The ROAD to OMAHA begins now… welcome to the College Baseball League featuring ALL real life 308 D1

CBLCardinals · 06-21-2026, 12:22 PM

The ROAD to OMAHA begins now… welcome to the College Baseball League featuring ALL real life 308 D1 teams!!!

League File
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qNs...ew?usp=sharing

Misc League Files (Logos, Jerseys, etc)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Myv...ew?usp=sharing

This is it fellas… the MOST COMPLEX project I’ve ever tackled in OOTP.
My goal with the project was to create a universe that is D1 baseball, using all the real college teams, real conferences, etc. I have ALL 308 (also includes pending/future teams) teams in this massive universe. AND I am at the finish line. GET READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL IN THIS MASSIVE IMMERSIVE ENVIROMENT!!!

Features include:
• ALL real 308 D1 College Baseball teams
• Real 29 D1 College Baseball Divisions
o One note here…. Oregon State in real life is an independent team….I moved them to the Big 10 since majority of the former PAC teams are there now. Oregon is also in Big 10 so matches them back up
• 60 game regular season with college-style schedule set up
o Every team will have exactly 30 home games, and 30 road games
o Weekend series Friday through Sunday will typically be against conference opponents
o One note… for conferences with odd number of teams, they will have non-conference opponents occasionally on weekends.
o Mid-week game (Tuesdays) will be against a non-conference opponent
o Regular season play is Mid-February through May
• All 308 teams have real team logo, and team colors in game!
• Many teams have home and away jerseys
• Hats did not load for some reason for most teams, so I had to get creative. Most teams have at least their respective team logo on ball caps.
• All 308 teams have their real stadium name, stadium capacity, ballpark dimensions and wall heights (when available), and AI generated park factors
• Post-season features THE ROAD TO OMAHA (as best as I create in OOTP)
• Recruiting (Free Agency) – with top Power schools having more money to grab the five-star recruits!
• AND SO MUCH MORE! More details below

• TIME TO SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT OOTP PEEPS - Need pics of your alma mater, favorite college team, or team you will be running in the league!!!

• BE SURE TO READ AND RE-READ THE SEASON FLOW DOCUMENTS BELOW THAT WILL HELP YOU RUN A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT

College Baseball League (CBL) League Events and Flow

Macro League Calendar

• OPENING DAY 2026 – Mid February
o Delete any remaining FA’s Opening Day
o Delete any remaining FA’s on Day #2
o Create 500 scrub level catchers for free agents as walk-on candidates if disaster strikes and team(s) lose all available catchers
• SEASON PLAY
o 60 games total – most leagues set up for 45 conference games (F-Sa-Sun) and 15 Non-Conference opponents (Tuesdays)
o Regular season will be ~Mid February through end of May.
• POST SEASON PLAY, THE ROAD TO OMAHA (~June)
• Season ends – Regular Seasons Awards.
• “Retiring” Seniors
• Creating new draft class for both graduating High School Seniors (18), and Junior College (20) eligible players
• Recruiting occurs ~ July through mid-February (before next season begins)
• Any players that are still free agents after mid-February delete them.
• From here, you circle back to the Opening Day instructions and start season #2!!!

Micro League Calendar

OPENING DAY STEPS!!!!

• WECOME TO OPENING DAY. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN THE MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT I HAVE EVER CREATED IN OOTP. 308 D1 TEAMS, 29 CONFERENCES. GET READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!
• First day of the season – be sure to DELETE all free agents.
• Day two of season….be sure to DELETE all free agents again. When the season starts, many teams have over the 20-player allocated to reserve roster. This is typically resolved a day or two into the official start of the season. Unlike pro leagues, college teams will not be constantly signing and releasing minor league/reserve roster players. We delete these players to ensure this type of transaction does not occur.
• I’ve not seen this happen yet, however, to safeguard team(s) do not run out of catcher options be sure to create ~500 “scrub” level catchers to now be in free agency. I view these players as “walk on’s” in case a team(s) loses all/majority of their rostered catchers due to injuries. What I’ve seen so far is most teams carry 3 catchers on main roster, and another 1 or 2 on reserve roster. Catcher is such a specialized set of skills I would hate for a team to have all rostered catchers wiped out due to injury and having to use another player significantly out of position trying to play catcher. Again, this is mostly to be proactive for worst-case scenarios. The scrub level catchers will (or should) be worse than virtually all other catchers in the CBL universe… so my assumption is that the AI will only sign them to minor league deals if disaster strikes. In the free agency screen, create catcher, talent level “scrub”.

