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On 1/22/2023 at 7:45 AM, jlog3000 said:

same with Carolina with the other Southeast teams.

Carolina is only 4 hours from Atlanta. I consider them more Southeast.

For what it’s worth DJ Moore tweeted this right before he  got traded to the Bears 

On 12/20/2020 at 8:25 PM, McCall said:

What NHL caliber arena does San Diego have? It would make more sense to put them in San Francisco or Salt Lake City.

That’s fair, no changes to the divisions would have to be made.

It appears the Canadian teams are going to be able to play in Canada, but what if they had not been allowed to?

I randomly assigned the seven franchises to a US city and realigned appropriately.

Northeast

Boston Bruins

Buffalo Sabres

New Jersey Devils

New York Islanders

New York Rangers

Philadelphia Flyers

Pittsburgh Penguins

Washington Capitals

Southeast

Carolina Hurricanes

Dallas Stars

Edmonton Oilers (Houston) 

Florida Panthers

Montreal Canadiens (Atlanta)

Nashville Predators

Tampa Bay Lightning

Toronto Maple Leafs (Charlotte)

Midwest

Chicago Blackhawks

Columbus Blue Jackets

Detroit Red Wings

Minnesota Wild

Ottawa Senators (Kansas City)

St. Louis Blues

Winnipeg Jets (Milwaukee)

Pacific

Anaheim Ducks

Arizona Coyotes

Calgary Flames (San Diego)

Colorado Avalanche 

Los Angeles Kings

San Jose Sharks

Vancouver Canucks (Portland)

Vegas Golden Knights

I wanted to send Calgary or Winnipeg to their former city but proximity wouldn’t allow me. Montreal or Ottawa would’ve been shipped out to San Diego. Not exactly ideal. Edmonton goes to Houston since Houston’s first NFL team was the Oilers.
 

The Northeast doesn’t change from the 2020-2021 East.

Just had a thought...the NBA is thinking about having a division heavy schedule to reduce travel this year, so why not move the Timberwolves to the Eastern Conference just for this year. Yes it would mean the Western and Eastern Conferences would be imbalanced for a year but it would be worth it for them to play several games this year in Chicago and Milwaukee rather than Portland and Salt Lake City. 

1 hour ago, Marcos Flamengo said:

It will be interesting to see how the Raptors will perform this next NBA season and adapt to Tampa Bay.

 

P.S.: What do you think about my MLB and NBA realignment proposals?.

You put a lot of thought into it but way too many teams. Still that’s why this is called the pointless realignment thread.

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/11/13/if-not-toronto-raptors-reportedly-leaning-toward-playing-in-tampa-bay/
 

If only the Raptors played there full time. Not that divisions are relevant in the NBA, but it would allow them to swap with the Wizards, who really belong in the Atlantic anyway. WHOA...this might actually happen temporarily.

6 hours ago, McCall said:

Swap Atlanta/Pittsbugh and Houston/Cincinnati. And call them CENTRAL and SOUTH instead of Midwest/east.

On 9/24/2020 at 11:36 PM, MartyMcFlyKavanaugh said:

With the recent news that Mickey Mouse Club/*NSYNC veteran Justin Timberlake has joined the “MLB to Nashville” movement, here’s my plan for 32-team realignment with expansion to Nashville (Stars is the reported nickname) and Charlotte.

Can’t have the NL East without the Braves! Flipping the Rockies and Astros splits the 8 western clubs evenly between the leagues. Plus both Texas teams leave their West Coast division and reunite with old foes.

 

Each team gets ONE annual interleague rival. For the expansion clubs, yearly pairings are Nashville-Detroit (Music City vs. Motor City) and Charlotte-Atlanta. If the Rays someday move to Montreal, then Charlotte and Toronto could swap divisions to get the Canadian teams together, but what about interleague? Expos-Pirates revival, perhaps?

