my favorite moment - Page 2

Skywalker · 08-16-2002, 08:27 PM

You aer right, OOTP is a great game!

My favourite time is the off-season. Building a new team with free agents and rookies. And then watching the team results in spring training.

SufferingSoxFan · 08-23-2002, 03:16 PM

I love the draft and competing with other teams for free agents. Also, the trading deadline is cool. I get to work trades to put me over the top for the stretch run.

I had a very bizzarre moment happen that I would like to share.

I was the Red Sox playing the Reds in Game 7 of the world series at Cincinnati playing in 2001. I simmed the game. I read the game log after and come to find out the Sox had a 8 to 4 lead going into the bottom of the 9th. Urbina is in to close. He walks 4 in a row to make it 8 to 5. Rheal Cormier comes in and gives up a grand slam to Jr Griffey. A walk off grand slam to win the world series.

How does this game know that the red sox always choke. I hadn't been so heart broken since the ball went through Buckners legs but then I remembered that it was just fantasy. I will never say that this game is unrealistic. The Sox can't even catch a break in sim land. Unreal!!!!

Drood · 08-23-2002, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Malleus Dei

Then, presumably having made his digital point, he retired. [/B]

I'm new to OOTP4. Just bought it last night.

Reading this thread, this story made me laugh my ass off

Great wording

SSG Troyer · 08-24-2002, 02:32 AM

After having built the team that drafted "me" from a money-bleeding celler dweller into a dominating powerhouse that won 221 games in two years and back-to-back World Series, I took over another broke Montrealic club and arranged a trade for "me" from my old club to my new one.

My old club was a small-ball stud farm. Not many HRs, but in my last year there, only one position player hit under .300, including the BOY who hit over .380. No SP had a losing record or an ERA greater than 5.0, inluding POY and the two top strikeout totals in the majors. Their one weakness was their closer, who blew what seemd like half the games the team lost.

Over the course of their first season after I left, I watched the AI systematically dismantle the squad. By the start of August, only three position players from the year before remained. The BOY and POY had been traded. They traded another guy who was signed cheap for three more years, leading the majors in BA, OPS, and RBI at the time, and then went on to win BOY in the other league. I was agast the the AI could so totally ruin my team.

My new team finished 7 games back of the wild card, making a profit for the first time in 10 years, but not quite clearing .500. The AI still won the WS with it's team, though. And their new closer was third in the majors in saves.

Guess I'm not so smart, after all....

Here24 · 09-07-2002, 02:19 PM

This thread has been a great read.
One of my favorite things to do with this game is to first sim my historical season and then replay the season, playing each game, and see if I can match the sim record. I've come close in three seasons, but I've yet to beat the sim.

In the middle of last season ('65 Orioles) I was curious what the computer would do with my players and how differend it would be from my approach. So, I let it sim for a week. The computer demoted my bullpen anchor to AAA and then released him. I guess I have a different philosophy of managing than the computer does.

SpicyJ · 09-07-2002, 04:54 PM

I had a neat moment, simming a solo league with the Rolen rosters.

For my D-Backs, Nomo had pitched 6 great innings, giving up one run on 3 hits, striking out 6. He was tired, so I brought in Mike Koplove, whom I'd just brought up from AAA and signed to a big league contact. I guess he was eager to prove himself, because he pitched 2 innings, gave up 2 hits, no runs, and also struck out 6. I was floored watching that.

angry_malkie · 09-07-2002, 11:21 PM

Hands down my favourite moment (more of a series of events, but it was fantastic): Playing as the Expos, starting from 1969 with real rosters but fictional rookies... in 1981, my 4th starter out of 4 went down with a 9-week injury in mid May, so i brought up my 22 year old AAA SP Eric Parmley, dodgy ratings but great talent. A low-BB, low-K groundball pitcher i thought would do alright with my all-B defensive infield.

I was expecting maybe and ERA of 4 or so from Parmley over those 9 weeks, and around a .500 season for the team. I could not have been more wrong. [At this point i must give my word that i didn't open up the editor on Parmley after drafting him, save to change his number. i hat having two 27's on my team, that's just wrong :-p]

First start was a perfect game, second a 3 hit, one walk shutout. His ERA was below 2.5 when my original 4th starter was ready to play again. I decided to accept a trade offer from the Yankees - my solid but aging closer for a future star catcher, the weakest position on my team. I moved he original 4-slot to close, and kept Eric in the bigs. I felt like a genius. He ended the season with a 2.28 ERA all his other stats mighty impressive, though i can't remember them exactly and i'm on the wrong computer to check... I do remmber his WHIP was a shade under 1. My new closer had an ERA of 1.47 from the pen, and the catcher hit .342-.410-.512 for my team.