POST SEASON PLAY and the ROAD TO OMAHA

o Based on historical recent trends, I have pre-determined how many teams each conference will receive bids in the Regionals / Round of 64
o Power conferences have more teams selected.
o Each conference, regardless of size, will have at least the regular season champion in the Regionals. All 29 Real D1 Leagues will be represented!!
o Conf bids
 SEC – 12 teams / ACC – 8 teams / Big 12 – 6 teams /Big 10 – 6 teams
 Sun Belt – 4 teams / Conference USA – 3 teams / American – 3 teams
 All remaining conferences – 1 team from their regular season champion (22 teams)
o OOTP does not have a perfect solution to re-create the exact college playoff experience, however it’s a good compromise:
 Round 1 / Regionals
• Each team is placed in a Pod of 4 teams for double-round robin play. Each team will play teams in their regional/pod 2 times for a total of 6 games. One team from each Regional/Pod will move on to the Super Regionals stage.
o OOTP tie breakers for pool play apply
 If teams tie for the top of the pool play standings:
• Head-to-Head matchup
• Run differential for head-to-head matchups
• Result of last game
• Beyond this…I am unsure??
 Round 2 / Super Regionals
• Teams that win their regional move on to Super Regionals, and best of 3 series. This round has 8 Super Regionals, with 2 teams in each respective Super Regional. Home team should have all 3 games. You MAY have to check if the highest seeded team has the home Field advantage. The 8 Super Regional winners move on to OMAHA WORLD SERIES
 Round 3 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES Quarter Finals
• As noted earlier, OOTP does not have a perfect way to simulate the actual logistics of the Omaha World Series. Real life its double elimination…. However, in our set up I had to switch to best of 3 series for each OMAHA round. Winners of the WS first round move to the WS Semi Finals.
• *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** switch all games to Omaha Field ID 215, Charles Schwab Field Omaha. You can do this in the league schedule edit screen once these games are available.
 Round 4 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES SEMI FINALS
• Same as above, best of 3 series.
• *** IMPORTANT NOTE *** switch all games to Omaha Field ID 215, Charles Schwab Field Omaha.
 Round 5 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP
• Same as above, best of 3 series

Regular Season Ends
o Late June/early July will have the announcement of 2026 College Awards
o Once you move past the College Awards, its time to graduate those seniors, and hit the road to recruiting!!!!
o Graduating seniors
 In OOTP I have ages of 18-22 enabled as eligible to play in the league. OOTP does not have a perfect solution to simulate Freshman-Senior years, so we must get creative ;/
 On your league filter, search for all players that have a birthdate of LESS THAN February 13, 2005. This should capture all the 22-year-olds that will turn 23 before the next season begins. For future years, you just change the Year of Birth up one year.
 Once you filter these players, click on the radio button at the top left and retire these players. This will simulate college seniors graduating.
 This will create new open slots for all teams to start the recruiting process (Free Agency in OOTP)
• Creating new class of Recruits, both Freshman and Junior College players
o Your seniors have now moved on, now its time to hit the trail for recruiting!
 We will first create incoming Freshman.
• In game settings->Players set the created players min and max to 18
• This will only create players who are 18 years old.
• In the free agents click on the far-right hand side to create fictional player(s)
• I would suggest creating 7,000-10,000 players.
o Important notes are set all to American nationality (or you can select whatever you wish), Player Quality set to Random, Development Stage Above Average (75%), and Service time to none.
o I keep this at Random so year to year you will see stronger or weaker draft classes.
 Next, we will create “junior college” players.
• In game settings->Players set the create players min and max to 20
• This will only create players who are 20 years old.
• I would suggest creating 3,000-5,000 players.
• In the free agents click on the far-right hand side to create fictional player(s)
o Important notes are set all to American nationality (or you can select whatever you wish), Player Quality set to Random, Development Stage to Fully Developed (100%) and Service time to none.
o I keep this at Random so year to year you will see stronger or weaker draft classes.
o Recruiting occurs ~ July through February 10
o Any players that are still free agents after February 10 delete them.
o When you get to the pre-season portion of the new season (typically Mid-January?), re-check your team’s schedule. I’ve noticed OOTP LOVES to move the start date by a day or two…if you games now are SAT-MON versus FRI-SUN there is an easy fix!!! Just go to the league setup page with the schedule information, make sure to enable season start date on Fridays, then change the start date to 2/12. Once you change, the schedule should adjust automatically for you to move back to FRI-SUN for league play, and Tuesdays still for non-conference mid-week game.
o From here, you circle back to the Opening Day instructions and start season #2!!!

