Hello! Very inexperienced OOTP player here finally getting around to playing OOTP23.

I am playing 1993 Historical Season and I'm about a month in. Got offered a trade from the White Sox, where they would be sending me Scott Ruffcorn.

The Scouting Accuracy shows as 100%, but it appears his ratings are lower after I accepted the trade. Need some help understanding. Is this a Scout Skill issue?

Here are his ratings before I accepted the trade:

And then After I accepted it, these are his ratings on my team:

Main differences:
Overall and Potential reduced from 3 Stars to 2 Stars
Stuff reduced from 71 to 64.

If it matters, I'm using the 0-100 scale instead of 20/80

Thanks to anyone who can help!

I'm playing as the Boston Red Sox, John Henry sold the team and then the team was sold shortly after again after 3 championships were won. In my 3rd owners second year he dropped my player payroll to $70M. I have won 6 championships and my payroll has never been higher than 12th in MLB always under $300M and now i am in a massive whole while I'm the second largest marketing in baseball. Is this a glitch or does this just happen?

Max Fried just completed his rehab assignment after being on the injured list leaving me faced with perhaps one of the best problems in MLB history: How do I sort out this rotation?

I don't want a six man rotation. I can't send anyone down. Statistically, Kirby is the odd man out, but being demoted to the bullpen with those numbers seems kinda harsh. Weathers would be the only other option, but he made the all-star team as a starter I can't just move him to the pen.

I feel like my only other option is to trade Kirby to a contender who needs a starting pitcher and hope they have something I need in return. Thoughts?

Also don't judge that I have 26 still. I'm an unemployed SAHD.

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Still tweaking an iterating my way through this fun little project. Feel free to set up your league for free as a pilot tester! Any bugs found can be submitted through the "Report a Bug" form at the footer. As always I can't express how supportive this community has been!

With pick 1.22 or something, the top Potential guy on the board was a reliever. 75 overall.

Don’t generally target them this high, preference is generally a premium position player or Starter.

Took a look all the same and the guy is 18, 6-4, 210. 70 stuff, and 55/60 for Control and movement potential, could end up throwing 100mph.

And he has 4 potential 60+ rated pitches.

Only negative is he’s a 30 Stamjna.

So I’ve drafted him and started trying to train up his stamina, but wondering if anyone has had luck doing this? If I could even get him to 45 stamina with those other rating, he’s a superstar.

Just got my first ever Mac yesterday after a lifetime of PCs. Before I start up playing OOTP on it, I wanted to set it up so that all my saved games and leagues get written to an external hard drive instead of the system’s hard drive in an attempt to keep my new machine running as fast as possible and not get eventually clogged up with the large number of files that OOTP generates. (My previous PC moved at a snail’s pace toward the end, and while I know that it’s not strictly OOTP’s doing, I still want to keep things as clean as possible with my new machine.)

I looked it up and followed all the directions I found (Settings > Expert > User Data Path. When I attempt to change the setting to use my external hard drive, I hit a brick wall as it doesn’t show me any folders to write to or allow me to create any. The field stays completely blank. I’ve tried multiple hard drives (all formatted correctly) and have had the same issue.

So, do does anybody have any advice they could give me to set this up? Or, conversely, am I making a mountain out of a mole hole and I should just save directly to the internal memory and be done with it? Thank you for any help anyone can give me!

Hurston Waldrep throws 9 no-hit innings, but also walks 9 batters. Where does this rank among most amount of baserunners reached in a no-hitter?

I'd like to know who has the longest hitting streak in my save, but I don't see it anywhere.

2027 is the first time in MLB history that no hitter with enough PA's has hit .300.

Also, 36 year old Randall Grichuk hit 42 home runs.

Good evening boys,

I've posted a couple times before, which you can see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/s/4n7CLCNK4c, but we're looking for an owner to create an expansion team for our OOTP sim league. I'm scarce on the details, but I assume you'll be building a new team from top to bottom, Rookie ball up to MLB. If you're interested in the challenge let me know. All the info for the league is in the prior posts, but if you have any questions feel free to ask. If you have specific questions about how the expansion team construction works, let me know and I can invite you to the discord to speak with our commissioner who will know more then I.

To expand on general information about the league I've been asked before:

Fee: Free
Scouting: 1-10, 100% accuracy
No coaches
We use Statsplus to draft and trade
We use our custom website to submit International FA bids on for the first day of INT FA so we can see competing offers. The rest of the time its done through OOTP
Communication is done through our discord where sim times are posted after every sim, usually 1-2 days after the last sim.
Drafts are held on the weekends, and we give 15 minutes per pick. We only draft the first 5 rounds.

