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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Sorry, OOTP already has more stats than I will ever need. This is overkill to me, but I am not into all of the SABR stats. I realize that many OOTP gamers want this type of stats. If this is a major reason gamers buy the game, I completely understand it. OOTP has to please its prime customers.

I realize I am in the minority. My prime interest in the game is 3D animation, News Stories and Game Recaps, Most gamers I believe are not interested these areas and I understand this.

However, I just wish Matt and his wonderful team would spend some time on the 3D animation, fix the chronic glitches, make it smoother and less herky jerky and add more variety to play outcomes.
I wish the OOTP team would create default settings for camera views that are well done, so I don't have to create camera views myself. I am not skilled IT-wise and wish the default settings would do the job.
I would just like to watch the games play out like I am watching a game on TV. Just keep it simple and well done and I would be happy. 3D has too much customization like huge number of stats.

It is time the 3D animation was fairly good. You have have it 5 years or so and it still needs a lot of work. I don't expect EA 3D animation. OOTP has limited personnel.
On a version in the near future, please perfect it. It hasn't gotten a lot better in the last 3 years. 3D animation is why I still buy OOTP year after year.

Also you really need to work on the News and Game Recaps. It is really neglected. They don't have enought variety and are poorly written. The POTG is missed 50% of the time. A guy can hjit 3 homers and the AI will give it to someone who hit gamewinning run in with a bloop single. This could be an exaggeration on my part, but I have seen many bad choices. I suspect most of the New Stories have only 5 variations in each, the playoff stories. In the playoffs I see the same stories repeated much, much too often. Ditto for Hall of Fame announcements and Player Awards. I see the same stories far too much.

If you need help on the Beta Team, I will be glad to write more New Stories for you. Just send me a PM. Back about 10 years I greatly expanded the New Stories and the Text PBP with the help of several others, like the very skilled, dedicated and hardworking pstrickert and Webguy (Sorry, I think it was Gary). I would be glad to do it again. Back then, Markus would just create a new category and only do 5 different versions, when 30 might be needed for variety. I understood he did not put a high priority on the news stories and rightly so. I get the feeling that News Stories still have only a few folks creating them and is very low on the priority list. I'll be glad to help them.

I'm with you Eugene there are more than enough stats already for me,
but some will like the extra stats. I would like to see them do all the stadiums from different era's