Yesterday, we had our opening draft for the OOTP 10 Baseball league I am in. These things take forever in person. I only sat through three rounds, and that took three hours. Apparently they went for six more rounds and six more hours. So my roster is nowhere near complete, though I thank Bill Abner for not sticking me with crappy pitchers.
Given how popular online leagues are, it’s a little disappointing that OOTP doesn’t have a real online draft system that works without everyone compiling a draft list of 500 players or so. If our league had any confidence in the computer draft system, we could have done that.
As it stands now, I like my rotation and I have a stud middle reliever who only needs one more average pitch to become a starter – he has a 10 fastball, a 10 splitter and a 10 stamina. But he’ll need a third pitch to become effective as a SP. Good news – he’s 22 and has time to do that. Bad news – he may never develop that third pitch. He’ll probably pitch in close to 70 games for me as a reliever with that kind of stamina.
Are the players MLB or Fictional?
Fictional. Otherwise it would have gone much faster.
That was like reading a foreign language, I understood like none of that, stupid American sport :P
A benefit to them being fictional is that you are not pre-disposed to their on/off field history. Being from Boston, I would probably pass on (and spite my team) Manny Ramirez because he was an a-hole here, even though the game would probably have him at a 10 for all his hitting categories.
Mentioning Manny, does the game have drug testing for the players? How much would that stink if you lost your 1st pick 50 games!
Manny Ramirez has a 19/20 rating for “greed” and a 3/20 rating for “leader ability.”
And there are drug suspensions.
The draft was great and, as long as it took — 9 rounds in 9 hours is REALLY fast when you have 15+ people on an IRC channel.
We have a lot of guys really into the league, which should make it a lot of fun. Online leagues are only as good as the players make it.
Damn…after last week’s podcast I wish Bruce was playing!
How else would it work if teams didn’t submit draft lists? Players will never be satisfied with a computer draft, no matter how good it is, because it wouldn’t match their own choices 100%.
I made one list of 100 players—which, to be honest, I spent about 10 minutes in total compiling—then copied it to all rounds. I made a filter to focus on the kinds of players I wanted early on, and will fill out the end of my roster with the players I need to field a team.
I think the draft is a bit of a crap shoot, so I have little desire to spend too much time on it.
I thought your list was good, heh.
Well, there’s a difference between “too much time” and “no time at all,” heh.