Comprehensive List of Records to Track?

[kq76]

r0nster's post here got me thinking. Has anyone compiled a list of records that people have said they'd like to see added to the game? I know countless people have posted over the years about wishing different records were tracked, but if we came up with a comprehensive list and kept posting our support of it, they might have more of a chance of getting into the game. I do think the devs kind of like to add suites of similar features. It should certainly make coming up with features to market easier. If no one has tried to do this before, we could do it in this thread. If people post below the records like to see tracked, I'll edit this first post to list them as succinctly as possible.

The list:

• team winning streaks - r0nster
• record-breaking (career, season, franchise) - luckymann
• consecutive IP streak tracking - luckymann
• year-by-year records - David Watts

[kq76]

I asked ChatGPT what has been asked for before. I know better than to trust AI on whether what it says is true or not (maybe some of these are in the game), but I figured I'd post the result regardless as it might trigger some ideas or recollections.

If you mean **“what historic/statistical stuff do OOTP players often wish the game tracked, announced, or highlighted better?”**, there’s a pretty consistent pattern from forum threads and Reddit.

OOTP already tracks a lot (milestone watch, accomplishments, league records), but its built-in system is surprisingly selective: mostly big counting milestones like hits, HR, RBI, wins, Ks, saves, games, plus certain achievements like cycles and no-hitters. ([OOTP Wiki][1]) ([OOTP Wiki][2])

Here are some of the most commonly desired “missing” ones:

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## 1. **Record-breaking alerts (not just milestone alerts)**

This is probably the biggest one.

OOTP has milestone alerts (“Player reaches 500 HR”), but users have long asked for:

* “Player just broke the single-season RBI record”
* “Player passed the career hits leader”
* “Pitcher set a new strikeout record”

That distinction matters. Milestones are arbitrary thresholds; records are contextual.

Forum users specifically asked for this as far back as 2011, and it still comes up. ([OOTP Developments Forums][3]) ([OOTP Developments Forums][4])

Why people want it:

* Feels more alive.
* Makes fictional leagues build mythology.

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## 2. **Near-miss history**

OOTP records accomplishments, but doesn’t really celebrate:

* 59-HR seasons that fell short of 60
* 19-game hitting streaks
* 299-win careers
* 2,999 hits

Gamers love “almost” records because they create drama.

This is a big storytelling gap.

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## 3. **Postseason records**

This is a huge omission.

OOTP’s leaderboards explicitly use only regular-season stats. ([OOTP Wiki][2])

That means no built-in tracking for:

* Most playoff HR
* Longest playoff hitting streak
* Most postseason saves
* Most career playoff WAR
* Most World Series RBI

For dynasty players, this is massive.

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## 4. **Franchise-specific milestone watch**

Right now milestones are mostly league-wide.

People often want:

* First 40-HR season in franchise history
* First pitcher to 300 Ks for a team
* Team all-time leader changes

Especially useful after relocation/expansion.

Reddit threads about moving team history show this matters a lot to players. ([Reddit][5])

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## 5. **Weird baseball records**

Baseball nerds adore obscure records.

Examples:

* Consecutive scoreless innings
* Most extra-inning games
* Most blown saves in a season
* Most pickoffs
* Longest game by pitches
* Most runners left on base

Players on Reddit often manually track weird stats because OOTP doesn’t surface them. ([Reddit][6]) ([Reddit][7])

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## 6. **In-game situational records**

People want announcer/news recognition for:

* Most runs in one inning
* Most consecutive hits
* Most batters faced in an inning
* Largest comeback
* Fastest cycle
* Most pitches in one at-bat

There’s community discussion asking specifically for this kind of “during the game” recognition. ([Reddit][8])

This would make managing games manually much richer.

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## 7. **League-environment adjusted records**

This is an advanced one.

Example:

In a deadball fictional league, 35 HR might be absurd.

