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red95vette · 03-13-2008, 09:08 AM

I'm trying out the OOTP8 demo. (I tried last year's game and sat on the fence for a long while, but eventually decided NOT to purchase).

Anyway, I am trying to set up a simple fictional league and have it pretty much created with 8 teams. I want to run a short season where each teams plays each other twice for a total of 14 games. The game allowed me to configure this pretty easily, but I have two questions:

1. The schedule generator crams all the games into a 15 day period. I'd like to have it so that each team plays one game per week -- similar to football. Is that possible to do automatically or would I have to go into the schedule editor and configue such a schedule manually. If I have to do it manually, will the game reuse the schedule each year or would I have to manually edit it each season?

2. Related to #1, if I actually had only one scheduled game per week, then each team's ace starter would be paramount to the club (while other SPs on the team would become very less important, filling the roles of long reliever or injury reserve). Also bullpen requirements go way down with really only 2-3 relievers necessary at most. If I set the game to use a one-man pitching rotation would the AI adjust strategically or would it still try to maintain a club with 4-5 quality starters and a full bullpen complement?

Thanks.

03-13-2008, 09:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
red95vette Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 50	Can I Create a League that has one game per week I'm trying out the OOTP8 demo. (I tried last year's game and sat on the fence for a long while, but eventually decided NOT to purchase). Anyway, I am trying to set up a simple fictional league and have it pretty much created with 8 teams. I want to run a short season where each teams plays each other twice for a total of 14 games. The game allowed me to configure this pretty easily, but I have two questions: 1. The schedule generator crams all the games into a 15 day period. I'd like to have it so that each team plays one game per week -- similar to football. Is that possible to do automatically or would I have to go into the schedule editor and configue such a schedule manually. If I have to do it manually, will the game reuse the schedule each year or would I have to manually edit it each season? 2. Related to #1, if I actually had only one scheduled game per week, then each team's ace starter would be paramount to the club (while other SPs on the team would become very less important, filling the roles of long reliever or injury reserve). Also bullpen requirements go way down with really only 2-3 relievers necessary at most. If I set the game to use a one-man pitching rotation would the AI adjust strategically or would it still try to maintain a club with 4-5 quality starters and a full bullpen complement? Thanks.