OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - OOTP 17

Barmy Fungy-Phipps · 11-11-2015, 04:33 PM

I would very much like to see OOTP move away from just one screen to using windows or tabs. I have two examples in mind.

One is baseball websites in a browser - Fangraphs or Baseball-reference, to use the websites I frequent, give me loads of information on the screen, but if I want to see more, I can just right click and open a new tab or window. I can resize the windows and look at them next to each other, or flip back and forth through the tabs. I can open something in a tab, do other tasks, and come back to that tab when I need to see the information. An interface that more closely mimics the browser experience would be very pleasing and much easier to use.

The second is Baseball Mogul - I've been very sad to see a game I loved for a long time slowly wind its way into irrelevance. There's obviously a huge gap in simulation quality between it and OOTP. But the interface has always been MUCH more intuitive and user friendly in Baseball Mogul. The main advantage is using pop out windows for player cards, lineups, and almost anything involving detailed information. The roster page with easily customizable stats and sorting options was also much easier to use than the OOTP equivalent.

Secondary to using windows and tabs would be the ability to customize the information I see. I'd prefer to be able to select stats visible on main screens. This is less important in player pages, more so in lineup screens, and team pages and the like. Being able to pick exactly which stats I want to see would be a big improvement. The customized dashboard Fangraphs offers would be an excellent example.

Since I am mentioning cool features from websites, Baseball-reference has a lot of nice visual tricks to give me easy information. Listing career records by team underneath the career stats, for example. Clicking one year and then another in a player's career to give me a pop-up that sums the stats between those years is another good one. Their whole play index is fantastic, although I would imagine that level of database searching would be difficult to use.

11-11-2015, 04:33 PM	#190
Barmy Fungy-Phipps Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 41	Thank you for asking about this! I would very much like to see OOTP move away from just one screen to using windows or tabs. I have two examples in mind. One is baseball websites in a browser - Fangraphs or Baseball-reference, to use the websites I frequent, give me loads of information on the screen, but if I want to see more, I can just right click and open a new tab or window. I can resize the windows and look at them next to each other, or flip back and forth through the tabs. I can open something in a tab, do other tasks, and come back to that tab when I need to see the information. An interface that more closely mimics the browser experience would be very pleasing and much easier to use. The second is Baseball Mogul - I've been very sad to see a game I loved for a long time slowly wind its way into irrelevance. There's obviously a huge gap in simulation quality between it and OOTP. But the interface has always been MUCH more intuitive and user friendly in Baseball Mogul. The main advantage is using pop out windows for player cards, lineups, and almost anything involving detailed information. The roster page with easily customizable stats and sorting options was also much easier to use than the OOTP equivalent. Secondary to using windows and tabs would be the ability to customize the information I see. I'd prefer to be able to select stats visible on main screens. This is less important in player pages, more so in lineup screens, and team pages and the like. Being able to pick exactly which stats I want to see would be a big improvement. The customized dashboard Fangraphs offers would be an excellent example. Since I am mentioning cool features from websites, Baseball-reference has a lot of nice visual tricks to give me easy information. Listing career records by team underneath the career stats, for example. Clicking one year and then another in a player's career to give me a pop-up that sums the stats between those years is another good one. Their whole play index is fantastic, although I would imagine that level of database searching would be difficult to use.