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

[gglennwill]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Dutchy, just treat him like any other guy here. FYI, there are supposedly a number of current and former college, minor league and MLB players who play OOTP. I can vouch for there being college players.

OK, but I just can't help wondering what it would be like to be Curt Schilling and play a game with himself in it....

[PilotMan]

Welcome to the club! OOTP has been my favorite baseball game since my SOM glory days. I think I have been playing since the old Season Ticket Baseball game, and that was back in the 90's some time.

[cibl commish]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

The only thing that would make the OP more awesome is if he admitted that every season he renamed one of the players on one of the teams Doug Glanville and went into the editor and gave him 1s across the board and then forced his team to start him in center field every day of every game and then phoned the real Doug Glanville every week to inform him that he is currently batting .074 in 362 at-bats and has -14 WAR.

(ah crap, I think I just fanboyed after all)

Oh that is awesome!!

[cibl commish]

Oh and welcome to the board Curt!

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by gglennwill

OK, but I just can't help wondering what it would be like to be Curt Schilling and play a game with himself in it....

Probably a lot of fun!

[md5423]

Originally Posted by gehrig38

FWIW the league, my first real league, I have my fictional team as a powerhouse in, is in year 25+ if I remember right, been fun as hell to sim.
I allow the league to auto play and I play every inning of every game my team plays, and manage the organization day to day.

Wow. That's a lot of games. Which OOTP was it started in?

[fhomess]

Originally Posted by gglennwill

OK, but I just can't help wondering what it would be like to be Curt Schilling and play a game with himself in it....

I've put myself into plenty of OOTP leagues... great game, isn't it?

[Tony M]

I wonder if Curt has tried a 2004 historical with real transactions and lineups. I haven't yet, but wonder if the game will give him an ankle injury in the postseason if the Red Sox get there.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Tony M

I wonder if Curt has tried a 2004 historical with real transactions and lineups. I haven't yet, but wonder if the game will give him an ankle injury in the postseason if the Red Sox get there.

Even the mods are fanboys!

Seriously, if you treat the man like just another guy he might be tempted to actually participate. Fanboy stuff makes famous people use anonymous aliases and never reveal who they really are.

[BusterKing]

Famous people must learn to deal with fanboys stuff like you call it. It's part of being famous.

Nothing I detest more then seeing sports celebrities snubbing the kids that admire them. Anyone remember that Alex Rios incident? Pathetic.

[Sebastian Palkowski]

Originally Posted by Tony M

I wonder if Curt has tried a 2004 historical with real transactions and lineups. I haven't yet, but wonder if the game will give him an ankle injury in the postseason if the Red Sox get there.

The game was the reason I (or we) put the season into iOOTP 2011 as one of three historical setups. As a baseball fan in Germany it's always tough to watch games live but with the 2004 Playoff run I watched all games during the night and slept during the day. Luckily I was a student that time.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by BusterKing

Famous people must learn to deal with fanboys stuff like you call it. It's part of being famous.

Actually not. I know a lot of people professionally who are famous (fans, Wikipedia pages, etc.) but who hate what comes with that and who guard their privacy like crazy. Street addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, all totally secret and you'd damn well better not leak them. And when they post in public they use anonymous aliases (although some will post very freely on restricted private boards). They go out in public in hats/scarves and sunglasses or such. Mister Schilling is an exception, but then he is exceptional in many ways.

As a side note, Greg Maddux has gone out in public his entire career in civvies and gone unrecognized.

[Xavier12]

Originally Posted by BusterKing

Famous people must learn to deal with fanboys stuff like you call it. It's part of being famous.

Nothing I detest more then seeing sports celebrities snubbing the kids that admire them. Anyone remember that Alex Rios incident? Pathetic.

I was having a really good day until you mentioned the name Alex Rios. Thanks a lot.

[cody8200]

Originally Posted by Xavier12

I was having a really good day until you mentioned the name Alex Rios. Thanks a lot.

