Frustrating but a Great game

[Dolphinfan]

Playing my own fictional league and starting out as a minor league(A) manager to work my way up, my team has some challenges. But I fought back from 6 down to tie the score. Top of 10th they have a reliever exhausted and are just about out of options. He walks the bases loaded with no outs. I figure I just about have a run here. WRONG! Home to 1st double play for 2 outs. So 2nd and 3rd and two outs. My clutch hitter strikes out to end the threat. I just about broke my laptop, and was yelling at the batter.

BTW, I lost in 13 innings. Go figure.

But I love this game.

[Katdaddy]

I have a similar predicament (new OOTB user here), but on the season-level, not the game level.

Decided to just manage the Brewers out-of-the-box to familiarize myself with the functionality of the game.

Made a staffing change, couple of roster moves within the first 40-50 games of the season...floundered around the .500 mark the entire time (or a bit under).

Then...I went on a tear. Won 14 of 15 and was tied for 1st place in the division....was thinking, "Man, that pitching coach move and the couple of roster moves are really beginning to pay dividends."

Then, Weeks, Braun, and Verlander (I traded for him) went on the shelf with an injury (2-3 weeks each)....Lost 13 of the next 14...

Oh well. Now I'm 2 games or so under .500 again, half my roster is unhappy with team performance...LOL. At least I still have ~80 games remaining in the season.

[RchW]

Just wait until you are in the 7th game of the WS bottom 9th 2 out. Down 2 runs, man on second. The next batter hits an RBI single. My backup catcher playing because the starting C got injured in the game hits the next pitch for a 2 run HR to win the WS. I literally fell off my chair.

[Katdaddy]

Originally Posted by RchW

Just wait until you are in the 7th game of the WS bottom 9th 2 out. Down 2 runs, man on second. The next batter hits an RBI single. My backup catcher playing because the starting C got injured in the game hits the next pitch for a 2 run HR to win the WS. I literally fell off my chair.

WOW! I haven't had any of those "cool moments" yet... one of my SP (Dave Bush) did take a "no hitter" into the 9th inning, but gave up 3 straight singles after that....

[bgeno]

Originally Posted by RchW

Just wait until you are in the 7th game of the WS bottom 9th 2 out. Down 2 runs, man on second. The next batter hits an RBI single. My backup catcher playing because the starting C got injured in the game hits the next pitch for a 2 run HR to win the WS. I literally fell off my chair.

Originally Posted by Katdaddy

WOW! I haven't had any of those "cool moments" yet... one of my SP (Dave Bush) did take a "no hitter" into the 9th inning, but gave up 3 straight singles after that....

New OOTP user...

It wasn't in a big game, but I had a SICK end of a regular season game in a fictional league...



Situation: I'm batting in the bottom of the 9th, bases full, 2 outs, down 2 runs.

At this point in my season, I have 13 guys on my pitching staff because I was very new to the game and wasn't sure who I wanted or who would work out the best (still not totally sure... haha).

So needing 2 runs to tie, the bases full, and no outs to spare, who comes up to bat? My pitcher.

Easy solution, right? Pinch hit, right?

Well, combine the fact that I love pinch hitting for my pitchers with my 12 position players on my roster, and I find out that I'm OUT of position players to pinch hit... I have no one left.

I'm freaking out. How do I get out of this, I think to myself.

I look at my current pitcher's batting ratings... no good... low numbers in everything. Then I think, maybe I've got a pitcher who can at least give me a chance.

So, I find the pitcher with the best hitting attributes. He had around 10 contact, 12 gap power, 2 HR power, 9 eye and 10 avoid K's. Pretty good for a pitcher, but I had to assume that my scout inflated them a little.

Well, I threw the righty starter into the game.

BAM!

Walk-off 3-RBI double by a pinch hitting pitcher in the bottom of the 9th!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by bgeno

New OOTP user...

It wasn't in a big game, but I had a SICK end of a regular season game in a fictional league...

That's the cool thing about OOTP (one of them, at least), in that such a thing could occur, especially if you had a hand in making it happen (such as selecting the pitcher with the best bat).

What makes it cool is that, if you tried it again 10 or 20 times in a row, I bet something like that would not happen again. That's good because it's very unlikely. But, the fact that it did happen once makes it special!

OOTP does not prevent the unlikely from happening, it just makes it unlikely to happen.

[bgeno]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

That's the cool thing about OOTP (one of them, at least), in that such a thing could occur, especially if you had a hand in making it happen (such as selecting the pitcher with the best bat).

What makes it cool is that, if you tried it again 10 or 20 times in a row, I bet something like that would not happen again. That's good because it's very unlikely. But, the fact that it did happen once makes it special!

OOTP does not prevent the unlikely from happening, it just makes it unlikely to happen.

Well put.

And being a sports-only gamer, I love this.

For years, I always said I would rather have companies make the unlikely impossible than take the risk of making the unlikely too frequent.

For example, in football games, people are always begging for the ability to block field goals and punts. Until I'm convinced that game companies can make it happen at a realistic pace, given cheesers/cheaters and such, I'd rather it NOT be possible. If you make it possible, it's likely there is a way to do it easily, and I'd rather not be able to do it at all than to easily do it.

But with OOTP, and maybe it's because it is a text-based sim, I feel like anything is possible and at the correct (or near to it) frequency.

I had a guy hit for the cycle the other day, but I haven't really come close to it other than that (I've been a triple away a time or too, but that's realistic).

So far so good from this new user.

[Déjà Bru]

Yeah, that's what I meant to say. In some other game, something like that may never happen due to programming constraints. Not OOTP.

These forums are great for sharing stuff like this. Enjoy the game (though it sounds like you already are).

[damientheomen3]

Originally Posted by bgeno

Well put.

And being a sports-only gamer, I love this.

For years, I always said I would rather have companies make the unlikely impossible than take the risk of making the unlikely too frequent.

For example, in football games, people are always begging for the ability to block field goals and punts. Until I'm convinced that game companies can make it happen at a realistic pace, given cheesers/cheaters and such, I'd rather it NOT be possible. If you make it possible, it's likely there is a way to do it easily, and I'd rather not be able to do it at all than to easily do it.

But with OOTP, and maybe it's because it is a text-based sim, I feel like anything is possible and at the correct (or near to it) frequency.

I had a guy hit for the cycle the other day, but I haven't really come close to it other than that (I've been a triple away a time or too, but that's realistic).

So far so good from this new user.

off topic, but in MLB 07 the show's career mode, my guy would always end up a triple shy of the cycle in his attempts to get it. Then once, I got a triple in my first at bat, then, completely forgetting about the cycle, I had an easy double on my second at bat, but decided to try to stretch it to another triple. I got the second triple, and finished a double shy of the cycle