[Salathor]

I prefer OOTP because I feel like it's a more focused experience. My problem with FM is that the stats are so...subjective. How can I tell if a guy really has 13 or 14 headers? What does that even mean?

But since baseball plays are so atomized, I can know that a shortstop should be fielding .9895 or whatever and hitting .273 and know exactly what that means and compare it against the player and know that the simulation I'm getting is going to replicate real results at a certain level.

Basically, I think the added "depth" of FM makes it more game-y than I'm looking for, while I feel like OOTP gives me a more "on-rails" experience that reproduces the baseball universe in a real way.

FM does have the advantage of football really having a promo/relegation system, which makes it cool to be able to play your team up. Yes, you can set up a promo/relegation OOTP league but it isn't as fun as doing a "real" fantasy play like that.

EDIT: also, I personally prefer baseball to soccer, although I think soccer is fun too. I mostly prefer to play historical replay games as manager in OOTP, so I think the actual play experience is fairly similar (I'm not an OOTP guy who sims dozens of years on one save).