[Tiger Fan]

Since your duplicate thread on the OOTP side appears closed I will post here by taking a stab at the question with my thoughts on both. I can only talk about historical and fictional play with both games. It is just me, so not a comment on either game, but I have little interest in simming modern day sports so I can't speak about how the compare recreating the modern baseball or hockey universe.

HISTORICAL - In terms of results I would say they are extremely close and feel both are outstanding. The stats I get from each feel very realistic and each has a recalculate or game engine develop option for players. FHM has made great strides in recent years with the addition of real head coach/GMs and in areas of historical customization so you can do things like stay at 6 teams forever or have the WHA continue on past 1979. FHM does not have full historical minors like OOTP does but does a decent job of sort of mimicking it on it's own.

FICTIONAL - Again FHM has taken great strides in the past few versions and has a lot of customization along the lines of what you can do with OOTP. I hope they one day add to FHM things like league templates and the ability to edit/import your own namesets because namesets and nationality/regions is one area where FHM falls well short of what OOTP was even in it's infancy. Templates you could save in league creation would make the challenge of creating a league -and it is a slog if you want multiple leagues in your startup- so much easier. Like OOTP, just load your template make some additional changes you want and hit create game. That would be so much easier to help get your fictional league just right.

To me the biggest differences right now and where FHM falls well short of OOTP are interface and access to the history you have created in your world. The complete absence of any sort of html or even text file exports with FHM is a constant source of frustration for myself as a multi-year simmer who likes to write dynasty reports. To me it also makes an online league a much more difficult task has I have no idea how you could easily have a league website.

That and the fact that it has no easy to access Almanac/league history is the other big negative for FHM in my comparison. Much of the material is there - individual player stats for any season, leaderboards, etc- but like so much of FHM hard to find and cumbersome to load. In fact, it may be just that I am so much more familiar with OOTP but I find the whole FHM interface very difficult to navigate and things seem to need so many more clicks and/or are so time consuming to load when compared to OOTP.

Overall as a historical or fictional sim FHM -just like OOTP- has it's flaws but is far and away the best option of it's sport that I have ever played.