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Fictional all the way. Choose a foreign country and design what thier system might look like if baseball was their sport and not the US's. I personally love to choose Australia because of the size, geography, and English names. Other good choices maybe Brazil, Russia, India... You get the idea. Theres a huge immersion value i get about creating and learning about these fictional teams that i just cant get out of MLB. MLB teams already have history, I already have expectations about how they should perform, who their rivals are, and what visually they look like. Same goes for players. Fictional removes the biases and allows me to have a fresh look at everything. If fictional seems like a lot to manage start small. 8-10 teams and only a couple levels of minors. Once you got it balanced how you'd like then expand more levels of minors and extra major league teams. This gives your league a dynamic aspect and keeps it manageable. Certainly though sim out 10 years and reset history before really starting this will minimize extremes form the inagural class and let the universe balance out
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