Originally Posted by gehrig38
Ok so I think I figured out my sweet spot, for now anyway.
But before that, how I found OOTP.
My first 'game' ever, was Panzerblitz, when I was 11. Played all day long, by myself. My first sports game was APBA baseball and I can remember ordering that thing, and coming home from school every single day checking the mailbox, literally sitting outside on weekends waiting on the mail.
My cousin and I had THOUSANDS of notebooks with millions of stats, I kept stats for everything.
Been a gamer my whole life, computer sims were the next step. Played them all to some degree but I am a realism fanatic, and this was the first game I ever felt 'got it' to the degree I love.
So my new league, 16 teams, starting out using 1990 data.
I took the Sox, the Red ones...
Have a HS, JUCO and College feeder league.
Here's the funny part, I have news set to entire world and I love it. I went through the 20 JUCOS, 50 Colleges, and 100 high schools and after I got my schools, and schools I knew, I named them all after either nationally ranked HS, or JUCO's, and created college conferences based on the real things. Broken into divisions, but now I get daily news and when a medfield kid punches out 15 it's cool, and way more personal. When a kid from Yavapai gets 5 hits it feels more real, very cool.
And I can also follow these kids from early on. Just saw a HS kid punch out 20 in 9, with a potential 21/16/15 rating! Great stuff.
The big leagues is stacked with talent.
Also figured out my work around with 2 pitch guys.
In the Editor I give them a logical 3rd pitch, guys with good stamina, but a horrid rating with medium upside on the pitch, so they develop into starters. I only do that with the 'bigger' kids mostly (actually only done it once so far)
Enjoying this.
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