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#NABA : Behind the Scenes

As I've mentioned before, the idea behind this sim had three prompts: first, baseball nostalgia; second, experimentation; and third, frustration behind our current politics. The whole scenario is set up like a model railroad and the league is run based on the setup.

First, the boundaries. The majority of the Eastern League is based in the East Coast Alliance, a breakaway republic of all the eastern seaboard states north of Virginia. In the West, there's an independent California, and independent Cascadia consisting of Oregon and Washington, and even an independent Hawaii and independent Alaska. (In real life, the states would likely fracture internally and not break along nice even lines, but I didn't feel like getting that involved in it.) Ten teams are in the Western and Eastern Leagues - none come from what remains of the U.S. (which is presumed to still have MLB, but I don't attempt to simulate it as a rival league). I'm considering other leagues in later seasons, and doing a promotion-and-relegation agreement between the leagues.

The rules are pretty much reverted to back in the day: no time clocks, no DHs, no phantom runners, and so on. #fossil #DontCare

The players are a mix of made-up names or characters, and old-time players brought back at various points in their careers. For the former, I created players from the newly-independent countries, as well as bringing in a small but significant number of foreign players. Players from Europe or Africa? Why not? As for the real major leaguers, I brought in not only Hall of Famers I liked, but also weird and interesting stars, regular guys, bench players, and complete scrubs from baseball's modern-day history. Whatever made for the best story. Is Cal Ripken going to progress from his rookie year as he did in real life? Can Ralph Kiner hit more home runs if we cure his back problem and bring him back? What if Roberto Clemente's plane hadn't crashed? Yes, Moonlight Graham is in the game...so is Boots Poffenberger, because a name that excellent can't *not* be included. And so on.

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