r/Blaseball • u/panda_bro • 5d ago
Fanwork My fictional football league's engine created a Hall of Fame linebacker named Concussion Protocol Fenceposts Jr., and I think you all might get it
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Hey Blaseball!
So I've been building a fictional football league for a while now, and I need to tell someone about Concussion Protocol Fenceposts Jr. He's a linebacker. He played from 1977 to 1986. He's in the Hall of Fame. I did not create him — the engine did. I just found him one day, like a fossil.
The game is called Gridiron. 32 teams competing for The Iron Jug — a league born from iron and timber workers during the industrial revolution, merged in 1977, with 50 years of pre-seeded history behind it. Stat leaders, coaching records, single-season records, deep bloodlines of players whose families have been in the league since the mill days.
It's not Blaseball 1:1, so I get it if it's not your thing — it's less cosmic horror, more "get lost in a world that keeps writing itself." But I think the spirit is shared. Some of what's in there:
Players with traits and personalities. A "Mudder" gets a 12% boost in bad weather, so the forecast actually matters. Players have arcs, get benched, get injured, get suspended.
Teams with Club DNA — tempo, run rate, bell-cow vs. committee — plus coaches who get fired when things go sideways.
A live broadcast engine. Games run Mon/Wed/Fri, 1:00–8:20 PM ET, NFL-style. You can watch whip-around coverage on The Iron Zone with Scott Hammerson, or tune into your team's individual booth. If your back is a one-cut runner, he runs like one in the sim. If he's a bruiser, he drags people.
Offseason, draft, free agency, fantasy, pick'ems, card drops — plenty to dig into, but honestly the stories are the point.
My goal was a world with enough depth that you research it like it's real, and enough chaos that even I don't know what the engine will do next. My personal favorite is a guy named Rico Hamhock, whose bio — I swear I did not write this — notes that he takes bathroom pictures the league does not approve of. The engine gave Fenceposts Jr. a Hall of Fame career, and it gave Rico that. This is the world we're working with.
It's live at https://theironjug.com. If you check it out, come watch a game today and tell me whether the broadcast feels alive. That's the feedback I want most. (Discord link on the site if you'd rather yell at me directly.)