Manager mode....how long did you last? - Page 3

Hoover36 · 03-17-2003, 02:48 PM

That was my question above. I have the screenshot saved as a jpeg, but my question was do I have to use html to paste it in the reply. And if so, what is the code?

MJohnson · 03-17-2003, 06:01 PM

if the picture is not being hosted, select post reply and attach the picture

if it is, use

Code:

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HolyCow98 · 03-18-2003, 02:36 AM

test

Astros02 · 03-19-2003, 01:17 PM

I was watching a fictional league develop and decided to start a manager mode. I chose the worst team that would let me manage, and tried my hardest to build for the future. I traded off some way overpriced players for the best prospects in the league, but the owner got impatient and fired me less than two years in. That team went on to win a couple of world series, but the bottom fell out when it was time to resign all their stars.

sixfour210 · 03-20-2003, 01:39 AM

testing. . .

sixfour210 · 03-20-2003, 01:41 AM

Woo Hoo!

Well there's a shot of the roster set I'm working on with my logo set and pictures from mlb.com. Just checking to see if it worked!

Matto · 03-23-2003, 05:54 PM

I started a career using my favorite singer's name Collin Raye.

I made him older than the actual singer and gave him a wife and kids. His wife had 2 kids prior to the career. He had an 19 y/o son with excellent skills and a daughter. Over the course of the season's I've simmed he had 2 more daughters but when wife wouldn't have more kids (she was 51 years old when kid 4 arrieved, I had him divorce her.) I want him to have another son dang it....

As for the career here's the stats:

Year Team W L PCT GB Pos Note
2003 TBA 41 94 .304 49.5 5 Fired!
2004 BOS 99 63 .611 .0 1 Won WS!
2005 BOS 88 74 .543 .0 1 Won WS!
2006 BOS 92 70 .568 .0 1 Playoffs
2007 BOS 92 70 .568 5.0 2 Reached WS
2008 BOS 100 62 .617 .0 1 Playoffs
2009 BOS 99 63 .611 .0 1 Playoffs

As you can see, I was fired by Tampa Bay but then Boston hired me as their manager the next year. They had won the WS the previous season. I have done really well with 'em but had to get rid of Manny Ramirez when I signed on because he cost 17 mil a year and I needed money/players. I got rid of Pedro for the same reason 2 years later and Derek Lowe for the same reason in 2006. I have a solid team and here's the screen shot for the general mgr stuff....

Matto · 03-23-2003, 06:22 PM

Here's the stats for the son
His name is Collin Jr Raye. Born in 1983.

please note that I messed around with Era's so the stats about innings and CG's is correct and not abnormal. I went to the deadball era before realizing I didn't like it (2 years worth)...

woody5254 · 03-26-2003, 09:52 AM

I have started an 1870 league in a 16 team fictional league. I will import players from here on out, I will let you know how long I last. I am starting as a 16 year old manager in this league. I am the NY Yankees, I will let you know how long I last. I am hoping for a 50 years of coaching before I retire although I doubt I spend it all with the Yanks

LiLWeeZy · 04-07-2003, 08:26 PM

dang how come i can never get a winning season..can some of u people tell me how do u do it..

sixfour210 · 04-09-2003, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LiLWeeZy
dang how come i can never get a winning season..can some of u people tell me how do u do it..

It's all in the trades. Chances are, if you have a highly paid 4 star player, you can find one that puts up the same numbers for less money. Once you save this money, spend it on decent free agents and voila!

Hoover36 · 04-09-2003, 10:41 AM

I still don't seem to know how to attach an image in the screen, but here is my record as manager. Still going strong.

