Franchise ID Numbers

It's been a full ten years of SlamNation, can you believe it?! For the purposes of historical tracking, every franchise now has a "franchise ID," prioritized by conference, owner start year, and owner alphabetical order.

Each franchise ID number stays with the franchise through all ownership handovers, thus making it easier to keep track for spreadsheets, and to dig up historical numbers.

Russell Conference
1. FJUB - Fat Jubas (Eric)
2. CHMK - Chunky Monkeys (Evan)
3. FUNK - Funk Coalition (Jon)
4. FOBS - Fob Stars (Jimmy)
5. TRUO - Truo Thien (Thien)
6. SWMP - Swamp Dragons (Eddie)
7. SNAC - Snack Bears (Brandon)
8. CMTO - Cameltoe (Felipe)

Chamberlain Conference
9. SQSQ - Squirtle Squad (Brian)
10. ABCX - Another Bad Creation (Oliver)
11. BUFF - Buffy (Roger)
12. SOUR - Sour Snails (Trieu)
13. SBUK - So Buckets (Josh)
14. SPDE - Spade (Randall)
15. ILCN - IL Conceived (Frank)
16. HSTL - Hilt the Stilt (Dave)

Also note that I changed -- and standardized -- everyone’s team abbreviations into four letters. As well as moved full team names to the second field on ESPN. It all just makes it easier for me to pull and run stats. Thanks!

2019: Re-Alignment

Due to moving over to two conferences and no divisions, we're gonna do a slight re-align too, to balance out the conferences. I looked at keeper core scores, and top keepers, and then decided to switch So Buckets and Spade over to Chamberlain while Fat Jubas and Fob Stars slide over to Russell to take their place. We kept an eye toward preserving historical rivalries and making sure each conference still had some ex-champs to boast about.

Strangely our new auto-generated ESPN schedule is a mix of +5 out-of-conference games. So the schedule seems to do this no matter how many times I reset it:

• One game each versus every other team (15/20 games)
• Repeat five out-of-conference opponents for the last five weeks of the regular season (5/20 games)

Which means that if we have unbalanced conferences, one conference will just pound on the other. Thus, the slight-re-alignment. Thanks to Josh, Randall, Eric, and Jimmy for suffering the indignity, enjoy your new homes!

And a look at the would-be All-Star teams by conference (all seventeen gold players plus best player from Buffy, Fat Jubas, Fob Stars):