The All-Forum Dynasty - SIGN UP NOW!

[Elendil]

It's official; the All-Forum Dynasty is starting! This is the dynasty that allows forum members to create their own teams from scratch and watch them duke it out in a career league. The teams are neighborhoods and small towns where you live or grew up. You can create a team with yourself, family members, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. Read the League Setup, Team Creation, and Player Creation sections below; then sign up for the league in one of three ways: 1) by starting a separate thread for your team and posting all your team and player info there, 2) by posting all your team and player info here, or 3) by emailing me at jason.sorensATyale.edu with all your team and player info.

League Setup

Start year: 2000

League Mode: Career. I'd hope for this dynasty to run many seasons, with forum members enjoying long careers, retiring, and possibly entering the Hall of Fame!

Financials/Coaches/Simulate minors: All disabled. This is realistic - your neighbor isn't going to sign a free agent contract with a team across the country, even in this fantasy scenario. Also, you want to prevent human managers from exploiting teams without human managers. Restricting human managers to setting lineups and other similar functions shouldn't handicap AI-managed teams much at all.

League size: Depends on how many people participate!

Trading options: Trades disabled. (See logic above.)

40-man roster/waivers/minor league options/rule 5/arby/minor league FAs: all disabled. I will check league transactions every day for releases. If the AI releases a player, I will try to resign him with the same team. If that's impossible, I will delete the player.

Stats engine: Before the league officially begins I will run several seasons of sims to adjust the stats to MLB 1980-1993 era standards.

Player creation/development modifiers: all at 0. To start with players will have ratings equal to talents, after that normal aging & development will be allowed to proceed. No players will be created by the computer, so those modifiers are not needed.

Designated hitter: no

Amateur draft: none (see rule for annual player creation below)

Injuries/fatigue: enabled, normal.

I'll sort teams into divisions depending on what kind of geographical dispersion we have. There will be two leagues if at all possible, so that there can be a World Series, and I'll create a schedule with balanced interleague play.

Team Creation

For a location for your team, choose your town if you live in a town without professional baseball at any level, or your neighborhood if you live in a town with professional baseball at some level. For a team nickname, choose something that goes along with a fictional logo you can use. Fictional logos are available at:
http://www.ootpdownloadcenter.com/logos.html
http://www.simleaguecentral.com/

You can name your manager and your field as well. (Note: the manager should not be a player; see the rule below about being manager of your own team.) Park effects for everything will be set to 100. If you have a custom field you'd like to use for your home field, let me know.

Player Creation

Hitters
1 at $240
2 at $220
4 at $200
8 at $180
the rest at $170

Talents:
(No talent may be above 50. Avoid K's must be at least 80% of Contact. Total dollars allocated to Talents may not exceed $190 nor be less than $80. At least 20 hitters must be created, and no more than 24. Create 35 players in total. At least 5 hitters must have speed 50 or higher. At least 14 players must play no more than 1 position.)

Contact - $1 per point
Gap Power - $1 per point
Homerun Power - $1 per point
Eye - $1 per point
Avoid K - $0.50 per point

Skills:

Speed (1-100) - $0.50 per point
Stealing (1-100) - $0.50 per point
(Running instincts will be the average of Speed and Stealing; you don't need to pay for it.)

Sac Bunt (1-5) - $2 per point above 1 ($2 for 2 rating, and so on)

Bunt for Hit - determined by the relationship between speed and sac bunt (81+ speed increases bunt for hit +1 over bunt skill, 61-80 speed makes bunt for hit equal bunt skill, 41-60 speed makes bunt for hit -1 under bunt skill, 21-40 speed makes bunt for hit -2 under bunt skill, 1-20 speed makes bunt for hit equal 1 no matter what bunting skill is)

Range/Catcher Arm (1-100) - $0.50 per point for primary positions for speed 1-60, $0.40 per point for speed 61-80, $0.25 per point for speed 81-100 (the speed bonus does not apply to catcher arm) (you may then choose secondary positions with this range penalty: -10% off range of first position for second position, -15% off range of second position for third position, -30% off range of third position for all other positions - only 2 players may be created with both infield and outfield positions)

Fielding % - $3 per point on a 0-4 scale; this scale is interpreted as follows for each position:

