Anything that happens that matters is visible in the numbers. Of course, on the new in-game view of a ball looping lazily out of the park or dribbling to short you can see some of the “action,” but there’s no walk-up music, animated wiggles, and whiffs.
At a game level you can minutely manage every damn pitch, and witness the results of your decision to swing-away on a 3-0, or squeeze on a bases loaded, pitcher up situation. Long, deep, dense, and devoid of pretty pictures, but packed with the nuances of the craft on which your success will depend. What happens then in the day-to-day shifts as you manage your meta-level role setting ticket prices (which intrinsically impacts payroll) and dive down to figure if your minor league scouts are searching for those diamonds in the rough. Though licensing and logos aren’t in the paid-up and official vein-“as seen on TV” styling-of an EA Sports presentation, it’s still possible to get your favorite team and your players as you see them today. In OOTP you take charge of a baseball franchise (you can choose a minor league team, or some new several overseas leagues, but you’re most likely to choose your MLB favorite) and then guide them to success or failure managing as many or as few aspects of a multi-billion dollar business you care to address. They all play a role in how you might want to manage your baseball franchise, and your willingness to set parameters and understand the myriad questions facing you is key to deciding that MLB GM is your profession of choice.
#OOTP BASEBALL FREE#
Trade shortlists, free agent opportunities (both on your club and elsewhere), DFA candidates, DL malingerers, and prospects are inherent to the inner sanctum of baseball vernacular, but they’re also the everyday linguistics of baseball GMitude (that last one might not be a real word). If WYSIWYG was still an acronym those kids today understood, its Urban Dictionary definition might point to OOTP: number simulation blended with a year-on-year improved presentation-what might be generously considered a hint of “3D action”- wherein the action resides in the details.Pages and pages of data. It neither apologizes for its numbers-driven presentation nor cowers from the concern that the cool kids might not recognize its genius. Because OOTP is designed for, caters to, embraces, and purely loves the hardcore baseball stat fan.
#OOTP BASEBALL MOVIE#
If Billy Beane = Brad Pitt in a movie then, again, it’s possibly out of your scope. If that name means nothing to you, maybe OOTP is not in your wheelhouse. Its depth of intrigue, statistical wherewithal, and an ounce or two of devilish shenanigans over the years can craft a quite staggeringly compelling experience that engages the Billy Beane in all of us.
You don’t need to have read (or seen) Moneyball to get a true sense of the backroom shenanigans of the “Front Office,” but you do need to appreciate the deep levels of corporate strategy at work to gain the most satisfaction from OOTP.
#OOTP BASEBALL SERIES#
I haven’t won the World Series yet – though I’ve kept my job – so now it’s back into the Player List to find the missing pieces so that my time as a Major League GM rules.
It’s about gaining and using an understanding of why a player’s numbers, if he’s added to your organization, are going to win those wavering divisional games and tip you over the edge to the playoffs and the Series. Over several years of iteration the in-game action has gone through graphical upgrades, but that’s not what it’s about. Out of the Park Baseball 15 stands proud in its spirit and in its dedication to the national pastime.
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