University of Florida Gators (Gainesville), Stadium: Land Shark Stadium

1. 1950 Al Rosen (Cleveland)
2. 1959 Casey Wise (Milwaukee Braves) - Hank Aaron
3. 1986 Rob Murphy (Cincinnati)
4. 1986 Marc Sullivan (Boston) - Roger Clemens
5. 1993 Robby Thompson (SF) - Barry Bonds
6. 2000 Mike Stanley (Boston) - Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra
7. 2008 David Eckstein (Toronto)
8. 2011 Ryan Raburn (Detroit) - Justin Verlander, Doug Fister, Alex Avila, Miguel Cabrera
9. 2013 Paco Rodriguez (LA) - Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen, J.P. Howell
10. 2014 Darren O'Day (Baltimore) - Andrew Miller, Zach Britton, Steve Pearce

I've got the league and division breakdowns determined.  We have 5 people who have 2 teams (10 out of the 24 teams) so that made it challenging to figure out how to put teams in seperate leagues for multi-team owners but still maintain some connection within divisions.  Everything, though, does have some logic behind it for conference and/or regional affiliation.

Edited since Wichita State is being subbed in for Washington State

NL East (the 4 northeast schools):
Fordham
Holy Cross
Columbia
Boston Univ

NL Central (all long time Big 10 Schools):
Illinois
Michigan
Michigan St.
Wisconsin

NL West (the 4 Southern California schools):
USC
UCLA
San Diego St.
Cal St. University-Long Beach


AL East (the 2 ACC schools and the 2 SEC schools):
Florida
Missouri
North Carolina
Notre Dame

AL Central (3 have been in the Big 12, Texas & TCU currently and Nebraska previously, plus Wichita State is regional fit with Nebraska):
Texas
TCU
Nebraska
Wichita State

AL West (the 3 northern California schools plus ASU, which is in region with them and is a Pac 12 school along with Stanford):
Arizona State
Stanford
Sacramento City College
St. Mary's



There are obvious affiliations I would have liked to put together (like Nebraska and Mizzou, or ASU with either Pac-12 or Cali schools, or have a Pac 12 division) but just couldn't get to work because of teams needing to be in seperate leagues and/or doing so would cause other divisions to not make any sense.  I think these at least ended up with some reasonable basis, whether regionally or conference wise.

So if I switched from WSU to Wichita St you could have an all Pac-12 division, put the Shockers in the AL Central where geographically they make sense, and have an all California small school division?

Posted by Got_Worms on 10/27/2014 9:47:00 PM (view original):
So if I switched from WSU to Wichita St you could have an all Pac-12 division, put the Shockers in the AL Central where geographically they make sense, and have an all California small school division?

Unfortunately it isn't that easy.  With 5 owners having multiple teams, there are a lot of constraints.  The pairs that need to be split into different leagues are:  Holy Cross/Texas; Wisconsin/Notre Dame; Illinois/Stanford; St. Mary's/Michigan;  San Diego St./Sacramento City

So the problems with the scenario of adding Wichita St. and having an all PAC-12 division plus an all small school Cali division are:  1. San Diego St. and Sac City can't be in the same league; 2. If Illinois and Michigan stay together then both St. Mary's and Stanford have to be in the other league;  Even if #1 wasn't a barrier, if you put both West Coast divisions in the same league, you can't move either ND (since they can't be in same league as Wisky) nor Texas (since they can't be in the same league as Holy Cross) over to the other side, which means there isn't another division you could trade for in order to move the current west division out of the NL.

That said, if you want to swap Wichita St. in for WSU, we can move ASU to the same division as Stanford and then slip Wichita St. in with Nebraska and the Texas schools.  That probably is an improvement overall since the Neb/Wich St./Texas/TCU division would be pretty cohesive and ASU with Stanford and 2 other northern Cali Schools is similar to the 3 northern Cali schools plus WSU. 

Or you could have this:

AL West:
Stanford
Cal St.-Long Beach
St. Mary's
Sac City College

NL West:
USC
UCLA
ASU
San Diego St.


At least you get 3 Pac-12 schools together, plus I think ASU and San Diego St. used to be in the same conference (WAC) so there is history there as well.

great, great job on the divisions any way you slice it .I like it.Now, let's just get going!

Wichita State Shockers playing at Royals Stadium

2012 Andy Dirks - Detroit Tigers (Miguel Cabrera)
1997 Mike Lansing - Montreal Expos (Pedro Martinez)
2009 Casey Blake - Los Angeles Dodgers (Jonathan Broxton)
1969 Don Lock - Boston Red Sox (Rico Petrocelli)
1999 Pat Meares - Pittsburgh Pirates (Brian Giles)
1994 Charlie O'Brien - Atlanta Braves (Greg Maddux)
1992 Eric Wedge - Boston Red Sox (Roger Clemens)
1989 Rick Wrona - Chicago Cubs (Les Lancaster)
1914 Claude Hendrix - Chicago Whales (Rankin Johnson)
1997 Darren Dreifort - Los Angeles Dodgers (Mike Piazza)

Other Shockers players used:
1986 Joe Carter - Cleveland Indians
1972 Ken Berry - California Angels
1961 Daryl Spencer - St. Louis Cardinals
2004 Doug Mirabelli - Boston Red Sox
2002 Braden Looper - Florida Marlins