Position     4 points  3 points   2 points   1 point   0 points
Catcher      .995,6 PB .988,10 PB .981,14 PB .974,18 PB .967, 22 PB
First Base   .994      .991       .988       .985       .982
Second Base  .982      .974       .966       .958       .950
Third Base   .951      .932       .913       .894       .881
Shortstop    .973      .963       .953       .943       .933
Leftfield    .982      .962       .942       .922       .902
Centerfield  .988      .978       .968       .958       .948
Rightfield   .982      .973       .964       .955       .946

Arm - standardized by primary position in IF or OF (RF - 90, CF - 55, LF - 30, 3B - 90, SS - 60, 2B - 30, 1B - 15, P - 95 (infield))

HBP - generated by AI

Catcher range - generated by AI

Character:

Injury Rating - set by game, but you may pick 1 player you wish to be Durable

Clutch Performance - your choice (remember that GREAT worsens performance in non-clutch situations given ratings, Suffers improves it)

Leader Ability - $3 for Great, $1 for Some

Consistency - your choice

Hitter type - your choice

Pitchers

1 at $180, endurance must be at least 70
2 at $160, endurance must be at least 50
4 at $140
8 at $130
the rest at $120

Talents:
(No talent may be above 50. Total dollars allocated to Talents and endurance may not be less than $80. At least 11 pitchers must be created and no more than 15. At least 6 pitchers must have endurance above 50, and at least 2 must have endurance above 70.)

Stuff - $1 per point
Control - $1 per point
Movement - $1 per point
Endurance - $0.75 per point

Skills:

For Speed/Stealing/Instincts/Bunt/Bunt for Hit, the same rules apply as for hitters.
Pitcher range set at 15/100, Fielding % at .930.
Hold Baserunners - $1 per point above 1
Groundball % - generated by AI
Velocity - generated by AI
Pitches - your choice
WP/HBP/Balk - generated by AI

Character:

The same rules apply as for hitters.

Additional Notes

• Since there are no transactions of any kind, Loyalty and Needs Winner don't matter.
  
• Overall ratings will be set to equal talents at first, but normal player aging and development are allowed, since it is a career league.
  
• You can specify how extreme you want your lefty-righty splits for both hitters and pitchers.
  
• Name, nick, height, weight, origin, lefty-right-switch, date of birth, etc. are all for you to decide.
  
• The median age for your 35 players must be at least 26.
  
• If you are not a player in the league, or after you retire, you can be the manager of your team. You can read the league website (I will also be doing Catobase each year) and manage by emailing me your lineup, depth charts, rotation, and team strategy information before each sim. Half-month sims will occur three times a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday. (There are no GM functions with no transactions or financials.)
  
• You may create two new players every year during the offseason.
  
• If you have player photographs, please send them to me and I will include them.
  

For additional info about sim schedule and so on, see page six of this thread.

[woody5254]

I'll take the Valois Vipers. The logo I want is the one that is shown on OOTP Downloads in the nmleagues section.


I will get my players to you as I finish them. Do you have a deadline in mind?

[Elendil]

Originally Posted by woody5254

I'll take the Valois Vipers. The logo I want is the one that is shown on OOTP Downloads in the nmleagues section.

I will get my players to you as I finish them. Do you have a deadline in mind?

Cool, I've got that logo. Why don't we say the end of next week for submitting teams? I realize this is the biggest part of the process, really.

[woody5254]

Originally Posted by Elendil

Cool, I've got that logo. Why don't we say the end of next week for submitting teams? I realize this is the biggest part of the process, really.

That sounds good to me. I will get you my players as I finish them. Probably 5 or so at a time so you don't have a ton of work to do all at once.

[Vris]

And then you inputting them will take a while on its own.

[ifspuds]

I'll sign up as the Corvallis Rivermen, and get my players to you over time.

Here's a logo:

[Elendil]

Bellaire Longhorns

Bellaire is a separate town surrounded by Houston, adjacent to the neighborhood where I grew up. Our home field is Jess Borg Baseball Field, a field at Episcopal High School where my high school softball team had to play because our school didn't have its own field.

