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Originally Posted by David Watts
Hoping I've finally found a league to stick with. Last 2 years, I've played a ton of OOTP, but haven't been able to keep a league running for as long as I like to. Keep stopping and starting. I've went back to what I love. Small 1 subleague 12 team league. Started with no divisions, but have since split the league into 2 divisions. The I-20 Division, Fort Worth, Texarkana, Shreveport, Alexandria, Jackson and Birmingham. The I-10 Division, Corpus Christi, Beaumont, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Biloxi and Mobile. I started the league in 1947 and I'm now up to the midway point of the 1952 season. Birmingham has somehow managed to acquire both Clayton Kershaw and Felix Hernandez leading them to 3 Championships in the first 5 seasons. Baton Rouge(inaugural season) and Shreveport won the other 2.
Shreveport has been dreadful for 4 out of the 5 seasons played, but managed to put it altogether for one championship run. During that run, they were led by Urban Shocker(27 win season) and Carl Crawford. Both players would sign elsewhere the following season and the Shreveport team would fall from the top to the very bottom. Midway through the 52 season they once again have the worst record in baseball.
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This is with OOTP16 or OOTP18? Not that it matters. What matters is that you've created a league that can hold your interest until you get into the interesting decisions like the HoF, seasonal awards, the all-star game etc etc etc and you get a history going with the players.
My oldest retired player who actually played in my league is Jesse Orosco, who's now 97 and pitched the inaugural season of the league as a 45 year old. 1B Roy Sievers, 1B Jim Pendleton, RP Mike G Marshall, 2B Bobby Lowe, CL Chief Bender (used as a closer because he was 41 in the inaugural season), and RP Ellis Kinder are all 90+ years old as well.
Goodness knows how many guys who didn't play at all fell through the cracks over the 53 seasons (even though I have the "Delete those who never reached Majors" box unchecked), but it's probably a sizeable amount. It looks like it's about 25%, as I've brought 5,066 players into this league over the years, and there are 3,817 retired + active players in the "Retired & Active Players" tab, which means 1,249 have gone missing over the years due to no playing time in the majors. Wish this didn't happen, but it does seem to regardless of whether you check that box or not.
I also have 57 players currently in my HoF, which means that the hall is letting in 1.13% of all (5,066) players who ever played. In real life, that number is 1.15% (220 MLB players of the 19,180 that have ever suited up), so that's another thing my current game is doing really well.