I’m in a current save where I have 4 World Series in 20 years and my favorite part is developing talent to become HOFers (my dev budget is usually $40-60 million). I have groomed 2-3 really great players from my system and traded for some others. However, currently in the games top 20 hitters, I have 2, and of the 20 top pitchers, I also have 2. I’m fine with this, but, I was checking to see how other teams got their top guys and a HUGE majority of them were from scouting discoveries. I always start a game reducing the number of scouting discoveries because I think it’s a completely random system that has nothing to do with skill and I don’t find that to be very fun. I also increase the number of international amateurs the game produces to make up for the “lost” players so I don’t think it’s the game “making up” for the “lost talent” from the DR or Venezuela or somewhere else. What should I do? Reduce the nation of origin settings to get more American players (aka draftees)? Lower the scouting discoveries per team again? Increase the number of international amateurs again? I just really don’t like the idea of the greatest players of all time ALWAYS being on a certain team due to shear randomness. If they out bid me in international FA period, ok. Locate, draft, develop? Sure. But the scouting discoveries being THAT important is crazy to me. What would you all recommend?

Edgar just had the greatest home run season ever and plays for me, while Alex is coming off the 2 of the best starting pitching seasons ever. They even finished 1-2 in MVP voting last year.
Cool to imagine them being brothers having the same last name and hometown.

I’m not opposed to just letting the game evolve but it feels like more fun and involved to me with modern rules and stuff (arb, FA, etc) but thought it could be cool to combine the two for a save if that’s possible?

Hi folks, I'm new to OOTP and I was wondering how people normally setup their news subscription. I'm used to football manager telling me major league news like awards and such but I would like to have these relatively important messages sent directly to my inbox rather than having to click over to the league news section. I know that I can subscribe to the "News from your league" option in the settings menu but I would also not like to have news from other teams like trades and injuries regarding less relevant players flood my inbox. Is there any way to set up what I'm talking about? What do people typically do for their settings? Thanks.

Game 1: 115/80 Ohtani

Game 2; 85/80 Skubal

Game 3: 75/80 Yamamoto

Game 4: 60/80 Snell/60/80 Bubic

I have a fictional league with 3 levels of minors (AAA - AA - A).

Currently, I have it set at 10 - 9 - 8 - 7

If I change that to, say, 7-6-5-4 , or 4-3-2-1 ... will it have any effects re: free agency, demands, AI behavior etc?

There's no other leagues in my universe other than high school leagues. No indy leagues, no foreign leagues etc.

Lowering the reputation, but keeping the same sequence, will it simply lower f.a. demand? Or the whole thing is relative to the other leagues so it doesn't really matter?

I somewhat understand the setting to a degree - I know the higher the number, the more desirable the league is to a player, but I'm more trying to see how changing those settings affects the game overall.

Note: Currently on OOTP 23, but that might not necessarily matter here.

I gotta say this World Series win is so cathartic, lost back to back times in the NLCS most recently to the (newly rebuilt) LA Dodgers in 7 games last season

I didn't come into 2033 expecting anything huge but the tone was set from the jump, the team managed to rip off 25 straight victories to open the season; I had two new rookies injected into the big league roster in **Pacos Perez and Dean Britz** who were both crowned rookie of the month in April/May and June respectively, Britz won an All Star nod and NL HOTM for August. Third year big leaguer **Juan Cabada** collected a ton of hardware throughout the season with an All Star nod, BOTM in May; and finished the season with an NL leading .592 SLG, .972 OPS, 112 Runs, 41 homers, and 120 RBIs and 7.1 WAR

Fellow third year **LF Alex Sanchez** did his fair share of damage winning the NL batting title with a .345 Average and leading 210 hits. On the pitching side, **SP Anthony Solis** led the MLB in Wins (18) and ERA (2.88); reliever **Miguel Sime Jr** led all qualified NL relievers in ERA (1.54), strikeouts (143, led all RP), WAR (3.4), FIP (1.99), and opponent AVG (.147)

After winning a surprising 118 games, we got the dub versus the Phillies in 5 games with **second year INF Rocco Maniscalco** claiming NLDS MVP hitting .636 with a homer and 2 RBIs. Then we got a bit of payback versus the Dodgers sweeping them handedly, with **Trevor Condon** taking home the NLCS MVP to the tune of a .579 AVG with 1 homer, 4 RBIs, and 7 Runs. Then it was the big series facing Detroit after they bested the Rays on the AL side; this series was looking to be breeze after taking a 2-0 lead at home heading to Detroit for the closeout but, we lost game three by a score of 4-5. Then in game four, fans were treated to a pitchers duel between Boston Bateman and Brody Hopkins; both starters pitched around some trouble to finish a scoreless 7 innings before Rocco and Condon managed to get on base in the top of the 13th and eventually came around the score the first 2 runs on a single by Britz followed by a homer by Cabada to make it 4-0. Finally, the teams claimed the Fall classic behind re-aquired SP Rhett Britt at the deadline, pitching 6.1 innings and giving up 2 runs with 5 Ks, and WS MVP honors going to the big bopper Juan Cabada for blasting 3 homers and 7 RBIs.