 

Annual interleague pairings: TOR-PIT, BOS-PHI, NYY-NYM, BAL-WSH, DET-NSH, CLE-CIN, CHA-ATL, TB-MIA, CHW-CHC, MIN-MIL, KC-STL, TEX-HOU, COL-ARZ, SEA-SD, OAK-SF, LAA-LAD

 

Scheduling for 162-game season:

20 games each against 3 division rivals (60 total)

7-8 games against 12 league rivals (86 total)

16 interleague games:

3 against every team from one division (6 home, 6 away)

4-game home-and-home against annual interleague rival

 

Using the Orioles and Nationals as an example: When AL East faces any NL division other than East, the O’s play those four NL clubs (12 games) and the Nats (4 games). When AL East meets NL East every four years, the O’s play 3 each against the entire NL East including the Nats, and they also have their annual Nats home-and-home, hence 7 O’s-Nats games total. If their 3-game series is in Washington, then 5 of their 7 games are there. Four years later the O’s host the 3-game series.

 

As for Charlotte-Atlanta: When NL East faces AL East and Atlanta’s division rivals play 7 versus their annual opponents, the Braves get their usual 4 with Charlotte. Only when NL East takes on AL Mideast do we get 7 of Atlanta-Charlotte.

 

Postseason: In non-COVID years 10 teams out of 30 make the postseason (33% of the clubs). Post-expansion I’d go with 12 out of 32 (37.5%). Two wild cards per league travel to the two lowest-seeded division champs’ ballparks for a best-of-3. Winners advance to face the two higher seeded division champions in a best-of-5 LDS, followed by the usual best-of-7 LCS and best-of-7 World Series.

I agree swapping the Braves and Pirates and Reds and Astros would work best, but I can’t see the Braves going for expansion in BOTH Charlotte and Nashville. Then again we would make a killing for DOUBLE territorial infringement. I am a huge fan of sending the Astros back where they belong in exchange for the Rockies. Hoping that another team isn’t placed on the West Coast, the Rockies would otherwise have to be placed in a “Midwest” division with the Royals, Rangers and Twins. (If moved to the AL). Rooting for Nashville and Montreal. But Tampa will probably end up moving somewhere. 

On 8/17/2020 at 2:39 PM, Jamesizzo said:

If I was the commissioner of the NBA, I would, of course bring back the Seattle SuperSonics. In order to make both the Eastern and Western Conferences even, I would also bring back the Kentucky Colonels from the old ABA. I can't really find a good division for the Grizzlies to be in their current city so I would move them back to Vancouver. The conference divisions would be similar to the NHL where there is 2 divisions with 8 teams, 16 teams in each conference. The divisions would look like this:

 

ATLANTIC DIVISION

-New York Knicks

-Brooklyn Nets

-Boston Celtics

-Philadelphia 76ers

-Toronto Raptors

-Washington Wizards

-Miami Heat

-Orlando Magic

 

CENTRAL DIVISION

-Cleveland Cavaliers

-Chicago Bulls

-Detroit Pistons

-Indiana Pacers

-Milwaukee Bucks

-Atlanta Hawks

-Charlotte Hornets

-Minnesota Timberwolves 

 

MIDWEST DIVISION

-Memphis Grizzlies

-Denver Nuggets

-Kansas City Knights

-New Orleans Pelicans

-Oklahoma City Thunder

-Houston Rockets

-Dallas Mavericks

-San Antonio Spurs

 

PACIFIC DIVISION

-Los Angeles Lakers

-Los Angeles Clippers

-Golden State Warriors

-Sacramento Kings

-Phoenix Suns

-Portland Trail-Blazers

-Utah Jazz

-Seattle Supersonics

 

I understand this is not the best division alignment, but I would love to hear any of your suggestions to improve it as well as opinions!

 

 

 

This would be a return to the pre-2004 format. I’d keep the Grizzlies in Memphis and in the West, and put the Timberwolves in the East. Even though Minnesota is further West than Memphis, they are right there with Milwaukee and Chicago. Memphis is relatively close to New Orleans. 
 

The reason for moving a West team East is because I would put an expansion team in Kansas City instead of Kentucky. San Diego or a return to Vancouver is intriguing but I don’t really want to put two expansion teams in one division.

