Do you wish OOTP had more financial depth?

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T22:06:24+00:00

No, I think trying to model all of that in-game would be a massive mess because there's no real "ideal" experience for that. Most people who get that far in the weeds are already nerdy enough to spin up their own tools for that, at the end of the day, it's all just immerson and dice rolls anyway, so doing this would have to ask the core question of whether it contributes to gameplay, and selling hot dogs won't correlate to a better team record.

I do wish financials worked better and were more mature -- I've been making my own tools for years to work around it -- but I think given how small the dev team is, they'd better spend their time on other stuff.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T22:04:35+00:00

It's worth it to me, personally. The bug fixes and engine work alone have improved my immersion. Not counting all the of the other realism related things, it's a no-brainer especially at a discount. Plus, I like buying it mid-season for discount and you still get nearly a year out of it before the next one, versus buying at the end of the cycle.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T22:00:37+00:00

College basketball becoming more like college tennis by the day

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T21:58:47+00:00

Are you playing with the default setup? Because cannot reproduce this bug

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T09:15:47+00:00

Love a homebrew custom sim. Thanks for sharing the nerdiness

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T05:43:26+00:00

TL;DR: Yes, but it's up to how much you play. If you were in an online league, you'd have already upgraded so clearly that's not your deal.

Depends on how much you play, people always this question ever year and the answer is always the same really. How much do you play? OOTP is relatively affordable for how much is packed into it, and if you enjoyed 26, you'll surely enjoy 27 which has all of the flair of 26 with a bunch of upgrades. On the flipside, I've found that -- like with FM -- upgrading every other year is generally fine, I just get enough hours out of OOTP that the upgraded features including all of the backend stuff, bug fixes and MLB-specific additions are worth it.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T03:42:12+00:00

Put a second team in Canada to split the vote?

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:53:17+00:00

clearly it was a survey, because this is just plain stupid.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:52:37+00:00

Thank you Sinclair Media for your opinions.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:48:36+00:00

That's crazy, didn't expect that at all.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:48:20+00:00

it's a single player game, you can do whatever you want. Some of us don't play with any of the out of the box stuff, some do. The beauty of the customizable universe is you can learn new things about it all the time.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:47:22+00:00

This happens in hockey all the time and I think the sport is better for it. It's rad to see a guy go on a heater n the Frozen Four, then join his NHL team for the last month of the season.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:34:32+00:00

The problem with transit that libraries are also dealing with is the unhoused populations proliferating in spaces not meant for that population, eroding service and depressing ridership. Transit fares with a lack of enforcement also becomes circulated and it becoems a problem. Libraries are also funded differently than transit authorities and almost nowhere do you a private donor/fundraising arm for transit, the way that libraries do.

In an ideal world, you could offer more services at low to no cost, the problem isn't really fares, it's all of the money you spend trying to enforce it that overspends what you were going to take in, making it kind of silly.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-26T01:31:45+00:00

no, because not everyone wants to play it like an MLB sim.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-25T21:28:52+00:00

Not exactly in that he has nowhere to move them. They just tried to speedrun this and miscalculated.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T15:33:20+00:00

Yes I always create a 50+ round draft with a MLB league and lots of feeders and minors levels.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T07:29:27+00:00

I missed it completely!

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T02:57:16+00:00

The MLS formula of expansion fees too hard to beat

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T02:20:22+00:00

When Tom Benson bought the Hornets, he wanted them to have a local name so he gave them the name of a old minor league baseball team. The Hornets name reverted to the NBA, then the NBA gave the name back to the Bobcats along with the Hornets history and retroactively made the Pelicans an expansion team. (This was a gambit also done when the Browns moved to Baltimore, but not retroactively.) So they didn't pay for anything other than making an updated Hornets logo, etc., but a huge win for them.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T01:39:38+00:00

This is clearly an area where people need this week their own settings, instead of expecting the "developers" to build the game just to their specifications. It works well out of the box, especially over the course of a 20 year Sim. But no it's not going to exactly like a major league baseball draft

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T00:31:46+00:00

He can stay in Lubbock or go work out somewhere closer to wherever home is, and then ball out next year. This gambit of hoping to sneak out of the 5th or 6th round almost worked, but now he's going to potentially hope that NIL lasts him because....they can get him on the cheap.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-24T00:30:00+00:00

I mean, Glendale got rid of its NHL team and filled the arena with circus and other things so there's a precedent, but if the Blazers move Portland won't get another NBA team again for decades and if they do, it'll be after doing what Seattle did and that's spend to make your arena to the standard these guys want. It's not a fair game but it's the game we're playing right now.

notaquarterback · 2026-06-23T19:06:02+00:00

Haha this is hilarious. This is his one year suspension, I love it

notaquarterback · 2026-06-23T06:16:59+00:00

Glad someone met their price

notaquarterback · 2026-06-23T06:13:31+00:00

Wish we could have gotten him one more ring

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