CBLCardinals · 06-21-2026, 12:28 PM

READ MORE ABOUT THE COLLEGE BASEBALL LEAGUE IN OUR OFFICIAL PRE-SEASON RELEASE (zip file below)!!!
Pre-season guide has a one-pager for ALL 308 teams.

Texas comes in ranked #1. Can they win it all powered by the best staff in college baseball??

CBLCardinals · 06-21-2026, 12:41 PM

Official league file released in first page.

Go go go

millhousebc · 06-21-2026, 12:46 PM

Much thanks CBL

highandoutside · 06-21-2026, 05:08 PM

Woah! This is pretty awesome...

I'm deep in a project right now, but the I don't think I can resist getting my MSU Spartans to a College World Series.

negroleagueenthusiast · 06-21-2026, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by highandoutside

Woah! This is pretty awesome...

I'm deep in a project right now, but the I don't think I can resist getting my MSU Spartans to a College World Series.

might be the only time it ever happens, haha

jksander · 06-22-2026, 04:31 PM

Had to move my OOTP install to my secondary hard drive that has more space before I can dig around in this, but it's always been a mod I wanted, something that could at least TRY to simulate college baseball

jksander · 06-22-2026, 05:55 PM

This is bloody brilliant ... already working on the start of a write-up featuring my Indiana Hoosiers. This kind of league will be great with my kind of slow play-em-all-out action, which will help me not forget to do any of the important things to keep it collegiate

BestbatBoy · 06-22-2026, 05:59 PM

For anyone interested, I'm in the very beginnings of converting this into a real world feeder league. Once I finally get everyone that is in the previous ootp draft classes that is not in 27 imported in, I'm hoping someone may want to work together and create the missing players

jksander · 06-22-2026, 06:41 PM

My new save is posted in my signature for anyone who wants to follow along and see if I find ways to screw this all up lol!

CBLCardinals · 06-22-2026, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jksander

This is bloody brilliant ... already working on the start of a write-up featuring my Indiana Hoosiers. This kind of league will be great with my kind of slow play-em-all-out action, which will help me not forget to do any of the important things to keep it collegiate

rwd59 · 06-23-2026, 11:06 PM

Tested out your creation. First thing was that over half of the final 8 were mid or lower level teams. The biggest issue was going in to the 4th year. I got a game can't be played because a team does not have enough players error. Turns out George Mason only has 6 players on their roster. I looked at other teams in the Atlantic 10 and all had incomplete active rosters with no reserve roster players. Richmond only had 16 total players and that was who George Mason was supposed to play. It may have flagged both teams.

OutS|der · 06-23-2026, 11:14 PM

Does this include the MLB or is it just the college leagues?

CBLCardinals · 06-23-2026, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rwd59

Tested out your creation. First thing was that over half of the final 8 were mid or lower level teams. The biggest issue was going in to the 4th year. I got a game can't be played because a team does not have enough players error. Turns out George Mason only has 6 players on their roster. I looked at other teams in the Atlantic 10 and all had incomplete active rosters with no reserve roster players. Richmond only had 16 total players and that was who George Mason was supposed to play. It may have flagged both teams.

