[Pelican]

I don’t know about imitating real life. What the game achieves is to impose the same kinds of financial constraints that real GM’s face. With ways to increase revenue that are also realistic and limited and hard to achieve. And the option of changing the rules to impose a hard salary cap and/or a minimum salary spending floor, for example. Which allows me to explore “what if” the Pirates and the Royals and the Marlins had the dough-re-mi that the Yankees, Mets, Braves, Dodgers spend each year. The important thing is for the financial reality of each team to mirror the real life situation, relative to the other MLB teams. I think OOTP does that very well. It may not imitate the entire budget; but it incorporates the main variables that control spending.