[Garlon]

I have had this idea for several years for a mode in which OOTP players can compete against the computer in historical matchups and your results will be tracked on a world leaderboard. This is not a head-to-head mode, but rather player vs computer only, but your progress will be tracked against all other users. This will use the 1-pitch mode for playing out games.

Basically, you would be able to pick any two teams from a season in history and play a 5-game series. You would play it once through as each team. This way you will always play through once as the better team and once as the underdog, and you will need to use all 5 starting pitchers and manage your relievers throughout the series.

For example, consider a matchup of the 1962 Yankees vs the 1962 Red Sox. The Yankees had a .582 Pythagorean Winning Percentage, and the Red Sox had a .470 Pythagorean Winning Percentage in 1962. In this matchup we expect the Yankees to have a .611 winning percentage against the Red Sox and the Red Sox to have a .389 winning percentage against the Yankees. I have these expected winning percentages for every matchup for every season since 1901 in a file.

When you play as the Yankees and beat the Red Sox you earn 389 points for each win, and when you play as the Red Sox and beat the Yankees you earn 611 points for each win. When you play this 5-game series once managing the Yankees and once managing the Red Sox there will be a potential to earn 5000 points because the 5 games as the Yankees are potentially worth 389 * 5 = 1945 points and the 5 games as the Red Sox are potentially worth 611 * 5 = 3055 points and 1945 + 3055 = 5000 possible points.

For example, let's say you win 3 out of the 5 games when playing as the Yankees and 2 out of the 5 games when playing as the Red Sox. The wins as the Yankees are worth 389 * 3 = 1167 points, and the wins as the Red Sox are worth 611 * 2 = 1222 points. This combines for a total score for the series of 2389 points. 2389 out of a possible 5000 points is 2389/5000 = .4778.

Your Perfect Manager Winning Percentage after those 10 games is .4778. As you play more games OOTP keeps track of your total points earned and total possible points earned and continues to update your Perfect Manager Winning Percentage and your total wins.

There can be overall leaderboards but also leaderboards based on eras (like Deadball Era, Golden Era, etc) or by Franchise. There would also be tiers, so that you rank up to a new Managerial category once you play say 50 total games or 100 total games and so forth.

This mode could also be tied to your Perfect Team login so that you could earn PT points, awards, or complete missions by playing and managing out games.

If you maintain a Perfect Manager Winning percentage above .500, that means you are managing better than the OOTP computer manager.

There could be user-selected matchups, weekly curated matchups, or even randomized matchups where OOTP picks a random season and random teams.

I think there is substantial potential here for an entirely new mode that takes advantage of what already exists in the game and community. How much fun would it be to play out these series using the Silvam Historical Ballparks?

This is something i would like to see as a new mode for OOTP27.

Please share your thoughts.