OOTP 15 question regarding pre-1900 baseball sim/play?

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This post got deleted when forums crashed.... buying OOTP 15 when I get a break from work, but has anyone had any experience with any improvements with OOTP 15 in pre 1900 settings?

Can minor league pitchers complete over 50% of their games started even when stamina settings are absurdly set high (in < ver14 this could not happen as AI constantly would insert RP in save and no save situations... like SP would be pulled with 8.1 IP for RP winning 8-3, etc due to AI trying to play as many pitchers as possible). Only solution I see is creating a feeder lg instead of using minor league setup to get AI to leave SPs alone?


Can you put a SP or RP as a platoon offensive player without risk of him playing both positions when that comes up? With v14, you could put a SP as an offensive starter and he would not start when his turn in rotation came up. But if you had a SP start every 2nd game at 1B and every 3rd game at RF.... he would play both positions (field pos & pitcher pos) when it came time for his start (play both and two sets of stats that combined into one stat line for both lineup positions, etc).

Just wondering if any improvements had been made for 19th century/early 20th century baseball play?

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also, is it possible to have Player/Managers yet with OOTP?

In <v14, I'd have to clone player, retire, turn into coach to achieve this.
Will there ever be a way to have an active player serve as active personnel at the same time? And hopefully with a fail-safe if player leaves team he auto vacates his personnel position.

[Questdog]

Well, you cannot expect OOTP to mirror minor league managers in the 1800's as there were no minor leagues as we know them today to mirror. So, I have no problem with your AAA manager trying to get some guys some work. Having an affiliated minor league is ahistorical, so you can't expect historical results in it.

If you want the minor league mangers to play like the major league managers, then you need to make the minor leagues independent and you will see more CGs.....

No player/managers in OOTP 15.

I play each game out, so I don't know how OOTP 15 deals with using the depth chart to try to get a pitcher time in the field.

There have not been a whole lot of changes to historical play in OOTP other than the random debut. There HAVE been some adjustments made to get things already there in OOTP 14 to work better, though.

But there have been a TON of changes to the way fictional players behave.

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Originally Posted by Questdog

Having an affiliated minor league is ahistorical, so you can't expect historical results in it.

Most "minor lg" teams in the early 20th century were independent teams that affiliated with MLB teams. Some teams would even have multiple affiliations.

I'm just tired of seeing guys with 250 stamina and lg settings of 3.100 or higher stamina adjustments have guys getting pulled after 8 ip or in mid 9th. Sometimes for no reason (no save opp and team is winning by >5).

For fun, I made my minor lg stamina adjustment 3,000.000. Minor lg team would have "start highest rested starter" setting and their #1 pitcher in the 3 man rotation would start every game everyday... and yet still get pulled in 8th or 9th.

Oh well, I may try fooling with a feeder type minor lg, prob more realistic but harder to manage for affiliations.

Thanks for the reply Quest!