The team won 109 games, and the 3 players powered us to a series win with a 2-1 loss to the Yankees the only L of the postseason. Eric retired after 1999, playing only for my team. He won 20 games 9 times, 30 twice. '99 was his only year with an ERA that hit 3, and his only year with a losing record.

From that one injury sprung a 30-year dynasty, a league i'm still playing midway through 2012. since 1981 I've won the WS 8 times, and missed out on winning my division only 6 years, 4 of which since Eric left. Now why can't all injuries have platinum linings? And why can't my farm system work out like that every time? normally with a first-pick overall (as he was), i'll end up with a 1B who hits .235 with 75 HR, 75 SB and 12 walks over a career that long :-(

Sinclair · 09-08-2002, 06:36 AM

Heh, I've been playing my first full league (after a handful of experimental leagues). Having simmed only a season and a half, there are already a bunch of terrific plotlines. But here's my favorite:

I started a fictional league in the 2002 season, everything fictional. Blue and Red leagues, Pale - Pure - Deep divisions, four teams per division for a total of 24 teams. I picked New Orleans as my hometown, and went to work.

I drafted what I thought would be a great small-ball team (high avg, low power, great pitching, great defense), and proceeded to suck the dirt off the bottom rung of the Deep Blue Division. Why? Because I kept losing close ballgames in the late innings... I looked at my closer, Maresuke Yoshio, whose ratings were all 7-9(including a 9 in ERA and a 9 in K's). The guy was my 5th round pick; I was going to rely on him to win games. But he blew his first two saves in the first six games of the season, which dropped me to a 2-4 record. He was rated as "YES, wants to play for a winning team." As the season progressed, things only went downhill. The guy had blown 9 saves by the All-Star Break, and we ended up losing all 9 games.

By the end of the season, we were third (of four) in the Deep Blue division, 10 back of Syracuse and 2 back of Fort Wayne (the Blue League wildcard, and our most hated rivals). Maresuke Yoshio leaves New Orleans for Free Agency, taking his 19 (!) blown saves with him to the market.

With no other closer on the market, I suck in my breath and offer Yoshio a contract.

"I want to play for a winning team. Not New Orleans."

Hey, dude! If you hadn't blown freakin' *19* saves, we *would* be a winning team!

He signs with (hated Division rival) Fort Wayne. Fort. Wayne.

Fine. Forget him. I hit the FA market like a man possessed, convert my best MR to close out my games, and enter the 2003 season with only one goal: Destroy Fort Wayne and their hated Closer, Maresuke Yoshio.

It is now June 10th of 2003. My New Orleans Nights are 42-19, best record in baseball, 12 games up on SECOND PLACE Fort Wayne (muahahahahahahah). Our season series so far? 6-0, us. Including two wins off of - you guessed it - Maresuke Yoshio.

The wrath of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the wrath of the New Orleans Nights screwed AND THEN scorned by a vainglorious closer. Take that!

(And I haven't even talked about my AAA callup, Samuel Swords, or my "best suited as a journeyman" first basemen, Antonio Delacruz, or my staff ace, Antonio Vellasco... Stories for another time, maybe...)

atomheart · 09-08-2002, 06:46 AM

I love it when threads come back to life...

These are all great stories.

rferry · 09-08-2002, 01:20 PM

i like it when players i don't like come down with career injuries in my replays. >

atomheart · 12-19-2002, 10:20 PM

Bumpy-bumpy-bump....

Just wondering if anyone else has anything to add....

I was reminded of this thread when I started a new solo league, and my first round draft pick had a career ending injury one week into his major-league career. I swore, kicked my cat, and then realized:

What a freaking great game.

ctorg · 12-20-2002, 08:30 AM

My favorite part of the game is probably free agent bidding time. I love trying to fix holes on my team and I love the anticipation of wondering whether I can land that great free agent I want or whether someone will outbid me. I play with a salary cap, which requires more strategizing during the free agent period.

I even like the disappointments, like when the free agent I really thought I would get suddenly turns me down on day 19 and goes somewhere else and there are no good players at his position left. To me, the possibility of this happening makes the game great.

