[luckymann]

OK, so my next OOTP (ad)venture is something totally different from any I've done before.

I am calling it Anatomy of a Season.

In it, as described on the box, I’ll be replaying a single season from MLB history and providing an in-depth report throughout - not just with regard to the simulation in progress but also the IRL season it is simulating.

The ultimate plan is to do this for some of the more memorable seasons throughout the history of MLB (EG 1961’s Mantle v Maris / the various races for .400 in more recent years / Sosa, Griffey jr and McGwire in 1998 / the M’s record run in 2001 / the Impossible Dream, Miracle Mets and the like / some really close pennant races), but because I’ve no experience at this type of exercise, I thought I’d do a few “dry runs” with some seasons of lesser historical significance.

For each season, I'll be choosing one player to use as the focal point of my observations. The team will be analysed on a game-by-game basis, while for the player this will be even more granular, with every plate appearance (for position players) and batter faced (for pitchers) listed. All the way through, a running comparison will be kept between simulation and reality at the player, team, and league levels. Historical lineups and transactions will be applied at all times.

I will have no involvement other than ensuring the smooth running of the sim and reporting the results generated. I’ll adapt how I present this along the way as I learn from the mistakes I am sure to make and will also do some procedural honing as new ideas come to mind and old ones show themselves to be ill-conceived.

To allow me to run this concurrently with my other saves, I'll be using v22, at least to begin with.