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THE
Golden Age of Baseball is a project that has been in the works for
nearly 4 months. After a few attempts at other online historical
leagues, which I mostly found unfulfilling due to their historical
inaccuracies, I decided to make what I hope will be the most
historically accurate online league in OOTP.
In most historic
leagues that use the Ankits or Lahman databases, amateur players are introduced to
the game in the year they appeared
in the major leagues, rather than the year they were actually drafted. They
also appear either major league ready, or near major league ready. All
of which leads to a not very "real" experience.
After looking for
ways around these issues, I've decided that each year, we will
"create" the real life ammy's in
the year they were actually drafted. In order to do this and not miss
any players I, (with much help might I add) went back through the
1972-1977 drafts and added all the players who were in major league
systems but who had not
reached the majors by 1977.
These players
would have been introduced in later years in most historical leagues,
but in GABL, they are found in the minor league systems in which they
belong. Significant players such as Paul Molitor,
Ozzie Smith, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell, Rickey Henderson, Jack Morris,
Wade Boggs, Lee Smith, Dale Murphy, Rick Sutcliffe, Willie
Wilson were all added to their actual teams minor league systems.
This league was
assembled on an invitation only basis with only owners that I had
played in other sim leagues with and are what
I consider to be the true "best of the best" of ootp. I look forward to many exciting sim seasons as we recreate a little bit of history.
And hopefully I can end the Cubs curse a little earlier
than...............who knows. I guess it still hasn't ended.
Welcome to GABL.
Now, Lets Get it ON!!!
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