General OOTP Observations Thread

[Rutgers Mike]

U guys manage or SIM games?

Sim for me. Like the broad picture of the universe. If I do manage games, I pick one SP and just do his games.

 

[Gooksta]

Sooo i want to try the new thing with coaches and managers.. in my single player - have gone gm mode only.. did hire a manager.. he has no exp and is "laid back" so he is pretty much a puppet as to how i want the team ran.. im gonna go after a manager who wont allow me to mess with lineups when one comes avail and see how that goes. also hired an assistant GM. he is handling international scouting, signing and minor league promotions and demotions

plan on going after pitching coaches who work well with power pitchers.. and hitting instructors who promote OBP/walks
will be on the lookout for managers who like speed players also

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Has anyone done a stats only league?

Stats only is where you turn of all ratings and make all your decisions based on just player performance stats. It helps to have feeder leagues so that you have a player stats history when you draft.

Create a new league - fictional is best, I usually use the built-in MAL with feeders - don't have an initial draft, let the AI run all the teams for five seasons and then take over a team. Don't peek at ratings, set scouting at average or below. Determine your lineups, pitching staff, trades, promotion, demotions, draft choices all from stats and scouting reports.

The difficulty level goes up amazingly. You get much more of a GM and managerial experience. Is young player X lucky, or is he actually good? Is aging Player Y done for, or just hitting/pitching in bad luck? Is Player Z injury prone? Good luck figuring it all.

In stats-only you make your decisions on incomplete data and take your chances. It's not for everyone, most people don't want that much of a challenge.

Me, I love stats only. But it's your game, play it your way.

 

[Gooksta]

Has anyone done a stats only league?

I am making my single player like this.. working on adding feeder leagues like Wbl has.. removing injury status also

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Yeah I think I'm going to give it a go with an offline fictional league so that I can play with the newer offline features.

 

[Gooksta]

guessing team chemistry is a bigger issue in 16
private message from bench coach on my single player

 

[Mr. Radpants]

The Find a Player is an amazing new feature. Such a simple addition but workflow changing.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

How do you get those logos that aren't booty? I just started a European league and they are the standard old crappy logos.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Never mind, apparently it's in Add On Central.

I'm going to try doing a European league starting mostly in the UK and expanding. 1950 start date but 2014 financials because easier to keep straight.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Got my league perfect and it crashed on creation.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Simming ten years ahead, my favorite random team name is the Nottingham Apple Sox.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

@OU11 how do you do the stats generation for the WBL? Did you go until all the random beginner players retired or just sim 10 years and go?

 

[OU11]

@OU11 how do you do the stats generation for the WBL? Did you go until all the random beginner players retired or just sim 10 years and go?

I simmed 20 years

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Did you hack my offline game and take control of the Edinburgh Snappers? They've won 7 shampships in 11 seasons. Lost in the series a couple times as well.

 

[OU11]

Im here to antagonize you, online and off

 

[Mr. Radpants]

I'm doing an offline dynasty. Should I spam this thread or do a dynasty thread? It wouldn't be an actual dynasty, I would just randomly post updates on things I found interesting.

 

[Gooksta]

Whatever is cool

 

[Yankee151]

I am observing that there hasn't been a sim in days

 

[Mr. Radpants]

It's like 8am Saturday Vegas time, be patient.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

I took over the Dudley Miners. They have been okay in the past, but in the cellar for a while. I was going to go with the worst overall team in history, but with the new contracts and financials I shied away until I at least get used to that part. I built their stadium just like Dublin's so I can try some strategies that could translate to the WBL.

I enabled coaches and managers. I'll be letting my manager do everything and evaluate them as a staff member. More on that later. I'm not delegating much to the assistant GM.

As a twist, I can be fired so I'll be paying attention to owner goals unfortunately.

Trades will be set to favors prospects and hard, which makes it pretty tricky.

Anyway, here's the team history:

Financial summary:

Hey, that looks promising.

Except for this jerk.

His demands:

And apparently I'm inheriting this DUMBrill.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

The new staff/manager pages are cool. I'm looking forward to firing DUMBrill and hiring a Strategist.

