The Preface
There are many different ways to write a team news I suppose. There is the sim wrap up style. Then there are the "my team is awesome" posts. Some even blend fantasy with reality to create stories. For this series I've decided to take a step away from my usual bad humor stories and enter into a dynasty like style of writing. It may be boring, it may be really interesting. I'm not sure at this point. Only time will tell. At the end of all of this, I plan on putting it together as a book documenting this journey called "The Ultimate BBA Rebuild: For Dummies". Essentially the most thorough users manual one could ever read upon entering the world of OOTP online leagues.
What lead me in this direction? I've been thinking a lot about what the future holds for me in OOTP leagues. I've been playing for 10 real life years. When I first started I wanted to win and build juggernauts. But I quickly changed my tune when I saw the culture of online leagues. It's a dog eat dog world of super competetive people who will do anything to win. I don't mean that in a bad way. Everyone plays for different reasons and I respect that. But for the past 10 years I was more about having fun and escaping the pressures and comeptetivness of everyday life. I like to make bad trades and try to make them look good. I like to take the 2 shittiest players I can find and platoon them into respectability. All the way up to trying to redefine what a pitching staff looks like. I've never truly done what you are "supposed to do". There is sort of a tried and true method to this game. It was just never any fun to me. I've always liked the struggle more then the rewards.
I'm not trying to say that I haven't tried to win, because I have. Heck I've won a Landis and made it to the Cartwright last season. I've just done a lot of haphazard trial and error along the way that has severely stunted any long term success. That was fine while I was chasing obscure OOTP goals. But I feel I've done about everything I've wanted and started growing bored with the tinkering. I knew that now was the time for my last stand and get a measure of how good of a player I really am.
Shortly after the 2034 season I made a long term plan. I was going to go all in for a couple of seasons, trade away my whole farm and exhaust all of my financial resources and hopefully win another Landis. Basically destroy the team in the process so I could do this massive long term"textbook" rebuild at the conclusion of the 2037 season. Then around 2042 or so reevaluate if I want to continue or leave someone a team that is hopefully stacked and ready for a prolonged run. That might explain why I've made some of the moves that I have. I'm set to lose $45 million dollars this season(and probably just as much next season). Half my top players are aging fast and signed long term and the other half will be hitting arbitration soon. By the end of 2037 this team will be a train wreck(if we aren't already). And I am 100% fine with that because it will make fixing the mess all that much more fun.
So what makes my rebuild different then any others? Probably nothing. Teams go through this all the time. Most people enter the league taking over a team that is wrecked. And the ...for dummies part doesn't mean anything. Just a theme. I say this is the ultimate rebuild but we'll see how that turns out. If anything I'm the dummy and you get to laugh at all the mistakes I make along the way. So along this journey I'm going to post updates on many different themes. I want to say I play this game in the deeper end as far as detail oriented owners go. And I'm challenging myself to dig deeper in micro managing.
Some of the themes might go well beyond what most care about. In fact my first chapter is going to be about something that I bet most would consider totally irrelevant to rebuild. But maybe after reading it will peak your interest. My main goal in writing this dynasty style is to highlight some of the weird and unusual things that interest me in this game. Things that when I do them, I often wonder if anyone else is crazy enough to do. So while probably nobody will find the whole story interesting. I guarantee if you read the whole journey, you will pick up a thing or two that you end up trying yourself.
So why am I starting this journey now? Yes, at the BBA level, I'm still trying(and struggling) to win now and will continue to do so through the 2037 season. But at the minor league level, the journey has already begun.... on June 5th.
