[Joe Canadian]

Originally Posted by ctorg

This reminds me of something I did once. A favorite way to play for me is to sim out a history and then take over a team either after an expansion or after a crisis. One morbid scenario I've played out a few times is one where a team loses all its players in a fiery plane crash except for a few random ones who either weren't on the plane or survived.

One time, the way I did it was I picked out the team with the best record on September 27th - a few days before season's end - and killed them off. I gave the whole league a week off (pre-scheduled, knowing I would do this) as a sort of grieving period. I imagined people debating whether to go on with the season, then deciding the dead guys would have wanted them to.

Having already clinched the title, the team went on to the playoffs and promptly lost with their minor leaguers. The did win one game, which I imagined as a great story, but that was it.

I took over in the offseason, thinking I'd have a terrible team because I wouldn't have any good players (except one surviving pitcher who was very good). I managed to make some really good free agent signings and the team went on to have an even better record the next year and win the World Series.

Would have been quite a story in real life. Can you imagine the high regard people would have for the GM of a team like that in real life?

That's a great idea, I think I may use it when I get the hang of historical leagues.