[Baseball]

While I'm a huge sports fan, one area I have very little interest in is coaching.

However, I do have a ton of interest in the GM side of things (including the "business" side of it ex. finances), and even the broader picture (ex. economics of the sports industry).

For that reason, I still love OOTP, but normally play only as a GM and not the manager. Along with a few smaller reasons (for instance, the fact that you have a "manager" who you pay and can hire/fire, and yet you have all his responsibilities and are eligible for manager of the year).

Anywho, I'm just wondering how many people are like me in this regard, so I created a poll to see the proportion of people who act as gm only vs. people who handle everything.

There are a number of options:

1. Act as GM only, watch/sim every game, delegate setting lineups/rotation

This means you have enabled the "act as GM only" option (under manager options), delegated setting lineups/depth charts/rotation to your manager (under manager options), and you either sim or watch EVERY game (as in you hand off offense strategy, baserunning, pitching strategy, defense strategy, and substitutions to you manager, under game options)


2. Act as GM only, watch/sim games, set own lineups/rotation

"Act as GM only" enabled, watch or sim VAST MAJORITY of games, but you set your own lineups/rotation/depth.


3. Act as GM only, manage games, delegate lineups/rotation

"Act as GM only" enabled, you delegate setting lineups/rotation/depth to your manager, but you play out (manage) a significant number of games, as per your own definition of "significant", keeping in mind the spirit of this poll (ie. do you manage enough games throughout the season that you consider yourself to "manage games" or do you just manage once in a while, during the playoff race, or in the playoffs).


4. Full Control

You manage most games, and set your own lineups/rotation/depth, REGARDLESS of whether you have enabled the "act as GM only" option.


This is merely to satisfy my (and hopefully a few others') curiosity, but I really appreciate your participation!

Would also love to hear more about how you play/your opinion on playing as GM vs manager (or managing GM I suppose), etc below.

Thanks.