Pitcher
First: Jason
Last: Sorens
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 145
Bats/Throws: Right
Position: Pitcher
Role: Starter
Injury rating: Durable
Leader ability: none
Clutch performance: Normal
Consistency: Average
Endurance: 76 $57
Speed: 22 $11
Stealing ability: 20 $10
Instincts: 21 (no cost)
Hold baserunners: 1 $0
Sac bunt: +3 (4 rating) $6
Bunt for hit: 2 rating (no cost: 4-2 b/c of speed 21-40)
Hitter Type: Spray
Stuff: 36 $36
Control: 29 $29
Movement: 31 $31
TOTAL SPENT: $180
Splits: moderately better against righties
Pitches: Fastball, Changeup, Curveball, Slider, Splitfinger-Fastball

[Elendil]

Originally Posted by Vris

And then you inputting them will take a while on its own.

Yeah, we'll have to see how that bit goes!

All right, three teams already...

[metsgeek]

I've got the Atlantic City Jokers. My thread is posted HERE

[CTSoxFan]

Ill sign up...

Groton Sea Wolves

Groton, Connecticut

http://img184.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...awolves0on.png
Logo1

http://img184.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...wolves17qt.png
Logo 2

Homefield is Washington Park in Groton, where the UCONN: Avery Point baseball team plays. Its well known in the area because Yogi Berra played there while stationed in the navy, before joining the Yanks.


Washington Park

Named after the US Navy Submarines called the Seawolves which are made in Groton. I'll start a thread with the rest of the info ASAP.

[Elendil]

Well, I knew I'd have to make one rules change. In examining the player I created and the player metsgeek created, and then thinking about it, it seems that there's extreme reluctance to allocate many points to speed/steal/running. So I changed the rule for allocating points (and edited the post at the top of this thread) as follows:

Speed/Stealing (1-100) - $0.50 per point
(Running instincts will be the average of Speed and Stealing; you don't need to pay for it.)

That should lower the cost of providing realistic Speed, Stealing, and Running Instincts for players.

[congobeast]

Count me in.

I'll take the Pittsfield Hillies, logo enclosed.

If possible, I'd like 'em to have grand old Wahconah Park in Pittsfield MA as their home.

Details here, some pics here, and a little more of each here.

I'll work on players today.
Thanks man. Cool idea for a dynasty.

[Elendil]

Originally Posted by congobeast

Count me in.

I'll take the Pittsfield Hillies, logo enclosed.

If possible, I'd like 'em to have grand old Wahconah Park in Pittsfield MA as their home.

Details here, some pics here, and a little more of each here.

I'll work on players today.
Thanks man. Cool idea for a dynasty.

Cool! I saw the Hillies on ESPN Classic a few months ago. Too bad Pittsfield doesn't have a minor league team anymore, but the upside is that now it's eligible for this dynasty. So there you go...

[Matt from TN]

I'll be fielding the

Cooperstown Legends

That's right, and we'll be playing home games on Doubleday Field. My father-in-law grew up there & played on that field. He and his brothers will be leading our team.

[And1pg2]

I played on Doubleday last season for a modified baseball game against Cooperstown it was very fun.

[metsgeek]

Originally Posted by congobeast

Count me in.

Looks like I'll have to choose a new 3b. Jeff, we should make sure we don't duplicate players.

[congobeast]

Originally Posted by Elendil

Cool! I saw the Hillies on ESPN Classic a few months ago. Too bad Pittsfield doesn't have a minor league team anymore, but the upside is that now it's eligible for this dynasty. So there you go...

Yep.
I was actually there for that game. If you recall, there was an interview with 'Samuel Clemens' around the 7th- If you looked over his shoulder, you could see the back of my head.

I actually have some pics from that game. I should try to hunt them down and post 'em, maybe.

[congobeast]

Originally Posted by metsgeek

Looks like I'll have to choose a new 3b. Jeff, we should make sure we don't duplicate players.

I was planning on using myself and the QVOTB Expos (well, Nationals, now); and a few of the other guys from the league. Outside me, I wouldn't fret too much about crossover.

[Elendil]

Originally Posted by congobeast

Yep.
I was actually there for that game. If you recall, there was an interview with 'Samuel Clemens' around the 7th- If you looked over his shoulder, you could see the back of my head.

I actually have some pics from that game. I should try to hunt them down and post 'em, maybe.

Yep, I remember that. ("Samuel Clemens," not the back of your head. Although I probably did see the back of your head.)

[congobeast]

The Pittsfield Hillies thread now started here.

Signings to commence shortly.