Oakland Financial History
Saturday, 1/18/2030
Year Wins Losses PCT Pos Attendance Revenue Payroll Profit/Loss
2029 122 40 .753 1 3702973 $90,024,717 $85,052,836 $4,971,881
2028 114 48 .704 1 3711384 $90,868,647 $74,310,148 $16,558,499
2027 122 40 .753 1 3705944 $92,145,251 $89,620,267 $2,524,984
2026 124 38 .765 1 3692072 $92,503,645 $86,114,761 $6,388,884
2025 111 51 .685 1 3708062 $92,358,115 $95,819,312 $-3,461,197
2024 103 59 .636 1 3756539 $92,716,208 $90,624,936 $2,091,272
2023 103 59 .636 1 3621678 $91,174,840 $84,099,392 $7,075,448
2022 104 58 .642 1 3719519 $92,860,045 $86,644,728 $6,215,317
2021 103 59 .636 1 3669458 $88,823,068 $83,768,714 $5,054,354
2020 107 55 .660 1 3545117 $87,164,240 $85,068,488 $2,095,752
2019 96 66 .593 1 3534879 $88,305,511 $77,105,758 $11,199,753
2018 99 63 .611 1 3474711 $85,224,181 $79,595,428 $5,628,753
2017 98 64 .605 1 3508831 $84,103,298 $71,739,090 $12,364,208
2016 85 77 .525 2 3132585 $82,377,491 $75,487,550 $6,889,941
2015 87 75 .537 1 3421150 $92,011,321 $64,866,286 $27,145,035
2014 95 67 .586 1 3525667 $88,130,301 $81,357,812 $6,772,489
2013 94 68 .580 1 3642428 $86,472,361 $87,368,354 $-895,993
2012 97 65 .599 1 3647586 $87,917,988 $85,680,038 $2,237,950
2011 112 50 .691 1 3648085 $90,190,470 $91,618,560 $-1,428,090
2010 104 58 .642 1 3620903 $89,375,101 $94,168,358 $-4,793,257
2009 110 52 .679 1 3693371 $85,000,679 $80,879,900 $4,120,779
2008 86 76 .531 2 3223053 $82,146,595 $89,843,300 $-7,696,705
2007 97 65 .599 1 3410791 $87,246,529 $79,647,129 $7,599,400
2006 92 71 .564 2 3415503 $78,515,285 $76,156,007 $2,359,278
2005 96 66 .593 1 3361884 $75,608,543 $62,936,009 $12,672,534
2004 85 77 .525 2 3278702 $70,799,169 $66,478,028 $4,321,141
2003 99 63 .611 1 2875624 $67,254,173 $59,936,760 $7,317,413

Hoover36 · 04-09-2003, 10:43 AM

And this was in Hall of Fame mode. If someone could tell me how to insert and image, I would post my manager screen.

Hoover36 · 04-09-2003, 10:51 AM

Testing this out.

Hoover36 · 04-09-2003, 10:52 AM

The one thing I will say about HOF mode is the difficulty I have had winning the big one consistently. As you can see, I win once a decade. Been there quite a bit though.

anpham · 04-10-2003, 09:42 PM

Here's my screenshot:

2003 ANA 90 72 .556 3.0 3 .271 .323 .439 .762 178 57 785 728 57 4.11 991 482 172 .260
2004 ANA 91 72 .558 .0 1 Won WS! .250 .306 .430 .736 210 26 730 653 77 3.62 1126 443 109 .243
2005 ANA 104 58 .642 .0 1 Won WS! .252 .320 .463 .783 265 25 818 603 215 3.31 1059 431 108 .234
2006 ANA 125 37 .772 .0 1 Won WS! .272 .345 .472 .817 245 50 947 547 400 3.02 1066 336 118 .231
2007 ANA 119 43 .735 .0 1 Won WS! .267 .345 .478 .824 269 59 946 516 430 2.87 1216 327 102 .229
2008 ANA 131 31 .809 .0 1 Won WS! .286 .355 .501 .856 269 47 1003 475 528 2.63 1180 302 93 .211
2009 ANA 137 25 .846 .0 1 Won WS! .313 .382 .585 .967 383 102 1226 547 679 2.99 1181 315 115 .227
2010 ANA 126 34 .787 .0 1 Won WS! .312 .386 .558 .944 336 87 1201 566 635 3.07 1124 263 121 .236
2011 ANA 133 29 .821 .0 1 Won WS! .302 .383 .546 .929 331 107 1212 529 683 2.92 1262 342 80 .227
2012 ANA 131 31 .809 .0 1 Won WS! .319 .406 .581 .987 365 80 1272 586 686 3.30 1388 353 102 .240

sixfour210 · 04-10-2003, 10:44 PM

ok...something's wrong here. Either you're doing some cheating or the game needs to be changed. No one should ever dominate like that in real life.

twins15 · 04-12-2003, 05:30 PM

How can he be cheating? That is an amazing record.