The only thing I hate to do is split up Denver and Utah but that is unavoidable if adding Kansas City.

So I guess the Charlotte NBA team becomes the Spirit if this had become reality.

1 hour ago, TrueYankee26 said:

The Xtreme Baseball League.

 

A man got inspired seeing Vince McMahon's 2020 XFL relaunch and decided to bring that concept to the diamond.

 

American League

• Babe Ruth Division
  • Bronx Battalion
  • Hartford Dolphins
  • New York Lions (Manhattan, NY)
  • Richmond Rage
  • Washington Liberty
  • West Virginia Bobcats (Charleston, WV)
• Frank Thomas Division
  • Atlanta Peach Cobblers
  • Cleveland Colonials
  • Detroit Motors
  • Jacksonville Gators
  • Miami Calor
  • San Antonio Rebeldes
• George Brett Division
  • Chicago Butchers
  • Kansas City Monarchs
  • Louisville Stallions
  • Milwaukee Distillers
  • Minnesota Elks
  • St. Louis Knights
• Ken Griffey Jr. Division
  • Denver Wolverines
  • Los Angeles Eagles
  • Phoenix Red Devils
  • Portland Castors
  • San Francisco Cardinals
  • Seattle Sailors

National League

• Jackie Robinson Division
  • Baltimore Vultures
  • Boston Blue Sox
  • Brooklyn Barons
  • Montreal Marauders
  • Philadelphia Phire
  • Washington Falcons
• Ernie Banks Division
  • Chicago Bruins
  • Cincinnati Citadels
  • Memphis Anubians
  • Nashville Cowboys
  • Orlando Osceolas
  • Quebec Huskies
• Nolan Ryan Division
  • Arizona Vipers
  • Dallas Wranglers
  • Denver Dynamo
  • Houston Hurricanes
  • Mexico City Aguilas
  • Oklahoma City Braves
• Rickey Henderson Division
  • Anaheim Orange
  • Bakersfield Oilers
  • Las Vegas Neon Lights
  • Los Angeles Saints
  • Oakland Oaks
  • Salt Lake City Hornets

Federal League

• Willie Mays Division
  • Boston Minutemen
  • Buffalo Charge
  • Halifax Reivers
  • New York Gothams
  • Pittsburgh Iron Dragons
  • Toronto Titans
• Mark McGwire Division
  • Chicago Checkers
  • Columbus Bucknuts
  • Indiana Pacesetters
  • St. Louis Red Robins
  • Tallahassee Crocodiles
  • Tampa Sharks
• Mickey Mantle Division
  • El Paso Chihuahuas
  • Fort Worth Stampede
  • Little Rock Naturals
  • Midland-Odessa Bisons
  • New Orleans Krewe
  • Tulsa Travelers
• Mike Trout Division
  • Beverly Hills Millionaires
  • Boise Bengals
  • Reno Diamondbacks
  • San Jose Coyotes
  • Tijuana Zorros
  • Vancouver Vikings

Rule Changes:

• Robot umps.
• No foul balls.
• Every hit bat is considered in play.
• There is netting from foul pole to foul pole, the ball can be caught for an out off the netting.
• Extra innings will start with a runner on 2nd base.
• A pitch clock of 20 seconds, if violated, an automatic ball, and if a batter steps out of the box with 5 seconds or less, an automatic strike.
• A home run over 400 feet will add 1 extra run (i.e. a Grand Slam that travels 400+ feet is 5 runs).
• Instant replay has a sky judge, no umpire challenges, so if a robot ump gets a call wrong, a sky judge corrects it. It does not include balls and strikes.

TV:

• American and National League: NBC and NBCSN.
• National and Federal League: Fox and Fox Sports 1.
• American and Federal League: CBS and CBS Sports Network.
• All Three: ABC and ESPN, Turner Sports (TNT, TBS, TruTV), WGN.

