User:Ch4zm/November 2022/Lore Jam

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Cali Crown as Starting Point

starting with the Cali Crown

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

• https://wiki.golly.life/wiki/San_Francisco_Boat_Shoes
• https://wiki.golly.life/wiki/Sacramento_Boot_Lickers

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 Ideas and Starting Points

Trying to unblock.

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)

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?

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

Season by Season Analysis Notebooks

How to use notebooks?

• Extract a single team's schedule from the entire season's data. Line-by-line, win-loss.
• Same thing for rivalries - line by line summary of matchups between rivals for that season.
• Matchups - enumerating possible matchups to get the creative juices flowing.

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.

Possible Rivalries and Matchups

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.

User:Ch4zm/November 2022/Hellmouth Cup Rivalries

Hellmouth Cup Lore Ideas

SLC

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
• Salt Lake little league team: the Little Eddies
• team of parents
• little league team always following the big league team around

Salt Lake anti-rivalry (grown-up rivalry) with the OSHA violations (euphamism: "gonna go visit 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

AA

Alewife Arsonists:

• when you get shut out by the Arsonists, it's a smoking hole.
• like pilots, smoking hole painted on a wall somewhere...

Hellmouth Cup rules:

• 49 games per season - 2 games per series x 24 series - 24 hours! 24 series! - plus tiebreaker - midnight tiebreaker
• Lore fragment: the midnight tiebreaker

Cali Crown

Cali Crown: Hellmouth:

• season openers that are SAC vs SFBS:
  • season 2, season opener, SFBS beat SAC 319-6 (at SFBS)
  • season 7, season opener, SFBS beat SAC 206-36 (at SFBS)
  • season 10, season opener, SFBS beat SAC 187-99 (at SFBS)
  • season 11, season opener, SAC beat SFBS 179-154 (at SFBS)
  • season 12, season opener, SAC beat SFBS 232-119

• midnight tiebreakers:
  • season 7, midnight tiebreaker, SAC beats SFBS 229-92 (at SAC)
  • season 12, midnight tiebreaker, SAC beats SFBS 175-119 (at SAC)
  • season 14, midnight tiebreaker, SAC beats SFBS 145-128 (at SFBS)
  • season 24, midnight tiebreaker, SFBS beat SAC 258-75 (at SAC)

• last series of the year (games 47/48):
  • season 18 (SAC suffered 2 losses to SFBS)

• even splits:
  • even split in season 3: 3-3
  • shoes boots boots shoes shoes boots
  • even split in season 6: 4-4
  • shoes shoes shoes shoes boots boots boots boots
  • even split in season 9: 1-1
  • shoes boots
  • even split in season 13: 5-5
  • boots shoes boots shoes shoes shoes shoes boots boots boots
  • even split in season 16: 2-2
  • shoes shoes boots boots
  • even split in season 17: 2-2
  • shoes boots boots shoes

• sweeps:
  • only season sweep was by sacramento in season 11: 4-0

• shutouts:
• First (dirty) shutout in the rivalry: SAC shut out SFBS 611 - 0, Season 3, Day 22 (at SAC)
• First clean shutout in the rivalry: SAC shutting out SFBS 352-0, Season 12, Day 24 (at SAC)
• Second clean shutout: SFBS shutting out SAC 509-0, Season 14, Day 11 (at SFBS)
• (that's it for the Hellmouth Cup)

Toroidal Cup Lore Ideas

Cali Crown Toroidal Cup

Cali Crown: Toroidal:

• Toroidal Cup Season 15 postseason game - needs a name and a lore fragment

regular season...

Klein Cup Lore Ideas

Grap Chews

good lord that's a horrendous record.

they deserve a "Hit Every Stair On The Way Down" award

Detroit Grape Chews

In actuality:

• VV: DET was 1-0 against VV
• SGE: LDS S19
• MILF: LCS S1, LCS S12
• SFBS: LDS S11/LDS S14/LCS S15
• AA: DET was 1-0 against AA
• FFF: LCS S18/LDS S23
• DECO: LCS S2/LDS S8/LCS S16
• OSHA: DET was 4-0 against OSHA
• BB: LDS S3/LCS S13/LCS S24

That's three teams that never beat the Detroit Grape Chews in the playoffs, despite their hitting 14 distinct steps