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05-28-2018, 10:16 AM | #1 |
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What is your biggest weakness as an OOTP player?
My biggest weakness is I get overprotective of my mediocre players. I'm always afraid I'm going to lose them to waivers or the rule 5, which leads to overcrowding on my 25 and 40 man rosters. What mistakes do you make repeatedly?
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05-28-2018, 10:29 AM | #2 |
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Easy: not being ruthless with fan favorites. In my MLB leagues where I play with real rosters I keep my favorite Cardinals way to long and it bites me in the behind every time.
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05-28-2018, 12:13 PM | #3 |
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Pretending to be Jack McKeon once too often...you know—build an ideal team and then, "just one more trade..."
GREAT thread idea!
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05-28-2018, 12:19 PM | #4 |
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This is a great question. Mine, until recently, was an over-reliance on young players which, if you play with Team Chemistry turned on, will eventually catch up with you and cause your team unhappiness and poor performance. I did not even know this until the TC screen told me that the team resented the lack of veteran players! Needless to say, they were not happy and playing sub par for a long time.
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05-28-2018, 12:55 PM | #5 |
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My biggest weakness is my need to create the perfect setup so I'm constantly changing, adding or deleting stuff and never actually play the game.
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05-28-2018, 12:56 PM | #6 |
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I lack patience. I have to be very careful about making decisions on a snapshot or small sample size, especially in a league where I play out my games.
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05-28-2018, 02:22 PM | #7 |
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I've been playing since OOTP 12 and from 12' to probably 16' my problem was I couldn't stick with my league. Every patch that brought a roster update, I would restart my game. (I only play MLB QS.) That problem has long been fixed, I wait for the opening day rosters and don't look back now. Also, the rosters are so incredibly well done at release that this wouldn't be an issue anyways. Major props to the roster team!
My biggest weakness now is keeping my favorite "real-life" players on my team way past the time I should. Last OOTP I kept Brock Holt until like 2021, just because I think he's a solid utility player in real life for my Red Sox. Now, I'm running into the same issue with Pedroia. I've only played through the 2018 season, just started 2019, and Pedroia has fell off, as older players tend to do. But I still roll him out there everyday as my primary 2B lol. I even signed Daniel Murphy, who is better in literally everything, but I can't help myself to NOT start Pedroia. Last edited by The Yurpman; 05-28-2018 at 02:23 PM. |
05-28-2018, 02:42 PM | #8 |
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After 20 years of OOTP I still haven't developed a method to squeeze 25 hrs out of a 24 hr day.
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05-28-2018, 03:02 PM | #9 |
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05-28-2018, 05:10 PM | #10 | |
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EDIT: And this can also lead to something else that is in the back of my mind about Team Chemistry. Losing patience, I will cut players abruptly and do a lot of roster changing; signings, trades and stuff. I wonder if that also negatively affects Team Chemistry after a certain point. Too much turmoil? Maybe if I had more patience, the team would gel and come around?
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05-28-2018, 05:48 PM | #11 | |
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I do think that roster churn negatively affects the team morale. I have no evidence though - just seems that way from my experience. |
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05-28-2018, 06:18 PM | #12 |
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Holding on to mediocre to miserable players for years and years, and playing them again and again, and calling them back up, and extending them for another year, and maybe he can pitch now? And now? Sometimes players blossom at 28, right? 30? No?
Also, bringing back players that were actually good with 27 and how about rekindling that old fire? That was five years ago, but 35-year-old second basemen are all about grit and none about back soreness, slow reflexes, and batting .232! Until they do.
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05-28-2018, 07:22 PM | #14 |
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I spend hours of time in the offseason trading lower round draft picks for higher round draft picks.
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05-28-2018, 07:34 PM | #15 |
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Cheating too much.
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05-28-2018, 07:51 PM | #16 |
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I prefer to play rebuild/expansion teams and can get too tunnel visioned regarding development of the core. I'll be in a competitive window, have tons of money to spend and not even think of using it because I've got developed players slotted for every position on the roster. My motivation seems to be to find out how well the core will do, more than pursuing every opportunity to succeed. Often this works out just fine, but I could/should probably be a touch more aggressive in maximizing wins during competitive windows.
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05-28-2018, 08:02 PM | #17 | |
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After a few of those questions I know I am going to blow the league up and start again, it is like I get into an endless loop. |
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05-28-2018, 09:43 PM | #18 |
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Going too long with my SP when playing out games. Tinkering with my batting orders vs both pitcher handedness. Mucking around with RP who don't get used right and doing some of that in AAA too. So sue me I'm a control freak.
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05-28-2018, 11:03 PM | #19 |
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Honestly right now I'm just not feeling it and have been stuck in the middle of season 2 for a few weeks RL time. I'm sure it will come around.
When playing, probably too much trading, because it just isn't realistic. Have to hold myself back. |
05-28-2018, 11:48 PM | #20 |
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Sleep and nature calls. Man they can interfere with a good run at a pennant.
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