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General OOTP Observations Thread

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Here’s what you’ll get in OOTP 19:
New 3D Players, Ballparks and Game Screen
OOTP’s 3D features have taken a big leap in OOTP 19. In addition to greatly improved 3D stadiums, the game features more advanced player modelsand improved on-field movements for an even better view of the action. Players now run, slide, jump, and throw, and they take more realistic routes to batted balls.
In addition, a reworked in-game screen enhances that “you are there” feeling for a better experience, whether you’re actively managing your team or watching the action play out.
2018 Opening Day Rosters
Can the Houston Astros repeat as World Series champs or can the Los Angeles Dodgers make another run at the title? You can answer all those questions and more in OOTP 19.
Our brand new 2018 roster sets include all Opening Day MLB rosters, as well as the complete minor league system down to rookie leagues, including independent leagues. All major league (and over a thousand minor league) player ratings are based on Dan Szymborski’s popular ZiPS player projection system. The remaining minor league players are carefully rated by hand by our established research team.
Will Jose Altuve have another historic season? How will the New York Yankees’ slugging lineup, led by reigning NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton, perform? Will Max Scherzer win his 3rd Cy Young Award in a row? Can Evan Longoria regain his old form and make the San Francisco Giants a contender? Will the Nolan Arenado-led Colorado Rockies improve on their 2017 Wild Card berth? It’ an exciting 2018 MLB season ahead!
In addition, 8 international leagues (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico and Cuba) and several international independent leagues return to OOTP 19 with accurate and projected 2018 rosters.
New Scouting System & Updated Scouting Reports
Scouting reports have been completely rewritten, giving you a more detailed look at your players, with a focus on the most important aspects that you care about. Your scouts deliver information in clear and targeted ways customized to your desire.
Ultra-Realistic AI & Ratings
The AI manages rosters and makes in-game decisions better than ever, based on the latest trends in the sport, including double switches, starter and closer usage in the playoffs, trades and much more. It can also now handle unique players, such as those with excellent hitting and pitching abilities. Shohei Otani, anyone?
In addition, the under-the-hood ratings module has been reworked to offer a more realistic and consistent view of players in the league.
New Tournament Modes
Tournaments have been enhanced with two exciting new features: the abilitycreate a standalone tournament bracket, plus the option to draw any teams in history into a tournament. The possibilities are endless! You can also create a special league with games manually scheduled through the regular season - modeling European football with multiple competitions and trophies within a calendar year.
User Voting for End-of-Season Awards
You can now cast a full ballot for all the end-of-season awards, including MVP, the top pitcher and hitter, and other awards. Improved decision-making by the AI can lead to some close races for awards.
Redesigned Interface
We have completely redesigned the interface and switched to a dark color scheme for the default skin. But no worries, we also have a light and a classic skin available. And on top of that, we added the option to select between six different fonts, so you can easily adjust the game interface to match your personal taste.
Much More!
Every year we offer many smaller features, and OOTP 19 is no exception. It includes:
  • 800 custom team logos for fictional leagues
  • Improved Manager Home screen, with a more customizable layout and new widget options
  • A new stat - RA9-WAR (WAR based on runs allowed) - for pitchers
  • Delayed substitutions for injured players, so, for example, you won’t have to replace your injured pitcher right away if your team is going to bat
  • ...and more to be announced prior to release!
Finally, we have an exciting new online feature called PERFECT TEAM that we’ll unveil this summer, with an open Beta happening this spring. Stay tuned to learn all about it.
We can't wait to show you more in the coming weeks, including additional OOTP 19 screenshots.
How long until pitchers and catchers report? Let's play ball already!

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Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
Also I'd say 99% chance the PERFECT TEAM is just a FUT clone. Guess that's great news for the nutopia server fund, Travis will be selling MarkusCoin for $20 a piece in no time!

Q: I read about some "Perfect Team" online game mode in the newsletter, what's that about?
A: We are extremely excited about Perfect Team, it has been in development for over a year and will be available as a public beta later this Spring and the officially launch this Summer. We will announce more details in the coming weeks, but in a nutshell is a combination of competitive online leagues and popular card collecting games like MLB The Show's Diamond Dynasty or EA's Ultimate Team modes, but with a unique twist. It is a completely seperate mode and not woven into the core OOTP experience, so users who do not like such game modes can simply ignore it.

