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With OOTP2007 I have a universe that includes the real majors, the real minors, most of the real indy leagues, the Mexican League, the Japanese Leagues, the Korean and Taiwan Leagues, several European Leagues, a fictional third major league (The Continental League), several fictional affiliated minors, a handful of fictional indy leagues, a league on the islands of Sao Tome and Principe, and several real and fictional winter leagues. They all interact, they all are part of the same simulation, and they all have access to the same free agent pool. They have finances similar to what they'd be in the real world, with big major league teams having payrolls over $100M, and small indy league teams with average salaries under $1k.
When the mood strikes me, I can go look up the height, weight, facial characteristics, and batting average against lefties with runners in scoring position and two outs for the backup second baseman on the Alert Desolation of the Greenland Winter Ice Baseball League. Then in a couple of clicks I can trade him to the Cleveland Indians for Casey Blake, freeing up space to put the Indians' new Rule 5 draftee on the roster.
There's no other game or sim in the history of either baseball or computers that lets you do 1/10th of that, and my example is just one tiny fraction of what's possible in OOTP.
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