SLB '09: Major League Entries & Signups

Back for its third year, the SLB gives your city the opportunity to host a Major League baseball team (or two) in your city, and to compete for the coveted World Series trophy. In order to host a team, your metropolitan area must have a baseball stadium and at least 100,000 simizens, and to host a second team in the same city will require a population over 1 million.

The league will again be split into the Simtropolis League and the SC4Devotion League, and each prospective owner will be limited to three SLB teams, with a maximum of two teams in either league.

The season will run parallel with the real MLB season, from April to October, with the World Series scheduled for the end of October. The games will be simulated using the 'Out of the Park' (OOTP) baseball simulator, which will provide the statistical overload that baseball is known for. Over the course of the next month or two I will be getting everything in place in terms of team logos, colours etc., so when you post your team details, please include all the necesary information as it is needed to set up the simulator.

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Post your team's details here to enter. We will need all existing teams to reconfim their place in the SLB. If your team is new to the Major Leagues, an overview picture of your city / stadium will be required to show you have the necessary population base (100,000 Sims minimum).

Teams entered through SimSports can nominate which League (Simtropolis or SC4Devotion) they wish to participate in, subject to the 2 teams per league / 3 teams overall limits.

When you post your team's details, please include the following as we need them for setting up the simulator:

City Name
Team Name
Logo (I can make one if you like)
League (ST or SC4D)
Home Field
Team Colours
Real-World Nationality (where most of your players will come from)
Location (only needed if you're in a big country, ie northwestern USA)


The 2009 Simtropolis AAA Leagues will be organised in April, so hold fire on those teams for now.

hey joe all 3 teams are returning the
ST League
Rorysville Railcats
Marceau Voltiguers
SC4D League
Borderline Biscuits

let me know if you need me to sign up all the info as well

and I'll wait till april for the AAA Returnies

No I think I still have all yours.

ok great oh one thing has changed the stadium names
Rorysville still plays in the Ballpark at HFV
Marceau plays in the Marceau Mountain Ballpark
and Borderline plays in the MetroJet Park

City Name: Escambia City
Team Name: Escambia Pelicans
Logo:

League (ST or SC4D) ST
Home Field: AT&T Park
Team Colours: Royal Blue and Gold
Real-World Nationality:
Dominican Republic or Caribbean
Location: West Escambia

City Shot:

Population went shot was taken, 401,777

Can teams progress from the minors to the majors? If so can you bump my team(s) into the major league please?

Yes they can.
Fortuna can have one team if its population is over 100,000, and two if its over 1 million.

Okay great, in that case I'd like to sign up both of Fortuna's teams to the Major League please .

Hopefully they can improve on their performance in the Winter league, not holding out much hope though .

Well there should be less competition - only 40-odd other teams!

I'll still need you to fill out a form (at the top) for each team though - there's more than just team names to deal with

Ah, of course.

City Name: Fortuna
Team Name: Fortuna Grizzlies
Logo: https://2img.net/h/i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/Top_Slacker/Aurora/Grizzlies.gif
League: ST
Home Field: Homefield Park
Team Colours: White, with a hint of burgundy
Real-World Nationality: UK

City Name: Fortuna
Team Name: Fortuna Keys
Logo: https://2img.net/h/i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/Top_Slacker/Aurora/Keys-2.png
League: ST
Home Field: Hitchingfield
Team Colours: Black, with a hint of orange
Real-World Nationality: UK

I might have to put your teams in opposite leagues since:
1) I don't want to put both your teams in the same division;
2) There are no convenient divisional boundaries anywhere near the UK;
3) The ST League currently has twice as many teams as the SC4D League, and I want them roughly even;
4) It's the only way you'll ever get a Keys-Grizzlies World Series.

Any objections to that Slacker?
(Welcome to the Majors, btw )

That all sounds fine . Probably best to have the local rivalries not playing each other on a regular basis, Fortuna's riot police have enough on their hands as it is!

City Name: Utan
Team Name: Utan Suns
Logo:

League (ST or SC4D) ST
Home Field: Kiji National Field
Team Colours: Red Black and Yellow
Real-World Nationality:
Caribbean
Location: Kiji

I almost forgot to post on this

City Name: Hypertrophy
Team Name: Ravens
Logo


League: ST
Home Field: Vesper Fields (Hypertrophy,HK)


Team Colours: White and Teal (vice versa if away)
Real-World Nationality: Carribean, Japanese, American & Canadian
Location: Kingdom of Hypertrophy

If you could update the Winter League runner up Westsiders that would be wonderful, I started the the Thomson Aviators a while back and since have deleted that city so you can remove that team that would be great.

SimAl wrote:City Name: Utan
Team Name: Utan Suns

Glad to have you and Utan here SimAl although we already have a team named the Suns with a suspiciously similar logo. Is there another nickname you could use?

dljrfn2000 wrote:If you could update the Winter League runner up Westsiders that would be wonderful, I started the the Thomson Aviators a while back and since have deleted that city so you can remove that team that would be great.

No probs


Also, since I have a huge imbalance of teams some people may be moved into the SC4D League to even up numbers a bit. I imagine it would actually improve your chances of winning too!

I hove no objection of my team moving to SC4D to help the teams balance out.

The new name is the Sea dogs

Logo:

Thanks anarchy and SimAl

SLB09 entries will be closing SATURDAY, MARCH 28. If you miss this date, you'll have to wait for 2010 to join the big leagues.

The only way to get in after that date is if we have an uneven number of teams and I have to put in a filler team. I can replace the filler team, but you'll have to beg, grovel, and probably bribe me as well.

lol well joe I could always use a 4th(if it came down to odd team #'s) LOL

hows it balancing out SC4D League wise?

Still 2:1 in favour of ST, which is a big imbalance when you have 47 teams!
I'll just shift some across to even it out though.

kk
hey outta curiosity are Marceau and Rorysville Gonna end up in the same division? If not I'd like to request that lol(same league I know but same Division would be awesome that way they get a good batch of games vs. each other)

I have tried to separate teams so the season doesn't just become (say) canuck v canuck. Plus when they do meet, there should be something on the line at the end of the season

I think I also turned interleague games on, for those who end up on opposite sides of the draw.

I know but I've always liked having the division rivalry that way say it becomes RV v Marceau for the division that makes it worth something more than just wins v a conference opponent