Dp you Sim through the winter? Or wait until Spring Training?

Fletz · 10-30-2016, 07:18 PM

My last custom league season ended a couple weeks ago. I was going to wait until the spring to start my next year ... buy my excitement got the better of me and I started my next year and will play it through the cold winter months. Probably finish in time to start another year with Spring Training. Am I alone? Do you guys play all year 'round or do you break for football and hockey season?

Just curious in Jersey...

RchW · 10-30-2016, 07:22 PM

I play much more in the winter. The summer is for watching (playing if I still could) baseball and doing all the stuff that summer allows.

OOTP and winter are ideal friends.

mitchkenn · 10-30-2016, 07:46 PM

never ending ... play all year round ... someone told me there are other sports besides baseball and basketball, but i am not certain where they get their information.

Izz · 10-30-2016, 07:56 PM

All year round, baby!!

Westheim · 10-30-2016, 08:27 PM

OOTP goes extremely well with all months that contain an R, and even better with all months that do not contain an R.

r0nster · 10-30-2016, 08:30 PM

I play non stop essentially but IF I am close to release date then I will wait till next version comes out to play the next season.

RchW · 10-30-2016, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by r0nster

I play non stop essentially but IF I am close to release date then I will wait till next version comes out to play the next season.

I can get 3 seasons in during beta. Not recently though. Work interferes mightily.

ForeverRoyalKC · 10-30-2016, 08:42 PM

I play right along with the real date. If it's October 30, 2016 in real life, it's October 30, 2016 on my OOTP league. I dont jump right to a next season. I like to play it like real life where my winter meetings are happening at the same time as the real MLB (roughly). Spring training, draft, playoffs, etc.
Some may think that's boring since there isn't a lot to do in the offseason. But as the saying goes, there really is no "off"season. Plus, I don't want to win a championship (hopefully) and then start right in on another season. I want to enjoy it for awhile like the real MLB.

BullLeague · 10-30-2016, 10:09 PM

This is us too. The Bull Leagur runs an offseason short schedule league in Australia / NZ to occupy some of the cold months. But we sim according to calendar time. We slipped ahead by 4 weeks right now but will have it so we are simmed only 1 week ahead. it allows us time for posting stories and videos so that they are released on their actual event dates

The Game · 10-30-2016, 10:49 PM

I tend to play 2 seasons per league per calendar year. i have 3 leagues. Right now editing players for my custom EBL league. Should finish by Thanksgiving. While i work on that i'll finish my 2000 ABF season and start a new 1871 historical MLB. By MLB OD I should be at the end of 2026 EBL. 2002 ABF and get to 1876 in MLB.

GoBucsGo · 11-01-2016, 12:50 PM

Definitely play all year round. Baseball never takes a break in my household.

Fletz · 11-01-2016, 01:06 PM

Ok. I am now running headlong into my next season guilt free.

Shucker · 11-02-2016, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Izz

All year round, baby!!

Ditto

rpriske · 11-02-2016, 01:53 PM

I'm not sure one would not play OOTP during the off-season. That is one of its strengths... that you can always play it.

jpeters1734 · 11-02-2016, 02:32 PM

365 days a year

MrBojangles · 11-03-2016, 12:28 AM

Play as often as life allows. More affected by work and family than by seasons.

10-30-2016, 07:18 PM	#1
Fletz Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2003 Location: I live in NJ. Posts: 105 Blog Entries: 1	Dp you Sim through the winter? Or wait until Spring Training? My last custom league season ended a couple weeks ago. I was going to wait until the spring to start my next year ... buy my excitement got the better of me and I started my next year and will play it through the cold winter months. Probably finish in time to start another year with Spring Training. Am I alone? Do you guys play all year 'round or do you break for football and hockey season? Just curious in Jersey... __________________ Fletz http://northeasternbaseball.blogspot.com/