08-24-2002, 02:32 AM	#24
SSG Troyer All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Somewhere to the left of 2nd base Posts: 1,598	After having built the team that drafted "me" from a money-bleeding celler dweller into a dominating powerhouse that won 221 games in two years and back-to-back World Series, I took over another broke Montrealic club and arranged a trade for "me" from my old club to my new one. My old club was a small-ball stud farm. Not many HRs, but in my last year there, only one position player hit under .300, including the BOY who hit over .380. No SP had a losing record or an ERA greater than 5.0, inluding POY and the two top strikeout totals in the majors. Their one weakness was their closer, who blew what seemd like half the games the team lost. Over the course of their first season after I left, I watched the AI systematically dismantle the squad. By the start of August, only three position players from the year before remained. The BOY and POY had been traded. They traded another guy who was signed cheap for three more years, leading the majors in BA, OPS, and RBI at the time, and then went on to win BOY in the other league. I was agast the the AI could so totally ruin my team. My new team finished 7 games back of the wild card, making a profit for the first time in 10 years, but not quite clearing .500. The AI still won the WS with it's team, though. And their new closer was third in the majors in saves. Guess I'm not so smart, after all.... __________________ MWT Did Tennesee Delaware Mississppi's New Jersey? Idaho ... Alaska!

09-08-2002, 01:20 PM	#30
rferry All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2002 Location: DC Posts: 549	i like it when players i don't like come down with career injuries in my replays. > __________________ please excuse my grammar, i read baseball weekly in my high school english classes.

12-20-2002, 08:30 AM	#32
ctorg Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 9,848	My favorite part of the game is probably free agent bidding time. I love trying to fix holes on my team and I love the anticipation of wondering whether I can land that great free agent I want or whether someone will outbid me. I play with a salary cap, which requires more strategizing during the free agent period. I even like the disappointments, like when the free agent I really thought I would get suddenly turns me down on day 19 and goes somewhere else and there are no good players at his position left. To me, the possibility of this happening makes the game great. __________________ My music "When the trees blow back and forth, that's what makes the wind." - Steven Wright Fjord emena pancreas thorax fornicate marmalade morpheme proteolysis smaxa cabana offal srue vitriol grope hallelujah lentils

08-16-2002, 08:27 PM	#21
Skywalker Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 32	You aer right, OOTP is a great game! My favourite time is the off-season. Building a new team with free agents and rookies. And then watching the team results in spring training.

08-23-2002, 03:16 PM	#22
SufferingSoxFan Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Attleboro, MA Posts: 150	I love the draft and competing with other teams for free agents. Also, the trading deadline is cool. I get to work trades to put me over the top for the stretch run. I had a very bizzarre moment happen that I would like to share. I was the Red Sox playing the Reds in Game 7 of the world series at Cincinnati playing in 2001. I simmed the game. I read the game log after and come to find out the Sox had a 8 to 4 lead going into the bottom of the 9th. Urbina is in to close. He walks 4 in a row to make it 8 to 5. Rheal Cormier comes in and gives up a grand slam to Jr Griffey. A walk off grand slam to win the world series. How does this game know that the red sox always choke. I hadn't been so heart broken since the ball went through Buckners legs but then I remembered that it was just fantasy. I will never say that this game is unrealistic. The Sox can't even catch a break in sim land. Unreal!!!!

09-07-2002, 02:19 PM	#25
Here24 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2002 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 28	This thread has been a great read. One of my favorite things to do with this game is to first sim my historical season and then replay the season, playing each game, and see if I can match the sim record. I've come close in three seasons, but I've yet to beat the sim. In the middle of last season ('65 Orioles) I was curious what the computer would do with my players and how differend it would be from my approach. So, I let it sim for a week. The computer demoted my bullpen anchor to AAA and then released him. I guess I have a different philosophy of managing than the computer does.

09-07-2002, 04:54 PM	#26
SpicyJ Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arizona Posts: 25	I had a neat moment, simming a solo league with the Rolen rosters. For my D-Backs, Nomo had pitched 6 great innings, giving up one run on 3 hits, striking out 6. He was tired, so I brought in Mike Koplove, whom I'd just brought up from AAA and signed to a big league contact. I guess he was eager to prove himself, because he pitched 2 innings, gave up 2 hits, no runs, and also struck out 6. I was floored watching that.

