The only baseball sim I've ever gotten addicted to...

[oman19]

Originally Posted by Curtis

while the home run… let's just say it isn't in their arsenal.

Tell that to my Tigers

[phenom]

Hey now, the Tigers hit five dingers yesterday and didn't give up a single one. They still lost by 7, but they didn't give up a home run.

[tylertoo]

OOTP folks, as you've probably seen, have put out a promotional email touting Curt's participation here. I hope this was done with permission; I wouldn't want Curt or any other current or former baseball professionals being hesitant about participating/revealing their identities for fear of being 'used' for promotional purposes.

Sorry if this is a thread derail. Carry on, its a great thread.

[Matty86]

Originally Posted by Qwerty75

You probably realize this, but you can add a third pitch (or fourth, etc.) for a pitcher by going into the editor. You pick the type of pitch, the potential, and the current ability. In v.11, I've seen pitchers work as successful starters at the major league level with as low as 20/100 current ability for their third pitch, so if you mess around with manually adding pitches, you might want to work around that level and adjust up or down to suit your taste.

I never even thought to do this... wow and I've been playing this game for something like 7 years! haha But say I have a 2 pitch stud 19 year old, if I go in and add a 3rd pitch and make it like a 20/100 will it automatically suggest that he be a starter? If he has something like a 6 stamina will that increase over time? I've never really noticed how stamina changes season to season, I usually end up doing 1 and done's then restarting.

[oman19]

Originally Posted by phenom

Hey now, the Tigers hit five dingers yesterday and didn't give up a single one. They still lost by 7, but they didn't give up a home run.

2 grand slams the day before though lol

[Matty86]

Originally Posted by gehrig38

Ok so I think I figured out my sweet spot, for now anyway.
But before that, how I found OOTP.
My first 'game' ever, was Panzerblitz, when I was 11. Played all day long, by myself. My first sports game was APBA baseball and I can remember ordering that thing, and coming home from school every single day checking the mailbox, literally sitting outside on weekends waiting on the mail.
My cousin and I had THOUSANDS of notebooks with millions of stats, I kept stats for everything.
Been a gamer my whole life, computer sims were the next step. Played them all to some degree but I am a realism fanatic, and this was the first game I ever felt 'got it' to the degree I love.
So my new league, 16 teams, starting out using 1990 data.
I took the Sox, the Red ones...
Have a HS, JUCO and College feeder league.
Here's the funny part, I have news set to entire world and I love it. I went through the 20 JUCOS, 50 Colleges, and 100 high schools and after I got my schools, and schools I knew, I named them all after either nationally ranked HS, or JUCO's, and created college conferences based on the real things. Broken into divisions, but now I get daily news and when a medfield kid punches out 15 it's cool, and way more personal. When a kid from Yavapai gets 5 hits it feels more real, very cool.
And I can also follow these kids from early on. Just saw a HS kid punch out 20 in 9, with a potential 21/16/15 rating! Great stuff.
The big leagues is stacked with talent.
Also figured out my work around with 2 pitch guys.
In the Editor I give them a logical 3rd pitch, guys with good stamina, but a horrid rating with medium upside on the pitch, so they develop into starters. I only do that with the 'bigger' kids mostly (actually only done it once so far)
Enjoying this.

Are you editing these pitchers while they're still in HS and College? I've never used feeder leagues, but this thread has me interested in giving them a shot..

Feeder leagues can't be used with historical leagues can they? If I started in the 80s would I see real players playing in hs and college, or are those guys already programmed to just pop up for a draft with the ratings that the dev's have given them?


Also FWIW... I play in an APBA league, we play in Milford Mass twice a month, might have a team opening up for next season....

[Dutchy]

Originally Posted by tylertoo

OOTP folks, as you've probably seen, have put out a promotional email touting Curt's participation here. I hope this was done with permission; I wouldn't want Curt or any other current or former baseball professionals from being hesitant about participating/revealing their identities for fear of being 'used' for promotional purposes.

Sorry if this is a thread derail. Carry on, its a great thread.

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that, too, actually.

[byzeil]

I didn't see it listed in the patch notes but the Feeder League Service Time Accumulation issue has been fixed.

[Carlton]

Wow, irony...as I was just talking to Jason Martinez (MLBdepthcharts.com) , Doug Glanville, Jayson Stark and the site I write for baseballreflections.com on Twitter about Curt's new stat...and previously Gloanville had a laugh at me for recalling BillBong the dwarven paladin that Curt killed by running away akin to Monty Pythin and the Holy Grail

Yes, I am name dropping, but this thread has 247 replies, so no stones shall be thrown!

