Today...

[Markus Heinsohn]

... we'll have a nice little announcement!

So, stay tuned!

[BIG17EASY]

Outstanding! Thanks, Markus!

[Bluenoser]

.

[SouthernStar71]

staying tuned

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

OOTP's turning green, boys!

[dkloosh]

Pure Awesomeness

[BURNS81]

My account is almost old enough to drink. Here's to another great year Markus.

[SouthernStar71]

I've watched the YT video enough. March 24th is just over 1 month one way, yet only 29 days the other.

[mrpoopistan]

Let me know when you guys have an announcement saying you've fixed player development. I've seen enough drafts with 80 ceiling players left at the 20th pick for one lifetime.

[why_though126]

Originally Posted by mrpoopistan

Let me know when you guys have an announcement saying you've fixed player development. I've seen enough drafts with 80 ceiling players left at the 20th pick for one lifetime.

In my experience, a vast majority of players with that potential don't live up to it.

[LeiterFanatic]

Very cool.

[UltimateAverageGuy]

Originally Posted by mrpoopistan

Let me know when you guys have an announcement saying you've fixed player development. I've seen enough drafts with 80 ceiling players left at the 20th pick for one lifetime.

Always have to have that guy

[mrpoopistan]

Originally Posted by UltimateAverageGuy

Always have to have that guy

Correct. We should never pressure the development team to, ya know, develop the game.


Player development is broken. Way too many MLB-ready players come out of college. Also, what used to be a perfectly fun model of stochastic variation in veteran talent change back in OOTP 21 is now just random noise.


It's bad. They need to fix it.

[Hotwheelz]

Originally Posted by UltimateAverageGuy

Always have to have that guy

Every. Single. Year.

Guess you just can't make them all happy.

23 has been great to me. 24 will be even better!


Its been an amazing run. Blows my mind that its been 20+ years and this game is still going strong. Same amazing game. Best community in the gaming world!

[swoboda]

Great timing ! Just finished my football sim league, it's time for OOTP !

[nebben]

Originally Posted by mrpoopistan

Correct. We should never pressure the development team to, ya know, develop the game.


Player development is broken. Way too many MLB-ready players come out of college. Also, what used to be a perfectly fun model of stochastic variation in veteran talent change back in OOTP 21 is now just random noise.


It's bad. They need to fix it.

I have no idea what you're talking about. So many variations in league settings can influence player dev, and at this point I'm only an online player. But I don't experience anything like what you're describing in any of my leagues.

[cepwin]

Ready to go! You got my $$! (In the meanwhile I'll be playing some FHM9...maybe work on my OOTP23 saves.)

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by mrpoopistan

Let me know when you guys have an announcement saying you've fixed player development. I've seen enough drafts with 80 ceiling players left at the 20th pick for one lifetime.

IRL those players might exist - witness Mike Trout - but the majority of players, even high draft picks, don’t fully live up to their potential IRL. Baseball is not the NFL. With very, very few exceptions, and even those are often considered post facto (like, everyone knew A-Rod was going to be a superstar… but everyone also knew Claudell Washington and Al Chambers and Brien Taylor were too, and for that matter Stephen Strasberg, who wound up being a very good player, just not a sure fire first ballot Hall of Famer), acquiring prospects in baseball is a crapshoot.

If anything the game isn’t random enough with younger players. It’s not because, well, people who don’t understand the game come in and complain that it’s “not realistic” when entire draft classes seem to bust, and then the devs respond by lightening up the random chance.

[mrpoopistan]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

If anything the game isn’t random enough with younger players. It’s not because, well, people who don’t understand the game come in and complain that it’s “not realistic” when entire draft classes seem to bust, and then the devs respond by lightening up the random chance.

This literally has nothing to do with my point.


The game generates far too many guys who are not just MLB-ready on day one out of college but are All-Star caliber. I don't mean in terms of the scouting meter saying something that doesn't pan out. I mean the scouting meter says it, and then the projection absolutely pans out. It breaks the game.



I have spent months feeling like I'm on crazy pills every time I bring this topic up. Is everyone else seriously okay with how player development fosters multiple Strasburg-grade college players each draft???


There's a reason Nats fans called it Strasmas when it happen. It isn't supposed to happen all the time, and it should never happen multiple times in a single draft.

Even if everyone is, it would be nice to have a knob in the settings that would put development back where it was around OOTP 20 or 21 or so. The last two versions have been nuts. OOTP 22 got to tolerable by the last few revisions. OOTP 23 has just been beyond overboard. It ruins the experience.

I've bought the game on release day for years because I believe in supporting its development. (And we all know that means paying to be beta testers.) This is the first year I'm not doing it. It needs fixed.

[Bobfather]

Originally Posted by mrpoopistan

Let me know when you guys have an announcement saying you've fixed player development. I've seen enough drafts with 80 ceiling players left at the 20th pick for one lifetime.

Do you have your scouting setting relative to MLB, or the current league?