What is your favorite thing to do in OOTP?

[italyprof]

Originally Posted by mitchkenn

i used to do historical and found myself tinkering and changing and well, it wasn't historical anymore. So this year, i've gone the other way, fictional with about 50% historical players. Spend more time getting data for my each year text import of historical players and editing some players base lines i find are too low (ie some of the negro league players) than i do playing. I sim, a day at a time, but in one setting may do a week or a month .... For me, it's the creation and construction i seem to enjoy the most.

thanks for turning me on to townes van zandt - never heard of him somehow before !!

[Westheim]

Apparently, my favorite thing is to painstakingly bit after bit to a flawed roster to come within snuffing distance of the playoffs, and then have it come apart in the most wretched way possible.

[texasmame]

Trades/waiver wire stuff.

Like to tinker and try to get the most efficient "money ball" team I can while still winning it all.

[BirdWatcher]

Originally Posted by Qeltar

I like looking for the challenge of turning a team around but seem to have done it in my second year, so I think I need to make the parameters harder next time. Probably impose self-limits on MiLB FA signings and trades.

I also want to try some park-specific concepts, like building a flyball-hitting, groundball-pitching, high-defense-infield team for Colorado and seeing if it works.

It worked for me! That was the very first thing I did when I purchased OOTP last Fall. Took over Rockies circa 1993 and tried to build around power hitters with good OBP skills, groundball pitchers or high swing-and-miss percentage pitchers, great infield defense and good range in the OF. By 2005 season had a pair of championships, several WS appearances, a string of division championships (unbroken at this point) and a 3 year stretch with 116, 125, and 116 win seasons.

[gemini615]

I enjoy playing fictional and watching my empty hall of fame fill up with players who start out as virtual unknowns only to turn into the best of the best.

[MightyVotto]

I'm always drawn to historical replay. For a few years, I played out the 1920 through 1939 seasons with real transactions and real lineups. I focused on Babe Ruth's career with the Yankees. I simmed some years and played out some in full. I change the structure and playoff system of the leagues by adding divisions and wildcards. It was a blast learning about the game during those years and about many of the players I'd never heard of.

I'm currently playing through a 1909 replay focusing on the A's. I no longer use real lineups but still use real transactions. The gameplay in this era is just so different from today's game but still very fun.

I miss out on the team development parts of the game but I'm a fan of the Reds. So, my real-life, day-to-day team I follow has been awful for a long while now. By taking over a known historical team that was good helps me remember what following a good, contending team was like.

[neugey]

I really love the day of free agency - seeing who the international free agents will be and finding some budget FA's above replacement level who also have very affordable demands.

[sdw1000]

I really only have time for one league I play. I wish I could sit here and play all the things I wanna do that pop in my head! lol

Like yesterday, I thought of having a decade specific league. 24 teams from a decade play out a league. Then continue till the next decade and so on. Then have a league with all the winners. But the problem is, I like to play out my games...and that would take forever to play all that out. lol