Big OOTP Fan · 04-12-2003, 05:52 PM

He's not cheating. If you saw his transactions over the years, you'd understand how he did it......

anpham · 04-13-2003, 10:06 PM

This isn't meant to be some kind of tutorial, its just how I approach OOTP and most other people maybe too. If you've played team management games a lot you'll eventually realize that it's just about trading for the best available minor leaguers. Once a star player hits 30 or gets too expensive you just look for a team with a couple good minor league players and trade for them. You then have two or three players that possibly can reach the same status. Then when those players hit 30 you trade them for two or three more players. Now you have four or six possibly good players. After awhile it continues to add up and I ended up with a minor league rating over 800 and every other team was in the 60's to even 0's. And each year I had about two 4-5 star players waiting in the minors with no room on the roster to put them. I won each year so I drafted last each time (players who usually went nowhere) and I made a rule to not sign any free agents because these can also be used to trade for minor leaguers. Winning in the first couple years is usually just luck if you picked a good team. The Angels are my home team so I picked them and they have an okay team. OOTP is the same across the board for everyone including salaries and such and I basically just played with rookies and players with less than 6 years major league experience the whole time. If you look at my salary report for 2018 it's only 52 million and I won 139 games. Back in 2010 when I first started my salary was 107 million and I won 126 games. My whole starting lineup ended up being full of 300,000 dollar players and looking at my triple-A team it could also probably make it to the World Series too and possibly win it.

(Attendence is kind of wacky since I played with the capacity to see how many fans I could draw)

2019 132 30 .815 1 3647093 $115,227,487 $59,246,832 $55,980,655
2018 139 23 .858 1 4682565 $126,462,678 $52,457,013 $74,005,665
2017 140 22 .864 1 5120663 $131,796,524 $69,040,188 $62,756,336
2016 133 29 .821 1 5090052 $132,362,722 $65,789,877 $66,572,845
2015 133 29 .821 1 4140281 $129,507,298 $78,445,746 $51,061,552
2014 131 31 .809 1 4097193 $130,287,132 $85,807,611 $44,479,521
2013 132 30 .815 1 4084190 $131,130,970 $94,471,452 $36,659,518
2012 131 31 .809 1 4115462 $130,911,772 $95,457,528 $35,454,244
2011 133 29 .821 1 4125738 $128,181,974 $86,883,899 $41,298,075
2010 126 34 .787 1 4009590 $129,619,818 $107,632,851 $21,986,967

Although the profit numbers are kind of inaccurate, New York and Boston also had the same cash numbers as my team in regular sized stadiums.

Most of my starters were at least 4 star and above but 2 or 3 star players can also put up similiar numbers as well. It only makes a difference if you're going for total annilahation and making sure you win it every time. I'm not sure if they secretly added playoff performance to the player ratings or not but my winning percentage is better in the playoffs then the regular season and that's when you play the good teams. I sim every game, I never play them individually.

It does kind of suck to have to part with a player once they hit 30 but once they go over that age they start to lose value quickly and that's when they get expensive. And once a team gets on a roll they usually stay on a roll. I quit managing the Angels in 2019 and left for the Royals to try out a small market team. Before the final year to balance things out I released a majority of their good minor leagurers into the free agent pool and released three starting pitchers and half the starting lineup as well. Despite that the Angels still won their division 6 years in a row after I left and won over 100 games in 4 of those years (111 being their best). Kind of like the Braves in real life. I'm in Kansas City right now and since then I put a salary cap of 80 million and cash of 10 million and still go with the no free agent signings rule and I eventually reached the same level as the Angels. I do spend around 5 million dollars a year on coaches/scouts (which is a price of a good starter). I'm not sure if coaches matter as much because I've seen some rookies on other teams with similiar ratings as mine with very bad coaches. But if you invest in minor leaguers it's well worth the price because you can get a 300,000 dollar player for three years to play at the level of a 10 million dollar player.

03-17-2003, 06:01 PM	#42
MJohnson Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: under an overpass Posts: 459	if the picture is not being hosted, select post reply and attach the picture if it is, use Code: [IMG] http://www.domain.com/subfolder/file.jpg Code: [/IMG] Last edited by MJohnson; 03-17-2003 at 06:04 PM.