The top conferences, especially the top teams have the most talent by far…however doesn’t mean they will always have all 8 in CWS.
Which 4 teams? What is their budget? Are they mid majors like Dallas Baptist, or tiny budget teams? (~10m).

Also…did you run the instructions for player creation at the end of each year and retire seniors per the notes?

I tested out through 3 years in almost all of my runs and no issues. I did not test really beyond that. Need more variables.

Is that team out of money? No players available/or not enough players available to sign?
If you create several thousand scrub players do they sign them?
If you do this, then run “run computer manager” for all teams does this fix the issue?

CBLCardinals · 06-23-2026, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OutS|der

Does this include the MLB or is it just the college leagues?

The universe is college only.

rwd59 · 06-24-2026, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CBLCardinals

The top conferences, especially the top teams have the most talent by far…however doesn’t mean they will always have all 8 in CWS.
Which 4 teams? What is their budget? Are they mid majors like Dallas Baptist, or tiny budget teams? (~10m).

Also…did you run the instructions for player creation at the end of each year and retire seniors per the notes?

I tested out through 3 years in almost all of my runs and no issues. I did not test really beyond that. Need more variables.

Is that team out of money? No players available/or not enough players available to sign?
If you create several thousand scrub players do they sign them?
If you do this, then run “run computer manager” for all teams does this fix the issue?

My bad. I did not follow end of season rules completely. Gonna start over and try again. I do have one question, what happens when you go over budget? What are the consequences?

CBLCardinals · 06-24-2026, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rwd59

My bad. I did not follow end of season rules completely. Gonna start over and try again. I do have one question, what happens when you go over budget? What are the consequences?

Not certain if we will see the AI go over budget (or at least not much over).

My assumption is if a team is over budget, they can only then offer "minor league contracts" to players, which will limit them to mostly the bottom of the barrel on talent.

AZTarHeel · 06-24-2026, 05:55 PM

This may be the only way my Tar Heels can actually win a national championship ...

OutS|der · 06-25-2026, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CBLCardinals

The universe is college only.

Sweet! Am very excited over this then.

dev6015 · 06-25-2026, 04:45 PM

This looks awesome and I want to play it but I'm still running OOTP 25. When I try to pull it in it won't let me.

Any way I can get this to work on my version of OOTP? I think potentially if you save it as a .wtp I should be able to access it but not sure if I lose any major functionality if I were to do it that way.

Either way, thanks for building this and hopefully I can find a way to enjoy it!

06-22-2026, 04:31 PM	#7
jksander All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 1,897	Definitely gotta try this!!! Had to move my OOTP install to my secondary hard drive that has more space before I can dig around in this, but it's always been a mod I wanted, something that could at least TRY to simulate college baseball __________________ "Campus Chronicles" -- The Indiana Hoosiers in a New College World (An OOTP 27 Dynasty) Online Leagues Modern Baseball (Chicago White Sox) Championship Baseball League (Winnipeg Goldeye) WPORBL 55 (Chicago Cubs) WPORBL 74 (Oakland A's) WPORBL 94 (Montreal Expos) WPOBL (Cincinnati Reds)

06-22-2026, 05:55 PM	#8
jksander All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 1,897	This is bloody brilliant ... already working on the start of a write-up featuring my Indiana Hoosiers. This kind of league will be great with my kind of slow play-em-all-out action, which will help me not forget to do any of the important things to keep it collegiate __________________ "Campus Chronicles" -- The Indiana Hoosiers in a New College World (An OOTP 27 Dynasty) Online Leagues Modern Baseball (Chicago White Sox) Championship Baseball League (Winnipeg Goldeye) WPORBL 55 (Chicago Cubs) WPORBL 74 (Oakland A's) WPORBL 94 (Montreal Expos) WPOBL (Cincinnati Reds)