 

[OU11]

Ive been back for some hours now, ill sim later

 

[Wendell Gee]

I would look forward to this but I know you'll abandon it when something shiny

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Fired my bench coach and picked up a Tactician that is heavy on shifts and L/R matchups. He's actually pretty aggressive with the small ball as well. If DUMBrill falters at all I'll just can him and promote this guy.

Slim pickings for staff right before the season starts.

 

[Mr. Radpants]

I would look forward to this but I know you'll abandon it when something shiny

Fair enough, but it's more about whether offline is truly fun. I'll be spending much of the spring watching Nats games with access to my laptop.

 

[Wendell Gee]

I like the red/yellow/green icons signifying manager/GM control. Haven't played offline yet.

 

[Wendell Gee]

Fair enough, but it's more about whether offline is truly fun. I'll be spending much of the spring watching Nats games with access to my laptop.

Well, however far you get, I'll be following along. It would be easier to follow in its own thread. I'd rather read about other players' dynasties than go to all that work myself.

 

[Yankee151]

I'll start one eventually too but probably not post very much because I cant be arsed to update my own WBL team dynasty page

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Okay, I'll do a thread. Kella would approve

 

[kella]

Just what we need.

 

[Gooksta]

In my offline.. I hired a new manager.. He has control of lineups and pitching rotation. It hard to handle to watch how h uses the roster.. lol

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Yep, this is what I'm trying as well

 

[Wolfman21]

In my offline.. I hired a new manager.. He has control of lineups and pitching rotation. It hard to handle to watch how h uses the roster.. lol

that's why I can't do it, lol. They make some seriously "wtf" decisions...and I just can't let that happen.

 

[Wendell Gee]

examples?

 

[Yankee151]

I started a Rockies dynasty, first I'm going to try and get rid of Tulo's contract and Cargo's as well, good thing I have can't be fired on. Gonna get 9 power hitting GOATS to hit 70hr/year a piece

 

[Mr. Radpants]

I've generally noticed that the GMs that spend all day fleecing have an insurmountable advantage.

 

[Yankee151]

Jimmy Rollins got two weeks for slamming his hand in a garage door.

 

[Yankee151]

I got rid of Tulo and Cargo, but the Dbacks out tanked me. Nats win the first WS over the Sox. I'm instituting the DH in the NL and expanding the sacrificial lambship to 3 games. I picked up some GOAT independent leaguer who was 4 stars, rofl.

 

[Gooksta]

Lol screen shot?

 

[Yankee151]

I have all the player gens on more than default but I was still surprised to see this guy pop up in FA. His name is in all caps too which is weird

 

[Wolfman21]

When you guys sim, do you sim day to day or do you do like week to week or month to month type sims?

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Offline? Currently playing around with real time sims. Used to do weekly sims, it interrupts you if anything important happens.

I've also done a game where I played out one game per series or so, managing. Fun.

 

[Wolfman21]

Yeah, i tried to start one where I managed every game. That just takes a long time and with there being 162 games in a season and then having to handle the personnell part of it.......it would take a full year to do a full season. So i was just wondering how everyone else handled it

 

[Gooksta]

I like managing games usually.. but I real time SIM it at 40 speed at the moment.. can get a series or two.

 

[Yankee151]

I go month by month and manage games in september/october

 

[fignuts]

This^

 

[Mr. Radpants]

Yeah, i tried to start one where I managed every game. That just takes a long time and with there being 162 games in a season and then having to handle the personnell part of it.......it would take a full year to do a full season. So i was just wondering how everyone else handled it

I picked up playing one game per series back when I played that mouthbreather arcade game called The Show.

I made it into the third season doing that, and I complained about how the draft sucks with only five rounds and people thought I was weird.

 

[Orlando]

The Show is amazing. Stop hating.

 

[Wolfman21]

what have you guys found is the difference between your scout favoring tools and favoring ability?

 

[Wolfman21]

LOL...1 season into my offline game and the MLB decides to expand by two teams. The Austin Swine and the Indianapolis Emus. what in the hell, lol