how do you like to play the game?

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 10:34 AM

1. Fictional league

2. Historical league

3. current roster

4. mulitple ways

David Watts · 05-16-2013, 10:48 AM

I would go with #4, but it's not one of the poll selections. Lately I've been playing a lot of random debut. No matter how many times I try, current rosters is the one way of playing OOTP that I have never been able to sink my teeth into. Usually make it till mid May or so and give up. I always get grumpy when I take over a bad team(I manage only) and the AI starts signing meatball after meatball off the waiver wire.

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 10:57 AM

I want to do online eventually although I have played this game alot over the many years on my own but will have to find a league that can deal with first time online user LOL. I generally like to play with the current roster then move forward. However in the near future I am gonna play historical starting sometime in the mid 60s

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 10:59 AM

I micromange my teams from top to bottom. Like in my current roster I have been able to make trades NOT forced I was surprised I was able to make WOOHOO. but my team is not progressing as I hoped even though in first place by 2 games in June only a .525 record

David Watts · 05-16-2013, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r0nster

I want to do online eventually although I have played this game alot over the many years on my own but will have to find a league that can deal with first time online user LOL. I generally like to play with the current roster then move forward. However in the near future I am gonna play historical starting sometime in the mid 60s

I've never tried online. Sounds like a blast, but I worry that I would be the guy that screws the pooch and ruins a league.

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 11:11 AM

LMAO we wont know unless we try and who knows we might win the title and the good online players get mad at us for beginers luck

rpriske · 05-16-2013, 11:12 AM

I put historical. I also like to do current, but the lifespan is fairly short as current becomes fictional pretty quickly and fictional doesn't interest me even in the slightest.

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 12:09 PM

I hear ya and tend to agree with you but it sure is a good place to start

Lukas Berger · 05-16-2013, 12:16 PM

1, 2 and 3

Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 05-16-2013, 12:46 PM

One fictional league, one MLB league, and one online league.

sandman2575 · 05-16-2013, 01:21 PM

As a newcomer to ootp, i thought for sure, initially, that I would only want to play with real MLB rosters. The idea of creating your own league and players seemed a bit hokey to me.

How wrong I was!

I am a full convert to the Fictional style of play. I actually feel far more invested and interested in my fictional league with its fictional players than I do in real-life MLB (or my languishing fantasy baseball team for that matter). I guess that's the testament to just how powerful and immersive OOTP is. It can make you care as much about your fictional team as the real life team you've been rooting for since you were a kid.

r0nster · 05-16-2013, 01:30 PM

Ahh few have multitasking talents

cavebutter · 05-16-2013, 01:35 PM

I've never been able to get into current roster or historical games. I feel that my own biases and knowledge get in the way. I have been playing fictional only since 6. More than half the fun is creating the universe and the unis and logos.

SandMan · 05-16-2013, 01:44 PM

Fictional is the way to go. I start in a future date, usually 2020 and play from there. I have no expectation of the players since they are fictional. It is a blast to follow the career of the players in your league. I have tried historical and the current rosters but continue to go back to my fictional leagues. After a while your fictional players become as known to you as real players.

Gus Cross just hit his 500th home run and is only 34 years old so maybe he has enough left in him to break my leagues history total of 576 homers. It is milestones like this that make fictional so exciting.

Questdog · 05-16-2013, 01:51 PM

Current MLB interests me not a whit....I have the radio for that.....Shin-Soo Choo!....fictional and historical are where I live....and I am in a great online league that plays a fictional historical set up (we are getting ready to play the 1912 World Series tomorrow - wish me luck)......

Andriko · 05-16-2013, 02:53 PM

I have started enjoying fictional a bit more, though I am no damn good at setting up a league and feeling comfortable with it. Still waiting for add on central to have a few interesting fictional quickstarts up there where someone else has done all the work to make sure it works!

I do like modern roster settings too, except looking after the minor leagues rosters get's monstrously overwhleming sometimes.

OOTPer2013 · 05-17-2013, 09:58 PM

Late at night... surrounded by pizza boxes, empty Coke bottles, and pop tart wrappers wearing my bathrobe and bedroom slippers...

oh almost forgot... wearing a plastic replica Minnesota Twins batting helmet (old school with the intertwined TC on it()

with the Major League trilogy playing on a continuous loop in the background...

philliesphan26 · 05-18-2013, 12:08 PM

Always fictional

Porb · 05-18-2013, 07:15 PM

Mostly fictional, although I tried a historical league last year, and it was a blast!

Online was great too, but sadly, I was the guy who vanished from the league, back around 2006. I'm pretty sure the other guys are still around the forums too.

Peregrine · 05-18-2013, 10:24 PM

Mostly fictional, but sometimes historical.

