March 2025

Blaseball Team	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Born	Sometime prior to Season 1
Hometown	Hellmouth
Education	Some, presumably
Occupation	Mathematics instructor; Splorts inventor; Data witch;

Ch4zm of Hellmouth
	; "Illegitimi non carborundum"
Chief Architect of Golly
Date Started	Season 1
Personal Details
Blaseball Team	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Born	Sometime prior to Season 1
Hometown	Hellmouth
Education	Some, presumably
Occupation	Mathematics instructor; Splorts inventor; Data witch;
Teaching
Teaching Affiliations	Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department
Research
Research Affiliations	Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department; Fellowship of the Mysteries of Light (FML); Hellmouth Sunbeams;

Season by Season

Big Purple Time Machine

invent a time machine to try and change the past
everything they do just results in a bunch of alternative Golly universes where they continue to lose the pennant game

Golly Mirror Universes:

would require rewriting golly core to do reverse indexing of array
would probably be bookkeeping - intriguing idea
revives the whole idea of a golly sandbox - different patterns, different maps, different CA types... golly reverse grid

(good point - DET or BTX being up 2-0 in a playoff series is a notable event...)

tool to find these?

This raises so many questions...

First: how did we even find this? I think we zeroed in on the one-point victory, and it just so happened to fold in nicely with the season narrative
Second: we could use better templates. what cup, what season, what day, score, color boxes with team colors
Third: love it, in spirit. but it opens a can of worms. programmatically finding these matches, running golly spice calculations, organizing golly spice data, compute resources needed to do that (although, shoot, we can just sit back and let emmett/seawater chug...)
Fourth: potential to use these to generate or reinforce a narrative thread... might be a good time to introduce other elements to help the narrative thread from getting repetitive, for example, managers and team captains

Similar idea - but this one is for a series...

Focus is on the Detroit Grape Chews (as good a tragicomic starting point as any, right??)
Single greatest choke of all time (series)
Could also do features of each double-choke series,
Could also give nicknames to each Detroit choke, and each Baltimore choke,
(This is where we'd want to dig deeper into tragic sports lore for some ideas)
Could use Grape Chews choke series as jumping-off points for Hot League teams
(Repeat same with Baltimore, Cold League teams)

Procedure:

Create a plan
Start with double choke series, then move on to rest of choke series
- games, context
- alliterative nicknames for teams (amazin mets, sultans of swat, whatever)
Then move on to games
- we know final scores, so start with one-point games
- every one-point game deserves some investigation
- then move on to shutouts or blowouts - any at critical points in the season
- I think we found the Sacramento Boot Lickers one by looking at a table of W-L, game opponent, game outcome, etc., for each season, season by season...
- figure out if that was a command line tool, or a wiki template, or what...

get back to thinking about the weird worlds, campus layouts, divisions

not a gigantic corporate complex, simple 80s community college campus

Lack of lore leads to one or two ideas sticking on a page, immobile
Trying to get unstuck leads to one or two pages having more extensive lore, using templates, building things out
...could keep going
...but stops there, too much work
Hard to keep track of the things that aren't automated, too, some things go years without getting updated because I just forgot about them.

Following Detroit Grape Chews 's lead (above - they are one of the pages with the most extensive lore)

Reorganize team pages, starting with DET: