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hat_plays_simsI am not pretending that basketball is a Medieval sport. I went and researched basketball for this post (and I left myself notes, so I get to share that research with you), so I know darned well it is not a Medieval sport. I am, however, going to admit that there are very few ways to get a Medieval Sim who loves sports their Sports Enthusiasm, so... no one talk shit about HORSE, of course?
... Yeah the Mister Ed reference isn't really working, is it.
The Free Time H-O-R-S-E Of Course basketball hoop comes in one recolor per subset of pretending-to-be-historical colors. The floor comes with Maxis white free-throw lines with a clear background, to be "painted" over whatever flooring you choose, while the hoop (and backboard and pole) come in almost-plausible wooden recolors burgled from WFS's Big Barn Kitchen set, with the metal fixtures darkened to resemble iron instead of steel (or powder-coated enameled steel). There is also an OPTIONAL default replacement package for the net using WFS Fisherman... fishnet. Sadly a default is the only way I could get the net itself to recolor-- I tried!
Also, foolishly, I put both recolors in one file-- sorry about that, if you want the white free-throw lines you have to keep the wooden backboard.
Now of course, basketball is hilariously ahistorical for my game just in general; it's a late-Victorian invention and these recolors don't even quite live up to that, plus the physics of the pole itself are a little... wonky (I'm pretty sure you can't get a wooden post that thick to bend that way, but I'm willing to be wrong). But Sports Enthusiasm and Body skill and Fun and Social, so! I did the thing.
The net default, if you want to default the net.
And what the net looks like when you're not using the recolor.
For those who DO have late-Victorian (or later!) games, I looked things up:
1. The free-throw line markings Maxis included are closest to modern high school and college standard.
2. Basketball was developed by Dr. James Naismith in December of 1891.
3. The basket was originally a pair of peach baskets or 18-inch-square crates hung on the upper track of the gymnasium (apparently a second-story balcony was a thing late Victorian gyms had). In 1892, woven wire baskets replaced the baskets and crates, and in 1893, cast iron baskets took the place of the woven ones. It wasn't until 1912 that open-ended woven nylon baskets replaced what were effectively metal wastebaskets with bottoms, speeding up the pace of the game because nobody had to fetch the ball out of the basket after every shot.
4. Backboards were first introduced in 1895 to stop spectators from, uh, interfering with the game. They were woven wire, but easily dented; in 1904 wood replaced them, with plate glass being approved as an option all the way back in 1909.
5. Baskets are hung 10 feet high (the height of those balconies, which became the standard), but when mounted flush against the wall, players tended to run up the walls for easy lay-ups. By 1916, apparently this was enough of a problem to require a two-foot gap between the backboard and the endline, and in 1939 the distance was increased to four feet to allow more movement under the basket.
6. Women's basketball has been a thing since 1893. No, I did not mix up any numbers. Eighteen Ninety-Three. The first intercollegiate women's game was played between Cal State and Stanford in 1896. The first women's national championship was played in 1936.
For more fun historical basketball facts, check out this site!
No seriously, I'm not a sports person and some of these are fun, in a 'oh they forgot to account for human nature before they added THAT rule' kind of way.
You could call it just 'rustic,' I guess, although a modern wooden backboard would probably be plywood and not pieced planks.
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... Yeah the Mister Ed reference isn't really working, is it.
The Free Time H-O-R-S-E Of Course basketball hoop comes in one recolor per subset of pretending-to-be-historical colors. The floor comes with Maxis white free-throw lines with a clear background, to be "painted" over whatever flooring you choose, while the hoop (and backboard and pole) come in almost-plausible wooden recolors burgled from WFS's Big Barn Kitchen set, with the metal fixtures darkened to resemble iron instead of steel (or powder-coated enameled steel). There is also an OPTIONAL default replacement package for the net using WFS Fisherman... fishnet. Sadly a default is the only way I could get the net itself to recolor-- I tried!
Also, foolishly, I put both recolors in one file-- sorry about that, if you want the white free-throw lines you have to keep the wooden backboard.
Now of course, basketball is hilariously ahistorical for my game just in general; it's a late-Victorian invention and these recolors don't even quite live up to that, plus the physics of the pole itself are a little... wonky (I'm pretty sure you can't get a wooden post that thick to bend that way, but I'm willing to be wrong). But Sports Enthusiasm and Body skill and Fun and Social, so! I did the thing.
The net default, if you want to default the net.
And what the net looks like when you're not using the recolor.
For those who DO have late-Victorian (or later!) games, I looked things up:
1. The free-throw line markings Maxis included are closest to modern high school and college standard.
2. Basketball was developed by Dr. James Naismith in December of 1891.
3. The basket was originally a pair of peach baskets or 18-inch-square crates hung on the upper track of the gymnasium (apparently a second-story balcony was a thing late Victorian gyms had). In 1892, woven wire baskets replaced the baskets and crates, and in 1893, cast iron baskets took the place of the woven ones. It wasn't until 1912 that open-ended woven nylon baskets replaced what were effectively metal wastebaskets with bottoms, speeding up the pace of the game because nobody had to fetch the ball out of the basket after every shot.
4. Backboards were first introduced in 1895 to stop spectators from, uh, interfering with the game. They were woven wire, but easily dented; in 1904 wood replaced them, with plate glass being approved as an option all the way back in 1909.
5. Baskets are hung 10 feet high (the height of those balconies, which became the standard), but when mounted flush against the wall, players tended to run up the walls for easy lay-ups. By 1916, apparently this was enough of a problem to require a two-foot gap between the backboard and the endline, and in 1939 the distance was increased to four feet to allow more movement under the basket.
6. Women's basketball has been a thing since 1893. No, I did not mix up any numbers. Eighteen Ninety-Three. The first intercollegiate women's game was played between Cal State and Stanford in 1896. The first women's national championship was played in 1936.
For more fun historical basketball facts, check out this site!
No seriously, I'm not a sports person and some of these are fun, in a 'oh they forgot to account for human nature before they added THAT rule' kind of way.
You could call it just 'rustic,' I guess, although a modern wooden backboard would probably be plywood and not pieced planks.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
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