[Syd Thrift]

“Include spreadsheets in the game” is pretty useless advice for three reasons:

1. There are already, basically, spreadsheets all over the game. The lineup and pitching screens, the individual player cards, the team stats screens, etc.

2. Spreadsheets are okay to use I guess when you’ve got one set of data you’re consuming but if you need to programmatically get at the data at all, they’re of very, very limited use. OOTP, like any even somewhat sophisticated data modeling system, uses a relational database to get at everything and the “spreadsheets”, then, are somewhat glorified views (although again, databases tend to be far more powerful).

3. What you’re really asking for are features. Ask for the features instead. Do you want to design your own formulae? That seems like a decent ask (and something only recently implementable). Do you want to be able to control what columns and what order you see on the screen? The game already does that and I’m sure that it’ll get even better in the future. Do you want to hand-enter stats? To each their own I guess but no thanks; speaking as a programmer I’m way too lazy to do that. I will take 4 hours to program something so that I can avoid spending 2 hours doing data entry (who am I kidding? If it’s 2 hours of data entry, it’s probably closer to 40 hours that I’d spend).