Perhaps a silly question, but...

[OOTPSimmer]

Does auto-playing to events and simulating full seasons at a time as opposed to simulating game-by-game hinder a team's overall performance or is it dependent on how you manage your team? I know it may seem like an unintentional rhetorical question, but I'm curious of fellow OOTP users' input on this matter.

[Ruthian23]

If I'm following what you're asking correctly, simulating a game doesn't give you any less chance to win than playing it out except as far as you might make better strategic decisions in game than your AI manager. There's no built in disadvantage for simming or anything, though. Same if you're simming a season at a time. If you're not micromanaging and leaving that stuff to your assistant GM, the team might do a bit worse than it would with you making all the decisions (just because your I is probably higher than the game's AI), but it won't give you a disadvantage beyond that.

[OOTPSimmer]

Originally Posted by Ruthian23

If I'm following what you're asking correctly, simulating a game doesn't give you any less chance to win than playing it out except as far as you might make better strategic decisions in game than your AI manager. There's no built in disadvantage for simming or anything, though. Same if you're simming a season at a time. If you're not micromanaging and leaving that stuff to your assistant GM, the team might do a bit worse than it would with you making all the decisions (just because your I is probably higher than the game's AI), but it won't give you a disadvantage beyond that.

You pretty much answered the question spot on, thanks!

[The Game]

Originally Posted by OOTPSimmer

Does auto-playing to events and simulating full seasons at a time as opposed to simulating game-by-game hinder a team's overall performance or is it dependent on how you manage your team? I know it may seem like an unintentional rhetorical question, but I'm curious of fellow OOTP users' input on this matter.

When i sim games runners steal better then they do when I play out games. My pen seems to pitch better also. i went 16-11 in August and there are many reasons why I lost 11 games, the most in 3 seasons in a single month but I am blaming the AI. I simmed all but 9 games. I went 6-3 in my 9 games.

[OOTPSimmer]

Originally Posted by The Game

When i sim games runners steal better then they do when I play out games. My pen seems to pitch better also. i went 16-11 in August and there are many reasons why I lost 11 games, the most in 3 seasons in a single month but I am blaming the AI. I simmed all but 9 games. I went 6-3 in my 9 games.

I've experienced better pitching in my simulations, too. After posting this thread, I starting experimenting more and realized that I wasn't doing enough micromanaging during simulation.