[philliesphan26]

So I did a similar thread last year for OOTP 13 and decided to try it again for OOTP 14. The idea is to see what kind of stats the game is generating many years down the line. In this case, I simmed ahead 25 years. I have the league currently open and am willing to sim further/post screens and player cards of anything anybody wants to see, just ask. For the record, this is a 16 team fictional league and EVERYTHING was kept at default. Without further ado, here's some screenshots of the batting leaderboards.

Overview of single season/career leaders:

Career AVG leaderboards:

Single-season AVG leaderboards:

Career HR leaderboards:

Single-Season HR leaderboards:

Career RBI leaderboards:

Single-season RBI leaderboards:

Career SB leaderboards:

Single-season SB leaderboards:

Things are looking pretty good here honestly. In another thread I had mentioned I had seen some slightly "troubling" results about inflated offensive stats in other test leagues I did-- namely SB numbers that looked a bit high, including someone who stole 89 bases one year, and someone else who stole 72 in a different league. Plus, in those leagues I thought the RBI/HR numbers looked a bit high... But this test sim has put my fears about the offensive stats to rest. Through 25 years, there's only been 1 HOF player automatically inducted (Roberto Lujan), which is fine since I manually do HOF anyway. I like knowing that 90 SBs, or 65 HRs, or 160 RBIs is technically possible based on other test sims I've done, but it takes a very special type of player to do it. As it should be. I'm really excited about the results here, and it's really making me look forward to going deep into my league (which I haven't even started yet!)

Anyway, on to pitching:

Overview of single season/career leaders:

Career Wins leaderboard:

Single-season Wins leaderboard:

Single-season ERA leaderboard:

Career K leaderboard:

Single-season K leaderboard:

Career SV leaderboard:

Single-season SV leaderboard:

To me, the pitching stats are a little more worrying than the batting stats. Look at the single-season ERA leaders... there's a lot of 2013 and 2014 performances in there. Not the best of signs, especially since those are insanely low ERAs (sub-2!). I don't mind seeing sub-2 ERAs, but that many in such a short period of time isn't what you want to see if you are going for modern-day stat emulation. NOTE: I didn't bother to post career ERA leaders because most of it is likely relievers... Though the #1 guy was actually a SP for the majority of his career... Other than that, the wins and saves look good (both single-season and career). Strikeouts are probably a little bit high but I don't think that's a huge issue.

In short, I think this may be the best OOTP yet in producing realistic and exciting long-term stats. And there's always the potential for a superstar to have a ridiculously good season... 60+ HR, 150+ RBI, .370+ AVG, 80+ SB are all possible with the right people but still rare enough to not be unrealistic. The only thing that might be troubling is the pitching ERAs, and that only seems to be an issue in the first 3 or so years (if this is anything to go off of). It's certainly a small sample size, but I thought it'd still be good food for thought and maybe create a nice discussion. I can do another test league for sample size sake soon if there's interest.