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Originally Posted by Brad K
Small town, like wow, I haven't heard of a lot of them. Did you consider putting a team in Gnaw Bone?
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Thinking of creating some additional small town leagues as the game progresses ... Gnaw Bone is in Brown County, northeast of the area I'm working with right now, but that would work if I start a league for Brown, Bartholomew, Jackson, Monroe, Johnson and Morgan counties (which would include Bloomington and areas just south of Indianapolis.
I was born and raised in Bloomington, but my family was from Tell City. When my dad got a job teaching high school after a year in Houston, he wound up with us living in Leopold -- which even in 1992 when I was there had just 85 people lol ... at least Tell City now has about 8,000 ... but in the 1870s these towns all would have been way smaller ... only Evansville in the league as it stands would have had more than 30,000 people, most of the towns would have 500 or so, if that
I see it like high school basketball when it first got started in the state. When Hickory won the State title in the 50s, most county schools hadn't consolidated, so back then a sectional in, say, Perry County would have had dozens of small schools competing before they wound up facing the big boys in the center of the state. By the 1960s all those small schools had consolidated into three ... Tell City HS, Cannelton HS and Perry Central. Cannelton has fought off merging for decades now and is the smallest school in the state, with 60 students TOTAL, and that's now in 2025
Anyway, tldr, I wanted to see what OOTP could do with this kind of world. If I don't muck it up by playing with my files too much in the offseasons, maybe eventually we could have a system of competing independent Indiana small town leagues playing in this world