Help with settings

[jfg]

To get more familiar with settings, would somebody be able to recommend me a good place to start for 2010 and historical leagues? I want it to be as realistic as possible, but I'm new to the game and don't really understand what everything does. Maybe a vet could post their settings they use and once I put them in I'd be more familiar with what does what and I can tweak them? Thanks for any help!

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by jfg

To get more familiar with settings, would somebody be able to recommend me a good place to start for 2010 and historical leagues? I want it to be as realistic as possible, but I'm new to the game and don't really understand what everything does. Maybe a vet could post their settings they use and once I put them in I'd be more familiar with what does what and I can tweak them? Thanks for any help!

Could you try to give us a bit better idea of what type of historical league you want? It's just that there are so many different ways to play this game (as many as there are people that play it I would say) that it would really help the people trying to help you if we had a better idea of what you want out of this game.

There is an excellent "help" folder located in the OOTP Baseball 11 folder in User Documents > Out of the Park Developments. I would start with the adding_historical_leagues document from which you can link to sub pages. It will help you narrow down what you want a bit, you'll figure some things out and if you don't understand something specific, you can always come back and ask what it means or how to make it do what you want it to do. I know what you're thinking: "Thanks a lot for nothing jerk" .

Trust me, it works better this way. If you fumble and stumble your way towards what you want asking questions as you go, you're probably more likely to get where you want to go and get the game you want rather than playing it the way somebody else likes to.

[jfg]

I wouldn't mind playing as somebody else likes and just making tweaks along the way. But, I get what you're saying.

What I'm looking at with the historical leagues is an alternate reality... where players are as good as they were in real life, but with the ability of injuries derailing their career or they're blocked or have players who were great players but had injuries turn into HOF'ers in this game. But, I don't want players MLB careers to start and end exactly as they should. Reality with some variation I guess.

[Kelric]

Originally Posted by jfg

I wouldn't mind playing as somebody else likes and just making tweaks along the way. But, I get what you're saying.

What I'm looking at with the historical leagues is an alternate reality... where players are as good as they were in real life, but with the ability of injuries derailing their career or they're blocked or have players who were great players but had injuries turn into HOF'ers in this game. But, I don't want players MLB careers to start and end exactly as they should. Reality with some variation I guess.

In that case when creating a historical league simply make sure that anything that says Recalc and Retire According To History is turned OFF. Without recalc (which tries to keep historical stats somewhat similar to real life for each player) then the OOTP engine takes over. The overall history of baseball will be similar (the Deadball Era, the pitching years of of the '60s, etc.) but Bob Gibson might blow his arm out one pitch into his career and someone entirely different might dominate. Babe Ruth might hit 100 career HRs because of rating drops or he might hit 800 and play for more than twenty years. Mickey Tettleton might be a Hall of Fame player for the Tigers, or he may never have gotten to the Tigers and wound up playing for the Braves instead. Etc., etc., etc.