03-18-2003, 02:36 AM	#43
HolyCow98 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Douglasville, GA Posts: 2,735	test __________________ NPBL Enjoying its 60th season Georgia GM

03-19-2003, 01:17 PM	#44
Astros02 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 506	1 1/2 years I was watching a fictional league develop and decided to start a manager mode. I chose the worst team that would let me manage, and tried my hardest to build for the future. I traded off some way overpriced players for the best prospects in the league, but the owner got impatient and fired me less than two years in. That team went on to win a couple of world series, but the bottom fell out when it was time to resign all their stars.

03-20-2003, 01:39 AM	#45
sixfour210 All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,227	testing. . . Attached Images

03-20-2003, 01:41 AM	#46
sixfour210 All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,227	Woo Hoo! Well there's a shot of the roster set I'm working on with my logo set and pictures from mlb.com. Just checking to see if it worked! __________________

03-17-2003, 02:48 PM	#41
Hoover36 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NV Posts: 187	That was my question above. I have the screenshot saved as a jpeg, but my question was do I have to use html to paste it in the reply. And if so, what is the code?

03-23-2003, 05:54 PM	#47
Matto Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle by way of Albany NY Posts: 13	I started a career using my favorite singer's name Collin Raye. I made him older than the actual singer and gave him a wife and kids. His wife had 2 kids prior to the career. He had an 19 y/o son with excellent skills and a daughter. Over the course of the season's I've simmed he had 2 more daughters but when wife wouldn't have more kids (she was 51 years old when kid 4 arrieved, I had him divorce her.) I want him to have another son dang it.... As for the career here's the stats: Year Team W L PCT GB Pos Note 2003 TBA 41 94 .304 49.5 5 Fired! 2004 BOS 99 63 .611 .0 1 Won WS! 2005 BOS 88 74 .543 .0 1 Won WS! 2006 BOS 92 70 .568 .0 1 Playoffs 2007 BOS 92 70 .568 5.0 2 Reached WS 2008 BOS 100 62 .617 .0 1 Playoffs 2009 BOS 99 63 .611 .0 1 Playoffs As you can see, I was fired by Tampa Bay but then Boston hired me as their manager the next year. They had won the WS the previous season. I have done really well with 'em but had to get rid of Manny Ramirez when I signed on because he cost 17 mil a year and I needed money/players. I got rid of Pedro for the same reason 2 years later and Derek Lowe for the same reason in 2006. I have a solid team and here's the screen shot for the general mgr stuff.... Attached Images

03-26-2003, 09:52 AM	#49
woody5254 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hector, NY Posts: 6,130	I have started an 1870 league in a 16 team fictional league. I will import players from here on out, I will let you know how long I last. I am starting as a 16 year old manager in this league. I am the NY Yankees, I will let you know how long I last. I am hoping for a 50 years of coaching before I retire although I doubt I spend it all with the Yanks __________________ Check out: You Pick Tourney Version 2.0 Standings Thread You Pick The Teams Tourney: Main Thread The Colossal 20th Century Tourney:Main Thread Chicago White Sox(Original Owner:2001-) Baseball Maelstrom -2001,2011,2013 World Series Champions -2002,2010 Maelstrom Tourney Champs Arizona Diamondbacks(2003-) NAHHBL Indianapolis Racers(Expansion Team:1993-)ABC

04-07-2003, 08:26 PM	#50
LiLWeeZy Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: east cuse Posts: 24	dang how come i can never get a winning season..can some of u people tell me how do u do it..

