BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
18 October 2301
Buses Get Makeover
CBO artist Erin Reische has revealed the addition to CBO team buses for the 2302 season. Instead of having plain frames, the graphical artist team for the CBO will paint logos and team names on all 24 buses across the league.
Artist rendering of the new-look team buses:
Since the Corvega plant has been open, they have made it a priority to keep the league moving. Each team has employed a bus driver and mechanic to guarantee that teams can make all games.
Commissioner Nate Howard has talked about the possibility of expanding the league's schedule and removing the "river border" when scheduling season games. At this point, all CBO teams play 108 games with 60 of those games against their own league (6 home and 6 away per team) and the other 48 games (4 home and 4 away per team) coming against the other league in their association.
Howard has begun talks to see if teams could add 48 additional games with a 2 home-2 away structure versus the other association. There is also a possibility that those numbers could be fewer with possibilities of playing as few as 12 total games against the other association where there would be a 4-year rotation versus the association and different home and away structures each year.
For example, the Abernathy Adamantium would play their regular 108-game schedule. They would also play the following sort of rotation over a four-year period:
Year 1 vs Minutemen League
6 home games total vs Atom, Goodneighbor, and Jamaica Plain
6 road games total vs Quincy, University Point, and Warwick
Year 2 vs Railroad League
6 home games total vs Diamond City, Egret, and FHE
6 road games total vs Oberland, Roxbury, and Vault 81
Year 3 vs Minutemen League
6 road games total vs Atom, Goodneighbor, and Jamaica Plain
6 home games total vs Quincy, University Point, and Warwick
Year 4 vs Railroad League
6 road games total vs Diamond City, Egret, and FHE
6 home games total vs Oberland, Roxbury, and Vault 81
According to Howard, schedule change considerations are not planned for the 2302 season.
"We're still building our pool of players," Howard said. "With more games, there will be more injuries, so we need to ensure that teams can field a competitive team before we start adding even more games on the schedule."
Asked if the increase in numbers of games would move the caps salary above the current numbers, he stated that it would. Currently, five players per CBO team are paid 10,800 caps per season or 100 caps per game for the regular season; five more players are paid 8100 caps or 75 caps per game; and the remaining 15 players are paid 6480 caps per season or 60 caps per game.