[JudP]

I should start by saying that it can be fun in the Rookie league to start to build your team and make improvements to your teams performance. I expect some irregularity as team and player performance can vary a bit during a season. What you don't expect is to find teams with a number of player ratings of 100 in your rookie league. This is plain UNREALISTIC. Teams dont win 130 games in baseball, and no player has ever had 13 RBI's in a game. What's the point? Why can't OOTP create a league for people that want to but teams versus build them over time. It would make it a much fairer environment. I find the current system just makes you lose interest. If you start with a team of players with 50 to 70 ratings and build them into a team with mostly high 80 ratings and a couple of 90's, you basically still will lose to new teams with lineups and rotations where everybody is 97 to 100. Some of the threads on player ratings and defense are very good and can help moving forward, but if you're working your butt off to build a team instead of buying points you are at a loss. My suggestion is to limit the number of points that can be purchased at each level or to have seperate lagues for people that want to buy points rather then build a team. One thing for sure is this is so NOT like real baseball.