09-07-2002, 11:21 PM	#27
angry_malkie Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Scotland Posts: 25	Hands down my favourite moment (more of a series of events, but it was fantastic): Playing as the Expos, starting from 1969 with real rosters but fictional rookies... in 1981, my 4th starter out of 4 went down with a 9-week injury in mid May, so i brought up my 22 year old AAA SP Eric Parmley, dodgy ratings but great talent. A low-BB, low-K groundball pitcher i thought would do alright with my all-B defensive infield. I was expecting maybe and ERA of 4 or so from Parmley over those 9 weeks, and around a .500 season for the team. I could not have been more wrong. [At this point i must give my word that i didn't open up the editor on Parmley after drafting him, save to change his number. i hat having two 27's on my team, that's just wrong :-p] First start was a perfect game, second a 3 hit, one walk shutout. His ERA was below 2.5 when my original 4th starter was ready to play again. I decided to accept a trade offer from the Yankees - my solid but aging closer for a future star catcher, the weakest position on my team. I moved he original 4-slot to close, and kept Eric in the bigs. I felt like a genius. He ended the season with a 2.28 ERA all his other stats mighty impressive, though i can't remember them exactly and i'm on the wrong computer to check... I do remmber his WHIP was a shade under 1. My new closer had an ERA of 1.47 from the pen, and the catcher hit .342-.410-.512 for my team. The team won 109 games, and the 3 players powered us to a series win with a 2-1 loss to the Yankees the only L of the postseason. Eric retired after 1999, playing only for my team. He won 20 games 9 times, 30 twice. '99 was his only year with an ERA that hit 3, and his only year with a losing record. From that one injury sprung a 30-year dynasty, a league i'm still playing midway through 2012. since 1981 I've won the WS 8 times, and missed out on winning my division only 6 years, 4 of which since Eric left. Now why can't all injuries have platinum linings? And why can't my farm system work out like that every time? normally with a first-pick overall (as he was), i'll end up with a 1B who hits .235 with 75 HR, 75 SB and 12 walks over a career that long :-(

09-08-2002, 06:36 AM	#28
Sinclair Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 202	Heh, I've been playing my first full league (after a handful of experimental leagues). Having simmed only a season and a half, there are already a bunch of terrific plotlines. But here's my favorite: I started a fictional league in the 2002 season, everything fictional. Blue and Red leagues, Pale - Pure - Deep divisions, four teams per division for a total of 24 teams. I picked New Orleans as my hometown, and went to work. I drafted what I thought would be a great small-ball team (high avg, low power, great pitching, great defense), and proceeded to suck the dirt off the bottom rung of the Deep Blue Division. Why? Because I kept losing close ballgames in the late innings... I looked at my closer, Maresuke Yoshio, whose ratings were all 7-9(including a 9 in ERA and a 9 in K's). The guy was my 5th round pick; I was going to rely on him to win games. But he blew his first two saves in the first six games of the season, which dropped me to a 2-4 record. He was rated as "YES, wants to play for a winning team." As the season progressed, things only went downhill. The guy had blown 9 saves by the All-Star Break, and we ended up losing all 9 games. By the end of the season, we were third (of four) in the Deep Blue division, 10 back of Syracuse and 2 back of Fort Wayne (the Blue League wildcard, and our most hated rivals). Maresuke Yoshio leaves New Orleans for Free Agency, taking his 19 (!) blown saves with him to the market. With no other closer on the market, I suck in my breath and offer Yoshio a contract. "I want to play for a winning team. Not New Orleans." Hey, dude! If you hadn't blown freakin' 19 saves, we would be a winning team! He signs with (hated Division rival) Fort Wayne. Fort. Wayne. Fine. Forget him. I hit the FA market like a man possessed, convert my best MR to close out my games, and enter the 2003 season with only one goal: Destroy Fort Wayne and their hated Closer, Maresuke Yoshio. It is now June 10th of 2003. My New Orleans Nights are 42-19, best record in baseball, 12 games up on SECOND PLACE Fort Wayne (muahahahahahahah). Our season series so far? 6-0, us. Including two wins off of - you guessed it - Maresuke Yoshio. The wrath of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the wrath of the New Orleans Nights screwed AND THEN scorned by a vainglorious closer. Take that! (And I haven't even talked about my AAA callup, Samuel Swords, or my "best suited as a journeyman" first basemen, Antonio Delacruz, or my staff ace, Antonio Vellasco... Stories for another time, maybe...)

09-08-2002, 06:46 AM	#29
atomheart Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 454	I love it when threads come back to life... These are all great stories.

12-19-2002, 10:20 PM	#31
atomheart Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 454	Bumpy-bumpy-bump.... Just wondering if anyone else has anything to add.... I was reminded of this thread when I started a new solo league, and my first round draft pick had a career ending injury one week into his major-league career. I swore, kicked my cat, and then realized: What a freaking great game.