Meanwhile over on Sim Dynasty, we have something exciting going on. To recap, Sim Dynasty owners guide their teams through drafts and trades and follow players’ careers season by season, trying to build a great team. The players aren’t real, but they perform statistically quite realistically.
I’ve been in the Tony Conigliaro League since it was founded, starting in the 1950 season. We have reached the 2196 World Series, to be played Wednesday. My team, the Brooklyn Blind Bats, is making its first trip to one since 2184. We lost that one attempting our first four-peat, but we reached five WS in six years.
It’s a long road back in a rebuild sometimes, and this one has not gone quickly for me. I haven’t paid as much attention to my SimD teams lately as I used to. They more or less go on autopilot all season except when injuries occur and for drafts and such. But I don’t trade as much as I used to or follow the storylines like I once did, in part because I do spend much more time micromanaging my WIS teams.
My Bats have won 33 titles in 62 WS appearances, the most of any owner. There are actually about 6 or 7 of us who have been around since the outset, which is about 15 real-life years by now. The TCL plays nine games per day, so we cycle through about 15-16 seasons in a calendar year, hence our league date being far in the future by now.
My opponent tomorrow is also an original owner, though he took a brief break at one point before rejoining, so the career stats are split in half. The Cleveland Badgers have 27 titles in 228 seasons, and they are three-time defending champions right now. Twice the Badgers have pulled off a four-peat, and no team has managed to win five straight in our 246 years.
It will all be over in one day, a best-of-seven series. Either it’s my turn to climb back to the pinnacle, or Cleveland makes history again with a title.
