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Cali Crown

https://wiki.golly.life/wiki/Cali_Crown

Analysis Notebook Problem

Not sure what I'm doing. I started on some notebooks, but then, I'm writing a bunch of janky one-off functions. It feels completely wrong.

Would be better if we incorporated code we already wrote for wiki pages into classes or functions or modules or something.

Also, I've tread this same pattern before, not knowing where to start, always being shunted to the same teams all the time, SFBS.

Lore Building

Trying to unblock.

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Elements of rivalry lore:

built into the cultures or geographies of cities
built into the histories of the teams (not just institutions or cities, but owners, managers, coaches, individual players)

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What elements haven't we touched?

individual character of cities... almost nothing is specific to the cities
no background for team history - formation - nothing
no details about stadium or venue
no locked ourselves into home/away
no picking a way Hellmouth connects to everything
bodies of water?

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Personas:

personas?
(a) we don't want to have 12,000 players per team
(b) we don't want to have managers/owners, we already have the faceless bureaucracy.
(c) rather than owners, we can do (1) players and (2) long-winded backronym bureaucratic division names

How to use notebooks

Single Team Single Season Schedule

Extract and print out a line-by-line list of games - opponent, win/loss, score - for a given season.

49 games: 24 home/away combo pairs for the Hellmouth Cup.

24 combo pairs = 24 hours, plus one midnight tiebreaker.

Also nice b/c 50/50 split of home/away games, gives us another stat to look at.

Avoiding the thousand bowls of oatmeal: we're interested in interesting teams... use single-season and all-time records to guide what teams we look at and when.

what did their schedule look like? how would fans have reacted?
this provides context, season to season, and for a single season, for building narratives
even two or three seasons of awfulness can have a back story.

Broad strokes:

re-work the Hellmouth Cup page, revisit rules, etc.
see User:Ch4zm/November_2022/Lore_Fragments

Single events get lore fragments:

example: User:Ch4zm/December_2021/Lore_Fragments
new lore: User:Ch4zm/November_2022/Lore_Fragments

Single Rivalry Single or Multiple Seasons

Similar to above, provide a way to print a line-by-line summary of games between two rivals in a given season...

Okay, this is LOTS of data, VERY microscopic view...

~~Want more tweaks, like showing each team's W-L record on the schedule too...~~

User:Ch4zm/November 2022/SAC

This is the right view if we have one or a few interesting seasons, identified via Records

Or a rivalry identified by interesting season/stats, see below...

Summary of Record vs Opponents

Take one step back, and print W-L summaries against each component, each season, plus all time

This sounds like a table that goes on a wiki page, but that's also a lot of info, and this will be an explosion. Let's just try it out in a notebook first.

Combinatorics:

Original teams, regular season: 16 teams, 2 leagues of 8 teams each. 8 choose 2 = 28, so we have 2 x 28 = 56 potential rivalries.
Expansion teams, regular season: 20 teams, 2 leagues of 10 teams each. 10 choose 2 = 45, so we have 2 x 45 = 90 potential rivalries.
Original teams, Hellmouth Cup: 64 potential matchups in the final Cup
Expansion teams, Hellmouth Cup: 100 potential matchups in the final Cup

Might even be useful to just make a list, and see them written out.

Random Ideas

Golly League

Salt Lake Turbulence:

Hellmouth Cup: season 16 through season 24, SLC turbulence are childless and free
Toroidal Cup: seemingly overnight, they have an entire army of little leaguers

little league team:

the Little Eddies
team parents
little league team always following the big league team around

"rivalry" (anti-rivalry) with the osha violations (uncle osha):

when they play the jersey osha violations they have to get a sitter so the kids don't have to go to jersey

User:Ch4zm/November 2022/Lore Jam

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