[Syd Thrift]

Probably? But TBH OOTP isn't really built for that. It's a really robust game and it will recreate single seasons, including the current one or last year, pretty well - I would say a lot more realistically than APBA and I think where SOM might have a slight edge is in things that OOTP design-wise chooses not to do, like assigning subjective grades to defense.

You can also start in, say, 1977 and do a series of single-season replays to the present day if that's what you want. Somewhat recently the game has incorporated real-life transactions and lineups so if you don't want to play the role of GM you can do so. Again, this is kind of stretching the bounds of what OOTP was built to do (it shines IMO as a GM simulator, particularly running modern leagues, the closer to <current date> the better), but it will do the trick for a lot of people.

The only reason I bring this kind of thing up is that from time to time we see people complain that Strat or Diamond Mind Baseball are better at single-season replays, especially historical ones. Personally I think the difference is slight but it exists, and furthermore there are design decisions that OOTP made that make a great deal of sense for multi-season / era replays that single-season people seem to hate (for instance, the Roger Maris question... should Roger Maris average 61 HRs in a 1961 replay? The answer might seem like an obvious "yes" but I think when you put his 1961 into context it was a major outlier for him, and anyone who's done multi-season replays knows that guys who will "average", say, 50 HRs in a given season will occasionally break 60 just due to the nature of randomness... so OOTP decided "no" is the right answer there) (also, I think there's maybe less of it now but what about guys like Johnny Podres or Mark Fydrich who got hit-lucky for a season or two? Do you artificially lower their BABIP even though studies indicate that they likely had little to no impact on it being low?). Of course, OOTP doesn't charge for historical seasons, which SOM/DMB do because they hand-curate them and there's a lot of extra effort there, but that doesn't make OOTP "Walmart DMB", it makes OOTP a different game that tries to do different things.