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Originally Posted by Pdubya64

Yeah, it comes as a surprise to many newer OOTP players that the game does not work like Strat O Matic Baseball, where a player snapshot at the end of a given season is crunched down into a card with ranged results to be rolled against during the game.

I am not sure where Markus got the idea to create a different style of Baseball game where once you advanced the simulation, the "wound clock" starts ticking and no one knows just where it ends up. But it's pretty cool and once you embrace it OOTP has a wonderful draw, particularly for Fictional worlds.

Look, there are certainly a number of irritants present in OOTP, even after all these years. The Devs weren't helped by having to stop using leagues once getting sued became a concern by the new owners.
Personally, I don't play out games so the whole simulation of a game, graphics, animations, etc. don't really enter into my irritant "wheelhouse". To each his own, but I still maintain OOTP is pretty close to ideal at the end of the day.
Hopefully they can continue to improve the side cases, issues and general "feel" of OOTP each year.

It's worth getting to know the game, despite how it works. That's why so many of us stick around. I have stepped away now and then ('26 is an example) but come back.

Being from Germany I believe Markus said that sports management games were a big thing in Europe. I believe Football Manager (originally Championship Manager until legal issues had them change the name) was his inspiration.