Basic rundown?

[BretterThanYou]

I haven't played an OOTP game since OOTP8 (iOOTP is an exception), regardless, I was curious as to what major improvements have happened since then, obviously AI is better now I assume, and I thought I saw something about actually tracking ball movement. So yeah, I'm thinking about getting 15, and need some selling I guess...

[hfield007]

Everything...

-individual pitches rated
-draft bonus demands more realistic draft experience
-stats for players you draft from their college or high school season
-single game records and playoff game records recorded
-improved historical settings
-automatic league evolution, with it turned on your league can have expansions or enter a dead ball era, etc. fun things that change the game as you play makes the game more dynamic long term
-storylines
-drafted players sometimes have the rare ability of both being a top pitching and batting prospect
-addition of stats like FIP, wOBA, Zone Rating, WAR
-it now shows you recently retired players
-baseball cards
-team owners with names and personalities, sometimes your team gets sold and the new owner is less than generous
-player development screen showing your organization with top prospects and such
-retroactive DL and the ability to have injuries take a few days to figure out what they are.
-rehab assignments to the minors for players coming off DL
-new league newspaper
-a preseason projection that predicts the final standings and top players
- an offseason center that shows the top free agents and all offseason transactions
-coaches now have a history of whwere they were
-can set pitch counts for pitchers
-can lock players to certain minor league levels
-playoff rosters
-a GM only mode
-associations where multiple leagues can be a part of an association with a playoffs
-real time simulation, watch all the box scores of every game in progress, great for the final day of the year as you watch teams trying to get into the post season.
-random historical player debut. imagine starting a historical league and in 1914 getting a draft class with albert pujols, rickey henderson and ty cobb. all possible, you don't know who to expect in the draft with this it's great.
-you can now set how many international amateurs each team discovers each year, there is an amatuer internation signing period for top prospects
-you can set different percentages of what countries your players come from, if you wanna see more aussie players you can up the percentage.
-the game comes with the facial hair mod giving you a lot more facial hair options
-the facegen project which you can play a historical game and download the facegen pack and see every player in history in the jersey of your team and if you trade them see them change jerseys.
-you now have an international complex for your international signings that are under 20.
-a trade log screen, even a screen that keeps track of every trnascation you made as a GM
-player development, you get an email every two months telling you which players are improving or getting worse so you don't have to constantly look around your organization looking to see for changes in star ratings
-minor league contracts can have bonuses
-spring training roster invites
-optional away jerseys
-you can set how many pitchers and batters each team has to carry
-spring training games are now played in a park in warm weather so there are less injuries in spring
-you can now easily create a league with historical teams (a league with the 1919 white sox and 1998 yankees is a click of the button away)
-addition of optional realistic foreign leagues with real japanese players for *** and other leagues like KBO etc.
-customize spring training length
-set age limits for minor league levels
-playoff matchup editor
-retire uniform numbers
-faster faster faster than ootp 8

honestly the jump from 8 to 15 will be overwhelming. the game is so much better. everything is better.

[goalieump413]