Players want:

* Era-adjusted “greatest offensive season”
* Best OPS+ season
* Best ERA+ season
* Best wRC+ season

OOTP tracks the stats, but doesn’t canonise them as “records.”

That’s a missed sabermetric layer.

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## 8. **Manager/GM legacy milestones**

OOTP tracks your history as a manager, but not deeply. ([OOTP Wiki][9])

Things players often want:

* Most 100-win seasons
* Longest playoff streak
* Most successful rebuilds
* Biggest trade wins (retroactively)

Basically: *Baseball-Reference for you*.

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## 9. **Prospect development “what if” tracking**

This is more niche, but common among long-term sim players:

* Highest-rated busts
* Lowest-rated Hall of Famers
* Biggest late bloomers
* Draft classes ranked historically

People often spreadsheet this themselves.

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## 10. **Narrative milestones**

This is the least statistical, but maybe most wanted:

Stuff like:

* “Oldest player to hit 40 HR”
* “Youngest MVP”
* “Longest gap between championships”
* “Brothers facing each other”
* “Player returned after 3-year injury”

Not strictly records—but they make leagues feel alive.

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### My shortlist of the **five biggest additions** that would improve OOTP immediately:

1. **Automatic record-breaking news**
2. **Full postseason record books**
3. **Franchise history milestones**
4. **Near-miss tracking**
5. **Situational/game-level records**

Those would probably give the biggest boost to immersion for franchise players.

And, frankly, they’d save a lot of us from maintaining absurd spreadsheets at 2 a.m. like unpaid Elias Sports Bureau interns.

[1]: https://wiki.ootpdevelopments.com/in...ce=chatgpt.com "Milestone Watch - OOTP Wiki"
[2]: https://wiki.ootpdevelopments.com/in...ce=chatgpt.com "Leaderboards - OOTP Wiki"
[3]: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ce=chatgpt.com "Announcement made when a record is broken? - OOTP Developments Forums"
[4]: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ce=chatgpt.com "Milestone Watch - OOTP Developments Forums"
[5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...ce=chatgpt.com "Move team records and history?"
[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...ce=chatgpt.com "How do you guys track your saves outside of the actual save file?"
[7]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...ce=chatgpt.com "Don't think I've ever seen a LOB that high"
[8]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...ce=chatgpt.com "Question"
[9]: https://wiki.ootpdevelopments.com/in...ce=chatgpt.com "History - OOTP Wiki"

[luckymann]

I'm an advocate of a comprehensive stats-tracking suite (and have even tried a failed a couple times to create one for myself) but I don't like my chances with that ever happening, so I'll hop on here with any that cross my path.

My main bugbear is the game not tracking record-breaking at the career level, and even doing so in a very hit-and-miss fashion at the season level. Franchise record tracking would also be nice.

Any consecutive streak tracking would be great, but IP in particular.

As much as I like the idea of some of those "weird and wild" ones, I honestly think they should be taken out of the conversation to improve the chances of at least some of the more "mundane" ones being fixed / added.

G

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by luckymann

As much as I like the idea of some of those "weird and wild" ones, I honestly think they should be taken out of the conversation to improve the chances of at least some of the more "mundane" ones being fixed / added.

G

This. It would be great IMHO if they had a goal of adding, I don't know, five per year (pulled out of thin air). Or whatever they think is doable.

It's fine to ask for anything Baseball-reference or Fangraphs type sites have. But to think OOTP will have everything a "pay to use" site has is a bit much. Over time with a slow build OOTP can have an always improving suit of stat tracking. But they are never catching up with the "pay to use" sites who's fulltime job is to keep adding to what they have, and collect those subscription fees.

My 2 cents.

[David Watts]

I still think the Awards page needs to be expanded to show stuff like batting champion, home run champion, stikeout leader etc. I know where to find this info, but it would be so cool to see a year by year list compiled. If the award page can't be added, how about a search function that allows us to search batting champions from 1964-1982 and the game compiles the list?