Playoffs:

• 32 teams make the playoffs, Top 3 in each division.
• Seeds are determined by record regardless of division and league.
• Playoff system goes as #1 vs #32, #3 vs #30, #5 vs #28, #7 vs #26, #9 vs #24, #11 vs 22, #13 vs 20, #15 vs #18 on one side of the bracket and #2 vs #31, #4 vs #29, #6 vs # 27, #8 vs #25, #10 vs #23, #12 vs #21, #14 vs #19, #16 vs #17 on the other side. First and Second Rounds are a best of 1, 3rd round is a best of three, Semi-Final is a best of 5, and the Millionaire World Series is a best of 7.
• The championship rounds is called the Millionaire World Series which is a best of 7, the winning teams gets 1 million dollars, the players get huge bonuses, and a local charity of the team's choice also gets donated a million dollars.

Nice work! But all those teams in Florida, and you couldn’t put one in Charlotte? 

On 6/27/2020 at 9:48 PM, BigRed618 said:

MLS if they implemented division play:

 

EASTERN

Metropolitan

- NYCFC

- NY Red Bulls

- New England

- Philadelphia 

- Montreal 

 

Southeast

- DC United

- Charlotte

- Atlanta

- Orlando

- Miami

 

Central

- Chicago

- FC Cincinnati

- Nashville

- Columbus

- Toronto FC

 

WESTERN

Midwest

- Kansas City

- St. Louis

- FC Dallas

- Austin

- Houston

 

Northern

- Minnesota

- Colorado

- Salt Lake

- Sacramento

- Vancouver

 

Pacific

- LA Galaxy

- LAFC

- San Jose

- Portland

- Seattle

 

Had a bit of trouble deciding how to sort the western teams. It was between putting MinnU in a division with teams in the Rockies and one on the west coast, or putting the Loons in the Midwest and having to split up either the KC/STL rivalry or the Texas three-way.

Nashville to the Southeast, DC to the Eastern and Montreal to the Central. I know the latter is a bit of a stretch but it puts the Eastern Canadian teams together. But really, I just don’t like having a Washington, DC team in a southern division like they are in the NBA. Here’s my version that I did back when they first announced the expansion.
 

Atlantic 

New England

New York Red Bulls 

DC United

Philly

NYC FC

Northeast (or Central)

Montreal

Toronto

Cincinnati

Columbus

Chicago 

Southeast

Atlanta 

Charlotte

Miami

Nashville SC

Orlando

Here’s how I did the West. I know my Southwest looks wonky but you just can’t split Vancouver from Seattle and Portland and Sacramento from San Jose. 

Southwest 

Dallas

Houston

Austin

LAFC

LA Galaxy

Pacific

Vancouver 

Portland

Seattle

San Jose

Sacramento 

Northwest 

Minnesota

St. Louis

Kansas City

Salt Lake

Colorado 

Could you imagine Bob Brenly managing the NL All-Stars in 2002, against his own players? It probably wouldn’t have ended in a tie (the AL probably wins again) and we never would have been stuck with “This One Counts”

I also envisioned a scenario in which the Marlins were contracted instead of the Twins as was also rumored. No NL team would’ve had to switch to the AL. The Pirates AND Reds move East and the Rockies move to the Central.

The Diamondbacks would have been the one to switch... https://a.espncdn.com/mlb/columns/mcadam_sean/1274034.html 

 Them and the Devil Rays had a window that they could switch leagues without them having any say...and you can’t just move the Brewers right back to the AL...and I would have kept 3 divisions anyway to keep Atlanta or Cincinnati from moving back to the West...of course it would have been awkward switching the World Series champs, but, Selig...

This is what realignment was going to be...

AL East

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

New York Yankees

Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Toronto Blue Jays

AL Central

Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers

Kansas City Royals

Texas Rangers (moved from AL West)

AL West
Arizona Diamondbacks 

Anaheim Angels 

Oakland Athletics

Seattle Mariners

NL East

Atlanta Braves

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates (moved back from NL Central)

Washington Nationals (former Florida Marlins)

NL Central

Chicago Cubs

Cincinnati Reds

Houston Astros

Milwaukee Brewers

St. Louis Cardinals

NL West

Colorado Rockies 

Los Angeles Dodgers

San Diego Padres

San Francisco Giants

16 hours ago, johnnysama said:

The Baseball Network actually lasted two seasons, 1994 and 1995.

