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Thursday, July 20th, 2006 at 5:53 pmSimmed seven seasons so far and things look very, very good. I re-imported the OOTP 6.5 league file, zeroed out all modifiers to default (1.000) settings, and added our $90 million salary cap. We just might be able to look at more detailed issues like team markets, ticket prices, and other issues by […]
More OOTPB 2006
Thursday, July 20th, 2006 at 1:55 pmThe new beta patch was released earlier today. I’m running a ten season sim as I type this - results at some point tomorrow.
Markus “Raging Bull” Heinsohn is still frothing at the mouth over the PC gamer review. I do give Marc Duffy credit for being restrained in his responses (except for the […]
No Hoax
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 3:32 pmMy initial reaction seems to be confirmed - the PC Gamer baseball roundup has been sighted by multiple sources. Now, I have not actually seen it yet, but people that I trust are telling me it’s true.
Let me be very clear about something. Low score or not, I am only playing OOTPB 2006. […]
Bad News
Sunday, July 16th, 2006 at 8:49 amI ran a 20 year sim after importing my online league file under OOTPB 2006’s patch number 2. League averages and ERA are way too high. The same trends I saw before the new patch still are present in the new patch. Averages start low and then balloon after six or seven […]
The Weirdness Continues
Friday, July 14th, 2006 at 7:25 amIt seems that the whole PC Gamer baseball review roundup may be a hoax. At least one poster in the thread linked below claims that PC Gamer has published no such baseball comparison. Yet another in the long line of weird attacks on OOTB 2006.
I do agree with one poster’s observation that the […]
Some More Clarification
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 at 2:45 pmI went to check the thread I linked in the post below and it seems that things continue to heat up as Markus “Raging Bull” Heinsohn expresses his displeasure with the (I am assuming) rhetorical question:
“So if I code tic-tac-toe I get a score of 100%? Nice”
No you don’t. But if you code tic-tac-toe, […]
PC Gamer OOTPB 2006 Review
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amFor those that missed all of the whoopla, PC Gamer slammed OOTPB 2006 with a 47% score, while scoring Baseball Mogul and Puresim higher. Brett Todd wrote the review comparison and I have to regretfully agree with the score. Let me explain. Many review sites/magazines only take a look at the released […]
Dubious on OOTP
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 12:00 pmI just read Bill Harris’ lengthy discussion about OOTPB 2006. He makes some good points, but comparing OOTPB 2006 in its first (well, not even first yet since it doesn’t quite work) iteration to Football Manager really isn’t a fair comparison. FM has been around a long, long time. It is one […]
Still Waiting
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 11:10 amCrap. Out of the Park Baseball 2006 does not work with online leagues after patch #2. The import/export process simply doesn’t work. I continue to marvel at the apparent lack of a beta testing online league somewhere (anywhere) that SI can test these things with. I want to thank part of […]
OOTPB 2006 Patch Released
Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pmThe good folks at Sports Interactive released the new OOTPB 2006 patch as promised. The patch list of fixes/additions is quite impressive. I was going to ask if all of the naysayers and general loud mouthed forum idiots would start posting apologies after applying the patch. But even if the patch works […]
PSP Madden Poop
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 7:05 pmFor the first time in a long time, I have not preordered the latest, greatest, incarnation of NCAA or Madden football. I just do not see a compelling reason why I should upgrade over NCAA 06 and Madden 05. I have not touched NCAA 06 in months; I sold Madden 06 after I […]
Home Again, Home Again …
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006 at 10:31 amIt is always nice to return home, especially after a long business trip. I will not go into the details of work (since some folks from the office actually read my crap), but the trip was very draining. I did get to see some football in an English pub, and I got to […]
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