What is your favorite thing to do in OOTP?

drewandpedey · 05-17-2018, 03:34 PM

Curious of the community's preferences, do you guys enjoy taking a bad team and over 2 or 3 years making them great (or, attempting to at least), or do you guys enjoy using a current playoff/world series contender and trying to continue their success?

kosmos412 · 05-17-2018, 03:42 PM

I fall into the latter. I'm a dodger fan. So naturally I like to play as them. Problem is they've been a good team (barring this year so far) for quite a few years now. So it's no challenge to be good, but it can be challenging to keep stay a contender for years and years and years, keeping players healthy/productive and managing the payroll, as large as it can be.

I love a good rebuild like anyone else, but I also find it an acceptable challenge just to keep my favorite team a perennial contender.

Germaniac · 05-17-2018, 03:52 PM

My biggest enjoyment is creating a fictional league, creating logos, jerseys and caps, occasionally even a schedule and starting on Day One with the inaugural draft.

Getting to know the players and watching the league unfold ... endless fun for me

itsmb8 · 05-17-2018, 04:01 PM

I always play modern MLB, but I'm torn on starting as either the GM of the Brewers (I'm a Brewers fan) or starting with a minor league team and working my way up.

frankgatti23 · 05-17-2018, 04:03 PM

I usually take late '80s Phillies team and try to turn them into winners. I love the player development aspect and spend hours tinkering with the minor league rosters.

Mr. Marlin · 05-17-2018, 04:20 PM

Apparently my favorite thing to so is spend weeks making 100+ years worth of fictional logos, caps, and uniforms for a fictional league with four minor leagues levels and stadiums with actual ballpark factors. then play it for a week and decide I don't like it and start the whole process over again.

I need help.

Ormondbeachdan · 05-17-2018, 04:47 PM

It changes. Like my favorite Beatle song. LOL. Currently I really enjoy playing the All Time Greatest League.. Let it play for a random amount of time, a month, 2 months. Look at the stats... and love jumping in and take over for a contender for a few games.. There is just something special to me about seeing such great players on the field at the same time.

Qeltar · 05-17-2018, 04:59 PM

I like looking for the challenge of turning a team around but seem to have done it in my second year, so I think I need to make the parameters harder next time. Probably impose self-limits on MiLB FA signings and trades.

I also want to try some park-specific concepts, like building a flyball-hitting, groundball-pitching, high-defense-infield team for Colorado and seeing if it works.

JaBurns · 05-17-2018, 05:26 PM

Just playing this amazing simulation. Going through “what if” scenarios in my head then trying to set them up in my Historical Random Debut Leagues. Then, of course, either making a mistake or finding out I don’t have this skills to get it right, back to starting again and again and again....

stealofhome · 05-17-2018, 05:54 PM

I guess lately I've been enjoying trying to figure out the behind the scenes mechanics of the game. I also like to take advantage of all the customization features and everything available from the community - logos, uniforms, names, etc.

MizzouRah · 05-17-2018, 06:28 PM

I start with my Cardinals then once I win a World Series (however long that takes) I like to move to a team like San Diego/Miami/Cincinnati/Kansas City/Seattle.. etc.. rinse and repeat

RchW · 05-17-2018, 06:32 PM

Live forever. Currently 147 years old with 8479 wins.

Michael Xavier · 05-17-2018, 06:42 PM

My new favorite league is one I started in 1969 historical, but I dumped all the players into a draft, renamed both leagues, renamed all the teams after the 24 largest cities in the U.S. in 1970, and lead the St. Louis Steamboats to victory by playing out each game over their division rivals, the New Orleans Buccaneers, Los Angeles Stars, and Houston Buffaloes, San Diego Sharks, and Chicago Unions.

Mets52 · 05-17-2018, 06:47 PM

I've always controlled the Mets, I love drafting and finding the talent.

koohead · 05-17-2018, 07:28 PM

definitely making uniforms.

cavebutter · 05-17-2018, 07:38 PM

Creating universes, uniforms, logos, simming 30 years for history, getting lost in the stats and stories, playing for a couple seasons, getting a new idea and repeat.

Actually, for the last 6 months or so, it's really just been playing with the data and creating tools to test my limits and enhance playing when I ever get around do doing that again.

mitchkenn · 05-17-2018, 09:20 PM

i used to do historical and found myself tinkering and changing and well, it wasn't historical anymore. So this year, i've gone the other way, fictional with about 50% historical players. Spend more time getting data for my each year text import of historical players and editing some players base lines i find are too low (ie some of the Negro League players) than i do playing. i sim, a day at a time, but in one setting may do a week or a month .... for me, it's the creation and construction i seem to enjoy the most.

itsmb8 · 05-17-2018, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koohead

definitely making uniforms.

+1

zappa1 · 05-18-2018, 07:34 AM

My favorite thing is my morning coffee and deciding which season I'm going to play.

rjl518 · 05-18-2018, 09:02 AM

I have my Mets real-time seasons.
I do jerseys, caps and logos for the community.
I love talking to people here on the forums.
Hey!
Isnt OOTP just awesome?

05-17-2018, 03:34 PM	#1
drewandpedey Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2018 Location: Boston Posts: 161	What is your favorite thing to do in OOTP? Curious of the community's preferences, do you guys enjoy taking a bad team and over 2 or 3 years making them great (or, attempting to at least), or do you guys enjoy using a current playoff/world series contender and trying to continue their success?