That’s true but only one postseason 

I don’t miss the Baseball Network, even though it was for just one season thanks to the strike, worst idea in sports to have all the playoff games regionalized.

I don’t miss the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds being in the NL West, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals being in the NL East, the Arizona Cardinals being in the NFC East and the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers being in the NFC West.

36 minutes ago, goalieboy82 said:

when there was only team logos on the outfield walls at MLB stadiums.

I forgot about that. They were sorted by division.

43 minutes ago, goalieboy82 said:

Cubs on WGN (with White Sox mixed in too)

That too

MLB: Atlanta Braves

NFL: Carolina Panthers

NCAA: UNC, Charlotte 49ers

NBA: Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls (was die-hard when Jordan played)

NHL: Carolina Hurricanes

 —The Braves on TBS and Skip and Joe alternating with Pete and Don between TV and radio (RIP Skip and Pete)

—The NBA on CBS and NBC

—First round of the NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon

—ACC basketball games on Raycom. It’s just not the same on the actual ACC Network. I don’t miss Raycom football as much because it started at 12:30 and it forced WBTV to have to join the SEC game in progress afterwards (never understood why they got away from noon)

—The double round robin in ACC basketball but I know why it had to go

—The Braves making more than one trip to cities in their league outside their division

—Only having interleague in May and June, can’t expand fast enough. But I do like interleague.

—The Astros being in the National League. Shutting the state of Texas out of the NL was a huge mistake. They should’ve moved the Rockies to the AL West and the Astros to the NL West.

I think I would keep the Senators in Washington, and still have the Braves move to Atlanta, the Pilots move to Milwaukee, and so the Padres still don’t move to Washington in this alternate timeline. So the Mariners still exist. I can’t fathom the Atlanta Senators.

https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever
 

An alternate history based on if the St. Louis Browns had moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s.

—The A’s move to San Francisco

—The Dodgers move to Dallas

—The Giants move to Minnesota

—The Astros are in the AL from the start as an expansion team

—Baltimore Orioles are AL expansion team in 1961

—California Angels are NL expansion team instead of AL in 1961

—Mets lose 1969 World Series to LA Browns (my favorite)

—The Senators move to Atlanta (we would have won 1987 and 1991 World Series...over the Braves in 1991, oh the irony)

—The Milwaukee Braves stay in Milwaukee

—The Seattle Pilots never move, but the original San Diego Padres (wearing blue and red instead of brown and orange) do move to Washington to become the Stars in 1974 as what almost happened in real life, and the Padres are reborn in the Mariners’ spot in the AL in 1977

–The Rays almost move to Oakland, would not have made sense without a new ballpark but at least it would have got the Astros out of the AL West. 

—The Cardinals are now in the NL West split from the Cubs, that and Atlanta being in the AL and not being the Braves doesn’t sit well with me, I like reality better even though Atlanta does get one more WS in this Browns to LA timeline.

On 5/13/2020 at 4:27 PM, flasah said:

Interesting, but I would switch Atlanta & Pittsburgh, keeping Braves & Marlins together

Most people would, and I am a Braves fan...I was just going off that proposal that talked about putting the Braves in the Central and the Pirates in the East.

1 hour ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Oh man I knew I forgot someone, I will fix that! You are correct I meant to put Columbus in the Metro.

 

Usually my pointless realignments are way into the future of sports (One of them was 80 years from now, this one isn't but still pretty far) that's why it is a monstrosity haha.

 

You just gave me a great idea! I will say The "Charlotte Checkers" are today's Carolina Hurricanes, that team moved to Charlotte, and the new "Raleigh Hurricanes" are an expansion team that moved from Orlando, and Orlando shortly gets granted another expansion.

Sounds good to me and I’m glad you put the Florida teams together