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DannoMack posted:Do you guys tend to play with scouting on or true ratings? I traditionally was No Scouts, No Coaches. Buuuuut I'm starting to come around to scouting slowly, only because it means you don't know how good every player in the known universe is at all times. Some people play with stats only(!!!)
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With the release of OOTP15, I figure it's as good a time as any to remind everybody that there is no substitute for a good Online league. After you spend hundreds of hours trying to find the right coach/scout/league settings that handicap you enough to make playing with the AI an actual challenge, it still won't be as fun as playing alongside other human GMs. So if anybody's interested, I have spots available in a pretty young promotion/relegation league that I run: http://buane.net/britannica/index.html The league currently uses OOTP14, so actually anybody that only has OOTP15 would be out of luck. However with some of the OOTP15 features I've read about we could be looking at upgrading sometime in July (OOTP typically has a 50% off sale that coincides with the All-Star Break, and that's usually enough time for the Dev team to squash the bugs they couldn't get to in Beta). Plenty of goons already in my leagues, so why not come watch your prospects bust and your star pitchers blow out their elbows amongst friends?
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Buane posted:With the release of OOTP15, I figure it's as good a time as any to remind everybody that there is no substitute for a good Online league. After you spend hundreds of hours trying to find the right coach/scout/league settings that handicap you enough to make playing with the AI an actual challenge, it still won't be as fun as playing alongside other human GMs. I'm interested in doing this, however, I am pretty new to OOTP overall. I own OOTP14 on Steam, but I wouldn't say I'm exactly setting the world on fire. Would this just end up spelling disaster for me in this league?
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laceratedsky posted:I'm interested in doing this, however, I am pretty new to OOTP overall. I own OOTP14 on Steam, but I wouldn't say I'm exactly setting the world on fire. Would this just end up spelling disaster for me in this league? It's completely up to you. I'm talking about teams that don't have a GM currently, so it's not like you'd be stepping in and wrecking anything. They're pretty rudderless already. The available teams are in either the mid tier or bottom tier as well (promotion/relegation league, so teams potentially move up/down after each season) so you aren't competing against the cream of the crop right off the bat either. The time requirements are pretty low too so it's not something you'd find yourself in over your head with - we sim on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, so you only need to put maybe 15-30 minutes of effort in every two days at a minimum. Maybe a bit more than that at certain periods of the offseason, but still nothing major. And if you're like some of us, you're free to spend all your spare time at work mulling over different permutations of your lineup.
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Buane posted:It's completely up to you. I'm talking about teams that don't have a GM currently, so it's not like you'd be stepping in and wrecking anything. They're pretty rudderless already. The available teams are in either the mid tier or bottom tier as well (promotion/relegation league, so teams potentially move up/down after each season) so you aren't competing against the cream of the crop right off the bat either. I might actually want to get in on this too, because obviously I'm not spending enough of my free time on fake baseball. I'll czech it out when I get home from work today
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So I decided once again to start up a Minnesota Twins franchise to see if I could duplicate my mind-boggling success of turning them from Basement dwellers in 2012 to 2014 WS Champions. I decide Mr. Drew would be a nice addition to my team seeing how I'm trotting out the world's worst platoon of Florimon and Escobar at shortstop. 3 games in, Drew gets hurt for 6 weeks. What a wonderful start to my campaign.  I suppose it could be worse... This game is depressing sometimes. Infidel Castro fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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I started playing iOOTP recently and am in year 2 of a fictional league set in 1980. Starting with completely fake players is a challenge so the first year was primarily about getting to know my team. Now that I'm a decent way through year 2 I think I have a good idea what a lot of my players are except one guy. If a player is all OBP and no SLG or AVG, what's the cutoff on his OBP before he's hurting my lineup?  This guy could walk 150 times this season but any hitting from 79' is gonzo. Power on my team as a whole evaporated (cocaine issues) but when does an all OBP guy like this become useless? Although ideally I'd like Mr. James to hit a ball now and then, if I've got other guys to knock him in is it alright to ignore any semblance of hitting or slugging?