06-22-2026, 05:59 PM	#9
BestbatBoy Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2024 Posts: 270	For anyone interested, I'm in the very beginnings of converting this into a real world feeder league. Once I finally get everyone that is in the previous ootp draft classes that is not in 27 imported in, I'm hoping someone may want to work together and create the missing players __________________ Check out my new OOTP Player creation GPT. Just now ready for Beta Testing! PM for interest. I'm bringing the full world of baseball back to OOTP27! Stay tuned. It will be like OOTP22 all over again but with all the things added to the game in the last 5 years

06-22-2026, 06:41 PM	#10
jksander All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Indianapolis IN Posts: 1,897	My new save is posted in my signature for anyone who wants to follow along and see if I find ways to screw this all up lol! __________________ "Campus Chronicles" -- The Indiana Hoosiers in a New College World (An OOTP 27 Dynasty) Online Leagues Modern Baseball (Chicago White Sox) Championship Baseball League (Winnipeg Goldeye) WPORBL 55 (Chicago Cubs) WPORBL 74 (Oakland A's) WPORBL 94 (Montreal Expos) WPOBL (Cincinnati Reds)

06-24-2026, 05:55 PM	#18
AZTarHeel All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,772	This may be the only way my Tar Heels can actually win a national championship ... __________________ Current Dynasties Baseball's Rebirth in the Old North State (1945-) The Tobacco State League: A Summer With the Red Springs Red Robins From the Way-Back Machine (WAY old dynasty stories): The Steve Victory Story: Tournament Dreams College Basketball! Baseball In The Tar Heel State: A Fictional Experience The Arizona League: Real Players. Fictional Teams

