Regional Bragging Rights

[Fishbone Walker]

This started out as an inter-Canadian project, but quickly evolved into an expanded super-league type thing. This was really fun to research and put together. I might take a stab at a similar type thing for The Show.

Roster is for '24 on PS5, titled "Regional Bragging Rights". It consists of 32 teams across the globe, based on a player's place of birth, and sometimes, divided by the era that they played in. Includes current players and Alumni. Most teams are in Created Teams, except for most INT'L Teams:

BC: Vancouver, Victoria
AB: CGY, EDM
SASK: REGINA (old school), SASK (new school)
MAN: MAN
ON: North (North Bay), South (London), East (Kingston), West (Brantford), Toronto, Greater Toronto Area
Quebec: Laval (90's), Rouyn-Noranda (<70's), Quebec City (70's-80's), Trios Rivieres (current)
US: Mass., Mich., Minn (includes Wisc), NY, Orlando (includes TEX + Missouri), Cal (includes Ariz, other west coast players)
International: Czechia, Finland, (rest of) Euro All Stars, Russia (alumn), Russia current, Sweden Alumn (on Vaxjo Lakers of SHL), Sweden current, Slovakia

Some annoying things I've found while doing this is that current players are by default rated higher than alumni players. Someone like Pat Verbeek has over 1000 career points is rated like 84, while Joe Blow NHL is an 87 in some cases. So, a decision needed to be made to level down current players or level up Alumni players. I probably did a bit of both. You definitely see it in how the current Russian and Sweden teams are rated though, as they are higher than their Alumni counter parts (which to me is kind of bunk). I might re-edit over the holidays.

Anyhoo, I've been playing a season, it's incredibly fun.