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cards2468 · 03-19-2009, 11:30 PM

I've owned OOTP9 since last summer, when I bought a license after longing for the days of playing in an online DMB league that used real MLB players. I had so much fun back then. I got into a league that was very hard to get into by taking a job as an assistant GM for a failing Pirates team. After I helped turn the team around, I was offered a GM job with the Braves. Soon I started getting very heavily involved in real life baseball, that I had to give up my spot because I felt I could not commit the time to it that it deserved.

I don't have much free time now, but when I bought OOTP9, it was so that I could once again be a GM for an online team. I caught on with a start up league looking for GM's where I handled the Cardinals. I did alright in the first year, but the league folder and I lost interest.

Recently my laptop has been sent off for repairs, and with the start of the baseball season at hand, I started feeling those craving again to be involved in an online team. I was dying for my laptop, which had OOTP9 on it, to come back so that I could play. I ended up spending my free time on my girl friend's laptop and using my blackberry to read the forums here. I always thought fictional leagues and rosters were ridiculous and that not having real names would just defeat the purpose, but I kept reading and reading about different experiences, and I started having a passion to experience what the team from back home goes through. The Florence Freedom of the Frontier League, which have very little money, and a roster that changes nearly daily as players are cut, signed, traded, and finding their way to affiliated ball. I wanted to experience relying solely on money and statistics to make decision rather than the influence of subjectiveness I experience when MLB teams and real players are at my control.

My laptop has returned, and I decided to create my own "baseball universe". I have a real MLB and affiliated teams that go along with it and many international leagues and winter leagues, plus I added the Frontier League which I designed myself to make the experience as real as possible. I started the simulation in 1993 when the Frontier League was born, and am simming up until present day to build a history in the Frontier League with the use of fictional players. With as often as rosters change in the Ftontier League, only a handful of current players do I recognize anyway, so going fictional made the creation very easy. I am excited to start my new job managing the Florence Freedom, and if I receive a new calling, possibly moving on from there. I had no idea when I bought this game that I would ever do anything like this. All I wanted was something to simulate MLB games for online use, instead I found an incredibly in depth game that is just as fun without dedicated online opponents. With my busy schedule, I can actually maintain teams by having the flexibility to control time, itself.

03-19-2009, 11:30 PM	#1
cards2468 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5	Discovering OOTP long after purchase I've owned OOTP9 since last summer, when I bought a license after longing for the days of playing in an online DMB league that used real MLB players. I had so much fun back then. I got into a league that was very hard to get into by taking a job as an assistant GM for a failing Pirates team. After I helped turn the team around, I was offered a GM job with the Braves. Soon I started getting very heavily involved in real life baseball, that I had to give up my spot because I felt I could not commit the time to it that it deserved. I don't have much free time now, but when I bought OOTP9, it was so that I could once again be a GM for an online team. I caught on with a start up league looking for GM's where I handled the Cardinals. I did alright in the first year, but the league folder and I lost interest. Recently my laptop has been sent off for repairs, and with the start of the baseball season at hand, I started feeling those craving again to be involved in an online team. I was dying for my laptop, which had OOTP9 on it, to come back so that I could play. I ended up spending my free time on my girl friend's laptop and using my blackberry to read the forums here. I always thought fictional leagues and rosters were ridiculous and that not having real names would just defeat the purpose, but I kept reading and reading about different experiences, and I started having a passion to experience what the team from back home goes through. The Florence Freedom of the Frontier League, which have very little money, and a roster that changes nearly daily as players are cut, signed, traded, and finding their way to affiliated ball. I wanted to experience relying solely on money and statistics to make decision rather than the influence of subjectiveness I experience when MLB teams and real players are at my control. My laptop has returned, and I decided to create my own "baseball universe". I have a real MLB and affiliated teams that go along with it and many international leagues and winter leagues, plus I added the Frontier League which I designed myself to make the experience as real as possible. I started the simulation in 1993 when the Frontier League was born, and am simming up until present day to build a history in the Frontier League with the use of fictional players. With as often as rosters change in the Ftontier League, only a handful of current players do I recognize anyway, so going fictional made the creation very easy. I am excited to start my new job managing the Florence Freedom, and if I receive a new calling, possibly moving on from there. I had no idea when I bought this game that I would ever do anything like this. All I wanted was something to simulate MLB games for online use, instead I found an incredibly in depth game that is just as fun without dedicated online opponents. With my busy schedule, I can actually maintain teams by having the flexibility to control time, itself. Last edited by cards2468; 03-19-2009 at 11:32 PM.