04-09-2003, 10:41 AM	#52
Hoover36 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NV Posts: 187	I still don't seem to know how to attach an image in the screen, but here is my record as manager. Still going strong. Oakland Financial History Saturday, 1/18/2030 Year Wins Losses PCT Pos Attendance Revenue Payroll Profit/Loss 2029 122 40 .753 1 3702973 $90,024,717 $85,052,836 $4,971,881 2028 114 48 .704 1 3711384 $90,868,647 $74,310,148 $16,558,499 2027 122 40 .753 1 3705944 $92,145,251 $89,620,267 $2,524,984 2026 124 38 .765 1 3692072 $92,503,645 $86,114,761 $6,388,884 2025 111 51 .685 1 3708062 $92,358,115 $95,819,312 $-3,461,197 2024 103 59 .636 1 3756539 $92,716,208 $90,624,936 $2,091,272 2023 103 59 .636 1 3621678 $91,174,840 $84,099,392 $7,075,448 2022 104 58 .642 1 3719519 $92,860,045 $86,644,728 $6,215,317 2021 103 59 .636 1 3669458 $88,823,068 $83,768,714 $5,054,354 2020 107 55 .660 1 3545117 $87,164,240 $85,068,488 $2,095,752 2019 96 66 .593 1 3534879 $88,305,511 $77,105,758 $11,199,753 2018 99 63 .611 1 3474711 $85,224,181 $79,595,428 $5,628,753 2017 98 64 .605 1 3508831 $84,103,298 $71,739,090 $12,364,208 2016 85 77 .525 2 3132585 $82,377,491 $75,487,550 $6,889,941 2015 87 75 .537 1 3421150 $92,011,321 $64,866,286 $27,145,035 2014 95 67 .586 1 3525667 $88,130,301 $81,357,812 $6,772,489 2013 94 68 .580 1 3642428 $86,472,361 $87,368,354 $-895,993 2012 97 65 .599 1 3647586 $87,917,988 $85,680,038 $2,237,950 2011 112 50 .691 1 3648085 $90,190,470 $91,618,560 $-1,428,090 2010 104 58 .642 1 3620903 $89,375,101 $94,168,358 $-4,793,257 2009 110 52 .679 1 3693371 $85,000,679 $80,879,900 $4,120,779 2008 86 76 .531 2 3223053 $82,146,595 $89,843,300 $-7,696,705 2007 97 65 .599 1 3410791 $87,246,529 $79,647,129 $7,599,400 2006 92 71 .564 2 3415503 $78,515,285 $76,156,007 $2,359,278 2005 96 66 .593 1 3361884 $75,608,543 $62,936,009 $12,672,534 2004 85 77 .525 2 3278702 $70,799,169 $66,478,028 $4,321,141 2003 99 63 .611 1 2875624 $67,254,173 $59,936,760 $7,317,413

04-09-2003, 10:43 AM	#53
Hoover36 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NV Posts: 187	And this was in Hall of Fame mode. If someone could tell me how to insert and image, I would post my manager screen. Last edited by Hoover36; 04-09-2003 at 10:47 AM.

04-09-2003, 10:51 AM	#54
Hoover36 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NV Posts: 187	Testing this out. Attached Images

04-09-2003, 10:52 AM	#55
Hoover36 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NV Posts: 187	The one thing I will say about HOF mode is the difficulty I have had winning the big one consistently. As you can see, I win once a decade. Been there quite a bit though.

04-10-2003, 09:42 PM	#56
anpham Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	Here's my screenshot: 2003 ANA 90 72 .556 3.0 3 .271 .323 .439 .762 178 57 785 728 57 4.11 991 482 172 .260 2004 ANA 91 72 .558 .0 1 Won WS! .250 .306 .430 .736 210 26 730 653 77 3.62 1126 443 109 .243 2005 ANA 104 58 .642 .0 1 Won WS! .252 .320 .463 .783 265 25 818 603 215 3.31 1059 431 108 .234 2006 ANA 125 37 .772 .0 1 Won WS! .272 .345 .472 .817 245 50 947 547 400 3.02 1066 336 118 .231 2007 ANA 119 43 .735 .0 1 Won WS! .267 .345 .478 .824 269 59 946 516 430 2.87 1216 327 102 .229 2008 ANA 131 31 .809 .0 1 Won WS! .286 .355 .501 .856 269 47 1003 475 528 2.63 1180 302 93 .211 2009 ANA 137 25 .846 .0 1 Won WS! .313 .382 .585 .967 383 102 1226 547 679 2.99 1181 315 115 .227 2010 ANA 126 34 .787 .0 1 Won WS! .312 .386 .558 .944 336 87 1201 566 635 3.07 1124 263 121 .236 2011 ANA 133 29 .821 .0 1 Won WS! .302 .383 .546 .929 331 107 1212 529 683 2.92 1262 342 80 .227 2012 ANA 131 31 .809 .0 1 Won WS! .319 .406 .581 .987 365 80 1272 586 686 3.30 1388 353 102 .240

04-10-2003, 10:44 PM	#57
sixfour210 All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 1,227	ok...something's wrong here. Either you're doing some cheating or the game needs to be changed. No one should ever dominate like that in real life. __________________

04-12-2003, 05:30 PM	#58
twins15 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Area 51 Posts: 4,792	How can he be cheating? That is an amazing record. __________________ "Ah man we're just hungry man" - Dovonte Edwards Bismarck Boy Scouts of the OTBL - league yes-man Ross Gload at baseball-reference.com Book Quotes and Book Lists

04-12-2003, 05:52 PM	#59
Big OOTP Fan Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: California Posts: 60	He's not cheating. If you saw his transactions over the years, you'd understand how he did it......

