As I continue to work out the final details for the PCL 1903-1957 Quickstart game, I wanted to publish a timeline for players to use (if they wish to try and follow the historical team configurations. The timeline provides all team moves, name changes, and historical playoff schedules.
Download table here.
Overview
NOTE: The Franchise 1-8 notations do not denote ownership, only a virtual organization of rosters.
The PCL started out with six teams in 1903. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake occurred, financial pressures and a decrease in interested forced the league to reduce to 4 teams in 1907-08. (If reproducing this detail, I would release the rosters for Fresno and Seattle to the Free Agents list.)
In 1909, the league returned to 6 teams, and stayed so until 1919. (OOTPs expansion options can be used in 1909. The 1914 San Francisco Missions should become the 1915 Salt Lake City Bees, and the 1917 Portland Beavers should become the 1918 Sacramento Solons.)
In 1919, the PCL expanded to 8 teams. (Use OOTPs expansion option).
From that point forward, teams(rosters) would be moved as shown.
The SS column represents seasons where the Split Season option was used, and the GC column represents the year the Governor's Cup was used (top four teams made the playoffs.)
The #G column represents a fair estimation of the number of game to be played each season based on history.
Summary
Of course, all of this is open to your own wishes. I can't guarantee ANY change will work (since I have not tried everything) but I suspect most things will if your careful and make backups before you try anything too far out.
I'm getting close to finishing the Quickstart, so with any kind of luck should have it posted in the near future.