Perfect Team as Replacement for Fantasy Baseball

[esmeet7]

I've never played OOTP before, and I'm on the fence about jumping in this year. Part of that reasoning is because I have a group of about 12-15 friends who have played fantasy baseball together for more than a decade. We're looking for something a bit different, and I wondered about OOTP.

If I have 10+ owners in different locations who each wants to own/run a "fantasy" team (i.e., one that begins with a fantasy-type draft or other random roster), how would OOTP and - more specifically - the Perfect Team mode work for that?

I'm worried that OOTP seems to be a local-only game with very little ability to allow dispersed ownership. Everything from an opening draft (fantasy style where owners/managers are in different locations) to updating rosters and simulating games seems difficult with 10+ owners across the country.

Perfect Game is touted as more of an online game, so I'm wondering if there's something about it that might work better. Can I set up a Perfect Team "league" with 10-12 owners and run it online?

[joehart]

Perfect team won’t allow you to do an online draft and build a league for yourself and your friends.

The closest thing you can use in Perfect team is the „friends feature“ which can be used to bring teams in the same level (bronze/silver/gold/...) together in one league.
However, you will end up with other teams in your league as well and promotions/demotions will change the league each week.

Perfect team does not have a draft either. You build your team by opening card packs so teams can end up with the same player on their teams (ex. multiple teams could be lucky and draw Babe Ruth cards for their roster).

Perfect Team can be a lot of fun and we had a league of similar minded folks that all used the friends feature in PT19 to compete against each.

I think what you are looking for is an OOTP online league that can have a draft and sim every week.
I am not an expert in online leagues so I will let someone else jump in that has spent more time in online OOTP leagues.

[esmeet7]

Thanks for your response!

Originally Posted by joehart

The closest thing you can use in Perfect team is the „friends feature“ which can be used to bring teams in the same level (bronze/silver/gold/...) together in one league.
However, you will end up with other teams in your league as well and promotions/demotions will change the league each week.

When you say promotion/demotions each week, are you referring to various owners/teams being added to or dropped from the Perfect Team league you create? In other words, my 10 friends are playing together on Week 1, and then 2 or 3 of them are "dropped" in Week 2 or 3 as their teams evolve?

Originally Posted by joehart

Perfect Team can be a lot of fun and we had a league of similar minded folks that all used the friends feature in PT19 to compete against each.

In your experience last year, how did you keep your friends' teams together so you could compete against each other in Perfect Team? (This ties into my point above.) Could you somehow keep your friends' teams together throughout a season? Does Perfect Team have a traditional standings, playoffs, winner, etc?

[starfox64]

http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...online_leagues

If perfect team doesn't fit your needs, online leagues, as explained above, might work for you!

[joehart]

Originally Posted by esmeet7

Thanks for your response!







When you say promotion/demotions each week, are you referring to various owners/teams being added to or dropped from the Perfect Team league you create? In other words, my 10 friends are playing together on Week 1, and then 2 or 3 of them are "dropped" in Week 2 or 3 as their teams evolve?

In your experience last year, how did you keep your friends' teams together so you could compete against each other in Perfect Team? (This ties into my point above.) Could you somehow keep your friends' teams together throughout a season? Does Perfect Team have a traditional standings, playoffs, winner, etc?

I was referring to the fact that at the end of the season several teams get promoted to the next higher level while some teams get demoted.
After a few weeks of play (once all levels have been filled) as many as 4 teams get demoted and 2 teams get promoted.
In other words, if you all build the league in Bronze level and most teams stay there, you will lose some friends to silver level and some will be demoted to iron league.

We started our league in Perfect league after all teams managed to get promoted all the way to the top league. Then we also found another 30+ teams that created a similar league in Diamond. So all the Diamond teams that got promoted made it to the Perfect friends league and the ones from Perfect got demoted to the friends league in Diamond.

You keep teams together by adding your friends teams „as friends“ to a list and after the season, the server code will try to bring all the friends together in one league and then fill it with other teams to make sure you get a full league.
Then this league remains the same for one season (1 week. A new game is simulated every 30 minutes).
Mon-Sat is the regular season and Sunday are the playoffs (6 division winners + wildcard teams). By Sunday night one team will be crowned champion for that season.

It can be a ton of fun to watch your team during the week.
However, Perfect Team is not as deep as the regular version. You have more options (example: you can have a team with all its minor teams so you can watch players move through your organization from rookie league to majors or make trades with other teams). Trades are not allowed (to prevent cheating) in Perfect team. Instead, you build your team through opening new card packs or getting new players in the auction house.
Example: you want the 77 rated Keith Hernandez card, you will have to gain/collect a certain number of points and then bid/buy him.

Each version of the game has its strength and weakness. Personally, I like the long tradition seasons in OOTP when I am traveling and don’t have internet connection.
While for a less involved type of play (set your team and strategy and then walk away), Perfect team is great. It does all the work and I get to check in on how I am doing when I have some spare time.
I don’t need to be there to play it.