I went searching for what you guys were talking about. I had never seen that Toronto fan video. Wow...

[The Wolf]

Yeah, it's way ugly.

[yajeflow]

gehrig38-

my league uses OOTP strictly for fictional baseball. that being said, there are a myriad of options that you can select before getting started. some of them are simple check-offs in the posted settings or changing some numbers a bit (foreign %, roster size, attributes hidden/not, etc.), and others are way more involved. the point is...OOTP can create a universe to fit your intended goal.

for example, in my fictional league we have the following:
1. economics - no player has ever earned a million dollar contract...yet. danger rebelledo just became a free agent, so we shall see. he is coming off a $914K/yr deal. the salaries are a reflection of the economic universe we established at the outset. the ticket prices and estimated attendance figures were adjusted the this end.

2. we will NEVER have inflation. this involved going into the 'history' side of things and duping one set of figures for ALL years. we also did this for stats. we are not interested in 'real' baseball's history in the league. deadball means nothing to us. we want a home run hit in 1812 to be completely equitable to one hit in 1917. statistical relevancy within the league is supreme. duping one set of figures in the history files allowed us to have this (in concert with other universal changes, of course).

3. baseball talent distribution - i like a world where every country has equal talent, so this was adjusted. we are just as likely to draft a catcher from saigon as des moines. hey...it is fun and funny. we have a stellar defensive left fielder named steely dan 'the thai stick' witmeyer now because of it. he is from metro bangkok.

4. statistical 'sweet spot' - we worked and worked to get a stat universe that satisfied our needs. basically, we wanted something from the golden age of 'real' baseball: 1969 to 1990. reasonable home run leaders in the 30-40s...steal leaders from 40-100ish...ERAs roughly 3.50 to 4.50...complete game leaders up over 10. this is all manageable with some tinkering. and like i said earlier, we duped all of these settings to all seasons in history. everything is perfectly equitable.

but that is just MY league. this is the beauty of OOTP. it is completely flexible. we even considered making it a softball league and blowing out the offensive stats. it could be done. if you have an idea of how you want YOUR universe to behave, it can probably be done.

do all of this BEFORE you get started, assuming that you would like a perennial league. or not. it is all up to you. the forum is loaded with massive amounts of fellows who are more than willing to help you out with any aspect.

[acclaim99]

lol, are you talking about this?
YouTube - ‪Original Alex Rios Video "You are a bum!"‬‏
thats great.. never saw it til now

[Vinny P.]

Originally Posted by Sweed

I also play every inning of every game for my team. It is the only way I can play and feel connected to my team and players.

I'm in year 20 of my league, it's taken me from v4 (2002) 'til now to get there. Between work, family, and real life I get in 2 to 3 seasons per version.

Heh, that's still quicker than me. I only get about 1 season in per version. My current league, I started with v. 6.5. I am in my 5th season of playing out every single inning.

Although, I did skip v. 8. I even started out in rookie laegue ball, with like a 70-some game schedule. That counts towards my 5 seasons. I did insist on playing out a second season in OOTP10. But I forced myself from managing in AAA my first OOTP 10 season, to managing in the majors for my second season of the same game.

Then I gotta upgrade it to OOTP 11, and play out at least one season in OOTP 11, before moving onto OOTP 12.

[Vinny P.]

Originally Posted by ramblin_man

Ill decide whats important relative to myself, but thank you for opining. I love the smell. If you'll notice my post count you will undoubtedly conclude that the mere act of posting is out of character for the ramblin man and posting twice in such a limited time frame would beg the question: What is wrong with our friend RM? Well ill ease the burden of speculation; the ramblin man is out of medication. Proceed with caution and forgive him his transgressions.

Sooo...who's alias are you?

Or are you that black guy from Sliders?

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Vinny P.

Sooo...who's alias are you?

Or are you that black guy from Sliders?

I think it's Willie Nelson!