06-21-2026, 12:22 PM	#1
CBLCardinals OOTP Roster Team Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,070	The ROAD to OMAHA begins now… welcome to the College Baseball League featuring ALL real life 308 D1 The ROAD to OMAHA begins now… welcome to the College Baseball League featuring ALL real life 308 D1 teams!!! League File https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qNs...ew?usp=sharing Misc League Files (Logos, Jerseys, etc) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Myv...ew?usp=sharing This is it fellas… the MOST COMPLEX project I’ve ever tackled in OOTP. My goal with the project was to create a universe that is D1 baseball, using all the real college teams, real conferences, etc. I have ALL 308 (also includes pending/future teams) teams in this massive universe. AND I am at the finish line. GET READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL IN THIS MASSIVE IMMERSIVE ENVIROMENT!!! Features include: • ALL real 308 D1 College Baseball teams • Real 29 D1 College Baseball Divisions o One note here…. Oregon State in real life is an independent team….I moved them to the Big 10 since majority of the former PAC teams are there now. Oregon is also in Big 10 so matches them back up • 60 game regular season with college-style schedule set up o Every team will have exactly 30 home games, and 30 road games o Weekend series Friday through Sunday will typically be against conference opponents o One note… for conferences with odd number of teams, they will have non-conference opponents occasionally on weekends. o Mid-week game (Tuesdays) will be against a non-conference opponent o Regular season play is Mid-February through May • All 308 teams have real team logo, and team colors in game! • Many teams have home and away jerseys • Hats did not load for some reason for most teams, so I had to get creative. Most teams have at least their respective team logo on ball caps. • All 308 teams have their real stadium name, stadium capacity, ballpark dimensions and wall heights (when available), and AI generated park factors • Post-season features THE ROAD TO OMAHA (as best as I create in OOTP) • Recruiting (Free Agency) – with top Power schools having more money to grab the five-star recruits! • AND SO MUCH MORE! More details below • TIME TO SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT OOTP PEEPS - Need pics of your alma mater, favorite college team, or team you will be running in the league!!! • BE SURE TO READ AND RE-READ THE SEASON FLOW DOCUMENTS BELOW THAT WILL HELP YOU RUN A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT College Baseball League (CBL) League Events and Flow Macro League Calendar • OPENING DAY 2026 – Mid February o Delete any remaining FA’s Opening Day o Delete any remaining FA’s on Day #2 o Create 500 scrub level catchers for free agents as walk-on candidates if disaster strikes and team(s) lose all available catchers • SEASON PLAY o 60 games total – most leagues set up for 45 conference games (F-Sa-Sun) and 15 Non-Conference opponents (Tuesdays) o Regular season will be ~Mid February through end of May. • POST SEASON PLAY, THE ROAD TO OMAHA (~June) • Season ends – Regular Seasons Awards. • “Retiring” Seniors • Creating new draft class for both graduating High School Seniors (18), and Junior College (20) eligible players • Recruiting occurs ~ July through mid-February (before next season begins) • Any players that are still free agents after mid-February delete them. • From here, you circle back to the Opening Day instructions and start season #2!!! Micro League Calendar OPENING DAY STEPS!!!! • WECOME TO OPENING DAY. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN THE MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT I HAVE EVER CREATED IN OOTP. 308 D1 TEAMS, 29 CONFERENCES. GET READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!! • First day of the season – be sure to DELETE all free agents. • Day two of season….be sure to DELETE all free agents again. When the season starts, many teams have over the 20-player allocated to reserve roster. This is typically resolved a day or two into the official start of the season. Unlike pro leagues, college teams will not be constantly signing and releasing minor league/reserve roster players. We delete these players to ensure this type of transaction does not occur. • I’ve not seen this happen yet, however, to safeguard team(s) do not run out of catcher options be sure to create ~500 “scrub” level catchers to now be in free agency. I view these players as “walk on’s” in case a team(s) loses all/majority of their rostered catchers due to injuries. What I’ve seen so far is most teams carry 3 catchers on main roster, and another 1 or 2 on reserve roster. Catcher is such a specialized set of skills I would hate for a team to have all rostered catchers wiped out due to injury and having to use another player significantly out of position trying to play catcher. Again, this is mostly to be proactive for worst-case scenarios. The scrub level catchers will (or should) be worse than virtually all other catchers in the CBL universe… so my assumption is that the AI will only sign them to minor league deals if disaster strikes. In the free agency screen, create catcher, talent level “scrub”. POST SEASON PLAY and the ROAD TO OMAHA o Based on historical recent trends, I have pre-determined how many teams each conference will receive bids in the Regionals / Round of 64 o Power conferences have more teams selected. o Each conference, regardless of size, will have at least the regular season champion in the Regionals. All 29 Real D1 Leagues will be represented!! o Conf bids  SEC – 12 teams / ACC – 8 teams / Big 12 – 6 teams /Big 10 – 6 teams  Sun Belt – 4 teams / Conference USA – 3 teams / American – 3 teams  All remaining conferences – 1 team from their regular season champion (22 teams) o OOTP does not have a perfect solution to re-create the exact college playoff experience, however it’s a good compromise:  Round 1 / Regionals • Each team is placed in a Pod of 4 teams for double-round robin play. Each team will play teams in their regional/pod 2 times for a total of 6 games. One team from each Regional/Pod will move on to the Super Regionals stage. o OOTP tie breakers for pool play apply  If teams tie for the top of the pool play standings: • Head-to-Head matchup • Run differential for head-to-head matchups • Result of last game • Beyond this…I am unsure??  Round 2 / Super Regionals • Teams that win their regional move on to Super Regionals, and best of 3 series. This round has 8 Super Regionals, with 2 teams in each respective Super Regional. Home team should have all 3 games. You MAY have to check if the highest seeded team has the home Field advantage. The 8 Super Regional winners move on to OMAHA WORLD SERIES  Round 3 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES Quarter Finals • As noted earlier, OOTP does not have a perfect way to simulate the actual logistics of the Omaha World Series. Real life its double elimination…. However, in our set up I had to switch to best of 3 series for each OMAHA round. Winners of the WS first round move to the WS Semi Finals. • * IMPORTANT NOTE * switch all games to Omaha Field ID 215, Charles Schwab Field Omaha. You can do this in the league schedule edit screen once these games are available.  Round 4 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES SEMI FINALS • Same as above, best of 3 series. • * IMPORTANT NOTE * switch all games to Omaha Field ID 215, Charles Schwab Field Omaha.  Round 5 / OMAHA WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP • Same as above, best of 3 series Regular Season Ends o Late June/early July will have the announcement of 2026 College Awards o Once you move past the College Awards, its time to graduate those seniors, and hit the road to recruiting!!!! o Graduating seniors  In OOTP I have ages of 18-22 enabled as eligible to play in the league. OOTP does not have a perfect solution to simulate Freshman-Senior years, so we must get creative ;/  On your league filter, search for all players that have a birthdate of LESS THAN February 13, 2005. This should capture all the 22-year-olds that will turn 23 before the next season begins. For future years, you just change the Year of Birth up one year.  Once you filter these players, click on the radio button at the top left and retire these players. This will simulate college seniors graduating.  This will create new open slots for all teams to start the recruiting process (Free Agency in OOTP) • Creating new class of Recruits, both Freshman and Junior College players o Your seniors have now moved on, now its time to hit the trail for recruiting!  We will first create incoming Freshman. • In game settings->Players set the created players min and max to 18 • This will only create players who are 18 years old. • In the free agents click on the far-right hand side to create fictional player(s) • I would suggest creating 7,000-10,000 players. o Important notes are set all to American nationality (or you can select whatever you wish), Player Quality set to Random, Development Stage Above Average (75%), and Service time to none. o I keep this at Random so year to year you will see stronger or weaker draft classes.  Next, we will create “junior college” players. • In game settings->Players set the create players min and max to 20 • This will only create players who are 20 years old. • I would suggest creating 3,000-5,000 players. • In the free agents click on the far-right hand side to create fictional player(s) o Important notes are set all to American nationality (or you can select whatever you wish), Player Quality set to Random, Development Stage to Fully Developed (100%) and Service time to none. o I keep this at Random so year to year you will see stronger or weaker draft classes. o Recruiting occurs ~ July through February 10 o Any players that are still free agents after February 10 delete them. o When you get to the pre-season portion of the new season (typically Mid-January?), re-check your team’s schedule. I’ve noticed OOTP LOVES to move the start date by a day or two…if you games now are SAT-MON versus FRI-SUN there is an easy fix!!! Just go to the league setup page with the schedule information, make sure to enable season start date on Fridays, then change the start date to 2/12. Once you change, the schedule should adjust automatically for you to move back to FRI-SUN for league play, and Tuesdays still for non-conference mid-week game. o From here, you circle back to the Opening Day instructions and start season #2!!! Last edited by CBLCardinals; 06-21-2026 at 12:41 PM.

