Hello, I'm really interested in running a simulated Fantasy Grand Slam League, where players can manage a team, and they can bet money trying to predict who will win the games.
Grand Slam is a variation of Baseball where the teams take turns at every at-bat (Team A sends a pitcher against Team B's pitcher, the positions on the bases are saved, and then Team B sends a pitcher against Team A's batter, and so on.)
The Fantasy part is because I was planning to hold these teams with a Fantasy theme, i.e. instead of humans we can have teams of the Hydras fighting against Cyclops, or something.
A player would sign up and pick a fantasy creature or a fantasy character theme (say, heroes from Greek Mythology) and I'd generate a team for them. They can also send the names for 9 players of their team, otherwise they'd be auto-generated. Players can also send numbers for every single of their cards to have a customized team (do it in spoilers, it's against the rules to take a look at the numbers on the cards of other players before the League starts). They would also be told what team they have to face, and pick a pitcher and their batter order.
Players can also send as many fantasy creatures or theme suggestions for the teams they'll be competing against.
The system is where games will be simulated by me is on the following spoiler
Each team consists of 9 players, each player has three numbers. Every event is decided by matching up the pitcher's card with the first number of the batter's card. These are numbers from 0 to 6. Who wins is determined by the chart:
0 beats: 4, 5 and 6
1 beats: 0, 3 and 5
2 beats: 0, 1 and 6
3 beats: 0, 2 and 4
4 beats: 1, 2 and 5
5 beats: 2, 3 and 6
6 beats: 1, 3 and 4
Note that beating the opponent doesn't mean you get a positive outcome.
Events are decided by who wins.
Batter wins with this number:
6 - Batter and everyone on bases score
5 - Everyone on bases score, batter to third.
4 - Batter moves to 2nd, everyone else advance two bases.
3 - Batter moves to 1st, everyone else advance 1 base.
2 - Batter moves to first, players forced to move advance 1 base.
1 - If bases are empty, batter is out. Otherwise, player on highest base steals a base and batter tries again. Another batter winning with a 1 becomes a walk.
0 - If there's exactly 2 players on the bases, they advance a base, and batter is out. Otherwise, batter advances 2 bases, and all players forced to move advance a base or two.
Pitcher wins with this number:
6 - All players on bases are out, and the batter is out.
5 - All players on bases are out, and the batter moves to first.
4 - Batter and the player on highest base are out.
3 - Batter and the player on lowest base are out.
2 - Strikeout
1 - If bases are empty, batter to first. Otherwise, player in lowest base is out and batter tries again. Another pitcher winning with a 1 becomes an out.
0 - If there's exactly one batter on the bases, it moves 2 bases, and batter goes to first. Otherwise, batter is out.
Batter and pitchers send the next number:
0-Batter moves to 2nd, if there were players on 1st and/or 2nd, they're out.
1-Batter out, rest of players advance 3 bases
2-Batter out, rest of players advance 2 bases
3-Batter out, rest of players advance 1 base
4-All players on bases are out, batter to second
5-All players on bases are out, batter to third
6-All players on bases are out, batter score
The way the cards are matched is:
Pitcher's first number against batter's first number [1][1]
Pitcher's second number against batter's first number [2][1]
Pitcher's third number against batter's first number [3][1]
Pitcher's first number against batter's second number [1][2]
Pitcher's second number against batter's second number [2][2]
Pitcher's third number against batter's second number [3][2]
Pitcher's first number against batter's third number [1][3]
Pitcher's second number against batter's third number [2][3]
Pitcher's third number against batter's third number [3][3]
Some numbers are more common than others, so some players should be stronger than others, and thus, some teams stronger than others.
Example teams:
The Empousais
Description: These vampiric demonesses got tired of seducing men. They noticed all of them had one bronze leg and one donkey leg (not shown), so they decided to form a Grand Slam Team.
The Kobalois
Description: Already masters of mischief and trickery, these sprites can change their shape at will and frighten children. Apparently, some also like having really long names for some reason.
Now, theoretically, you could ask your neighbor's dog to compute the result of the match, and bet accordingly. So I'm thinking having players sending a number from 1 to 9 every in-game week, and then, sum them up, and use mod9 to decide which player of the team will pitch for that game (pitcher always bats last), so a given match between teams will have 9 possible outcomes.
For the sake of posting an example game, I'm going to assume the sum of numbers gave 18, this is mod9 0, so the teams will be sending their last players as pitchers, and the rest of the players will bat in order. Had the number been a 3, 3rd player would be pitching, and 4th player would be batting first.
Example Game:
The Empousais Vs. The Kobalois
[1][1]
Empousais - Kobalois
Pitcher - Batter
Vana beats Croagunk's 3 with a 1, with bases empty this means Croagunk lands safely on first.
Kobalois - Empousais
Pitcher - Batter
Euboea beats Mikado's 6 with a 5, with no players in bases this means Mikado lands safely on first.
[2][1]
Empousais - Kobalois
Croagunk on first.
Pitcher - Batter
Both 1s tie, this means Thermopylai is out but Croagunk scores!
Kobalois 1 - Empousais 0
Mikado on first.
Pitcher - Batter
Euboea beats Empusa's 5 with a 0. With exactly 1 player on the bases, Mikado moves to third, while Empusa moves to 1st.
[3][1]
Empousais 0 - Kobalois 1
Bases empty. 1 out.
Pitcher - Batter
Choroimane beats Vana's 0 with a 3, so he goes to first.
Kobalois 1 - Empousais 0
Mikado on 3rd, Empusa on 1st.
Pitcher - Batter
Dia beats Euboea's 2 with a 4. This is a double, Mikado scores! Empusa to third, Dia moves to second.
[1][2]
Empousais 1 - Kobalois 1
Choroimane on first. 1 out
Pitcher - Batter
Aiolomorphos beats Vana's 1 with a 2. Choroimane advances to second, Aiolomorphos goes to first.
Kobalois 1 - Empousais 1
Empusa on third, Dia on second.
Pitcher - Batter
Aulora beats Euboea's 5 with a 0. As there's exactly 2 batters on the bases, Aulora is out but Empusa scores and Dia goes to third!
[2][2]
Empousais 2 - Kobalois 1
Choroimane on second, Aiolomorphos on first. 1 out.
Both 1s tie. Kobold is out, but Choroimane and Aiolomorphos score!
The Kobalois have gone over the winning threshold!
Kobalois 3 - Empousais 2
Dia on third. 1 out.
Empousais need to score to not lose. If they score 2 runs they win the game!
Pitcher - Batter
Euboea's 0 beats Orian's 4. There's exactly one batter on the bases, so Dia scores and Orian goes to first!
Scores are tied!
[3][2]
Empousais 3 - Kobalois 3
Bases empty. 2 outs.
Pitcher - Batter
Galgenmännlein beats Vana's 0 with a 1. Bases are empty, Galgenmännlein is third out!
Now the Empousais can keep attempting to score until they get three outs, if they do it, they win!
Kobalois 3 - Empousais 3
Orian on first. 1 out.
Pitcher - Batter
Altana's 5 beats Euboea's 2. Altana to third, Orian scores! And that's the game!
Final score: Empousais 4 - Kobalois 3I'd like to ask for feedback on how it looks like and to make changes to the game if something is unappealing. I know the game would contain unprecedented amounts of fluff since I don't really expect people would read random games, but I'd expect people to read the games of their team and finally if some big upset happens we can see how it did
What do you think?
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