anyone familiar with the

PC game "Out of the Park Baseball" sponsored by MLB and the Union?

I have played it but don't understand it. The options just seem overwhelming to me because there are just so many and I have the 2011 version. I can only imagine the amount of options the newest version offers. I played a Mexican Pacific League historical league, 2015 I think, and I managed one team where I handled the front office and managed the team but I never really got a handle on the game and finished poorly. I made the daily lineups but auto played everything. But there is so much potential with this game if I have more time I'll take another stab at it. Maybe when I retire. But you can literally do just about anything you want. You can play historical Major and Minor League seasons with full minor league systems. You can make up your own leagues using historical teams or teams and players you make up. Your imagination is the limit.
But there is someone in (or was at one time) the community who is really into into it because they talked about a league made up of fictional players and teams and it took place in the 1880s in Australia which is crazy but pretty cool too.

sounds both intriguing but overwhelming as in time consuming to the max. when you manage do u call pitches, bunts, steals, et.?

sounds both intriguing but overwhelming as in time consuming to the max. when you manage do u call pitches, bunts, steals, et.?

Well, you don't call individual pitches It's like Stat and there is a pitcher/batter resolution all at once. You can hold runners on, issue intentional walks, and you can actually hit a batter intentionally. When you're batting you can bunt, hit and run, squeeze, steal, bunt for sacrifice, bunt for hit etc. If the other team is computer managed, the computer makes the decisions. And yes, it is pretty consuming, So I'll dive into more when I retire in a few years.

I was wrong! I popped the game in and looked and there is a pitch by pitch option!

cool

I never heard of the game, but I just looked it up on youtube. It seems pretty cool!

Looks very intriguing, I might try it!

https://www.ootpdevelopments.com/out-of ... ball-home/

hey, if anyone of u try it, revisit with some feedback

I've played around with it. In terms of what you get for the price it's orders of magnitude better than Strat. You can get it cheap on sale this time of year and it comes with hundreds of years of history of majors, minors, Negro leagues, NPB, KBO, literally everything. Whereas with Strat you're paying $50 for just one season. The community is much larger than Strat's and there are all kinds of community-created mods you can download - player portraits, uniforms, custom ballparks, you name it. The game is made by a modern company that employs more than one programmer, it stays open on the weekends, the software is updated significantly every year and doesn't look exactly the same as it did in the 1990s. They don't price gouge you for basic functionality like the ability to customize ballpark photos, or charge you for a subscription in order to view player ratings.

The ONLY thing Strat has going for it compared to OOTP is Strat's transparent game engine. But for me at least, that's huge. Strat's engine is so elegant and solving it IS the game for me. OOTP is a giant black box. This guy's contact rating is 85 whereas that guy's contact rating is 88. Okay, how does that difference translate into OPS? Unclear. This baserunner has the chance to take the extra base - what's his chance of being safe? Doesn't say.

Basically if you're not approaching Strat like a giant math problem to be solved, there's very little reason not to switch to OOTP. But if you love the math of Strat, OOTP doesn't have nearly as much to offer on that front.

I should specify that this whole post has been comparing the core OOTP game to the Strat Windows game. The equivalent of 365 for OOTP is something called Perfect Team, which is only a couple years old and I haven't tried yet. 365 may be the better online game for all I know. But in terms of solitary or draft league play, OOTP is better for anyone except us math nerds.