When I first started playing OOTP it was current rosters, mainly to get to know the players and talk baseball on the forum and in online leagues. I then went the way of historical play again getting to know historical players other than the Ruth's, Cobb's etc and again to talk about baseball history. I then found fictional play and I've never turned back, tried to play current leagues online but I get bored with not being able to write articles about player's like you can't have Babe Ruth being a church going tea totaller can you. So I go down the fitcional route by playing in the
PEBA online and I have a solo stats only fictional league that I slow sim.