[swampdragon]

When I say the 19th century game works fairly well, I am not saying that you can just sim a season and expect decent results. OOTP AI is never going to change pitchers by having the starter trade places with the right fielder. But you can control the lineups and substitutions yourself and play out games. You will get decent results except for earned runs. The biggest obstacle to that method was pitcher fatigue, and Markus has solved that with the global fatigue reset in the latest patch. All of the workarounds now actually work. It has taken a long time for the game to get to this point, and I prefer to see the glass as half full.