My Cubs

[older than dirt]

I got my Cubs to the playoffs in 2025. We made it to 2nd round before the Dodgers beat us. I felt mildly optimistic about 2026. Then Kyle Tucker and Shota Imanaga both had ratings drops down to 3's. Seriously? How are you supposed to play franchise when star's randomly drop like this?

[s_weed59]

Ask Mark Prior? He may have some insights. : )

[Swisspike]

Turn off financials. Sign every excellent free agent out there.

Trade these excellent players for the best prospects in the league.

After three years, you'll be winning 140 games a year, year after year.

Even the Cubs can have a good team this way. They have to cheat to do it, but art imitates life, amiright?

[older than dirt]

Never turned off financials before. have to see how to do it. Thanks!

[dolfin561]

Drop player aging in settings to about .900 or lower if you want, this will delay a players ratings regression.

[older than dirt]

Originally posted by dolfin561:

Drop player aging in settings to about .900 or lower if you want, this will delay a players ratings regression.

Thanks!

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by dolfin561:

Drop player aging in settings to about .900 or lower if you want, this will delay a players ratings regression.

IF you do this, then you will have older players that will keep their starting jobs longer. This is fine, if that's what you want. This will result in your good minor leaguers not making it to MLB until their mid 20's.

I prefer getting the young players getting going early, rather than a 39-year old Paul Goldschmidt hanging on.

[older than dirt]

Originally posted by Swisspike:

Originally posted by dolfin561:

Drop player aging in settings to about .900 or lower if you want, this will delay a players ratings regression.

IF you do this, then you will have older players that will keep their starting jobs longer. This is fine, if that's what you want. This will result in your good minor leaguers not making it to MLB until their mid 20's.

I prefer getting the young players getting going early, rather than a 39-year old Paul Goldschmidt hanging on.

Didn't think about that, thanks. I would much rather have a productive farm system and promote young guys. I just don't understand stars dropping off a cliff rating wise after one year.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by older than dirt:

Originally posted by Swisspike:

IF you do this, then you will have older players that will keep their starting jobs longer. This is fine, if that's what you want. This will result in your good minor leaguers not making it to MLB until their mid 20's.

I prefer getting the young players getting going early, rather than a 39-year old Paul Goldschmidt hanging on.

Didn't think about that, thanks. I would much rather have a productive farm system and promote young guys. I just don't understand stars dropping off a cliff rating wise after one year.

I don't fool with any numerical game settings, other than to tune DOWN strikeouts, and slightly tune UP average and walks.

Modern baseball sucks. Give me 1955, any day.

[Siruss]

Originally posted by older than dirt:

I got my Cubs to the playoffs in 2025. We made it to 2nd round before the Dodgers beat us. I felt mildly optimistic about 2026. Then Kyle Tucker and Shota Imanaga both had ratings drops down to 3's. Seriously? How are you supposed to play franchise when star's randomly drop like this?

Do have "very high" accuracy on their scouting? Sometimes after a new season, or a change in personnel, they will need to be re-evaluated. Sometimes by default the OSA ratings get turned on too which are lower than my scout. Just checking because that indeed is a drastic decline esp for just the age 30 season.
The other thing is how are your MLB coaches at "Handles Aging"?

[dolfin561]

This was brought up on the OOTP forums and they are aware and a developer even said to turn down aging modifier until it's fixed. You could also turn up Development Speed If you are concerned about prospects being blocked.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by dolfin561:

This was brought up on the OOTP forums and they are aware and a developer even said to turn down aging modifier until it's fixed. You could also turn up Development Speed If you are concerned about prospects being blocked.

Their developers are Korean bean counters. The developer sold out, several years ago, and the game code has been deteriorating for years.

[bshock]

Sports games are never realistic. It's why I can't play them if I'm actually invested in the real life sport. Infuriating.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by bshock:

Sports games are never realistic. It's why I can't play them if I'm actually invested in the real life sport. Infuriating.

I have been playing various versions of this computer game since 2002. I am one of the OG's on their forums...it isn't perfect, and it fact has gotten worse since they forced this ignorant mechanic of the "perfect" pay to win system, but it IS the best baseball pc game ever made.

[older than dirt]

Originally posted by Swisspike:

Originally posted by bshock:

Sports games are never realistic. It's why I can't play them if I'm actually invested in the real life sport. Infuriating.

I have been playing various versions of this computer game since 2002. I am one of the OG's on their forums...it isn't perfect, and it fact has gotten worse since they forced this ignorant mechanic of the "perfect" pay to win system, but it IS the best baseball pc game ever made.

I remember playing Strat-O-Matic baseball on a card table. On PC I played Baseball Mogul a few years. I agree OOTP is the best baseball game n PC even if it has gone backwards.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by older than dirt:

Originally posted by Swisspike:

I have been playing various versions of this computer game since 2002. I am one of the OG's on their forums...it isn't perfect, and it fact has gotten worse since they forced this ignorant mechanic of the "perfect" pay to win system, but it IS the best baseball pc game ever made.

I remember playing Strat-O-Matic baseball on a card table. On PC I played Baseball Mogul a few years. I agree OOTP is the best baseball game n PC even if it has gone backwards.

You're older than dirt...well..I played strat, and other bball games back around 1965 or so. Heh heh, You can't name a baseball board game I haven't tried. Strat, Pursue the Pennant, Sherco, ABPA, SI Superstar baseball, Cadaco, and many, MANY others.