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Originally Posted by pstrickert
Good points. Based on my experience, DMB has some variation, too, especially pre-1980 seasons, I think. Most of the time, the results compare better to RL than OOTP. Part of the challenge of taking a historic team is to see if your coaching decisions make a difference in the season outcome. Can you win the pennant with a team that finished 6 or 10 games out of first IRL? In DMB, that's a fair challenge. In OOTP, based on what I've seen, it's not the same challenge. Even with player development (and other variables) off, it's hard to know if your decisions as a manager really affected the outcome. It's not uncommon to sim a historical season and see a last place team IRL win the pennant in OOTP.
Here's another thought: Some people like to set up a league in OOTP with the greatest teams in baseball history. Were the 1927 Yankees the best team ever? Based on what we know about OOTP, would we really be able to trust the results? I'm not so sure.
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If I'm not mistaken, DMB season disks cost nearly as much (if not more) than OOTP itself does. Is that correct? That would lead me to believe that much more time is focused on the accuracy therein with each season, with anything from gameplay modifiers to... who knows what?
I think that, while OOTP does have year-specific modifiers and the like, the scope of the game was not to meticulously detail those factors in minutiae, whereas DMB does so because, frankly, that IS the game.