View Poll Results: favorite way to play game
historical	18	15.65%
fictional	61	53.04%
current rosters	31	26.96%
online	5	4.35%
Voters: 115. You may not vote on this poll

05-16-2013, 10:34 AM	#1
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	how do you like to play the game? 1. Fictional league 2. Historical league 3. current roster 4. mulitple ways

05-16-2013, 12:46 PM	#10
Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	One fictional league, one MLB league, and one online league. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason

05-16-2013, 01:35 PM	#13
cavebutter All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,164	I've never been able to get into current roster or historical games. I feel that my own biases and knowledge get in the way. I have been playing fictional only since 6. More than half the fun is creating the universe and the unis and logos. __________________ MySQL, MyStruggle - A self-indulgent blog about my attempts to roll my own MySQL Database with OOTP Logo Gallery

05-16-2013, 10:48 AM	#2
David Watts Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Looking for a place called Leehofooks Posts: 9,685 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	I would go with #4, but it's not one of the poll selections. Lately I've been playing a lot of random debut. No matter how many times I try, current rosters is the one way of playing OOTP that I have never been able to sink my teeth into. Usually make it till mid May or so and give up. I always get grumpy when I take over a bad team(I manage only) and the AI starts signing meatball after meatball off the waiver wire.

05-16-2013, 10:57 AM	#3
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	I want to do online eventually although I have played this game alot over the many years on my own but will have to find a league that can deal with first time online user LOL. I generally like to play with the current roster then move forward. However in the near future I am gonna play historical starting sometime in the mid 60s

05-16-2013, 10:59 AM	#4
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	I micromange my teams from top to bottom. Like in my current roster I have been able to make trades NOT forced I was surprised I was able to make WOOHOO. but my team is not progressing as I hoped even though in first place by 2 games in June only a .525 record

05-16-2013, 11:11 AM	#6
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	LMAO we wont know unless we try and who knows we might win the title and the good online players get mad at us for beginers luck

05-16-2013, 11:12 AM	#7
rpriske Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Spencerville, ON, Canada Posts: 26,088	I put historical. I also like to do current, but the lifespan is fairly short as current becomes fictional pretty quickly and fictional doesn't interest me even in the slightest.

05-16-2013, 12:09 PM	#8
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	I hear ya and tend to agree with you but it sure is a good place to start

05-16-2013, 12:16 PM	#9
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 21,346	1, 2 and 3

05-16-2013, 01:21 PM	#11
sandman2575 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Cambridge, MA Posts: 255	As a newcomer to ootp, i thought for sure, initially, that I would only want to play with real MLB rosters. The idea of creating your own league and players seemed a bit hokey to me. How wrong I was! I am a full convert to the Fictional style of play. I actually feel far more invested and interested in my fictional league with its fictional players than I do in real-life MLB (or my languishing fantasy baseball team for that matter). I guess that's the testament to just how powerful and immersive OOTP is. It can make you care as much about your fictional team as the real life team you've been rooting for since you were a kid.

05-16-2013, 01:30 PM	#12
r0nster Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 3,047	Ahh few have multitasking talents

05-16-2013, 01:44 PM	#14
SandMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,946	Fictional is the way to go. I start in a future date, usually 2020 and play from there. I have no expectation of the players since they are fictional. It is a blast to follow the career of the players in your league. I have tried historical and the current rosters but continue to go back to my fictional leagues. After a while your fictional players become as known to you as real players. Gus Cross just hit his 500th home run and is only 34 years old so maybe he has enough left in him to break my leagues history total of 576 homers. It is milestones like this that make fictional so exciting.

05-16-2013, 01:51 PM	#15
Questdog Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: In a dark, damp cave where I'm training slugs to run the bases...... Posts: 16,142	Current MLB interests me not a whit....I have the radio for that.....Shin-Soo Choo!....fictional and historical are where I live....and I am in a great online league that plays a fictional historical set up (we are getting ready to play the 1912 World Series tomorrow - wish me luck)......

05-16-2013, 02:53 PM	#16
Andriko Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: London, UK Posts: 50	I have started enjoying fictional a bit more, though I am no damn good at setting up a league and feeling comfortable with it. Still waiting for add on central to have a few interesting fictional quickstarts up there where someone else has done all the work to make sure it works! I do like modern roster settings too, except looking after the minor leagues rosters get's monstrously overwhleming sometimes.

05-17-2013, 09:58 PM	#17
OOTPer2013 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 43	Late at night... surrounded by pizza boxes, empty Coke bottles, and pop tart wrappers wearing my bathrobe and bedroom slippers... oh almost forgot... wearing a plastic replica Minnesota Twins batting helmet (old school with the intertwined TC on it() with the Major League trilogy playing on a continuous loop in the background...

05-18-2013, 12:08 PM	#18
philliesphan26 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 254	Always fictional

05-18-2013, 07:15 PM	#19
Porb Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 38	Mostly fictional, although I tried a historical league last year, and it was a blast! Online was great too, but sadly, I was the guy who vanished from the league, back around 2006. I'm pretty sure the other guys are still around the forums too.

05-18-2013, 10:24 PM	#20
Peregrine All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Cary, North Carolina Posts: 635	Mostly fictional, but sometimes historical.