05-17-2018, 03:52 PM	#3
Germaniac Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Frankenthal, Germany Posts: 3,073	My biggest enjoyment is creating a fictional league, creating logos, jerseys and caps, occasionally even a schedule and starting on Day One with the inaugural draft. Getting to know the players and watching the league unfold ... endless fun for me __________________ I'm going to have to meet my Maker some day. And if He asks me why I didn't let this boy play, and I say it's because he's black, that might not be a satisfactory answer. Happy Chandler, 1947

05-17-2018, 06:32 PM	#12
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	Live forever. Currently 147 years old with 8479 wins. __________________ 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

05-17-2018, 07:28 PM	#15
koohead Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 3,211	definitely making uniforms. __________________ GM - New Jersey Bears of the NPBL;

05-17-2018, 07:38 PM	#16
cavebutter All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,163	Creating universes, uniforms, logos, simming 30 years for history, getting lost in the stats and stories, playing for a couple seasons, getting a new idea and repeat. Actually, for the last 6 months or so, it's really just been playing with the data and creating tools to test my limits and enhance playing when I ever get around do doing that again. __________________ MySQL, MyStruggle - A self-indulgent blog about my attempts to roll my own MySQL Database with OOTP Logo Gallery

05-17-2018, 03:42 PM	#2
kosmos412 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 27	I fall into the latter. I'm a dodger fan. So naturally I like to play as them. Problem is they've been a good team (barring this year so far) for quite a few years now. So it's no challenge to be good, but it can be challenging to keep stay a contender for years and years and years, keeping players healthy/productive and managing the payroll, as large as it can be. I love a good rebuild like anyone else, but I also find it an acceptable challenge just to keep my favorite team a perennial contender.

05-17-2018, 04:01 PM	#4
itsmb8 All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,340	I always play modern MLB, but I'm torn on starting as either the GM of the Brewers (I'm a Brewers fan) or starting with a minor league team and working my way up.

05-17-2018, 04:03 PM	#5
frankgatti23 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: New Jersey Posts: 153	I usually take late '80s Phillies team and try to turn them into winners. I love the player development aspect and spend hours tinkering with the minor league rosters.

05-17-2018, 04:20 PM	#6
Mr. Marlin All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,276	Apparently my favorite thing to so is spend weeks making 100+ years worth of fictional logos, caps, and uniforms for a fictional league with four minor leagues levels and stadiums with actual ballpark factors. then play it for a week and decide I don't like it and start the whole process over again. I need help.

05-17-2018, 04:47 PM	#7
Ormondbeachdan Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Ormond Beach Fl Posts: 300	It changes. Like my favorite Beatle song. LOL. Currently I really enjoy playing the All Time Greatest League.. Let it play for a random amount of time, a month, 2 months. Look at the stats... and love jumping in and take over for a contender for a few games.. There is just something special to me about seeing such great players on the field at the same time.

05-17-2018, 04:59 PM	#8
Qeltar Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 382	I like looking for the challenge of turning a team around but seem to have done it in my second year, so I think I need to make the parameters harder next time. Probably impose self-limits on MiLB FA signings and trades. I also want to try some park-specific concepts, like building a flyball-hitting, groundball-pitching, high-defense-infield team for Colorado and seeing if it works.

05-17-2018, 05:26 PM	#9
JaBurns All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Kelowna, British Columbia Posts: 1,295	Just playing this amazing simulation. Going through “what if” scenarios in my head then trying to set them up in my Historical Random Debut Leagues. Then, of course, either making a mistake or finding out I don’t have this skills to get it right, back to starting again and again and again....

05-17-2018, 05:54 PM	#10
stealofhome Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 2,282	I guess lately I've been enjoying trying to figure out the behind the scenes mechanics of the game. I also like to take advantage of all the customization features and everything available from the community - logos, uniforms, names, etc.

05-17-2018, 06:28 PM	#11
MizzouRah Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Troy, Mo Posts: 6,252	I start with my Cardinals then once I win a World Series (however long that takes) I like to move to a team like San Diego/Miami/Cincinnati/Kansas City/Seattle.. etc.. rinse and repeat

05-17-2018, 06:42 PM	#13
Michael Xavier Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 455	My new favorite league is one I started in 1969 historical, but I dumped all the players into a draft, renamed both leagues, renamed all the teams after the 24 largest cities in the U.S. in 1970, and lead the St. Louis Steamboats to victory by playing out each game over their division rivals, the New Orleans Buccaneers, Los Angeles Stars, and Houston Buffaloes, San Diego Sharks, and Chicago Unions.

05-17-2018, 06:47 PM	#14
Mets52 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 124	I've always controlled the Mets, I love drafting and finding the talent.

05-17-2018, 09:20 PM	#17
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	i used to do historical and found myself tinkering and changing and well, it wasn't historical anymore. So this year, i've gone the other way, fictional with about 50% historical players. Spend more time getting data for my each year text import of historical players and editing some players base lines i find are too low (ie some of the Negro League players) than i do playing. i sim, a day at a time, but in one setting may do a week or a month .... for me, it's the creation and construction i seem to enjoy the most. __________________ "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.

05-18-2018, 07:34 AM	#19
zappa1 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 2,155	My favorite thing is my morning coffee and deciding which season I'm going to play.

05-18-2018, 09:02 AM	#20
rjl518 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Born in Shea Stadium, lives in LoanDepot Park. Posts: 6,242	I have my Mets real-time seasons. I do jerseys, caps and logos for the community. I love talking to people here on the forums. Hey! Isnt OOTP just awesome? __________________ My Threads: MLB Project 32 by SFGiants58 "Colon looking for his 1st hit of the year and he DRIVES ONE! Deep left field! Back goes Upton! Back near the wall! ITS OUTTA HERE!!! Bartolo has done it!!! THE IMPOSSIBLE HAS HAPPENED!!! This is one of the great moments in the history of baseball! Bartolo Colon has gone deep!" ---Gary Cohen. (May 7, 2016) (Petco Park) NYM 6 @ SD 3