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Confederation of European Baseball for OOTP 16 32 Nations, 66 Leagues, and 629 Teams are represented in this year's version. The champions of the 32 top-level leagues will face off in a playoff tournament to decide the winner of the Champions Cup.



What's real?



Logos, uniforms, playoff structures*, park names**, league structures***.



What's fictional?



Rosters, roster rules****, schedules, financials, park dimensions, and factors.



What's changed? The big change - 8 New Nations! Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Romania, and Ukraine are all new to this year's version. Also, the Honkbal Rookie League has returned, a pair of lower-tier regional leagues have been added to Austria, Sweden has three lower-tier leagues, and Norway now has a second tier. Other countries are adjusted as necessary.

Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Romania, and Ukraine are all new to this year's version. Also, the Honkbal Rookie League has returned, a pair of lower-tier regional leagues have been added to Austria, Sweden has three lower-tier leagues, and Norway now has a second tier. Other countries are adjusted as necessary. A second league association has been added. The CEB Junior Cup involves all 34 of the lower-tier leagues in their own tournament of champions.

Financials have been adjusted slightly from the previous version, and the more powerful countries and higher-tier leagues will be more profitable than the lower leagues. This is done on a rough curve to attempt to foster realistic player movement.

Most of the parks now have coordinates, so you can see where the teams actually play in Google Earth. Note that this is purely cosmetic and not necessarily 100% accurate, as some of the ballpark info was very hard to come by.

Foreign player limits have been removed. * - League playoffs are as realistic as OOTP will allow, and are accurate as far as I can find. Some leagues have a quasi-split season where the top X clubs have a round robin tournament to determine the final playoff spots, and OOTP just can't do that. Additionally, some countries feature a "playdown" series between the 2-4 lowest finishers in the top tier, with the playdown loser having to win a Relegation Series against the second tier champion in order to stay in the top tier. Obviously, OOTP doesn't model these scenarios, although you could manually schedule these sorts of things if you're ambitious.



** - Most of them, anyways. Some of them, I didn't bother tracking them down or trying to translate them. Such is life.



*** - I wasn't able to track down 2015 information for all of the countries involved in the QuickStart (although most of them are pretty accurate). Some of the nations may have different real-life structures this year, but I doubt it'll be much different than in 2014.



**** - All the leagues are set to 25-man rosters with a 20 player reserve roster. They are all limited to a 15-man International Complex - the game shouldn't generate any international free agent pools, but I couldn't set it any lower than 15.



You can download it in-game through Add-On Central, or directly from the following link:



http://www.mediafire.com/download/am...TP_16.quick.7z



In order to keep the file size down, the direct link is a .7z file, which compresses to about half the size of a regular zip file. You can extract it with the 100% free, open source, safe and reputable



Special thanks to cheo25, who provided schedules for some of the oddly-sized leagues. The champions of the 32 top-level leagues will face off in a playoff tournament to decide the winner of the Champions Cup.What's real?Logos, uniforms, playoff structures*, park names**, league structures***.What's fictional?Rosters, roster rules****, schedules, financials, park dimensions, and factors.What's changed?* - League playoffs are as realistic as OOTP will allow, and are accurate as far as I can find. Some leagues have a quasi-split season where the top X clubs have a round robin tournament to determine the final playoff spots, and OOTP just can't do that. Additionally, some countries feature a "playdown" series between the 2-4 lowest finishers in the top tier, with the playdown loser having to win a Relegation Series against the second tier champion in order to stay in the top tier. Obviously, OOTP doesn't model these scenarios, although you could manually schedule these sorts of things if you're ambitious.** - Most of them, anyways. Some of them, I didn't bother tracking them down or trying to translate them. Such is life.*** - I wasn't able to track down 2015 information for all of the countries involved in the QuickStart (although most of them are pretty accurate). Some of the nations may have different real-life structures this year, but I doubt it'll be much different than in 2014.**** - All the leagues are set to 25-man rosters with a 20 player reserve roster. They are all limited to a 15-man International Complex - the game shouldn't generate any international free agent pools, but I couldn't set it any lower than 15.You can download it in-game through Add-On Central, or directly from the following link:In order to keep the file size down, the direct link is a .7z file, which compresses to about half the size of a regular zip file. You can extract it with the 100% free, open source, safe and reputable 7-zip Special thanks to cheo25, who provided schedules for some of the oddly-sized leagues.

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