I play out all my games. I'm a control freak. I have to play out all my games. Otherwise my laptop would learn to fly over the age-old question "Why did you pinch-hit with Glenn Johnston for Neil Reece?".
I'm in the 16th year of my Raccoons dynasty. Including playoffs, that's 2,526 games, all played out in play-by-play. I may have accidentally simmed one game very early on for being easily confused by the many glitzy buttons in OOTP 12.
As far as one is available, I have an MLB game on the half of my screen that OOTP 12 isn't occupying. That may add to the confusion.