Okay, now for a big one, and the last one I finished before I got really, really sick in March: the
All-Ireland Baseball Championship.
It's meant to mimic the
Gaelic Athletic Association in that each county belonging to the four provinces of the Irish island fields a team, making for 32 teams in this league.
The main difference is that the GAA strictly sticks to geography for its divisions, meaning that there are wildly different numbers of teams in each provincial championship:
- Connacht: five
- Leinster: twelve
- Munster: six
- Ulster: nine
To make things work in an OOTP sense, I moved bordering counties around until each province had eight teams for competitive purposes. The teams in each provincial championship play each other a dozen times, making for an 84-game season that runs from June through August, with the All-Ireland Championships taking place early in September.
It took me wayyyyyyyyy too long to come up with suitable logos for the teams, so for names I used nicknames that county-level teams in the GAA already have. Some have several, so I picked one.
County names on the logos are in Irish, taken straight from the Gaelic Athletic Association website and cross-referenced with Wikipedia because I am by no means whatsoever an expert in Gaelic languages.
I'll break this league down over four posts so I can show jerseys, primary logos, and secondary logos.
CONNACHT PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIP
