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Originally Posted by P. Nylam Plante
Hello,
I'm a potential member of the exodus, with one foot out the DMB door and one foot in the OOTP door.
With DMB, I was particularly interested in playing the projection disks, which came out shortly before each Major League season began. I tended to play along with the actual seasons, using actual rotations and rosters, making the transactions and call-ups as they occurred in the actual MLB season. Leaving aside calculations based on minor/major league equivalencies, DMB uses a rather basic (though I'd say effective) method of player projections based mostly on the player's age and his three most recent seasons with the latest season receiving some more weight.
Along these lines, I have a few really basic -- and uninformed -- questions about OOTP:
1. Would you know if anyone in the OOTP community puts out a projection "disk" prior to each MLB season, something like the one DMB does or Dan Szmborksi's ZiPS projection disk?
2. Is it possible and, if so, easy to play a single projection-type season with OOTP using rosters composed only of those players who are playing in the current MLB season (and making real-life transactions as they occur in the actual season)?
3. I realize that #2 above forecloses a lot of the GM options available with OOTP. Is it very feasible to play OOTP on a sort of single-season basis where the GM decisions are really the GM decisions being made during the actual current MLB season (this questions may just be a restatement of #2)?
4. Say someone were to start playing a projection-type season with OOTP in April and a new version of OOTP were to be released in June or July. Is it possible to transfer a then-active season into the latest released version of OOTP?
Thanks very much for any answers and advice.
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1. I don't think that's something you can depend on, although it has been done before.
2. Yes, but you have to micromanage everything.
3. See #2.
4. Yes