[Kelric]

One of my favorite activities with OOTP when I don't have any serious leagues going is to draft a specific type of team with real players (current or historical, doesn't matter), turning injuries off and seeing how they perform over a couple of seasons (real players simply for the name recognition factor).

Sometimes I'll draft all-field no-hit guys and a pitching staff of the highest groundball pitchers I can find whether they are any good or not (though I try not to take dreadfully bad ones). Sometimes I'll take the worst fielders money can buy and do the same thing with the pitching staff.

I've drafted my entire pitching staff without taking a single batter, just to get the best hurlers I could. I've done the opposite, too, and taken all hitters like the draft I just ran. While the game doesn't know names, you guys do, so if you've played Darkcloud's '07 roster set you should have an idea of how these guys are rated. My RHP + DH lineup looks like this:

1. Derrek Lee (DH)
2. Freddy Sanchez (2B)
3. Eric Chavez (3B)
4. Alex Rodriguez (SS)
5. Mark Teixeira (1B)
6. Adam Dunn (RF)
7. Andruw Jones (CF)
8. Hideki Matsui (LF)
9. Kenji Johjima (C)

It'll be fun to see how many runs these guys score.

I've drafted all speed teams and tried to get everyone over 50+ steals by running as often as possible and not caring if they are thrown out. I've drafted all 35+ YOs in a 'win-now' team scenario. I've taken all teenage teams, teams where I tried to get one player for each letter of the alphabet (so I'd have Bobby Abreu, Josh Barfield, Kiko Calero and so on and so forth), teams where I've tried to get position players who can play at least three positions well (6+ rating out of 10), etc., etc., etc.

Anyone else do the same sort of thing?