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Originally Posted by Melo
I don't get the fascination with real rosters. Let me qualify that though: I have played them. I've played Rolen's and Cubby's rosters with 5, 6 and 2006and I've really enjoyed playing them. However, after that first season, you start introducing fictional elements anyways. Even with the ammy draft, if you do a 25 round draft you're introducing a lot of fictional players. Add in the fact that the real kids you drafted end up progressing very quickly and by the time you start the second season you are well into the "what if" scenario and moving away from the "realistic" scenario. Whenever I've played those roster sets I knew going in that I was only going to get something approximating one "real" season and if I played each game out inning by inning maybe I'd get a couple of months of real time playing one season. If I'm just simming, it gets fictional within a day or two.
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But you don't start with an overwhelming amount of fictional elements which is the main reason I prefer real/historicals versus completely fictional. Yes, the 1B prospect about to take his first AB in 2009 is fictional, but I got to watch him come up....and they are few enough to where I can keep my eyes on most of the top prospects coming into the bigs. As it stands starting in a completely fictional world, I'm staring at a bunch of players I know nothing about an having to digest it all in one fell swoop....that may have it's draw for some, but not really for me.
I love the game and think it's the best iteration of them all(been playing since I bought STB in an EB for a few dollars) It just seems roster mods are getting more and more difficult for whatever reason and it's unfortunate...I enjoyed the days where Halofan was tossing em out as well and miss his contributions to the community.
And was it 5 or 6 that came packaged with real players but fake names? What happened with that although I probably can guess the answer had something to do with SI's fear of the MLB license group...