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Originally Posted by OldFatGuy
If anyone more experienced with the OOTP series than I can suggest ways to help, please PM me. But please NOT with the standard "join an online league" response. I may at some point try that, but I'm more interested in solo play.
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I don't like online play myself, simply bacause I am too damn busy, and get too tired of constantly d/l, unpacking, repacking, u/l leagues. It gets kind of tiresome. Also, if I happen to miss a sim session, which happens to be in a failry important time period of the game, it almost alwys sets me back.
Anyway, the best suggestions I could give you, is to first of all, create a commish, as well as a regular profile for yourself. The commish would be used but about once a year, during the first year player draft in June.
When that comes around, I always use the commish to edit my team to pick last in the draft. Then switch back to my regular profile and do the draft. I almost always try to resign ALL of my FA players, regardless of age. So I set the Favor Prospect/Vets in the middle for this reason.
I will only initiate trades during the winter meetings. Once in a while, I will initiate a trade throughout the regular season, only if need be in order to fill a hole, in which there is a major injury to one of my starters, and I simply do not have a sufficient major leaguer ready to be called up from the minors. Happens at least once a year....sometimes twice a year.
Those parameters alone make it a bit of a challenge (especially if your the type of player that plays out every game, like I do.) I STILL end up making it to the playoffs though, since sometimes the AI makes some strange decisions during game play. (like IBB a .280 BA guy, with a runner on second, and my biggest hitter is the third guy at the plate....ended up winning the wild card off a HR with two outs in the 9th, down by two...VERY VERY strange indeed!)
Unless it was Dusty Baker who made that call, then I suppose it makes sence....kind of...
. But then again, he's usually never in hunt for the WC anyway....