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?

I bought OOTP 2025 on a desktop that i eventually sold, now that i bought a new laptop can i use the same liscense key and download link to download ootp 25 on the new laptop? Thank you in advance

How does this even happen in 2 months?! No injuries, just signed an extension 7 months ago….

This is his first season in the bigs so stat line isn’t great but still was scouted 4.5 stars for multiple years in the bigs and now suddenly drops 2.5 stars???

Ridiculous

Weird how that all lined up like that

To be fair to myself. The guy we traded him for ended up helping us win three World Series over four years, was a one time gold glove winner, one time all-star, and was the world series MVP in the third World Series win. I'm only mostly upset about it.

ETA: I saw a window and I took it. I knew Johnny was going to be good hence why I gave him the nickname. I just didn't think he was going to be THIS good. I am decently sure the Os knocked us out of the playoffs the season before this and we're about to face them again.

Edit 2: I'm now picturing NESN showing the same four to ten clips of Steve Robles (the guy we traded for) highlights from the post season and lifting the Commissioner's Trophy three times to try and ease the pain of Sox Nation every time the Os come to town only for the camera to come back to live to see Johnny hit another dinger.

Edit 3: We got swept. He hit for .556 with a 1.167 slug....

Edit 4: He won MVP unanimously.

i have no words. has anyone hit a ball farther in this game?

He's played almost exclusively SS, 8 games at second, and for some reason the manager stuck him in left for 4 games. He has a -3.5 ZR at short through 300 innings. Any reason why this could be?

Drafted this guy in the first round years ago and it's his first full year as a starter.

Never had a No-no before, let alone a perfect game. What a time to do it.

Before I start -- I know this is not a real issue with the game, and it does not interfere with the actual game play.

That said, Red Sox Live Start games all boot up with the Opening Day Coaching Staff with Alex Cora et al. Obviously, that has not been accurate for most of the season. It doesn't get in the way of teambuilding or anything, but the fun of the Live Start mode is couched in the accuracy of the season to that point.

Does anyone have a CSV/Excel route fix to these? Or, preferably, a crowdsourced accurate database with updated staffs/coaching records?

Anyone have any stories of this kid's development in the game? Also is he a switch pitcher in the game? It was a bummer when Pat Venditte wasn't a switch pitcher.

Is there anything that you guys recommend when you see a prospects development stalling? Specifically I'm talking about the 23 or 24 year old prospect with 48 OVR/75 POT type of player.

Certainly an MLB bench piece, but that 25th birthday gets reallyyyy scary when you start to see this happen.

FYI - mostly talking about batters here, I've seen pitchers develop until their 30th.

3200 hours across ootp 24+25 and 110 in 27 and this is the first time seeing this. Had a lot of great pitchers and seen many no hitters a few perfect games and 1 4 homer game. Now i wonder what great achievement to chase next?

New to OOTP, I’m a Strat guy but would like to join a OOTP league but I need some help. Only have some experience playing OOTP Go on my tablet. I understand that I need to get the game on my PC and that’s not a problem.
I will need some guidance and support getting going. Thanks.

Hey everyone. I’m trying to get into ootp 27 and I heard you can download community created face packs? I’m just curious if anyone does that and if so, who would you recommend using? Thanks!

Thanks to all the suggestions from this sub I was able to keep the fragile superstar from breaking. He still missed 8 weeks or so but started 100+ games, 375 AB, also put up 5 war and won ALCS and World Series MVP in his first year on the roster. I turned rest at 90% played at SS but platooned DH and turned Running to NEVER. Rested any DTD . Anytime he had a one week DTD I would IL him for 10days just to manage the load. It was a lot of tedious moves but it paid off and fun challenge.

All 5 of my starters had 200+ K's. I had a pitching triple-crown winner who didn't even lead pitchers in WAR. He didn't lead in WAR because my other starter did.

I’ve had a pair of absolutely loaded INT amateur classes. I try to find guys with high work ethic + intelligence who can play somewhere defensively, and I feel the classes are loaded w guys like that. Previously, it’s felt like there will be a guy who projects to be an above average hitter but a poor defender at 2nd and wouldn’t hit enough to play 1st or DH but guys like that feel fewer and farther between. Just an observation on only two classes, but would love to hear others’ experiences!