[Iu29]

I won't use the ghost runner. Without the ghost runner, you see games like this one:

It was the deciding game of an OOTP22 playoff series, both teams run by computer, 1912 Red Sox vs. 1939 Yankees, the teams were tied 4-4 after 18 (!) innings (This league was made up of great 20th and 21st century teams, plus four "super" teams made up mostly of all-time greats -and a few not so greats!. I allowed teams to make trades, and allowed teams to draft extra players from great teams that weren't quite good enough for the league). In the top of the 19th, Tris Speaker singled for the Red Sox, stole second, and went to third on Ivan Rodriguez' single; then after Moises Alou flied out, Neal Ball's single scored Speaker and advanced Rodriguez to second; next, Wil Cordero's flyout advanced Rodriguez, who scored on Heinie Wagner's single; the next batter Pete Kilduff whiffed to end the inning. In the bottom of the inning, Charlie Keller flied out, Joe DiMaggio whacked a solo dinger, but Joe Gordon flied out and Bill Dickey grounded out as the Red Sox won (the team I personally ran, the Stars, one of the "super" teams, finished with the best record, 139-17 (!) and won the World Series 5-3 over the "super" team from Tennessee. The Stars hit .306 with 540 HR (!) as a team, with a 2.46 team ERA. The major-league leaders in BA, HR, and ERA, respectively, were the Stars' Ty Cobb who hit .387, the Stars' Babe Ruth who hit 75 HR, and the Stars' Pedro Martinez who had a 1.64 ERA- and he had a home park that increased homers about 50%). The Stars usually win the WS, but in OOTP20 (with the same players as the OOTP22/23 Stars, not necessarily the same season), they were beaten in the WS, 5 games to 4, by a Cleveland team (drafted by computer) that included Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron, but only went 99-69 compared to the Stars' 121-47.

Right now I'm playing an OOTP23 league with the same four "super" teams (again the same players, not necessarily same season), plus the 30 best three-year 20th and 21st century teams (players with 1 B-R WAR per a 162 game season in any of the three years, who are not on OOTP's middle year roster, are added), plus the standard 2022 players, but-

strikeouts modifier set to .654
SB attempts modifier set to .972
no ghost runner (same as the previously mentioned OOTP22 league)
no three-batter rule (also same as the previously mentioned OOTP22 league)

and I moved about 150 of the best players (with $10 million salaries or a certain amount of B-R WAR per season) back to the team on which they spent the biggest part of their first six seasons (in spite of this, the Yankees and Dodgers are leading their divisions about 1/5 of the way through the season; the Stars have the best record once again).

The only concession to "modern" baseball I made with the three leagues I mentioned, was that I used the DH (I did that so the Stars could play Ted Williams regularly and the other "super" teams could play one of their great stars who would otherwise sit on the bench).