Anyway, Curt...You are just like every geek, we all had the "Notebook" as I had Tommy Lasorda baseball, then Tony LaRussa and World Series Baseball...and yup Ken Griffey Jr. where I had the Phillies with Darren Daulton, Ricky Jordan, Steve Jeltz, Von Hayes and this frustrating pitcher who would walk as many as he K'd...I am sure you knew him..lol

That out of the way, glad you are enjoying the game...and maybe with the the success of the immersive RECKONING GAME...you may open up a sports division of 38studios? The time would be optimal with a NFL and now a definite NBA lockout...people need virtual sports more than ever

HINT, HINT

[Matty86]

Originally Posted by Carlton

Wow, irony...as I was just talking to DougGlanville, Jayson Stark and the site I write for basebalklreflections.com on Twitter about Curt's new stat...

Yes, I am name droipping, but this thread has 247 replies, so no stones shall be thrown!

Anyway, Curt...You are just like every geek, we all had the "Notebook" as I had Tommy Lasorda baseball, then Tony LaRussa and World Series Baseball...and yup Ken Griffey Jr. where I had the Phillies with Darren Daukton, Ricky Jordan, Steve Jeltz, Von Hayes and this frustrating pitcher who would walk as many as he K'd...I am sure you knew him..lol

That out of the way, glad you are enjoying the game...and maybe with the the success of the immersive RECKONING GAME...you may open up a sports division of 38studios? The time would be optimal with a NFL and now a definite NBA lockout...people need virtual sports more than ever

HINT, HINT

With Curt being such a big fan of micro managing and rpg (mmorpg or whatever they call it?), maybe he could work something out with the company to get ITP back up and running

[Carlton]

Originally Posted by gehrig38

I wanted to start my new league with max player age being mid 20's to allow all players a chance to play lengthy careers (Hated fictional leagues with 39 year old first year guys).Curt

Easy tip on this one

1-start a league
2-erase all players
3- set age limit to max of 20
4- import fictional players
5- go back and reset the max age to 0

doneQ!

Also, if YOU want to select the HOF instead of the AI....set all criteria to 0

[professor ape]

Originally Posted by Dutchy

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that, too, actually.

I'm thinking that Markus is a pretty smart cookie and wouldn't take that kind of risk.

[84CubsFan]

Originally Posted by professor ape

I'm thinking that Markus is a pretty smart cookie and wouldn't take that kind of risk.

Let's hope. I had the same shudder when I read the email. Carry on, great thread.

[Carlton]

BTW,

Can I say that ALL of us are now the guy in Hall Pass when he says

"Curt Schilling has been in my safe room...because I know him"

Now pound the potato while I tie my sweater around my neck like it's 1984

[LeiterFanatic]

Man, I gotta come here more often! Good thread!

[byzeil]

Originally Posted by byzeil

Questions: Why 5 years of HS? Why only 2 years of college? I have it set for JUCO to be ages 18-19 and college 18-21, HS 14-17.

Have had a player play 4 yrs HS, get drafted and failed to sign. He then went on to college for 4 years, got drafted and is now in AAA and upset he isn't in the majors. All seems to be working as it should now.

The reason above for only 2 years in college was, before the patch, feeder league players got ML service time so after 6 years (4 HS 2 COL) they became a FA.

Last example to look for is a HSer drafted who didn't sign and went on to a JUCO.

I'm lovin' this game

[byzeil]

One last bit of info...

Had a guy play 4 years of HS, go undrafted and go on to a JUCO for 2 years, go undrafted and play his JR and SR years in College and is in the draft again. He is persistent. First example I have seen of one guy playing HS, JUCO, and COL. Don't think he will be drafted though, not very good.

[Qwerty75]

Originally Posted by Matty86

I never even thought to do this... wow and I've been playing this game for something like 7 years! haha But say I have a 2 pitch stud 19 year old, if I go in and add a 3rd pitch and make it like a 20/100 will it automatically suggest that he be a starter? If he has something like a 6 stamina will that increase over time? I've never really noticed how stamina changes season to season, I usually end up doing 1 and done's then restarting.

I haven't noticed any patterns in stamina increasing or decreasing organically in my solo league in v.11. I play on a 1-20 scale so I may not see the minute changes. I don't have any idea if giving a 2-pitch pitcher a 3rd pitch will affect the future development of his stamina. Note that this is the type of thing that I think people would notice, and I haven't heard of anything along these lines occuring in other people's games.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Matty86

With Curt being such a big fan of micro managing and rpg (mmorpg or whatever they call it?), maybe he could work something out with the company to get ITP back up and running

Advanced Squad Baseball!

[Erad67]

I too was a big fan of ITP and was really looking forward to it being developed further.

For you guys that let your fictional leagues run for 5+ years before jumping in as a manager, how do you get a job offer that is not for the low minors?