06-21-2026, 12:41 PM	#3
CBLCardinals OOTP Roster Team Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,070	Official league file released in first page. Go go go

06-21-2026, 12:46 PM	#4
millhousebc Major Leagues Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 354	Much thanks CBL

06-21-2026, 05:08 PM	#5
highandoutside All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 697	Woah! This is pretty awesome... I'm deep in a project right now, but the I don't think I can resist getting my MSU Spartans to a College World Series.

06-23-2026, 11:06 PM	#12
rwd59 All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: LA (Lower Alabama) Posts: 1,003	Tested out your creation. First thing was that over half of the final 8 were mid or lower level teams. The biggest issue was going in to the 4th year. I got a game can't be played because a team does not have enough players error. Turns out George Mason only has 6 players on their roster. I looked at other teams in the Atlantic 10 and all had incomplete active rosters with no reserve roster players. Richmond only had 16 total players and that was who George Mason was supposed to play. It may have flagged both teams.

06-23-2026, 11:14 PM	#13
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,777 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Does this include the MLB or is it just the college leagues?

06-25-2026, 04:45 PM	#20
dev6015 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 27	This looks awesome and I want to play it but I'm still running OOTP 25. When I try to pull it in it won't let me. Any way I can get this to work on my version of OOTP? I think potentially if you save it as a .wtp I should be able to access it but not sure if I lose any major functionality if I were to do it that way. Either way, thanks for building this and hopefully I can find a way to enjoy it!