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National Baseball League
The year is 1990, and the National Baseball League has been around for 95 years now. The league was founded in 1895 with a total of 16 teams. Of those 16 teams, 7 of them still play in their original cities, and 6 of those 7 teams are still playing under their original nicknames.
All team names are fictional, as are players. Each of the 30 real life Major League teams have a fictional "counterpart" in this league that is patterned after them and will at times behave like their real-life version (for example, the Miami team is likely going to go through multiple rebuilding processes, the New York and Los Angeles teams will spend lots of money, etc). But I will let you all figure out which teams represent which real-life ones (some will be easy to figure out; others maybe not so much). There will be some players in this league that are a direct parallel to a real-life player, but most of those players have retired by now, and there will not be very many of them going forward.
Teams have moved and re-branded over the years, and the league currently sits at 32 teams, with plans already in the works to add four more teams in the next ten years. It has not yet been determined exactly where these teams will play or when they will begin play, but there is plenty of speculation out there.
As for now, I will list the 32 teams that are playing up to this point, and will follow with a brief history of each team before getting into the season. I will not update with many individual games, but will provide updates throughout each season. Seasons are typically simmed a month at a time, pausing for the amateur draft (held on June 5 of each year) and the All-Star break in the middle of July.
The league is currently divided into 2 conferences (the American Baseball Conference and the National Baseball Conference). Each conference has 4 divisions, and the current playoff format is three rounds where only the division winners qualify; there have been wild cards in the past but the league currently does not have any. The wild card will come back in the future.
The current league configuration is as follows (the 16 original teams are in red):
ABC East
Baltimore Blackbirds
Boston Rebels
New York Knights
Pittsburgh Ironmen
ABC North
Buffalo Destroyers
Indiana Fireflies
Minnesota Lakers
Toronto Giants
ABC South
Atlanta Colonels
Cincnnati Silverbacks
Denver Wolves
Miami Gators
ABC West
California Stars
Oakland Panthers
San Diego Sharks
Seattle Sea Monsters
NBC East
Detroit Dragons
Montreal Dragonflies
New Jersey Stallions
Philadelphia Hornets
NBC North
Chicago Cardinals
Cleveland Lions
St. Louis Tigers
Wisconsin Bears
NBC South
Charlotte Roadrunners
Kansas City Cyclones
New Orleans Bobcats
Washington Eagles
NBC West
Dallas Coyotes
Houston Apollos
Los Angeles Captains
San Francisco Seals
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