help a lot and then I'm going to assemble a pitching staff centered around guys who are under 31 and fill out the lineup (we specifically need a catcher...) and then I'll unveil the squad to you. Last bit of news is, the team's not leaving Compton. We're going to become the Compton Browns and the LA Silverhawks are going to become the Hollywood Stars. Hopefully the updated links to player cards and such alike will keep this interesting for you and worth reading, I'm going to go at a brisk pace since this is a fast-sim league I run and I don't really want to get bogged down in details, but it's fun enough to share I think.

05-03-2010, 01:00 AM	#13 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	WOULD YOU SIGN ARCHIE MOORE? I'm not sure anyone will reply to this before I make a decision, but I'm still curious anyway. Here's Archie Moore, he's the best FA hitter on the market, the sort of guy that adds credibility to your franchise and puts butts in the seats. I feel like, he'd be the sort of guy that if I bring him in and replace Bray, it'd be a good long-term move for building the team's presence in the community. He's not going to come cheap though, he's asking for $117.5 million over 5 years and you can be sure that'll jack up as teams start to bid for him. So the question is, do you go after him or pass? I'm not sure what I'll do yet, but...it's an avenue I might pursue.

05-03-2010, 01:17 AM	#14 (permalink)
CatKnight All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 585 Thanks: 13 Thanked 28x in 27 posts	I'll assume 23 million or so per year is doable, or you wouldn't be asking. I'd say IF you can find someone to take Bray at any price - give him away if a team will take him. Otherwise 51 million for two players (Bray & Moore), when your whole budget is about 68 million, may be just a little much.

05-03-2010, 02:04 AM	#15 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Compton-Chicago Deal Confirmed Thursday, November 10th, 2016: The Compton Browns have parted ways with 29-year-old first baseman Kip Bray in a trade with the Chicago Comets for 32-year-old starting pitcher Pierre Lejeune, 28-year-old catcher Chris Vina and 38-year-old reliever Marc Roux. The Browns general manager confirmed the deal in an announcement this morning. Bray has a lifetime .318 batting average and .344 on-base percentage in his 1065-game career with 1415 hits and 171 home runs. Lejeune has a lifetime ERA of 5.51 with a record of 50 wins and 65 losses. He also has struck out 783 batters in 985 innings and allowed 1115 hits. Compton, Hollywood Trade Made Monday, November 14th, 2016: According to BNN there were mixed emotions by the players involved in the trade between the Compton Browns and the Hollywood Stars. As part of the deal, the Browns swapped 35-year-old right fielder Coy Winston to the Stars getting 36-year-old starting pitcher Wyatt Peckford in return. The players indicated it was good to get a fresh new start in another city, but it was difficult to leave your friends on the old team. Lucky for these too, the drive from Hollywood to Compton just isn't that far. In his career Winston has racked up 1993 hits with a .300 average and .381 on-base percentage. His numbers include 247 doubles, 57 triples, and 100 home runs, along with 1067 runs scored and 775 RBIs. Lifetime Peckford has posted 176 victories and 172 defeats with a 4.56 ERA.

05-03-2010, 02:22 AM	#16 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	Hernández and Dalton Dealt Monday, November 14th, 2016: Sometimes a change of scenery can be a beneficial to a baseball player. That is the hope in Compton and Boston as the teams came to an agreement today which sends 32-year-old center fielder Pedro Hernández, 26-year-old starting pitcher Jorge Ortíz, 20-year-old starting pitcher Norm Anderson and 21-year-old minor league second baseman Roberto Cabrera to the Yanks and 29-year-old starting pitcher Brendan Dalton and 22-year-old right fielder Bo Picot to the Browns. "In the end, it was hard to pass up a talent like Bo Picot, I felt like this improves our team now and in the future and not many deals offer that sort of benefit. This one did." said the Compton GM. In his 1396-game career Hernández is batting .299 with 230 doubles, 41 triples, 161 home runs and 743 RBIs. He has stolen 65 bases and scored 828 times. Since coming into the league, Dalton has a 68-70 mark and a 4.18 ERA. The 29-year-old hurler also has struck out 926 batters in 1283.2 innings and permitted 1336 hits.

05-03-2010, 02:27 AM	#17 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	2016 FREE AGENCY, PRE-STAGE ONE After all of that dealing, our payroll now stands at $30,497,750. We went from six pitchers to eight pitchers and now we actually have at least three guys in tow who'll start for us in some capacity this coming season. You can't beat that. How signings go is like this. I give the AI a week to make offers and I make mine all in one day. Then I turn off all AI roster changes, sim for a few weeks and see where the chips fall. Then we do it one more time (That's FA2, the first time is FA1) and then we start the season. I don't have spring training turned on, so we won't go through that. We'll have a draft just before the season starts, then start the year in mid-March.

05-04-2010, 03:48 AM	#18 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	After making some signings and clearing payroll, I was trying to figure out the best move to make. Most of the deals I went after were piecemeal signings. I don't expect we'll have the chops to contend this first year. At the same time, I've managed to take what was already here -- a decent number of prospects and some core players -- and build what I think is a serviceable major league ballclub. Archie Moore threw everyone a curveball, taking $104 million to play in Eau Claire for the next three years. Meanwhile, in Compton we took the route of trying to build a team on a budget. Lucky for me, where inheirted some talented young players who are either at or near where they can be in order to be impact players in this league. That includes Sidney Johnson and Alfredo Calderon. Our top free agent acquisitions were all players who make less than $4 million dollars. There were just too many holes to fill and not enough players that made me feel emboldened enough to really pursue them without breaking the piggy bank and our budget didn't really lend us that flexibility. Some of the newcomers via the free agency route include Duncan Moores who should improve the offensive production of the team. The real story though is the work I did to get the pitching staff together. We lost pretty much the entire rotation in one form or another, but almost all of those guys were acquired via trade during the off-season. Speaking of trades, there's one trade I'm about to make just before the season starts. Jeff Webb is a 25-year old shortstop who hit .275 last year with 59 RBI as a full-time starter. Emboldened by my theory that 1st round picks end up getting more money even though they don't warrant it, Webb was the 8th overall pick in the 2010 draft. He's got the pedigree, but he's earning $6 million this season and it's his walk year and the guy doesn't hit for power at all and strikes out too much for my taste. I've managed to send Webb and a 5th round pick to Colorado in exchange for Freddie Beauregard and a prospect. Beauregard is 30 years old, in the last year of a deal that'll pay him over $15m this year, but even with the $9m salary increase, we'll be under our $68m salary mandate and I'll attempt to resign Beauregard immediately because he's that signature face player I was talking about. He played in Brooklyn for years before bolting for big money in Colorado three seasons ago. Best of all, he can play pretty much any position and so, you can't beat that sort of producitivity along with flexibility. I think we'll be at, around or just over .500, but I'm not sure that's going to be enough to get us out of the AL West. Truthfully, I have no context for this division at all and so, we're all going to be surprised together when the results come down. Once I set the lineups and turn AI interference off, the game sims and I don't tinker until the season -- including the post-season -- is over.

05-04-2010, 03:53 PM	#20 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	We have one more season of division winners only in the post-season before we need to decide what to do with it next. Should we go back to 16? Let the top 4 teams in per league regardless of division? I mean, it's fine when a team wins their division by a ton, but what happens when we have a situation where teams are close? Or where the 2nd best team in one division is clearly better than the division champ of another? Or when you play in a tough division? Eight teams always felt like too many, but when you have 20 teams in each league that's not that many. No interleague play either and the schedule is unbalanced (18 games in division per team, 6 per team outside of it) Thoughts?