Is OOTP more about the journey and not the destination?

[FuzzyDarkness]

After trying a lot of things in this game, I come to the conclusion, that this game is more about the experience, the journey and not about the final result.

It is like fantasy baseball, where you dig through a lot of data and have the perfect lineup, just to see that on this day your players don't perform like they normally do.

Look at my seasons in my Croatian Fantasy League. A winning record of over .750 in 4 consecutive seasons yet I only win one WS and lose against teams I swept in the regular season.



Don't get this thread wrong, I'm not hating, just putting it out there to hear from other people, if they play just to win or play because they have their own stories in mind and don't care about the results?

I love this game, so no negativity from me.

[CBeisbol]

Probably different for everyone

I've had some saves that I was totally engrossed in and I wasn't winning and others that I burned out on quickly when I was winning.

In one of my current sims, i won back-to-back championships in the first two years, then had a 115 win behemoth that lost in the first round and now that team is 11 games out and under .500 at the midpoint of the 4th season.

The best team over 162 (or 64) games won't necessarily win 3 out of 5, or 4 out of 7, or whatever in a tournament.

[tehsuigi]

For me, it is about the storylines. "Org guys" who stick with your squad and define an era, watching your lottery ticket reliever actually develop that 25/80 changeup and blossom into an ace, and taking a team to the top is why I play.

[BBGiovanni]

Originally Posted by FuzzyDarkness

After trying a lot of things in this game, I come to the conclusion, that this game is more about the experience, the journey and not about the final result.
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Don't get this thread wrong, I'm not hating, just putting it out there to hear from other people, if they play just to win or play because they have their own stories in mind and don't care about the results?

I love this game, so no negativity from me.

Don't tell Rob Manfred or the cartel owners but... so is real baseball.

In my last long game, I have a US championship and a world championship setup, and simmed up to 1970. In '70 my team won the league pennant easily, but got bumped right out of the US and world tournaments. I bulked up my pitching, ran away with the pennant again, by dozens of games, and won the US tournament on 2 or 3 game 7 wins. Then one of those teams swept me out of the world tournament. The next year, some of the prospects I'd been piling up started hitting the majors, ran away with the division again, but lost in the US semifinals. But we beat that team at Worlds and went on to win the world title.

Over that '72 winter I wanted to improve my defense. I discovered a 30 year old 3B that was like a cross between Wade Boggs and Brooks Robinson that had been stuck in tbe minors (because of a bug in the AI/my setup, but anyway). I swapped some prospects for him, and after a couple months he was hitting .350 and on his way to stardom. But my pitching was falling apart and the team didn't look bound for glory...

About that time I set the game aside, then v.21 came out and I started playing MLB seasons. I haven't converted my old season yet, it's so big I'm afraid it won't work. But whether I get it to OOTP 21 or load up 18 again, I'm looking forward to seeing Bob Hart again, and my no-average power hitting utility IF that ends up starting somewhere every year (Hart moved him off 3B!), or the ex-pitcher I found in the Dominican who hits 40 bombs per year but still can't catch the ball in RF.

So... you're doing it right You "win" at OOTP even when you lose.

[timmcdonald]

I started a league with a selection of the past Canadian team franchises and a couple of teams with players left over from those seasons, and a handful of "star" teams. I then imported a bunch of superstars from the past as free agents.

It ended up that the past-team franchises got replaced by free-agent signings and completely skewed it so it was basically a league of stars and superstars. I either finished the season or most of the season, but decided that it was way too loaded with star players and defeated the original purpose (nostalgia).

I started another season, did not add any superstars to free agency, reduced the league to only a selection of teams from 1 franchise, picked 4 teams from 1960, and created a team of stars from the left-over free-agents. I then added one superstars from the past team.
This league was quite entertaining - and I would have continued with it, had the next season not started and removed all my teams from the league...

[Brad K]

It feels right when a small market team can win if several players have career years at the same time.