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An above-average defensive 2B doesn't have to bring a ton of offense, and getting on base at over a .400 clip is pretty awesome for the position. I looked up Roberto Alomar & despite having a career .300 average he only cleared .400 OBP five times in sixteen years. He's not useless until his legs give out; once he can't go first-to-third on a solid hit to the outfield, or he can't field 2B as well, that's the time for him to go.
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That's my thinking. My only concern is the walks not really translating to runs but I'm not sure if that's on him or the lineup. It's difficult figuring if guys are in slumps or are just bad with no history to back it up.
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Infidel Castro posted:So I decided once again to start up a Minnesota Twins franchise to see if I could duplicate my mind-boggling success of turning them from Basement dwellers in 2012 to 2014 WS Champions. I won 98 games in 2015 without Buxton, there's your benchmark  I lost in the LCS though  Also, OOTP15 is on steam now and you can get it for 10% off until May 1st if you didn't buy it already.
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I have been casually playing ootp 14. Is there enough changes and updates for me to purchase 15?
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NiknudStunod posted:I have been casually playing ootp 14. Is there enough changes and updates for me to purchase 15? The core of the game hasn't significantly changed. I feel like the best new features are that it's easier to create leagues with different teams from different eras, the game now has the ability to customize your dashboard in any given game (so you don't have to constantly change screens to find different reports you commonly use) and you can now set ratings to scale for any given league so it's easy to see what's average.
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How do you guys compensate for seemingly random talent change with the default settings? I turn down batter/pitcher rating decline from 1 to something like .70-.80, which seems to be okay in stabilizing their stats and whatnot. I play with no scout/no coaching so it should be real values all the time. Jose Abreu in his first MLB season hit 38 HR/120 RBI, with a .280/.340/.600 slash line. His ratings pre-2014 (scale 1-10) were like 7/7/9/5/4. At the end of the season, they ended up being 6/6/7/5/3. Shouldn't his good performance have stabilized his ratings or was he hit by the ratings randomness stick? How do you guys feel about stats dictating ratings in the options? (Isn't there an option for that to recalc based off real stats?) How do you get the most accurate ratings based off stats/least amount of randomness. I like random talent changes for prospects, but can be somewhat annoying with ML guys. I've noticed this a lot more since OOTP11. Young players have a hard time remaining stable over 3-5 years. The talent randomness seems to hit younger players first.
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The UI improvements are substantial and the relative ratings are awesome. If you play it fairly regularly I'd say yeah, buy it now. If you only play every once and a while you can probably wait for the normal price drop around the all-star break.
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Harlock posted:How do you guys compensate for seemingly random talent change with the default settings? I turn down batter/pitcher rating decline from 1 to something like .70-.80, which seems to be okay in stabilizing their stats and whatnot. I play with no scout/no coaching so it should be real values all the time. Jose Abreu in his first MLB season hit 38 HR/120 RBI, with a .280/.340/.600 slash line. His ratings pre-2014 (scale 1-10) were like 7/7/9/5/4. At the end of the season, they ended up being 6/6/7/5/3. Shouldn't his good performance have stabilized his ratings or was he hit by the ratings randomness stick? The only thing I can think of is that you have "rate by position" enabled & some other players at his position got a lot better such that his 7/7/9/5/4 "re-rates" to 6/6/7/5/3 as a result.
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Yeah, those rating changes are why I ultimately have never stuck with OOTP.
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what theOOTP 14 posted:Harper Sees Game Improvements Due to Adoption of Buddhism
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Moe_Rahn posted:what the I hope life imitates video games in this case.