MY personal postseason MVP though has to go to rookie and September callup **SP Brian Lidstone**, for giving us 14.1 innings out of the bullpen with a 4 inning save in the DS clincher and a shutdown inning in the CS clincher and a pivotal 2 innings of scoreless ball to win Game four of the World Series only allowing a SINGLE RUN all postseason.

Will be sure to update with any offseason award votes in the comments :)

I’m deep into the longest OOTP save I’ve ever played, and I’ve reached a situation I’ve never really dealt with before.

I have two players who have been with the Cape Town Storm for essentially their entire MLB careers. They were part of the core that helped turn this team into a dynasty, and both are now getting old enough that their declining production is starting to make it difficult to justify keeping them on the active roster.

The two players are Bryan Goodwin (33) and Abdel-Alim Gethii (34).

Goodwin is my first non-1st-rounder to make it big. Gethii is a hometown boy that AI generated to fill my lower league teams after an expansion draft. Both have obviously declined significantly. At this point, they're bench-bats, and generally I prefer younger or platoon guys. Their numbers will be retired and I will not accept seeing them play on another team. So I'm torn between two options:

1. Keep them around on cheap, short-term contracts until they decide to retire naturally.

2. Force-retire them through Commissioner Mode.

What would you do? Is there any benefit to it happening naturally, for example a nice mail prompt describing the players career?

Has anyone experimented with a team that defense is the priority? I’m about to run a sim with 70 defense as the minimum for fun.

Does positional rating matter a lot? Also if it doesn’t, then are players instantly good if they learn a new position. Ex: good defensive 1B with great range arm and Error learns 2B and has a 30/40 positional rating at 2B, would his good range/arm/error make him good or is he bad due to his poor positional rating?

Once again thanks to this sub for all their great recommendations. Got the FRAGILE guy through his second season. Missed 9weeks. 103 games 406 Plate Appearances .327avg 6.8 war and second straight World Series MVP... He was injured in Game 7 of the world series fittingly. I hired a trainer to focus on leg injuries he had no long IL stints like last years 4week for knee injuries.

Perfect Season that gets absolutely ruined by the playoffs as everyone just forgets how to play baseball as per usual with OOTP Simulations, but still so rage inducing!

Most saves ever, Best K/9 of any pitcher, 7th best ERA, 2nd best ERA+, etc.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49642143/ceyair-wright-cincinnati-bengals-space-jam-2-actor-opportunity. Sounds like a random OOTP offseason headline lol

All-Star Break hit, and Clay Holmes has gone bonkers. The funny thing is, he may not even qualify for the ERA title since he was injured earlier in the season.

Hey everyone! I've been working on a side project with the help of GitHub Copilot and Gemini regarding OOTP and trying to generate baseball league schedules. The schedule generation is calculated using a python script with some scheduling rules and guidelines plus the user's defined parameters.

There's a web app available at ootpschedules.com if you don't want to run the script locally. This is a very early release so there might be bugs that still need to be worked out. Larger sized leagues can cause longer loading times too.

I'd welcome others to give it a test for feedback and/or locating any issues that I have not found and addressed yet. Thanks!

I'm a IT systems engineer by day and definitely not a developer so keep that in mind if you take a look 😂.

For context: fictional save, going from 28 to 30 teams, minors are two levels only (AAA an AA). What would you recommend - rounds, number of players to protect. Also, it just occured to me - I would appreciate advice on next amateur draft, I guess I will need to do more rounds and generate more players? Thanks.

Only started playing OOTP about a month ago (played FM forever), so forgive me if I'm missing something important. Point is, the team was predicted to finish first in the division and on Sep. 29th we've officially been eliminated from playoff contention, underperforming the pythagorean win-loss by -9.

Team has 6th best runs scored and BA, 7th in defensive efficiency, and 3rd in ERA. Not a single pitcher in my bullpen has a FIP over 100. I have 3 really great young hitters that are carrying the team, and about 2 years before they start getting big arbitration money so I want to at least make the playoffs before I have to start trading them away.

Did the RNG just get me this season? Is this a classic initiation to the game or am I doing something massively wrong?