04-13-2003, 10:06 PM	#60
anpham Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	This isn't meant to be some kind of tutorial, its just how I approach OOTP and most other people maybe too. If you've played team management games a lot you'll eventually realize that it's just about trading for the best available minor leaguers. Once a star player hits 30 or gets too expensive you just look for a team with a couple good minor league players and trade for them. You then have two or three players that possibly can reach the same status. Then when those players hit 30 you trade them for two or three more players. Now you have four or six possibly good players. After awhile it continues to add up and I ended up with a minor league rating over 800 and every other team was in the 60's to even 0's. And each year I had about two 4-5 star players waiting in the minors with no room on the roster to put them. I won each year so I drafted last each time (players who usually went nowhere) and I made a rule to not sign any free agents because these can also be used to trade for minor leaguers. Winning in the first couple years is usually just luck if you picked a good team. The Angels are my home team so I picked them and they have an okay team. OOTP is the same across the board for everyone including salaries and such and I basically just played with rookies and players with less than 6 years major league experience the whole time. If you look at my salary report for 2018 it's only 52 million and I won 139 games. Back in 2010 when I first started my salary was 107 million and I won 126 games. My whole starting lineup ended up being full of 300,000 dollar players and looking at my triple-A team it could also probably make it to the World Series too and possibly win it. (Attendence is kind of wacky since I played with the capacity to see how many fans I could draw) 2019 132 30 .815 1 3647093 $115,227,487 $59,246,832 $55,980,655 2018 139 23 .858 1 4682565 $126,462,678 $52,457,013 $74,005,665 2017 140 22 .864 1 5120663 $131,796,524 $69,040,188 $62,756,336 2016 133 29 .821 1 5090052 $132,362,722 $65,789,877 $66,572,845 2015 133 29 .821 1 4140281 $129,507,298 $78,445,746 $51,061,552 2014 131 31 .809 1 4097193 $130,287,132 $85,807,611 $44,479,521 2013 132 30 .815 1 4084190 $131,130,970 $94,471,452 $36,659,518 2012 131 31 .809 1 4115462 $130,911,772 $95,457,528 $35,454,244 2011 133 29 .821 1 4125738 $128,181,974 $86,883,899 $41,298,075 2010 126 34 .787 1 4009590 $129,619,818 $107,632,851 $21,986,967 Although the profit numbers are kind of inaccurate, New York and Boston also had the same cash numbers as my team in regular sized stadiums. Most of my starters were at least 4 star and above but 2 or 3 star players can also put up similiar numbers as well. It only makes a difference if you're going for total annilahation and making sure you win it every time. I'm not sure if they secretly added playoff performance to the player ratings or not but my winning percentage is better in the playoffs then the regular season and that's when you play the good teams. I sim every game, I never play them individually. It does kind of suck to have to part with a player once they hit 30 but once they go over that age they start to lose value quickly and that's when they get expensive. And once a team gets on a roll they usually stay on a roll. I quit managing the Angels in 2019 and left for the Royals to try out a small market team. Before the final year to balance things out I released a majority of their good minor leagurers into the free agent pool and released three starting pitchers and half the starting lineup as well. Despite that the Angels still won their division 6 years in a row after I left and won over 100 games in 4 of those years (111 being their best). Kind of like the Braves in real life. I'm in Kansas City right now and since then I put a salary cap of 80 million and cash of 10 million and still go with the no free agent signings rule and I eventually reached the same level as the Angels. I do spend around 5 million dollars a year on coaches/scouts (which is a price of a good starter). I'm not sure if coaches matter as much because I've seen some rookies on other teams with similiar ratings as mine with very bad coaches. But if you invest in minor leaguers it's well worth the price because you can get a 300,000 dollar player for three years to play at the level of a 10 million dollar player.