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Originally Posted by Dave Stieb II
I just thought I'd post their real life stats for comparison sake, that's all.
Based strictly on those, they are underperforming collectively through 101 games in your ootp save.
I guess it depends on what you're looking for in your game.
I generally play Standard Games starting in 2020 and moving forward. No fantasy. Very limited historical.
So in my standard game ootp baseball world, there are outliers, surprises, disappointments, etc. as one would expect. Sometimes, I think, a few TOO many but that's a topic for another thread on another day.
If I played historical, would I be hoping that individual results mirrored real life? With a few outliers, surprises, disappointments? None? I'm not sure.
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Ahhh okay...Thanks.
You can play historical the way you described. I think they call it "season replay". You'll get the same signings that the real-life team got. Players will retire in OOTP the same way they did in real-life. Also, there are other options you can enable/disable to get it closer to how ya remembered it.
I play in such a way that when I started my universe in 1981 as Yankees GM, every MLB roster mirrored real-life. I don't know if every single player in my minor leagues were 100% as they were in real life, but I'm willing to bet they were. From pitch one, however, I was on an alternate timeline. Don't totally dismiss it. It is so much fun. I've got Barry Freakin' Bonds on my Yankees roster in 1992!!
It's really no different than the way you're playing. I don't know what the calendar year is in your universe, but if you started with 2020, as you mentioned, you were off on an alternate timeline with the very first pitch too, ya know?
Also, I want to include that even with the way that I play each season overall I'm fairly close to real life, in terms of statistics. Not necessarily individual statistics, but as a whole. I'm sure you know about the screen, "Historical Simulation Accuracy". It's in the menu MLB > Statistics > Historical Simulation Accuracy if you never paid much attention to it since you don't play historical. Well, here is mine. My first two seasons, 1981 and 1982, I had no freakin' clue what I was doing. LOL I was doing re-calcs and stuff in the middle of the season, just like an idiot. LOL As you can see, my numbers aren't too far off the real-life statistics...overall.
I happened to be out of the country all of 1998 and a few months into 1999. I never even knew Dave Stieb did that mini-comback in '98. When a friend mentioned it, I refused to believe him for a few days. When I confirmed it I was blown away. That dude was a bada$$. I don't believe we will ever see someone pitch no-hitters into the 9th only to lose it with 2 outs both times in back-to-back starts. That was insane. With his temper, I'm surprised he didn't burn a building down or something insane like that.
He was a beast on that mount...He pitched high and inside, keeping hitters off the plate, better than almost everybody. That was
his property.