Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League Game Day 2022/03/30

Today’s games were:

  • Cubs 3 .vs. Diamondbacks 5
  • Mariners 5 .vs. Astros 4

Subscribe to the Divergent League Update podcast for a look at the stats and standings every Friday afternoon.

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League Game Day 2022/03/27

Today’s games start at 1:15pm Pacific. Here is the lineup:

  • Mariners @ White Sox
  • Cubs @ Expos
  • Mets @ Astros

Watch free on RetroStrange TV or Twitch

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League 1999 Week 1 Results

White Sox 1 vs Red Sox 0

W: Wells

L: Mercker

Blue Jays 4 vs Yankees 1

W: Hentgen

L: Juden

Diamondbacks 6 vs Cubs 7

W: Karchner

L: Plesac

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

1999 Divergent League Opening Day Results

Day one is in the books, here’s who came out on top:

Red Sox 3 vs Blue Jays 1
10th inning
W Bullinger
L Lloyd

Expos 6 vs Mets 3
W Saberhagen
L Maddux

Dodgers 2 vs Giants 0
W Brown
L Colon

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League 1999 Team Selection & Draft Results

The 1999 Divergent League Baseball season is in full… swing! There was a big deal struck between the Expos and Red Sox but first let’s take a look at the final team selection and draft picks from last week’s big draft. Here’s how it shook out:

  • Tony – Arizona Diamondbacks – Kevin Millwood
  • Liam – New York Yankees – John Smoltz
  • Dan – Toronto Blue Jays – Chipper Jones
  • George – Chicago Cubs – Roberto Alomar
  • Me – New York Metropolitans – Greg Maddux
  • Derek L – Seattle Mariners – Tim Hudson
  • Travis – White Sox – Curt Shilling
  • Joseph – Detroit Tigers – Mark McGwire
  • Austin – Boston Red Sox – Mike Mussina
  • Charles – Montreal Expos – Brian Giles
  • Henry – San Francisco Giants – Bartolo Colon
  • Sandy – Cincinnati Reds – Tom Glavine
  • Gary – Los Angeles Dodgers – Larry Walker
  • Derek J – Houston Astros – Ivan Rodriguez

Red Sox & Expos Do A Draft Day Deal

It’s already proving to be a wild season, with a trade being pulled off by the Expos and Red Sox. The Red Sox sent Brent Saberhagen (P) to the Expos for Manny Martinez (CF) and Michael Barrett (3B, C).

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season Divergent League Info

Divergent League 1999 Preseason Information

The official Divergent League 1999 logo

Howdy. It’s been awhile. 

Consider this post your invitation to become a team manager and participate in a weird atemporal look at 1999 though the lens of Divergent League Baseball.

Keep reading for how to join, when to watch, and what to look out for. I’ve also got some real life 1999 history material at the end for you to vibe on.

Wait, What Is Divergent League Again?

Divergent League Baseball is a simulated fantasy baseball league based on historical seasons (previous ones include: 1985, 1977, 1993) in which human managers make high-level decisions and trades and leave the coaching and playing of games to the Playstation 4 CPU. We simulate a full baseball season starting with the opening day rosters for our chosen year (1999 this time) based on a community-created roster in MLB The Show 20. Managers choose a team and get to make one pick of any player from any non-managed team, just to spice things up. We stream a subset of games featuring player owned teams on Twitch, YouTube, and RetroStrange TV on a routine schedule. Divergent League does not recognize the Designated Hitter rule under any circumstances.

There’s more to it that makes Divergent League fun, but there is a whole page about that on our website.

