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Originally Posted by rasnell
After many, many hours of beta testing, I love the fact that :
1. We don't lose Ted Williams for four or five years of his prime and he actually sets every MLB record for BA, hits, HR, OB.
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In every sim I have run, he actually plays better than Ruth himself. Not just marginally better, but he really sets some amazing records.
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2. We see just how great Shoeless Joe Jackson would have been if he wouldn't have gotten involved with gamblers at such a young age. He tops Rose and Cobb in hits.
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I agree here too. Although, Cobb has suffered CEIs in a couple of my recent sims, so he's been a flameout, but Shoeless Joe regularly hits over 3000 career hits.
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3. We learn the names and are sent to the Baseball Encyclopedia and other books to learn more about the deadball era players.
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And this is the fun part. I have regularly visited baseballlibrary.com since I started testing this year. Some names, like Bernie Kauff, I had never heard of, and was surprised that they actually had pretty good careers IRL as well as OOTP.
Even tracking down duds like Showboat Fisher (who in a recent sim was dominant for 15 years) and George Winter (who in my most recent sim racked up 345 wins).
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4. We see realistic surprises and what might have been if J.R. Richard had not been knocked down by a stroke.
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Bo Jackson comes to mind here. In my sims he's dominant into the mid 90s and actually has a respectable career instead of suffering a CEI as he did IRL.
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As I wrote in my first blog related to this release, OOTP 2007 is making history with a Japanese parent company (in a nation that truly appreciates and puts baseball first as its favorite sport), a subsidiary in London that brought the world Football Manager, a German developer whose love of the game is obvious and his drive to bring us the best simulation is proven by the results, and the ability to show the world how and why baseball became such a huge American pastime.
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I agree 100% with this, rasnell. You have really captured the essence of historical play and why it is so fun. This would've been a good response to the thread a couple weeks ago asking why people play historicals...very good response.
Will