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anpham · 04-13-2003, 10:06 PM

This isn't meant to be some kind of tutorial, its just how I approach OOTP and most other people maybe too. If you've played team management games a lot you'll eventually realize that it's just about trading for the best available minor leaguers. Once a star player hits 30 or gets too expensive you just look for a team with a couple good minor league players and trade for them. You then have two or three players that possibly can reach the same status. Then when those players hit 30 you trade them for two or three more players. Now you have four or six possibly good players. After awhile it continues to add up and I ended up with a minor league rating over 800 and every other team was in the 60's to even 0's. And each year I had about two 4-5 star players waiting in the minors with no room on the roster to put them. I won each year so I drafted last each time (players who usually went nowhere) and I made a rule to not sign any free agents because these can also be used to trade for minor leaguers. Winning in the first couple years is usually just luck if you picked a good team. The Angels are my home team so I picked them and they have an okay team. OOTP is the same across the board for everyone including salaries and such and I basically just played with rookies and players with less than 6 years major league experience the whole time. If you look at my salary report for 2018 it's only 52 million and I won 139 games. Back in 2010 when I first started my salary was 107 million and I won 126 games. My whole starting lineup ended up being full of 300,000 dollar players and looking at my triple-A team it could also probably make it to the World Series too and possibly win it.

(Attendence is kind of wacky since I played with the capacity to see how many fans I could draw)

2019 132 30 .815 1 3647093 $115,227,487 $59,246,832 $55,980,655
2018 139 23 .858 1 4682565 $126,462,678 $52,457,013 $74,005,665
2017 140 22 .864 1 5120663 $131,796,524 $69,040,188 $62,756,336
2016 133 29 .821 1 5090052 $132,362,722 $65,789,877 $66,572,845
2015 133 29 .821 1 4140281 $129,507,298 $78,445,746 $51,061,552
2014 131 31 .809 1 4097193 $130,287,132 $85,807,611 $44,479,521
2013 132 30 .815 1 4084190 $131,130,970 $94,471,452 $36,659,518
2012 131 31 .809 1 4115462 $130,911,772 $95,457,528 $35,454,244
2011 133 29 .821 1 4125738 $128,181,974 $86,883,899 $41,298,075
2010 126 34 .787 1 4009590 $129,619,818 $107,632,851 $21,986,967

Although the profit numbers are kind of inaccurate, New York and Boston also had the same cash numbers as my team in regular sized stadiums.

Most of my starters were at least 4 star and above but 2 or 3 star players can also put up similiar numbers as well. It only makes a difference if you're going for total annilahation and making sure you win it every time. I'm not sure if they secretly added playoff performance to the player ratings or not but my winning percentage is better in the playoffs then the regular season and that's when you play the good teams. I sim every game, I never play them individually.

It does kind of suck to have to part with a player once they hit 30 but once they go over that age they start to lose value quickly and that's when they get expensive. And once a team gets on a roll they usually stay on a roll. I quit managing the Angels in 2019 and left for the Royals to try out a small market team. Before the final year to balance things out I released a majority of their good minor leagurers into the free agent pool and released three starting pitchers and half the starting lineup as well. Despite that the Angels still won their division 6 years in a row after I left and won over 100 games in 4 of those years (111 being their best). Kind of like the Braves in real life. I'm in Kansas City right now and since then I put a salary cap of 80 million and cash of 10 million and still go with the no free agent signings rule and I eventually reached the same level as the Angels. I do spend around 5 million dollars a year on coaches/scouts (which is a price of a good starter). I'm not sure if coaches matter as much because I've seen some rookies on other teams with similiar ratings as mine with very bad coaches. But if you invest in minor leaguers it's well worth the price because you can get a 300,000 dollar player for three years to play at the level of a 10 million dollar player.

04-13-2003, 10:06 PM	#60 (permalink)
anpham Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 10	This isn't meant to be some kind of tutorial, its just how I approach OOTP and most other people maybe too. If you've played team management games a lot you'll eventually realize that it's just about trading for the best available minor leaguers. Once a star player hits 30 or gets too expensive you just look for a team with a couple good minor league players and trade for them. You then have two or three players that possibly can reach the same status. Then when those players hit 30 you trade them for two or three more players. Now you have four or six possibly good players. After awhile it continues to add up and I ended up with a minor league rating over 800 and every other team was in the 60's to even 0's. And each year I had about two 4-5 star players waiting in the minors with no room on the roster to put them. I won each year so I drafted last each time (players who usually went nowhere) and I made a rule to not sign any free agents because these can also be used to trade for minor leaguers. Winning in the first couple years is usually just luck if you picked a good team. The Angels are my home team so I picked them and they have an okay team. OOTP is the same across the board for everyone including salaries and such and I basically just played with rookies and players with less than 6 years major league experience the whole time. If you look at my salary report for 2018 it's only 52 million and I won 139 games. Back in 2010 when I first started my salary was 107 million and I won 126 games. My whole starting lineup ended up being full of 300,000 dollar players and looking at my triple-A team it could also probably make it to the World Series too and possibly win it. (Attendence is kind of wacky since I played with the capacity to see how many fans I could draw) 2019 132 30 .815 1 3647093 $115,227,487 $59,246,832 $55,980,655 2018 139 23 .858 1 4682565 $126,462,678 $52,457,013 $74,005,665 2017 140 22 .864 1 5120663 $131,796,524 $69,040,188 $62,756,336 2016 133 29 .821 1 5090052 $132,362,722 $65,789,877 $66,572,845 2015 133 29 .821 1 4140281 $129,507,298 $78,445,746 $51,061,552 2014 131 31 .809 1 4097193 $130,287,132 $85,807,611 $44,479,521 2013 132 30 .815 1 4084190 $131,130,970 $94,471,452 $36,659,518 2012 131 31 .809 1 4115462 $130,911,772 $95,457,528 $35,454,244 2011 133 29 .821 1 4125738 $128,181,974 $86,883,899 $41,298,075 2010 126 34 .787 1 4009590 $129,619,818 $107,632,851 $21,986,967 Although the profit numbers are kind of inaccurate, New York and Boston also had the same cash numbers as my team in regular sized stadiums. Most of my starters were at least 4 star and above but 2 or 3 star players can also put up similiar numbers as well. It only makes a difference if you're going for total annilahation and making sure you win it every time. I'm not sure if they secretly added playoff performance to the player ratings or not but my winning percentage is better in the playoffs then the regular season and that's when you play the good teams. I sim every game, I never play them individually. It does kind of suck to have to part with a player once they hit 30 but once they go over that age they start to lose value quickly and that's when they get expensive. And once a team gets on a roll they usually stay on a roll. I quit managing the Angels in 2019 and left for the Royals to try out a small market team. Before the final year to balance things out I released a majority of their good minor leagurers into the free agent pool and released three starting pitchers and half the starting lineup as well. Despite that the Angels still won their division 6 years in a row after I left and won over 100 games in 4 of those years (111 being their best). Kind of like the Braves in real life. I'm in Kansas City right now and since then I put a salary cap of 80 million and cash of 10 million and still go with the no free agent signings rule and I eventually reached the same level as the Angels. I do spend around 5 million dollars a year on coaches/scouts (which is a price of a good starter). I'm not sure if coaches matter as much because I've seen some rookies on other teams with similiar ratings as mine with very bad coaches. But if you invest in minor leaguers it's well worth the price because you can get a 300,000 dollar player for three years to play at the level of a 10 million dollar player.