The (English) Baseball League (est. 1888): A History

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Champions and Emperor of India Cup Winners




Sunderland Black Cats

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Final Table

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Team Batting and Pitching

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Award Winners

Batsman of the Year: Harrison Whittington




Baseballer of the Year and Pitcher of the Year: Jesse Morgan




Newcomer of the Year: Jesse Lane

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Baseball League 1905
First Division League Leaders

Batting Leaders




Pitching Leaders

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Top Game Performances

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Top 20 Batsmen and Pitchers

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Top Systems

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Baseball League 1905
First Division Financial Report

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Originally Posted by Lafayette53

Really enjoying this one.I generally play my historical fictional leagues in a similar style (as "god") so seeing this sort of thing always gives me good ideas to use myself. Two questions, purely out of curiosity for running my own leagues--

1) Are all players products of the OOTP dev engine or are Bridgeman, Alastair Bolton, etc. created/customized by you?
2) Are teams restocked through a draft or in some other way?

Sorry, I missed this this afternoon. Glad you're enjoying the dynasty.

1) The OOTP engine creates all players, but in the service of moving the story along, I may adjust certain attributes for some players. In this case, Harold Bridgeman was created as a young free agent signed by Chesterfield. To fit the nobility narrative, I decided to change his last name to that of a real noble family, and of course his birthplace to that of the real Bridgemans, but everything else about him, including his abilities, I did not touch, and his career will evolve as the OOTP fates decide. Alastair Bolton is a freak, like Babe Ruth. I have no idea how such an outlier happened.

2) There is no draft, because there's no such thing in English football (although there's always talk about starting one), and that structure is what this world is trying to recast as a baseball thing. So in my dynasty, teams magically restock themselves every year, and several dozen new free agents are created by the game at the end of each season. In addition to the 700 or so active and reserve rostered players spread across the twenty teams in each division, there is a pool of maybe a couple hundred additional free agents floating around. Some guys stay in that pool for several years before a team signs him. Most of them eventually drop out. But the system, which I simply let happen on its own, works really well for the most part.

On the flip side, we just had the case of a pretty good player for ten or so years get cut by a team after the 1900 season. He stayed in the free agent pool for five years unsigned, and this year he just announced his retirement. So, he doesn't get a gold watch from anyone.

There can be some blips. Recently one of the Central League teams played a portion of its season with only eight players on its roster, and ended up playing the same guy at both pitcher and another position simultaneously and batting him twice in the order in a few games. I have no idea how that could even happen, but after I noticed it, I had to go in and manually stock them with CL free agents so they would have a full team. But other than that, things seem to be going pretty well overall on that front.

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Results

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Promoted Club

Hull City Tigers

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Promoted Club

Burnley Clarets

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Final Table

Two non-league sides challenged the three Second Division sides who needed to seek re-election in the vote for League membership. Voting (number of votes):

36      Derby County         Re-elected to the League
32	Manchester City      Re-elected to the League
21	Bury                 Re-elected to the League
20	Woolwich Arsenal     Not elected to the League
5       South Shields        Not elected to the League

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Team Batting and Pitching

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Award Winners


Baseballer of the Year, Batsman of the Year, Newcomer of the Year: Joshua Lloyd




Pitcher of the Year: Matthew Bird

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division League Leaders

Batting Leaders

Pitching Leaders

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Top Game Performances

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Top 20 Batsmen and Pitchers

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Baseball League 1905
Second Division Top Systems