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Originally Posted by ctorg

Since they are immersed in real baseball, I would think writers would gravitate more toward games that aim to replicate real baseball than ones that concentrate more on fictional baseball worlds. OOTP is not the best tool for pitting classic teams against one another or capturing the feel of using past players. While it can do these things, Strat-O-Matic, Diamond Mind, and others do it better. OOTP is more of a "fictional" game, even in its historical mode.

I slightly disagree. I think OOTP 2007 is the best tool for pitting classic teams against eachother and it's fantastic at capturing the feel of using past players. However, I think that with OOTP, it takes a lot of setup time and tweaking to achieve both and that is enough to deter most the big sports writers from utilizing it as a tool to simulate scenarios for their pieces. That's why they always use games like Diamond Mind and, over the last several years, WhatIfSports.com.