Q: Will Perfect Team take development time away from the core OOTP game?
A: No, we have hired special developers for PT who work on the mode, the core development team is not influenced. The goal with PT is to open a new market for OOTP, bringing in more revenue and eventually having more resources to improve both the core OOTP game and PT. It's a win-win!
 
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NML

Well-Known Member
Is there a way to see historical data for a league (specifically ours)? I can pull last year and two years ago with the filters built in. Just curious if you can go further back
 

doh

THANK YOU Dermott McHeshi
If you do info>history>league history index you can see year by year league avg/ERA. Then when you click on the league you can see more details like team stats, all-star and league leaders.

IF you want to look up individual teams, you can do it on their own history page.
 

NML

Well-Known Member
I’m looking for full league stats for individual players. I want to do some statistical analysis stuff, but I only have a couple of years of data from the mid 50’s when I did some the first time.

Maybe the almanac? I’ve never looked at that before
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
This is the only cool feature (other than 3d animation for offline leagues) if I am reading it correctly because I know one of you fools will make an all submariner pitching staff:

- Added arm angle rating for pitchers
 

Wolfman21

Well-Known Member
is there a way to get a 2018 updated roster set for OOTP 18? I don't remember if its something they generally update throughout the year or if theres no way
 

Schauwn

Well-Known Member
is there a way to get a 2018 updated roster set for OOTP 18? I don't remember if its something they generally update throughout the year or if theres no way
SDS updates them throughout the year, they'll probably release one on opening day.
 

doh

THANK YOU Dermott McHeshi
is there a way to get a 2018 updated roster set for OOTP 18? I don't remember if its something they generally update throughout the year or if theres no way
Wolfman profile is now "This member limits who may view their full profile."... WTF? Was he a secret agent or something?
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
Just make a baseball sim where you can import the results of your combined Imperator/CK2/EUIV/Vicky2/HOI4 run where everyone is under the flag of Carthage.
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Is there a way to do an MLB start in OOTP as of today?

I want to do an offline rebuild of the Mariners, Tigers, Sox, or some other woeful team. But I really want to start from THIS offseason start instead of the start of the season.
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
Some OOTP forum sperg has probably done it, you'd need a specific quick start file

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Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Some OOTP forum sperg has probably done it, you'd need a specific quick start file

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I can’t find this available.

That’s a shame, I’d rather fire up a game this winter when there’s no baseball on and create my own universe, highly divergent by the time MLB starts back up.
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Since I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, I started a historical league in 1945 but set it to stop generating historical players. I simmed forward but ultimately couldn’t get past the crappy logos and jerseys.
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
I went down the rabbit hole looking for better historical jerseys but Photobucket messed with their time hosting rights and that really affected the retro logo project at the OOTP Forums. My current ideas are



1) A post WW2 fictional league with the historical teams but fictional players — or historical players but phasing into fictional through draft classes. Teams would be historical with added fictional teams from Allied European nations like England, Ireland, France, etc. I had this idea while watching the Band of Brothers finale when they are in Europe playing baseball when the war ends, lol.

2) A completely fictional league with logos and jerseys jacked from the retro logo thread. I’m leaning toward 2) because it will be so much easier.
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Dang this one is pretty awesome.

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The Citronaut was designed by Norman Van Meter, the brother-in-law of FTU's then-president Charles N. Millican in an attempt to combine the two major themes of Central Florida at the time: the citrus industry, and the space program. Florida produces approximately 100 million boxes of citrus annually,[4] and FTU was founded in 1963 to provide personnel to support NASA at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. As the academic scope of the university broadened, it was renamed to The University of Central Florida in 1978.[5][6]
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
I semi-created the Nats playoff run using Live Start (but, that only gets you to the start of the playoffs). I think Task Kill cheated the Nats to a Championship, then saved/backup/quickstarted it.

I wanted to pick a team that hadn't won a World Series yet, so I went with the Rangers. It seemed like a very challenging rebuild. Really, any of those AL West teams (Mariners, Rangers, Angels) would be really challenging.

I also considered a Padres run adding Strasburg, but their farm is just too built up already.
 

Mr. Radpants

Trog Five Standing By
Two months into my SIM the Arizona Diamondbacks have ditched AIRAIDZONA and moved to Austin Texas to become the Austin Mud Cats.

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I'm debating undoing this one, but kinda adds to the state of Texas competition narrative I have going.
 
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