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Taking the proposed MLB 2020 alignment and turning it into a permanent 6-division East-West alignment. I split the Central Divisions into separate leagues by time zones (except the White Sox had to go into the Eastern League to even them out) and I kept the old NL and AL East and West divisions intact except switching the Braves and Pirates.

 

Eastern League
AL East

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Red Sox

New York Yankees
Tampa Bay Rays

Toronto Blue Jays

 

NL East

Miami Marlins

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Washington Nationals

 

Mideast

Atlanta Braves

Chicago White Sox

Cincinnati Reds

Cleveland Indians

Detroit Tigers

 

 

Western League

Midwest

Chicago Cubs

Kansas City Royals

Milwaukee Brewers 

Minnesota Twins

St. Louis Cardinals

 

AL West

Houston Astros

Los Angeles Angels

Oakland Athletics
Seattle Mariners

Texas Rangers

 

NL West

Arizona Diamondbacks 

Colorado Rockies

Los Angeles Dodgers

San Diego Padres

San Francisco Giants

 

 

 

 

I decided to split up the Chicago teams, could let them play two series every year. The NY and LA teams are not in same division either. I was going to put the Royals in the Eastern League.

 

 

 

On 5/7/2020 at 3:27 PM, TrueYankee26 said:

New TrueYankee26 Series: NHL

 

Atlantic Conference

 

• Boston Bruins
• Buffalo Sabres
• Chicago Blackhawks
• Detroit Red Wings
• Florida Panthers
• Halifax Voyageurs
• Indianapolis Fuel
• Milwaukee Admirals
• Montreal Canadiens
• Nashville Predators
• Ottawa Senators
• Quebec Nordiques
• Tampa Bay Lightning
• Toronto Maple Leafs

Metropolitan Conference

• Atlanta Thrashers
• Baltimore Skipjacks
• Charlotte Checkers
• Florida Panthers
• Hamilton Bulldogs
• Hartford Whalers
• New Jersey Devils
• New York Islanders
• New York Rangers
• Orlando Solar Bears
• Philadelphia Flyers
• Pittsburgh Penguins
• Raleigh Hurricanes
• Washington Capitals

Central Conference

• Austin Ice Bats

• Colorado Avalanche

• Dallas Stars

• Kansas City Scouts

• Houston Aeros

• Oklahoma City Blazers

• Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights

• Minnesota Wild

• New Orleans Brass

• Saskatoon Sheiks

• San Antonio Rampage

• St. Louis Blues

• Tulsa Barons

• Winnipeg Jets

Pacific Conference

• Anaheim Ducks
• Arizona Coyotes
• Calgary Flames
• Edmonton Oilers
• Oakland Seals
• Los Angeles Kings
• Portland Winterhawks
• San Diego Gulls
• San Francisco Bulls
• San Jose Sharks
• Seattle Sockeyes
• Vancouver Canucks
• Vegas Golden Knights
• Victoria Royals

Changes

• Expansion Teams: Halifax Voyageurs, Indianapolis Fuel, Milwaukee Admirals, Quebec Nordiques, Atlanta Thrashers, Baltimore Skipjacks, Charlotte Checkers, Hamilton Bulldogs, Hartford Whalers, Orlando Solar Bears, Austin Ice Bats, Kansas City Scouts, Houston Aeros, Oklahoma City Blazers, Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights, New Orleans Brass, Saskatoon Sheiks, San Antonio Rampage, Tulsa Barons, Oakland Seals, Portland Winterhawks, San Diego Gulls, San Francisco Bulls, Seattle Sockeyes, Victoria Royals.
• Team Color Change: Tampa Bay Lightning re-introduce black. New Jersey Devils replace black with green again, but keep the Red and Black jerseys as throwbacks. Washington Capitals add the late 1990s-2000s gold as an accent color. St. Louis Blues bring back the 1990s red. Calgary Flames eliminate black. Los Angeles Kings bring back purple albeit as an accent color, and add throwback purple and yellow jerseys.
• Team Name Change: Carolina Hurricanes to Raleigh Hurricanes.
• Instead of 2 conferences with division, NHL is split up into four conferences and the new commish has limited inter-conference play, with only 42 games in a 94 game schedule, every team plays each other once (42 inter-conference games), but conference opponents play each other 4 times (52 conference games), for a total of 94 games.
• Top 6 teams from each conference play in the playoffs, top 2 teams get a bye, while the bottom 4 teams face each other in a best of 5 "Stanley Cup Wild Card" round. The lowest seed to advance faces the #1 team, highest to advance faces the #2 team in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and all series are best of 7 from here. In the "Stanley Cup Series" The winners of the Atlantic and Metropolitan and the winners of the Central and Pacific face each other. The winner of those face each other in the Stanley Cup Final.
• American TV: FOX and CBS have the rights to the Central and Pacific Conferences. In odd years, FOX has the Central part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and CBS has the Pacific part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and vice versa in the even years. NBC and ABC have the rights to the Atlantic and Metropolitan Conferences. In 4, NBC has the Atlantic part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and ABC  has the Metropolitan part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and vice versa in the even years.
• Canadian TV: English rights go to Sportsnet, TSN and CBC. French rights go to RDS, TVA, and Ici Radio-Canada Télé.
• The teams with a previous incarnation, like the new Winnipeg Jets, do not get their old history back which means the Avalanche keep the old Nordiques history, New Jersey Devils keep the old Scouts history etc.

Up next: Take me out to the ballgame! MLB is next.

Nice work but where did Columbus move to? I would give them Orlando’s spot, because you can’t put them in a separate conference from Florida and Tampa Bay.

 

Also that is a monstrosity of a league but that’s why they call this the “Pointless Realignment Outpost.” I would split the conferences into two 7-team divisions.

 

As I was typing I realized you have Florida in the Atlantic AND the Metro so I think you meant to put Columbus in the Metro. 
 

I would love for the Hurricanes to move to Charlotte to stick it to Raleigh because it looks like they are dumping the Checkers for the Chicago Wolves, I guess money talks. (but hope it will not be but for a year). I will remain a Canes fan though, can’t really blame the players for it. Doubt Raleigh and Charlotte would both have teams but what a rivalry that would be.

First post here. I read a blog somewhere online on what the MLB divisions would look like if they were identical to the NFL divisions (by city).

Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Marlins

Orioles, Indians, Reds, Pirates

White Sox, Astros, Sounds, Angels

Royals, A's, Padres, Rockies

Mets, Rangers, Phillies, Nationals

Braves, Dodgers, Zephyrs, Rays

Cubs, Brewers, Tigers, Twins

Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mariners, Giants

The Blue Jays go in the Bills' place. Milwaukee goes into the Packers' place. The author put the Dodgers into the Panthers' place and the Angels in the Jaguars' place, and the White Sox in the Colts' place. The Dodgers, Angels and White Sox (since the Cubs went into the Bears' place) were the oddballs and had to go somewhere. Expansion teams added were the Nashville Sounds and New Orleans Zephyrs.

Talk about pointless!