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Originally Posted by LansdowneSt
This is all be impression based on reading various threads over the years but would love for a developer to chime in....
I believe there can only be one major league and that is MLB. I believe there may also have to be two divisions in the MLB. This came up as some of us were speculating how the Negro League's new MLB status would be incorporated into the game. It's more than just elevating the stats (like was done for the 1871-1875 NA in the game) to MLB stats - it'd be having the NeL teams in the game as a parallel MLB-rated league but there are limitations to that approach based on how the game was built from a coding perspective. You could have additional MLB divisions that don't play the "regular" MLB ones and free agency wpuld be smooth that way and trades too but those AltMLB stats will still all be on the same leaderboard and you'd need to think about post season and award consequences.
I think if you went with an *** set-up or even the 1920+ NeL approach as OOTP currently has it, where it is a separate AAA or foreign league, the players in-game would see it as a lesser league in all respects, I think. But maybe that's true to life.
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Hmmmmm this is interesting question......That would be a new fun way (challenge) to play the game. WHA did it.....ABA did it......it would be interesting to see if you had MLB and started a rogue Baseball league luring some free agents.....how long it would take to build up to x number of teams or which team would survive in dual city (ie should i create a team in CHI or Columbus ohio...)
So many things to look fw too with future enhancements once we get our sortable team stats :P