[Steve Kuffrey]

Dave thanks for your interest. One major difference is that SOM is a "replay" game and OOTP has that ability, but the game is not sold with "real" MLB players. They can be imported via the Lahman database or you can use one of the user created roster sets.

Some of the strengths of OOTP are:
-VERY flexible: you can play it just about any way you want with certain things not used or used.
-Career play: very good at this style of play, while not perfect I have yet to find any "game-breaking" flaws. Most things can be "worked around".
-Historical play: no other game offers the unique style of play that OOTP does. Where player career's can change and vary with each person's own game. Not the style of play where you pretty much "know" how well a player is going to do from year to year.
-Online league: has some great features for this, including total HTML league output with one mouse click.

Hope this helps, please feel free to email me with any other questions.

Steve