Before we look at an individual team’s draft picks, I thought that a comparison with OOTP 6.5 was in order. My previous post established that the top performers were generally in the first and second round in OOTPB 2006. It’s a very different story in OOTP 6.5. I looked at our 2015 season OOTP 6.5 [...]
A criticism leveled at OOTPB 2006 is that lower-level talent does not do well in the big leagues. In fact, they do not make the major leagues at all. I decided to do a multi-dimensional look at this issue. First, let’s consider what round the best players are being drafted. I looked at the year [...]
Here’s some more of our sub-par OOTPB 2006 analysis. As promised, I did another overnight 18-season sim with all modifiers set to their 1.000 defaults. The AL seems to be a bit skewed toward better hitting and worse pitching when the modifiers are left alone. This could be a DH effect, but I’m not certain [...]
Although we may not be the best place to visit to find out information about OOTPB 2006 (according to the great Bill Harris at Dubious Quality), we try our best here at the Recycle Bin. It took me two days, but I finally finished an 18-season sim of an imported OOTP 6.5 league. My one [...]
This week has been fairly crazy; not much time for gaming or blogging. Touching on sports; boo-hiss, the US sucked on Monday. I teach my kids to clear to the sidelines. How hard is that? The Dawgs somehow escaped from the clutches of the mighty chickens from USC (that is the University of South Carolina [...]
I must say that I’m a bit frustrated seeing people slamming OOTPB 2006 in the OOTP forums when (a) never seen them post before and/or (b) they just joined the OOTP community. But I think the following post by “mhs635″ in response sums up my opinion: “The mistake you [Marc Duffy] made was underestimating the [...]
I am going to (again) run a 12-year sim today using the new patch. However, I have some serious questions about online league game play that commissioners everywhere need to consider. Many of the solo game issues reported in various forums don’t impact the online community very much since humans do the trading, waivers, etc. [...]
I was pointed to a thread over at Front Office Football Central.com that is 21 pages long and filled with some of the most idiotic posts I’ve read in a long time. Nothing like taking legitimate complaints about a product and turning them into an unseemly mess. There is one thing I would like to [...]
Ok, here is an example of what happens when you add a major online function to a game toward the end of the development process. You get the mess that is OOTPB 2006. A big thanks to “Stu” and some other online community members for figuring out what needs to be uploaded or not from [...]
Georgia rebounded from a loss to Florida State last Saturday night, by winning three games in a row to earn the right to host South Carolina in the NCAA Super Regionals. UGA has been playing excellent ball of late, despite almost throwing it all away with their 6-4 loss to Florida State. UGA had to [...]
I noticed that the league average and ERA increased by a lot over the 12-year sim I ran earlier. Discussing these results with one of the beta testers revealed my problem – the player creation modifiers remained untouched during my simulation (all 1.000s). It appears that if you change the hits, etc. modifiers without adjusting [...]
I decided to see how OOTPB 6.5 compared to OOTPB 2006 from a statistical standpoint. The numbers below in no way reflect in sort of scientific conclusions. My population is way too small to read into any significant conclusions, but I figured it would be fun for giggles. I decided to compare the results to [...]
I downloaded the game last night, and have been spending some time trying to get acclimated. I concur with Chris; the game is extremely complicated, and spending time with the manual and guide are a must. Of course I am stubborn, and just want to play, so I have not read either. They do look [...]
I simmed 12 seasons in OOTPB 2006. Total size of league file? 957 MB!!! I will do further analysis to see what is actually essential to keep on league web sites, but no way is 957 MBs going to make it to most FTP servers. Or, Sports Interactive is getting a cut back from the [...]
Overall, I am very happy with OOTPB 2006. Is it perfect? No, and hopefully patches will bring it closer to perfection. But SI made this game for guys like me. And you if you read this blog for my text-gaming comments. An internet buddy of mine asked me earlier, “Have they finally made our game?” [...]
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