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Originally Posted by statfreak
I basically disagree with homefield advantage and hope any such artificial adjustment to the home team players remains optional within OOTP.
While I don't disagree with the facts and real life results, I don't think arbitrarily boosting a home team player's ratings and decreasing a visiting team's player ratings is the answer. I want my players' ratings to be the same whether they are playing at home or on the road. I think too many users get too hung up in trying to replicate real life when the purpose of OOTP is to provide a reasonable simulation of the game of baseball.
There are just too many unknown variables and reasons why things happen in real life and trying to artifically model or account for that within OOTP seems not only pointless, but actually moves OOTP away from providing an accurate, organic, and reasonable simulation to a program that forces certain results to occur. My enjoyment of the game will be drastically reduced if OOTP does in fact begin having the home team win ~54% of the time since that would most likely mean the game results are forced and fixed and nothing I do as a user affects the outcome. At that point, OOTP ceases to be a game and is simply a program that spits out pre-determind numbers to satisfy the masses.
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I hope it stays an option like it is now, too. Options are almost always a good thing.
And I don't want a game that is predictable, either. I don't want to know how the story ends like Diamond Mind. That is why I play OOTPB.
I want the game to be like real life as much as humanly possible, but realize I may not get my wish and just accept it. But I will still express my wants and desires for the game in a constructive manner...and sometimes Markus has come through with them.
I hope Markus will continue to tweak, refine and make old features better, but not at the expense of the overall purpose and goal of the the game.