[kq76]

Originally Posted by luckymann

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My main bugbear is the game not tracking record-breaking at the career level, and even doing so in a very hit-and-miss fashion at the season level. Franchise record tracking would also be nice.

Any consecutive streak tracking would be great, but IP in particular.

As much as I like the idea of some of those "weird and wild" ones, I honestly think they should be taken out of the conversation to improve the chances of at least some of the more "mundane" ones being fixed / added.

G

Just so we're all clear, you're asking for messages (emails, news articles, whatever we want to call them), and probably a dedicated screen as well, that inform us of record-breaking accomplishments?

I agree, except you kind of just tacked on franchise records, but personally I'd really like to see those, maybe even more than career and season. When I'm playing OOTP I'm really into my team and not so much the league. I mean, sure, it'd be cool to know if someone on another team in your league broken a career record, but what I really, really, want to know is if someone on my team just broke a team record. Anyway, I agree, I just wouldn't want the devs to stop before they added franchise records.

Consecutive IP streak tracking? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Like innings pitched without giving up a home run or a walk?

Originally Posted by Sweed

This. It would be great IMHO if they had a goal of adding, I don't know, five per year (pulled out of thin air). Or whatever they think is doable.

It's fine to ask for anything Baseball-reference or Fangraphs type sites have. But to think OOTP will have everything a "pay to use" site has is a bit much. Over time with a slow build OOTP can have an always improving suit of stat tracking. But they are never catching up with the "pay to use" sites who's fulltime job is to keep adding to what they have, and collect those subscription fees.

My 2 cents.

While I agree this would be a good approach (5 a year) and I certainly don't think we'd see all of what people would like, my aim with this thread is to hopefully get even just the top 5 ideas into the game. Would 30 or whatever be even better? Sure, but at this point I'd happily welcome just the top 5.

Originally Posted by David Watts

I still think the Awards page needs to be expanded to show stuff like batting champion, home run champion, stikeout leader etc. I know where to find this info, but it would be so cool to see a year by year list compiled. If the award page can't be added, how about a search function that allows us to search batting champions from 1964-1982 and the game compiles the list?

Yeah, I like seeing year-by-year records too (like bref's yearly column here).

In case anyone doesn't know what David Watts means by this "Awards page" (I forgot about it), you can find it by going to Lg > History > Season & Career Records. There is also an Awards screen that is linked from there too, but it lists the award winners like Batter/Pitcher/Rookie of the Year.

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by kq76

Just so we're all clear, you're asking for messages (emails, news articles, whatever we want to call them), and probably a dedicated screen as well, that inform us of record-breaking accomplishments?

I agree, except you kind of just tacked on franchise records, but personally I'd really like to see those, maybe even more than career and season. When I'm playing OOTP I'm really into my team and not so much the league. I mean, sure, it'd be cool to know if someone on another team in your league broken a career record, but what I really, really, want to know is if someone on my team just broke a team record. Anyway, I agree, I just wouldn't want the devs to stop before they added franchise records.

Consecutive IP streak tracking? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Like innings pitched without giving up a home run or a walk?

Were OOTP my company, I would implement some sort of daily preview / review section, where you can see all sorts of different topical items, perhaps even in a customisable way, at the start of a game day, and then events of note at the end of a game day. Not just great performances from that day's games but also milestones and achievements of a cumulative nature and that sort of thing, like a SportsCentre type of deal that is a massive upgrade on the current Manager's Office. (And that you can DL / export for external use, with retrospective accessibility as well, to suit my obvious thread obsession...).

Really, I'd just have all of this as part of a separate Stats Suite add-on, but don't get me started on that because, already, I digress...


Yes, I would like notifications of some sort advising me of milestones met and records set. We get some now but it isn't consistent at all, and misses some biggies along the way. It also mainly concerns single-season records, rarely all-time ones.

