OOTP and other Adventures in Fake Baseball

[seawolf17]

It's May 9, 2027 in my OOTP career league, and I just realized that three of my bench guys have unusual stat lines:

Backup 1B: 4 for 33, 4 HR
Backup C: 3 for 13, 3 HR
Backup 3B: 2 for 11, 2 HR

Nine hits among them (for a robust .161 BA), but they're all home runs. Odd.

[Edgy MD]

Slugging .632.

[seawolf17]

Just clicking through my league history, as David Wright was elected to the Hall this year (2028), and OOTP got the 2016 inductions right: Griffey 95.5%, Piazza 80.2%.

In 2017, OOTP elected five: Manny (96.9%), Pudge (89%), Vlad (85.8%), Schilling (81.1%), and Raines (76.4%).

[Centerfield]

Not sure what OOTP is.

But I read it as "Out Of Toilet Paper".

[seawolf17]

Out of the Park Baseball. The best of the baseball sim games for PC.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/index.php

[seawolf17]

Upgraded to OOTP18 a few weeks back and decided to reboot to the 1986-87 offseason to see if I could salvage the dynasty. El Sid got hurt in spring training, and I didn't feel like calling up West or Cone and nobody on the free agent list was appealing. So I decided to look up recent retirees... and brought back The Franchise at 42.

He's been mostly terrible, but our offense has clicked and supported him, more or less. What I inadvertently did is create a new race among the all-time wins leaders:

10. Carlton (1-3, 6.84 in 5 starts for Cleveland) 324
11. Seaver (3-1, 9.92 in 7 starts for me) 314
11. Niekro (3-3, 5.31 in 9 starts for Cleveland) 314
11. Perry (retired) 314
14. Sutton (2-3, 4.64 in 9 starts for California) 312

I don't think any of them will have the juice to catch Carlton, but the race for 11th could be interesting. (The other "active" vets of any significance as of May 26, 1987 are Tommy John (28th, 267), Nolan Ryan (34th, 255), Bert Blyleven (48th, 234), and Joe Niekro (64th, 216). I'm tempted to cut Seaver before he impacts our pennant race (we're two games up on the Pirates, and the hated Cardinals are in fifth, 9.5 back), but I've got four more weeks until Sid comes back, so I might just see what he can do over five or six more starts.

FWIW, the offense (2nd in runs, 4th in HR) and bullpen (2.33 ERA, far and away the best in baseball) have buoyed our otherwise meh starting pitching (5.19 ERA, 11th in the 12-team NL).

[nymr83]

OOTP is indeed fun - it can also be complicated/frustrating if you dont want to invest time.

i'd buy the new version if we had enough people here interested in some multiplayer leagues?

[seawolf17]

Apparently, all the 1988 Mets needed was to swing the Mark Langston trade -- I acquired him for McDowell, Aguilera, and a minor leaguer -- because my 1989 Mets rotation is unreal right now:

Gooden 9-3, 2.01
Langston 6-3, 2.77
Darling 7-1, 2.16
Fernandez 8-1, 2.81
West 9-0, 2.61

And those are the five *highest* ERAs on the team, as my bullpen has pitched 133 2/3 innings in our first 63 games and has a 1.08 ERA.

[Edgy MD]

What did you do with Ojeda?

[seawolf17]

Traded him. Felt like gutting the MFYs, so I threw an offer at them for Rickey Henderson and Dave Righetti in an attempt to eat some salary and they bit: Ojeda (who they made into a serviceable bullpen arm), Dykstra (who gave them 4.0 WAR in '88 and 1.7 so far in '89), Tim Teufel, and a draft pick. (I always enable draft pick trading.) Made out like a bandit on the deal, but we've got Rickey at big money for a few years and he's the weak link right now in an otherwise strong lineup, with just a .343 OBP.

[Edgy MD]

Do you have Cone or did you keep Ed Hearn and he's now slugging .650?

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Do you have Cone or did you keep Ed Hearn and he's now slugging .650?

No, this started after the Cone deal. Problem is, I have no place to put him, so he's still in Tidewater.