10-30-2016, 07:22 PM	#2
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The big smoke Posts: 15,628	I play much more in the winter. The summer is for watching (playing if I still could) baseball and doing all the stuff that summer allows. OOTP and winter are ideal friends. __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

10-30-2016, 07:46 PM	#3
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,853	never ending ... play all year round ... someone told me there are other sports besides baseball and basketball, but i am not certain where they get their information. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

10-30-2016, 07:56 PM	#4
Izz Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 2,467	All year round, baby!! __________________ Not only do I play OOTP but I also write science-fiction: My Website A brief history of the Australia-New Zealand Baseball League (AUNZBL 2019-2119)--A Dynasty Report The National Penterham Four-Bases Association--A Dynasty Report

10-30-2016, 08:27 PM	#5
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10-30-2016, 08:30 PM	#6
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,002	I play non stop essentially but IF I am close to release date then I will wait till next version comes out to play the next season.

10-30-2016, 08:42 PM	#8
ForeverRoyalKC All Star Starter Join Date: May 2015 Location: Hop, skip and a jump from Pomme De Terre Lake, MO. Posts: 1,130 Blog Entries: 3	I play right along with the real date. If it's October 30, 2016 in real life, it's October 30, 2016 on my OOTP league. I dont jump right to a next season. I like to play it like real life where my winter meetings are happening at the same time as the real MLB (roughly). Spring training, draft, playoffs, etc. Some may think that's boring since there isn't a lot to do in the offseason. But as the saying goes, there really is no "off"season. Plus, I don't want to win a championship (hopefully) and then start right in on another season. I want to enjoy it for awhile like the real MLB.

10-30-2016, 10:09 PM	#9
BullLeague Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 58	This is us too. The Bull Leagur runs an offseason short schedule league in Australia / NZ to occupy some of the cold months. But we sim according to calendar time. We slipped ahead by 4 weeks right now but will have it so we are simmed only 1 week ahead. it allows us time for posting stories and videos so that they are released on their actual event dates

10-30-2016, 10:49 PM	#10
The Game Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Inside The Game Posts: 30,807	I tend to play 2 seasons per league per calendar year. i have 3 leagues. Right now editing players for my custom EBL league. Should finish by Thanksgiving. While i work on that i'll finish my 2000 ABF season and start a new 1871 historical MLB. By MLB OD I should be at the end of 2026 EBL. 2002 ABF and get to 1876 in MLB. __________________ Go today don't wait for tomorrow It isn't promised, all the time you get borrowed Don't live your life for other people Don't bottle your emotions till they crack and fill a couple just sorrows Take your mind and refocus go get a paper write your goals out Throw your middle fingers to all your haters "Stay Strong"

11-01-2016, 12:50 PM	#11
GoBucsGo Banned Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 278 Infractions: 0/2 (4)	Definitely play all year round. Baseball never takes a break in my household.

11-01-2016, 01:06 PM	#12
Fletz Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2003 Location: I live in NJ. Posts: 105 Blog Entries: 1	Ok. I am now running headlong into my next season guilt free. __________________ Fletz http://northeasternbaseball.blogspot.com/

11-02-2016, 01:53 PM	#14
rpriske Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Spencerville, ON, Canada Posts: 23,996 Blog Entries: 1	I'm not sure one would not play OOTP during the off-season. That is one of its strengths... that you can always play it. __________________ Rusty Priske Poet, Canadian, Baseball Fan ````````````````````````````````````````

11-02-2016, 02:32 PM	#15
jpeters1734 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Juust a bit outside... Posts: 5,630	365 days a year __________________ "Cannonball Coming!" Go Bucs!! Founder and League Caretaker of the Professional Baseball Circuit, www.probaseballcircuit.com An Un-Official Guide to Minor League Management in OOTP 21 Ratings Scale Conversion Cross-Reference Cheat Sheet

11-03-2016, 12:28 AM	#16
MrBojangles All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: low and inside Posts: 568	Play as often as life allows. More affected by work and family than by seasons.