Couldn't agree more re franchise records but I thought if they got the universal ones right then the franchise ones would fall into line accordingly.

I specifically meant scoreless IP, a la Hershiser and Christopher Sanchez from this year, but others would be fine as well.

G

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by luckymann

Were OOTP my company, I would implement some sort of daily preview / review section, where you can see all sorts of different topical items, perhaps even in a customisable way, at the start of a game day, and then events of note at the end of a game day. Not just great performances from that day's games but also milestones and achievements of a cumulative nature and that sort of thing, like a SportsCentre type of deal that is a massive upgrade on the current Manager's Office. (And that you can DL / export for external use, with retrospective accessibility as well, to suit my obvious thread obsession...).

Really, I'd just have all of this as part of a separate Stats Suite add-on, but don't get me started on that because, already, I digress...


Yes, I would like notifications of some sort advising me of milestones met and records set. We get some now but it isn't consistent at all, and misses some biggies along the way. It also mainly concerns single-season records, rarely all-time ones.

Couldn't agree more re franchise records but I thought if they got the universal ones right then the franchise ones would fall into line accordingly.

I specifically meant scoreless IP, a la Hershiser and Christopher Sanchez from this year, but others would be fine as well.

G

I love your daily report/review idea. Back in the day there was a game called PureSim baseball. I just googled it and it actually appears you can still download it for free. Similar in concept to OOTP, but an even smaller development team. In fact, I think it was pretty much a one man operation.

This game had some really cool features. If you were playing using real lineup/transactions it featured a link you could click on that would take you to the Baseball Reference boxscore of the actual game you were replaying.

My favorite feature of PureSim was the weekly report the game created called the PSPN. This report was so ahead of its time. It had a transaction tracker detailing the past weeks transactions. It had a section for the weeks top performances. Showed the current hitting streaks. There was a who's hot, who's not section. There was an injury report. There were sabermetric reports. Just tons of really interesting info. The report came out fresh each week and as the season went on, links were provided to all the past issues

If you google PureSim, you can take a look at a screenshot of a PSPN. Can't see a lot, but it will give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

OOTP could create this same thing and improve on it in so many ways.

On daily basis, I've always wanted the game to feature a old timey standings/boxscore/todays matchup page similar to what us old farts grew up with in our local newspapers.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by Sweed

This. It would be great IMHO if they had a goal of adding, I don't know, five per year (pulled out of thin air). Or whatever they think is doable.

It's fine to ask for anything Baseball-reference or Fangraphs type sites have. But to think OOTP will have everything a "pay to use" site has is a bit much. Over time with a slow build OOTP can have an always improving suit of stat tracking. But they are never catching up with the "pay to use" sites who's fulltime job is to keep adding to what they have, and collect those subscription fees.

My 2 cents.

Originally Posted by kq76

While I agree this would be a good approach (5 a year) and I certainly don't think we'd see all of what people would like, my aim with this thread is to hopefully get even just the top 5 ideas into the game. Would 30 or whatever be even better? Sure, but at this point I'd happily welcome just the top 5.

I just want to clarify that the bold wasn't pointed at you or the intention of your post. As stated I do think asking for anything the big stat sites have is fine. I did agree with luckyman, that the list could become overwhelming (my word not his) and maybe too much for the developer to sort through. But then we're back to if asking for anything the big sites have is fine, the list is going to be long. Catch 22.

The bold is for anyone that might come into the thread as a general statement. We do have a user or two that post in the forums that seem to think OOTP not having everything the big sites do is OOTP not caring. We've all read the "we're on version 27 and OOTP doesn't have stat-A or allow for "sort-B" posts. Or "run a report that shows triple plays, in the rain, starting with a fly ball to LF". Then follow it up with "Baseball Reference has it, why doesn't OOTP?"

At the end of the day I am all for anything OOTP adds be it new stats, sorts, or report pages with whatever interesting things they might put on them.