Post by CSCommish on Jul 1, 2013 11:12:43 GMT -5
The Hall of Fame Fantasy Baseball League (HOFFBL) is an online baseball league using Out of the Park Baseball 5 (OOTP5), a free baseball simulator by Out of the Park Developments. The game can be downloaded here: ootpdevfiles.com/ootp/ootp5freesetup.exe
The HOFFBL will attempt to recreate baseball history as closely as possible starting in (1942-1954) with the season start date as voted by the team owners. The Commissioner is Chris S. Cosenza.
The league will be structured as it was in (1942-1954), which consisted of two (2) leagues, an American and National League, each with eight (8) teams, for a total of 16 teams. The two (2) teams that finish in first place at the end of the 154-game regular season will face off in a best-of-7 World Series. The league will attempt to expand and realign at the same time as Major League Baseball had done so and the playoff structure will change accordingly.
Owners will participate by managing a team: signing free agents, drafting high school and college players and amateur free agents, trading with each other as well as ensuring that their team finances are sound, all in an effort to win the World Series. New stadiums will NOT be introduced in the year they were in real life; therefore, it will be the responsibility of owners to change the stadium dimensions (park ratings), stadium capacity, renovate the existing stadium or construct a new stadium.
The main difference in HOFFBL from other typical historic OOTP leagues is that most leagues introduce amateur players in the year that they actually began playing in the major leagues, and most of these amateurs are major league ready the year they are introduced, which is not realistic at all. In HOFFBL, just like in the GABL, great pains have been taken to go back through all of the transactions back into the 1940's and add all the "missing" minor league players as well as bring back major league players who had taken season(s) off to serve in the military.
The HOFFBL will attempt to recreate baseball history as closely as possible starting in (1942-1954) with the season start date as voted by the team owners. The Commissioner is Chris S. Cosenza.
The league will be structured as it was in (1942-1954), which consisted of two (2) leagues, an American and National League, each with eight (8) teams, for a total of 16 teams. The two (2) teams that finish in first place at the end of the 154-game regular season will face off in a best-of-7 World Series. The league will attempt to expand and realign at the same time as Major League Baseball had done so and the playoff structure will change accordingly.
Owners will participate by managing a team: signing free agents, drafting high school and college players and amateur free agents, trading with each other as well as ensuring that their team finances are sound, all in an effort to win the World Series. New stadiums will NOT be introduced in the year they were in real life; therefore, it will be the responsibility of owners to change the stadium dimensions (park ratings), stadium capacity, renovate the existing stadium or construct a new stadium.
The main difference in HOFFBL from other typical historic OOTP leagues is that most leagues introduce amateur players in the year that they actually began playing in the major leagues, and most of these amateurs are major league ready the year they are introduced, which is not realistic at all. In HOFFBL, just like in the GABL, great pains have been taken to go back through all of the transactions back into the 1940's and add all the "missing" minor league players as well as bring back major league players who had taken season(s) off to serve in the military.