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laceratedsky posted:I'm interested in doing this, however, I am pretty new to OOTP overall. I own OOTP14 on Steam, but I wouldn't say I'm exactly setting the world on fire. Would this just end up spelling disaster for me in this league? gardenald posted:I might actually want to get in on this too, because obviously I'm not spending enough of my free time on fake baseball. I'll czech it out when I get home from work today If you guys, or anybody else, is interested in joining the league just shoot me a PM or email GMYale atsymbol gmail period com
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Does anybody ever use the "send to minors for rehab stint" in OOTP 15?
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CancerStick posted:Does anybody ever use the "send to minors for rehab stint" in OOTP 15? I do if I want to keep someone on the roster, and it helps me stall on sending someone down/gives me time to trade someone.
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IcePhoenix posted:I do if I want to keep someone on the roster, and it helps me stall on sending someone down/gives me time to trade someone. Yeah I do it to stall for roster space
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 God I love this game. edit: Three of my rotation is out injured at once! This game is BS! Actually better than real life, because they'll heal up over the off season instead of missing game time algebra testes fucked around with this message at 12:35 on May 20, 2014 |
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Buane posted:If you guys, or anybody else, is interested in joining the league just shoot me a PM or email GMYale atsymbol gmail period com Gotta rep the brittanica league, its fun and very simple for noobies. Butane, if you see this, please email me the league files to my username at gmail. For some reason I can't login to simcentral without error, so if you ever responded there I never saw it. Would love to get the files before free agency
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JosefStalinator posted:Gotta rep the brittanica league, its fun and very simple for noobies. Made it with 24 hours to spare.
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Just a heads up: MLB contacted the developers of OOTP and asked they take team nicknames out of the game, so the latest patch (3.1.something) will fix bugs, add some 3D stuff, and take out team names. Apparently this also applies to minor league teams as well. I imagine the modding community will try to find a way to work around this, but for now you are stuck manually editing the names yourself. Some good news is that it doesn't apply to saved games, just new ones.
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Faltese Malkin posted:Just a heads up: MLB contacted the developers of OOTP and asked they take team nicknames out of the game, so the latest patch (3.1.something) will fix bugs, add some 3D stuff, and take out team names. Apparently this also applies to minor league teams as well. Just hit randomize team names a few times, you might be lucky. Really try it!
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Faltese Malkin posted:Just a heads up: MLB contacted the developers of OOTP and asked they take team nicknames out of the game, so the latest patch (3.1.something) will fix bugs, add some 3D stuff, and take out team names. Apparently this also applies to minor league teams as well. I was surprised they had the team names in there to begin with. The court ruling from a few years back allowed them to use player names and stats, but team nicknames/logos/etc. are still trademarks of their respective teams. I don't know why they ever thought they could use that.
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GaussianCopula posted:Just hit randomize team names a few times, you might be lucky. Really try it! Am I mistaken, or does this still leave you needing to manually fix logos and unis etc.
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Mornacale posted:Am I mistaken, or does this still leave you needing to manually fix logos and unis etc. You already have to do that, none of these are in by default
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There's nothing preventing you from downloading a mod with the MLB names and all, right?
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:There's nothing preventing you from downloading a mod with the MLB names and all, right? I would assume you will be able to since you can download mods with actual team logos and uniforms from OOTP's mod central (I think that's the name of it?) already.
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Yeah, the all in one mod had everything, I was just making sure they didn't make them take it down.
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What the hell should I do with this guy? This is probably the weirdest skill set I've ever seen in the game. He's on pace for a 3 WAR season....with a .480 OPS. My manager has him leading off. With a .213 OBP. He's been on base 36 times and has stolen 23 bases. I don't even know.
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It's like a rich man's Billy Hamilton!
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bewbies posted:What the hell should I do with this guy? This is probably the weirdest skill set I've ever seen in the game. That dude is the best and I would bat him 9th and have him try to bunt for a hit like 60% of the time
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My manager won't use any of my great OBP guys in leadoff, should I just remove the option to play Mr Beck at all? I'm starting to think trade...
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