Pre-Order Reminder (Special Sweepstakes End 2/15) & New Screenshots Released!

[Markus Heinsohn]

Hey friends,

please see our latest newsletter:
Out of the Park Baseball 16: Officially licensed by MLB.com - Pre-order by 2/15!

Hurry up and pre-order now to enter our sweepstakes and have a chance to win great prices!

Cheers,
Markus

[Ginner]

I was just in the process of starting a thread about this email which has popped up in my inbox...

OOTP14 was the last version I purchased and seeing the new screenshots for 16 is making me so excited for the release.

[Honorable_Pawn]

I sure would like to see that Accounting screen. Ahhh, you trickster.

[Honorable_Pawn]

Love the pennant chase tab, too.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

I sure would like to see that Accounting screen. Ahhh, you trickster.

Here you go...

[Honorable_Pawn]

ahhh...GAAP format.

Nicely done.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

ahhh...GAAP format.

Nicely done.

Matt coded that one. He has a thing for numbers apparently

[Honorable_Pawn]

Good job, Matt.

[Habsfan18]

Great screens!

LOVE the new all-star voting screen!

[MBarrett]

Love the new Financial screen. Looks like my Accounting 101 course is finally gonna pay off!

[nutt]

O....M....G....

You finally added managerial records?!?!?!? I'm STOKED!!!!! Just remember the Devil Rays became the Rays beginning the 2008 season

Hopefully, here's to having 1B, 3B, and BP coaches possibly, with team lineages.

I hope you guys brought back the ability to change uniform numbers without having to enable commish mode and edit player.

[BMD]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

ahhh...GAAP format.

Nicely done.

Must . . . suppress . . . urge . . . to . . . audit . . . statements

[HerbertMcHoover]

Finances screen is gorgeous. Great job all.

EDIT: This whole thing is beautiful. I love the new All-Star voting and many more areas are vibrant and much improved to the eyes.

[Poweshow]

SECONDARY LOGOS?!? Say it's so. Say it's so and say that they're available for fictional players to use too.....

[Honorable_Pawn]

Originally Posted by BMD

Must . . . suppress . . . urge . . . to . . . audit . . . statements

They aren't actually income statements, as you well know. That's actually a statement of EBITDA.

Still awesome though.

[DustinthePOWERHOUSE]

The all-star voting screen looks incredible that is a very snazzy feature that I didn't realize you were changing.

[swoboda]

Wow !
I can see I now need to win the lottery so that I can retire from my job and spend more time on this game.

[BMD]

Originally Posted by Honorable_Pawn

They aren't actually income statements, as you well know. That's actually a statement of EBITDA.

Still awesome though.

Yeah, I guess calculating tax liabilities and setting up depreciation tables for the stadium, training facilities, and such is a bit too much to ask for . . . for OOTP 16 that is.

Either way, l'll take it.

[Assos]

It is Fifty Shades of OOTP day!

[Threnodas]

OOTP Developments Team,

I have been addicted to OOTP since I first played a demo of OOTP10, and I am almost indescribably excited for the improvements in OOTP16 and the bright future ahead with an MLB license and the expanded fan base sure to come with it. Please know that this comes from a place of love ... I see something in one of the promotional screenshots that I feel should not go unremarked upon:



Wil Myers has never played in the infield in the majors. He has a grand total of 15 games played at 3B in the minors, three years ago (2012). Now, Myers should go ahead and pinch hit for Mercer if the game is on the line, but this put the Padres in a really tough spot, lineup-wise. I don't know who else was left on the Padres bench (Yonder Alonso shouldn't play SS, either), but the end result of Myers at SS is the kind of emergency Hail Mary that only happens maybe once every few years to a given team. I, like every Giants fan, still clearly remember the image of Aubrey Huff failing to cover 2B in the one single inning he played there in a similar emergency in 2012; most of us still remember that one time that Randy Winn played 3B and Noah Lowry played RF. These are the kinds of moments that make a baseball season worth watching, but they are extremely rare. And they're much too common in OOTP.

I am a programmer who has written my own baseball simulation and lineup construction programs, so I know all about the computational complexity of optimizing the offense and defense using a certain list of players. I am not jumping up and down stomping my feet screaming "WHY HAVEN'T YOU FIXED THIS?!?!" But I would like to request that you please consider making this lineup management AI a higher priority so that these mildly immersion-breaking situations occur less often. Thank you for reading, and for putting out such an invaluably entertaining and realistic game year after year.

Edit: I don't want to derail a happy thread any more than I have, so I'll add to this comment. When Myers pinch hit for Mercer, there were still two middle infielders in the lineup: Tolleson and Barmes. I feel like one of them should have slid over to SS, and either Myers or Alonso could play 3B. I'm saying that this could have been solved either by not running out of bench players or by better shuffling the players already on the field. I still love the game! I'm pre-ordering as I type.