How similar is this to MVP Baseball 2005?

[Moses]

I've played a lot of MVP Baseball 2005 recently and there are some features missing from that game that I want. How similar to that game is this game, for those who played both?

Random list of things I want:

1. Be able to create my own players
2. A franchise mode that I can start from scratch, an expansion team for example
3. Ability to trade players and draft picks
4. See game logs of players (basic I know, but missing in 05 and it's killing me)
5. Customize and upgrade your stadium, such as concessions. Determine ticket prices, etc.

Also, can you sim a game and then jump in at any time to play yourself? 05 has that feature and its pretty cool.

Basic questions but before I buy this I wanted to ask.

[AZAxle]

1-So yes you can create your own players but you don't control them directly in game they're just one of many players in the league that play for a team/organization. If you're looking to create a bunch of custom players that is where OOTP excels. Fictional leagues are really fun to setup and watch.
2-Yes you can absolutely setup a custom fictional league or even modern MLB league and then introduce an expansion team or even just start a league from scratch and work with no history. OOTP also excels at this allowing for deep customization and setups of almost whatever you'd like.
3-Yes and Yes. Draft pick trading for default MLB setups is turned off since that's not what RL has but you can always go into the league settings pages and allow draft pick trading.
4-Yes you can absolutely look at game logs, box scores, and even get player logs for just 1 player for the past games they've played in. OOTP documents all of those and saves them so you can always go back and look at the past.
5-Regretfully this is not something OOTP can do. There isn't any form of upgradable stadium approach like MVP Baseball 05 had. You can make your own stadium using our construction kit or find some of the amazing ones made by users on our forums. But we don't have an ingame system to add vendors, concessions, add seating areas...Now we do allow you to determine ticket prices but we try to keep the finances in the game as simplified as possible for users.

[Moses]

Cool, thank you for the detailed reply.

[iamKarl]

You can literally do all that and 10000000000000000000000000 TIMES more! lmao This is the only management game on the entire market worth playing. I have been begging the Devs in all the forums to tackle American Football because all the simulation manager American Football games are trash and unplayable!