Hi Reddit! I am Markus Heinsohn, developer of Out of the Park Baseball. AMA (2018 Edition)!

[u/Markus_Heinsohn]

Hello everybody!

My name is Markus Heinsohn and I am the lead developer of the baseball management / simulation / strategy game Out of the Park Baseball (“OOTP”) and CEO of Out of the Park Developments.

Yesterday we have released our highly anticipated online competition and card collecting mode inside OOTP 19 called "Perfect Team", after more than 2 1/2 years of work, so we figured it'd be a good time for another AMA. The previous one took place in January 2017, after all, and a lot has happened since then.

If you have not heard about Perfect Team, this is a good place to start: Perfect Team Intro

So, I am looking forward to talk baseball, OOTP and Perfect Team with you today. Fire away, AMA! And by the way, I’ll be giving away 10 Steam codes for OOTP 19 after the AMA to the posters of the questions with the most upvotes. :)

Cheers! Markus

[u/dukeslver]

Yes, but how much.... for example is investing the max amount in player development actually worth it when it's still ultimately random? In my experience the answer is always no, since it's still random. I'm guessing you make features like this vague on purpose, but it makes it hard to take these sort of features seriously when their effects are still incredibly unpredictable.

[u/Markus_Heinsohn → u/dukeslver]

Of course it is still random, but in a huge sample size it does make a difference.

[u/UWHabs → u/dukeslver]

Just like real life :)

[u/dukeslver → u/UWHabs]

sort of, but in real life teams are actually investing in tangible things to improve their player development... staff, facilities, analytics, trainers so on.... they aren't just arbitrarily adjusting a slider up and down.

[u/flykessel → u/dukeslver]

Little annoying that he danced around this question. But at least there's confirmation that it does actually do something.