Here we go... this will be an ongoing running field of what is added and listed for this....
Below will have the list of leagues. In ()'s is the year they begin IN THE GAME, not when the league was inaugurated. Abbreviations List is below.
ITALICS INDICATES NEW FORMAT ADDED BY 1982!
Pyramid
British Baseball Pyramid- National Baseball League (ML)
- British Triple-A League (P2)
- British Double-A (P3)
Italian Baseball Pyramid- Italian Baseball League (ML)
- Italia Serie A (P2)
- Italia Serie B (P3)
- Coppa Italia Serie C (P4)
French Baseball Pyramid- French Elite Baseball (ML)
- French Division 2 (P2)
Dutch Baseball Pyramid- Honkbal Hoofdklasse (ML)
- Honkbal Overgangsklasse (2D)
Spanish Baseball Pyramid- Spanish Baseball League (ML)
- Liga Nacional de Beisbol Division de Honor (P2)
- Liga Nacional de Beisbol 1a Division (P3)
Major Leagues- Continental League (North America, AAA/AA/A/R)
- Indian Premier League (two levels of minor leagues)
- Cuban League (locked, non-movement)
- Japanese Pro Baseball Organization (tehsuigi's creation; see more on his post-will link later)
- Korea Professional Baseball
International Leagues- West German Baseball Bundesliga
- Belgian Baseball League
- Mexican League
- Australian Baseball Federation
- Welsh Premiership
- Czechoslovak Baseball Federation
- Baseball Philippines
- Swedish Eliteserien
- Egyptian Premier League (two minor leagues)
- Finnish Pesapallolitto
- Federation Tunisienne de Baseball (Tunisia)
- Palau Major League
- Danish Championship League
- Yugoslavia Baseball Organization
Minor/Developmental League Levels added by 1982- India Rookie League (R)
- Egyptian Minor Leagues (Reserve-A- and Rookie League)
- Cape Cod League (Summer Collegiate League - DL)
International Tournaments- World Cup (x4, next edition is 1971/1983)
- Intercontinental Cup (x2)
- Amateur World Series
- Pan American Championship
- World Junior Baseball Championship (Under-19, begins annually; later becomes the U-18 Baseball World Cup)
- Asian Baseball Championship
- European Baseball Championship
- African Cup (x4)
- Oceanic Championship (x4)
- Pan American Baseball Classic
- World Cup Qualifiers
- South American Championship
- European Junior Championship (x2, Later becomes U-18 European Championship)
- European Youth Championship (x2, Later becomes U-15 European Championship)
- Pacific Islands Challenge (x4, Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Northern Marianas battle for Pacific Island supremacy)
Multi-Sport Events that have baseball- Olympiad (x4)
- Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games
- Bolivarian Games
- Central American Games (x4)
Club Tournaments:
European Champions League (European First Division League champions plus the ECL and ENL Champions)
European Nations League (regular season best record or next best from the First Division European Leagues)
What is locked, non-movement? Reserve Clause with no players allowed to leave league or free agents to join league.
The list of international tournaments added since 1970
I plan on most likely disabling the Champions and Nations Leagues come 1996, since you have to manually make the changes.
Two somewhat radical changes made to two major leagues by 1982:
The
Continental League decides instead of an East-West split, that with the expanded playoffs coming for the 1982 season, they have adopted the moniker of the American and National Leagues, with the AL carrying the DH and the NL choosing not to do so. This calls for radical realignment. In the historical markers, the American League is the de facto Eastern Conference from 1961-1981, with the National League the de facto Western Conference during that same timeframe.
The other change is in the
Spanish Baseball League. With a promotion/relegation pyramid in place, the East and West Divisions have been changed to Classment A and Classment B, breaking away from regional divisions and grouping classments by making sure other teams within the same region are not there, unless more than two exist at the top level.
The multiple teams in regions plays into effect in lower divisions of the
European Pyramid. At the top level, the leagues prefer clubs from the same city (Liverpool, Paris, Madrid as examples) or regional area to be placed in different sub-leagues or divisions, where possible. In the levels below the first division (MAJOR LEAGUE or MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE), these clubs tend to share the same group, region, or division to offset travel costs. Therefore, it is possible that at the Italia Serie B level that three teams from Milan share the same group, whereas two teams from Torino (Turin) are in opposite sub-leagues.
Abbreviations List:
ML - Major League
INT - International League
A- - Class A Short Season
R - Rookie League
SCL - Summer Collegiate Development League
#D - Which level on the Pyramid it is