Historical League Forming

[Bulldog1]

Legendsport,
 
Chicago Cubs are available, will not be able to participate.
 
Good Luck!
 
Bulldog

[Moebius]

I'd love to give the league a go. If the Cubs are available, I'll take them. Otherwise give me the Athletics.

[Dirtdog20]

Count me in for the Athletics if they are still available please.

Or the Indians if the A's are taken by the above request.

[legendsport2k]

OK, it looks like we're full.

Here's the rundown as I have it:

National League
Boston Braves - Alan Abel
Brooklyn Dodgers - dneely
Chicago Cubs - Moebius
Cincinnati Reds - Jerry McCook
New York Giants - Brandon Dudley
Philadelphia Phillies - Big Papa Gil
Pittsburgh Pirates - Edward
St. Louis Cardinals - Steve Platt

American League
Boston Red Sox - Steve May
Chicago White Sox - Shaun Sullivan
Cleveland Indians - Fouts
Detroit Tigers - Jim Grimley
New York Yankees - Joe Cronin (aka legendsport)
Philadelphia Athletics - Dirtdog20
St. Louis Browns - Deltadog
Washington Senators - jeremy7227

[dneely]

The management of the Brooklyn Dodgers are ready to go!!

[Dirtdog20]

Looking forward to returning the A's to the days of Connie Mack.

[8D]

[PadresFan104]

Is anyone going to host a league website or post the HTML generated from PureSim?  I'd like to follow along...

[legendsport2k]

ORIGINAL: PadresFan104

Is anyone going to host a league website or post the HTML generated from PureSim? I'd like to follow along...

Yep - as commish, I'll be doing that. I'm finalizing the league file so that we can hopefully run the draft right after the New Year.

[jandb1215]

ill give it a shot.........if the Red Sox are available Ill take Fenway....Bill

[legendsport2k]

ORIGINAL: jandb1215

ill give it a shot.........if the Red Sox are available Ill take Fenway....Bill

Sorry Bill, we're full. But if you want to follow again, when an opening comes up, you'd certainly be welcome to jump onboard.

[jandb1215]

thx much

[jeremy7227]

The Senators are ready to go. Looking forward to this! What's a good IM chat medium for you other managers? We ought to have an off-board comm method. Y, AIM, MSN all work for me.

[legendsport2k]

If everyone can PM (or email me at commish@legendsport.com) their contact info, I can create a contact list and host it on my site behind the subscription wall, so it'll be safe from spammers - only league members will be able to access it. You'd all have to join the site, but I send no spam, and it'll also allow you to post news articles on your team, allow you access to a league forum for posting trade bait and so on, etc.

http://www.legendsport.com is the site if you want to sign up.

Once you sign up, please PM me or email me to let me know who you are (in case your user name on my site isn't the same as the one here).

[legendsport2k]

The league file is ready. I've finished adding the real players needed (recent retirees and Negro Leaguers) to avoid having any fictional players at all.

I will send the link for the league file to those who have either signed up on the league site at legendsport.com or have either PM'd or emailed me their contact info.

Here's a list of the Negro League greats who are in the league (for the guys who played in the majors later, their Negro League stats were used for their "early" entry):

Newt Allen
Cool Papa Bell
Chet Brewer
Willard Brown
Ray Brown
Bill Byrd
Roy Campanella
Ray Dandridge
Leon Day
Josh Gibson
Sammy T. Hughes
Monte Irvin
Buck Leonard
Buck O'Neil
Satchel Paige
Hilton Smith
Willie Wells

The 1942 season will see Larry Doby join the league as a true rookie, and also will include a few other rooks from the Negro League ranks. Every one of the above players is either in the Hall of Fame or was a candidate in the recent special election.

It is extremely cool to see their "real life" stats in Puresim. All the stats are based on actual Negro League statistics as put together during the research for the special HOF election. I adjusted them to MLB-length seasons and tweaked them based on the differential between Negro League totals vs. same-season MLB totals. For example, say the Negro Leagues hit .254 in Season X while the MLB average for that season was .260 - the Negro Leaguers would have their averages adjusted upward and Negro League pitchers would see their hits allowed increase.

Sorry for the long post, but I'm psyched about this league getting off the ground.

If you haven't gotten your contact info to me, please do so asap.

Thanks,
Joe

[legendsport2k]

Just waiting on contact info from the following four GMs (you can either email it to me at commish@legendsport.com, PM me here, or sign up on legendsport.com - your email address will be hidden from anyone not in the league, you have my word):

dneely
Fouts
Edward
Big Papa Gil

[Dirtdog20]

Outstanding work.  Maybe we can get Buck O'Neil into the HOF before he dies this time. 

[:@] at the nattering naybobs who kept him out.

[Fouts]

I signed up on the website.  Looking forward to getting started.

[Edward]

I signed up at the web site. The upper management of the Pirates are ready to win now.

Here is a photo of Josh Gibson at Forbes Field at one of our pre draft try outs.

[dneely]

Joe:

I sent you my info via a PM and I signed up on the web site. As I said before the Dodgers are ready to go.

[legendsport2k]

Just waiting on Big Papa Gil now...

And 5 teams have gotten their draft profiles submitted.