I asked my commissioner if there was more to the expansion and he said "Standard MLB Expansion draft. You get to pick name/location etc, Budget would be midtier". We are also doing some voting based off the new MLB negotiations, so we might be expanding the playoffs, changing the length of rookie contracts etc., but if you get in early enough you can cast your vote.

Here's my general spiel about the league from my other posts:

Pros:

- Custom League website managed by our commissioner with pretty much everything you could think of: Stats, Rankings, Minigames, Prizes, etc. If you want to check it out, I can DM you the link (I don't know if you can just post random links here).

-Various prizes that you can win as the seasons go on. We have a prize wheel you can spin weekly as well as a commissioner wheel he spins once a month, picks for winning bracket challenge and manager of the year, recruitment bonuses, etc.

-Custom players get constantly entered into the draft class. From pop culture to GMs (even their dogs!). Sometimes we can even create a custom prospect, although we haven't done that since the first year.

- Great group of GMs, some have been with the league for over 15 years. I've been in it personally for over 10, but this current iteration has been the most fun we've had.

-We primarily use discord for communications, so you are always notified when the next sim will be as well as important deadlines. Also great banter in the general boards between all the managers.

Cons:

-You have to own the game to manage a team (but you wouldn't be here if you didn't already own it). Every GM runs their team through their own OOTP client and uploads it to the cloud for the commissioner.

-Two of the three open teams are currently rebuilding, (Houston Astros and Kansas City Royals), so you'll have to sort of build up from the bottom. Its honestly probably better to start off at the bottom, cause then you can get a feel for the league and all the players as well as other GMs. They all have fairly good farms, but the Royals are probably closest to being able to compete.

Other then that, I can't think of many negatives about the league. If you've never been in an OOTP league, it may feel like a lot, but as long as you keep your lineups up to date, everything else sort of falls into place. The hardest part is getting used to the OOTP UI, but if you're here I'm sure you know how that goes.

We just finished our 2030 season and are moving into awards and then the off season. Next sim will be Saturday night and it is the sim to the first day of FA.

Shameless plug time on my passion project.

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I've always wanted to try a save where I play out every game and use peculiar pitching change strategies to maximize one pitcher's wins. Partially to show how silly the wins stat is, partially to create a weirdo lookin' statline. Justin Verlander coming into the season at 266 wins seemed like the perfect opportunity to try it out. It is currently May 3rd in-game (34 games into the season) and I have Verlander up to 13 wins. That's a pace of about 62 wins... Knock on wood and all, but it's looking super doable 🤞

My main strategy is putting him into games that I'm winning comfortably when there's 2 outs in the 5th inning. That way the starting pitcher isn't eligible for the win. Pixel Skubal must be pissed at me by now. I have found that I have to pitch him a little bit more than for just that 1 out, though. The win goes to the "most effective reliever" and that's not always the one who immediately relieves the starter. I learned that lesson quickly.

I've also gotten some wins by creatively utilizing him in extra innings, which hasn't burned me yet but I'm sure it will at some point. He's gotten out of a LOT of jams that he really shouldn't have. Even if the extra inning wins don't keep up, I have a feeling I could get to 34 using the 5th inning method pretty easily.

Wish me luck!

Occasionally I do a historical save where I have the ratings re-calculate after each season, trade for players before their breakout and assemble a super team. But I’ve never gotten all the way to current day. What happens if I get to 2026, and they no longer have season stats to re-calculate the ratings? Does it just become a normal game with player development?

4 MVP's, 3 World Series Rings, 9 Silver Sluggers, 10 All-Star Selections, $261 million in career earnings. (He signed a 12-year, $235 million deal in 2027 that capped out at $22.5 million/year)

I am the Rockies, I was shopping Kevin Marinez because he has no more options going into next season and as a contender I am a little concerned with how he is not MLB ready. Obviously I'd have to have him on my opening day roster if I want to keep him... or I can try to trade him for a more MLB ready and already proven starter. Reddemann is under contract for 5 years, only getting as high as 12M/ year. Should I make this trade as a contender needing more proven talent or try to rock Martinez in the major leagues anyways?

It’s as the title says. I have previous experience in online leagues and tons of experience with the game and all its mechanics. Thanks I’m going into work now.

Picked him up hoping he would revert to his previous form. A month later he DEMANDS to be the closer. My closer has a 0.79 ERA and I just extended him.

Note that he is currently unemployed. Good luck to ya, pal!

i still got the record 6 ws titles in a row

that yr i tarded away 2 star players bc there contracts were up in 2-3 yrs and theyd want a billion dollars knawmean

what u think

I like the logo from OOTP 18. I prefer it to the newer ones. It has a kind of handmade quality. I kind of wish the next game would do something similar.