[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Mat

Maybe an option to choose between reschedule rain outs as doubleheader or on next free day off?

OOTP has code in which it checks to see if there is a suitable common off day. If not, then it will schedule a (day-night) doubleheader.

Originally Posted by hefalumps

I haven't played 16 yet, but it sounds like rainouts and suspended games might need some work.

IMO, yes, they do.

One of the reasons to have postponed games is so that not all clubs will necessarily play out a full schedule when some games can't be made up. OOTP 16 does not support this—ALL postponed games in the game will be made up no matter what, even when according to real life rules they should not. (This, however, is apparently tied to the financial engine meaning it's not going to be looked at until OOTP 17 or later).

Another factor is that in the major leagues postponed games are not always made up as separate admission, day-night doubleheaders. Some are made up as single admission, regular doubleheaders. OOTP 16 does not support this. (This significantly affects the minor leagues, which nearly always make up postponed games as regular doubleheaders. Again, however, this is apparently tied to limitations in the current financial engine, meaning it's not going to be looked at until next year at the earliest.)

A minor point is that in real life not all games are postponed due to weather; some (roughly 2%) are postponed due to other causes, such as a light failure at the park. OOTP does not as yet account for this, meaning a domed stadium will never see a postponement (whereas in real life they sometimes do).

In terms of suspended games, I honestly think these should be taken out of OOTP 16. The way they are implemented in the game currently breaks a major and long-standing baseball rule: all the player statistics and appearances in a suspended game are credited to the date the game was started. In OOTP, however (unless there was a change I missed) the statistics and appearances are credited to the date the game was finished. Baseball has never done it that way. And even though the real baseball rules' handling of suspended games can cause all sorts of statistical oddities (see this article for some examples) the rules nevertheless operate that way.