A while back Charlie Hough posted something to the effect that undertaking a major re-coding of significant portions of the game is a job worth doing for its own sake, or something like that -- I certainly agree, so on that basis alone I look forward to seeing what comes of the work on OOTP 14.
As for independent leagues, someone asked above whether we would actually be able to interact with these so-called "independent leagues", or whether they were just places from which we might see a new player appear from time to time. Please,
please let us have these be the first step toward the creation of realistic bush leagues. If Markus could just say yes, we're headed toward that promised land and this is just a first step, I can die a happy man . . . after pre-ordering, of course!
Oh, by the way -- with all the talk about adding new ethnicities, I wanted to ask whether it might be possible to get separate first- and last-name databases again, so that you can recreate the situation where players have ethnically marked last names but vanilla first names, like "Carl Yastrzemski".