The Team Selection & Player Draft 

The Divergent League 1999 Team Selection and Player Draft will take on a new form, to accommodate our players in different timezones and with different life contexts. Here’s how team selection will work:

  1. Each manager will submit a list of 5 teams in order of most preferred to least to Phil in Discord or via email (divergent at extrafuture.com)
  2. On Friday, March 18th at 5:00 Pacific / 8:00 Eastern, we’ll host a live Team Selection in our Discord Server
  3. The Manager names will be randomly shuffled via a Python array
  4. If Manager is attending live, they’ll be asked for their team choice
  5. If Manager is offline Commissioner will choose teams based on the order in the list given in step 1 depending on what teams are available

And then the Player Draft:

  1. Each manager will submit a list of 6 players in order of most preferred to least
  2. On Saturday March 19th at 3:00pm Pacific / 6:00pm Eastern, we’ll host the Divergent League Draft in Discord
  3. Draft Order will be the reversed order of the Team Selection order, for balance purposes

The Commissioner will post a list on divergentleague.com of the results of both Team Selection and Draft as they occur, as well as these events being the subject of the first 1999 episode of the Divergent League Update podcast.

Then What?! Opening Day, Of Course

Divergent League 1999 Opening Day will take place on March 20th at 1:00pm Pacific time. See our calendar for the game schedule.

Ok, How Do I Join?

Divergent League works by having players “buy-in” to manage one or more teams. You get to choose the team, and a special draft pick. We use the money to buy a custom trophy for the winner of our championship.

This season, each team costs $10 to manage. I do not particularly care how you get me the $10. Here are two ways, listed in order of preference:

  1. Become a Patron at any level
  2. Go to the RetroStrange Shop and buy a manager’s pass
  3. Hand my one of my brothers $10

If you are a Patron already, you’re in! Just message Phil with your team preferences list.

Some 1999 Historical Material

For a refresher on 1999 check out MLB ’99: A Season of Heroes, embedded below:

Questions? Comments? Fears, doubts? How is my driving? Just comment here or send me an email at divergent at extrafuture.com.

Thanks, and welcome to the club,

— The Commish

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League: 1999 Preview Game 3

The Mariners took on the Rangers in this battle of teams from 1999. Take a look on Twitch.

Categories
1999 Divergent League Season

Divergent League 1999 Season Preview 1

This weekend your Commish (that’s me) did some stealth previewing of the upcoming Divergent League season, set in 1999. We loaded up the new roster, set up the sliders for Divergentness and pitted the 1999 Chicago Cubs .vs. the 1999 Detroit Tigers for your viewing pleasure.

This season of Divergent League Baseball features an all-new stream set-up and will be broadcast on RetroStrange TV, the official broadcast partner of Divergent League. Viewers can also find the feed on Phil’s YouTube channel, Facebook, and Twitch.

You can find the stream in two parts on Twitch. Watch Part 1 and Part 2.

Categories
1993 Divergent League Baseball Season Divergent League Baseball

Congratulations to the 1993 Divergent League Baseball World Series Champion Chicago White Sox!

The 1993 Divergent League Baseball season is in the books, and it’s all over but the crying in San Francisco. The Chicago White Sox bulldozed the Giants 4 games to 1 in our 5th Divergent League World Series.

Despite an early Giants lead in game 5, it simply wasn’t enough in the face of Chicago’s offensive onslaught.

Congratulations to the White Sox and manager Travis Timm, this is their first time winning the historic Bip Roberts Memorial Cup Even Though He’s Still Alive.

Categories
1993 Divergent League Baseball Season Divergent League Baseball

1993 Divergent League World Series Update: Game 5 Tomorrow

The Chicago White Sox are now just one game away from their first Divergent League World Series crown after defeating the Giants 5-1 in Game 4. You can watch a replay of game on the new Divergent League YouTube page.

The game featured the very divergent visual of Will Clark slugging one out into Mccovey Cove and ended with the familiar sight of Kirt Manwaring grounding out to 2nd.

Frank Thomas busted another dinger for the Sox in the 9th inning, his sixth of the postseason, leading Divergent League Commissioner Phil Nelson to dub him “Mr. Sock-tober.”

Divergent League Baseball returns Tomorrow, Tuesday May 11th at 5pm PDT. Watch along at http://twitch.tv/extrafuture