Recommended classification/sort model

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Recommended classification/sort model

Use two dimensions:

1. Competition level/type

• Major League Team-Season
• Minor League Team-Season
• College Team-Season
• Rookie League Team-Season
• Foreign League Team-Season
• Spring Training Team-Season

2. Specific league

Keep the actual league as its own thought/type where appropriate:

• Pacific Coast League
• Florida State League
• Australian Baseball League
• College World Series-related leagues
• Grapefruit League
• Cactus League

Important distinction: Spring Training

Spring Training is not really a competitive level equivalent to MLB, Minor League, or College. It is better modeled as a season/context designation:

Team-Season thought
  ├── Type: MLB Team-Season
  └── Tag or link: Spring Training

For example:

New York Yankees - 2024
  Type: MLB Team-Season
  Context: Spring Training
> 

If your spring-training pages are separate team-season thoughts, then a dedicated type such as Spring Training Team-Season is reasonable. I would avoid calling it “Spring Training League” because the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues are the actual league contexts.

My suggested type hierarchy

Given our existing Leagues type, I would use:

Leagues
├── Major League
├── Minor League
├── Foreign League
├── College League
├── Rookie League
└── Spring Training League

But for team-season thoughts, I would use clearer names:

MLB Team-Season
Minor League Team-Season
Foreign League Team-Season
College Team-Season
Rookie League Team-Season
Spring Training Team-Season
> 

These should be types, not ordinary league thoughts.

Why this works at 76,000+ thoughts

It allows efficient reporting and cleanup:

• Find all Minor League Team-Season thoughts.
• Find all Foreign League Team-Season thoughts.
• Find all team-season thoughts without a StatsCrew attachment.
• Find all player pages connected to College Team-Season thoughts.
• Find all Spring Training Team-Season thoughts separately.

It also prevents ambiguity. A specific league thought such as Australian Baseball League (ABL) can remain distinct from the broader classification Foreign League Team-Season.

Existing taxonomy considerations

Your brain already contains:

• Leagues
• League Foreign
• Australian Baseball League (ABL)
• Cuban National League
• College, School, University
• Castus League (Spring Training)
• Numerous historical league types

Cape Cod League

Classify as:

.07 Summer Collegiate League

The Cape Cod Baseball League is a summer collegiate league. Players are generally college athletes, but the league is not the same as ordinary college-season competition.

Recommended hierarchy:

.00 LEAGUE
└── .07 Summer Collegiate League
    └── Cape Cod Baseball League

This category could also include leagues such as:

• Northwoods League
• Coastal Plain League
• Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League
• New England Collegiate Baseball League
• Prospect League

I would not classify Cape Cod as College Team-Season because that would blur the distinction between a player’s university season and summer collegiate competition.

MLB Draft League

Classify as:

.08 Draft/Pre-Draft League

The MLB Draft League is different from both Minor League Baseball and summer collegiate baseball. It is a draft-oriented showcase/development league whose composition and purpose changed after its creation.

Recommended hierarchy:

.00 LEAGUE
└── .08 Draft/Pre-Draft League
    └── MLB Draft League

This category could eventually include other draft-oriented or showcase competitions if your database expands.

• Castus League (Spring Training) appears to be a specific league, not a category.

• League Foreign already resembles the proposed Foreign League category.

• College-related content is currently organized under College, School, University, which is broader than baseball leagues because it's purpose is for player biographies. To indicate the level of college background.

Use these six classification types for team-season thoughts:

1. MLB Team-Season
2. Minor League Team-Season
3. Foreign League Team-Season
4. College Team-Season
5. Rookie League Team-Season
6. Spring Training Team-Season

Then use specific league thoughts/types as secondary classification, and keep the affiliation direction uniform:

Team-Season → Player

Use two-digit numbering

Using numeric prefixes is a good strategy for consistent sorting, especially in a large brain.

I suggest:

.01 MLB Team-Season
.02 Minor League Team-Season
.03 Rookie League Team-Season
.04 College Team-Season
.05 Foreign League Team-Season
.06 Spring Training Team-Season

However, I would distinguish league level from competition context:

Then treat Spring Training separately:

.01 Spring Training Team-Season

or use a Tag such as Spring Training on MLB team-season thoughts.

Use .01 through .09, then .10, rather than .1, .2, etc. This preserves alphabetical sorting once you exceed nine categories.

Also reserve gaps for future categories:

.01 MLB Team-Season
.02 Minor League Team-Season
.03 Rookie League Team-Season
.04 Foreign League Team-Season
.05 College Team-Season
.06 Spring Training Team-Season
.10 Independent League Team-Season
.11 Summer Collegiate Team-Season
.12 Winter League Team-Season

This is compact, predictable, and scalable.

I suggest a functional color hierarchy: broad categories should use strong, recognizable colors, while lower-level types use lighter shades of the same family. This keeps the Plex readable without making 76,000 thoughts visually noisy.

Suggested expanded ordering

.01 MLB Team-Season
.02 Minor League Team-Season
.03 Rookie League Team-Season
.04 Foreign League Team-Season
.05 College Team-Season
.06 Spring Training Team-Season
.07 Summer Collegiate Team-Season
.08 Draft/Pre-Draft League Team-Season
.09 Independent League Team-Season
.10 Winter League Team-Season

Color suggestions

To preserve the existing visual logic:

The distinction between the two greens is intentional:

• College: formal university competition.
• Summer Collegiate: temporary summer league for college players.

see topic: Color Scheme