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Originally Posted by jpeters1734
This comment says it all.
FM is clearly the gold standard. However, that doesn't mean that you will enjoy FM more than OOTP. It really comes down to what you want out of the game. If you love to sim a hundred years to see how leagues shake out, OOTP is the clear winner. If you want to drop in any year in history and play from then on, OOTP is again the clear winner. If you want an immersive world where you can dive into the day-to-day grind, well that's where FM really shines.
So again, it depends on what you want out of a sports sim.
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You nailed multiple nails right on the head there.
I love building dozens upon dozens of years worth of league history, and doing it in multiple types of setups. Pro/Rel in one, tiny beer league in another, MLB-style in the next, lots of delegation and high level decision making.
But then I'll go run a single FM save every year, diving into all of the day-to-day grind while I try to take my awful semi-pro team of choice up the ranks if I can, and might make it through 10 years.
OOTP gets the vast majority of my time, but FM can scratch a vastly different itch that OOTP can't, and there's nothing wrong with that, they both excel at what they do.