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Koufax’ 1.63 ERA was the best in the majors. The incomparable rotation of the Dodgers’ Koufax, Drysdale, Sutton, and Osteen led the Dodgers to a 110-win season as all but Drysdale with 18 wins won well over 20 games. 315 to lead the AL but the Cleveland Indians held a narrow lead over the Sox all season long and held on to win the division by 3 games with an 83-79 record. Henry Aaron led the Atlanta Braves to the NL East title with 88 wins by winning the triple crown AND breaking Roger Maris’ all-time home run record by hitting 63 !Īaron batted. So remember that the computer is trading players as it chooses based on its own evaluations for the other teams, and is bargaining with me, but is doing so starting with the actual rosters of the start of 1966. To make injuries 'very rare' - apparently very rare means 'very frequent' in OOTP-language and 'rare' means 'this is really a simulation of ER not baseball so expect to spend your time managing injuries not playing baseball'. To make trading 'hard' rather than 'average' since I find 'average' makes it too easy in OOTP to get great players for good ones if you are looking to the future. To have players miss seasons with injuries when they did historically in real life To retire players when they had historically retired Keep the historical rosters for the opening of the 1966 season but after that to let things go on their ownĪuto-manage all teams but mine (the NY Yankees). Sometimes they are irresistable but often you find that you have drafted the player of your dreams and ended up with no first round pick and only a compensation pick for next season's draft that will be useless too if you don't convince the player with a good enough offer. So I have learned caution in drafting superstars whose bonus demands are too high who are considered 'extremely hard ' to sign. You can also switch at key moments in an inning to a pitch-by-pitch sequence which is how you can get the close accounts below of the key NY-Boston games in 1968.Īlso, just because you draft a player there is NO guarantee that they will sign with your team. When you manage during a game, you can have each at bat occur with a click of the mouse, or you can auto-play a half-inning or an entire inning, or you can have it auto-play until there are runners in scoring position at which point you can then manage.

You can also manage every or any individual game you choose - so I usually manage very important games and all playoff games my team is in when I play, even if I have auto-played a good chunk of the season (for sentimental reasons I usually manage and play the Opening Day game as well).

Ootp baseball stopper full#

So you can have it run a single day, a week, a month or a whole season in between a few seconds and a few minutes, or you can set it to run real time and have it play out the season one day at a time in real time and take 6 full months to play the regular season. You can have OOTP auto-play as much of a season as you like and as slowly or as quickly as you like. As you will see, the end result was a nail-biter of a division race on a couple of occasions.Ī word about how OOTP works before you read the accounts below (the 1968 AL East: The only thing I did differently was to divide the two leagues into East and West Divisions ahead of when that happened historically in 1969. So unlike other leagues in this one I did not empty the rosters for an inaugural draft but had all teams start the preseason 1966 with the rosters they had had at that time. Since I wanted to manage the Yankees starting with what they had to work with in 1966 when they finished last, but with an alternate history after that, the starting point was logical. I chose that year to start for a few reasons: I have run early '60s leagues a number of times, I wanted to start at the end of the Koufax era, and also find the early 60s Yankees teams that were so dominant quite boring compared with later ones. Unlike some other OOTP leagues I have played, in this one I decided to use the historical teams as they were historically in real life at the starting point which was the 1966 season. This is a narrative of the outcomes of a league I set up to play solitaire on Out of the Park Baseball 14.