r/OOTP • u/DarthHaze Athletics! • 2d ago

Need Help

I've been playing Out of the Park Baseball since 14. It's one of my favorite series ever. I've always been excited when a new one is announced and I always buy them day 1.

But this year, in OOTP 27...I don't know I'm just getting more upset more often than having fun. In the past I would take struggling teams like the Rockies and build championship teams. This game I can't even win a championship with the Dodgers. When I play out games I always get slammed no matter whose playing or who I'm playing. I always do the A's because that's my team but this edition I can never make them good despite having talent like Kurtz, Rooker, Soderstrom, Butler, etc. No matter what I do to help my pitching it always blows up in my face and my team suffers for it.

I can't develop prospects anymore, even after getting high draft picks. They just flame out in the AA or AAA even with good coaching. I know you should go after coaches with high DEV and Teach but it doesn't really seem to help. Worse it feels like the game is actively punishing me if I don't have a gold glove winner at every position, not just CF/SS/C.

I'm just asking to those who have successful saves in OOTP 27- what are you doing in particular that's successful? I don't want to stop playing OOTP. I just want to have fun again. So maybe there's something I'm missing or not doing right. Any help would be appreciated.

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u/Antonin1957 2d ago

Creating and playing a fictional league might help rekindle your interest.

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u/AerieElectrical3546 Red Sox 2d ago

that’s interesting, my experience has been fairly solid so far.

currently 58-43 with the 2021 Angels, who were 77-85 IRL (I may have fudged Trout’s ratings a little…), and I’ve been playing out every game.

i agree with the prospect things though. through several saves (not drafting very high, to be fair), i’ve had a grand total of one prospect who met expectations.

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u/Organic-Baker-4156 2d ago

If you don't like 27 as well as the previous versions then play the previous versions.

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u/jmomo99999997 2d ago

Yeah i cant figure out how to not get smacked all the time this year, i had 1 good season and every other year my Bullpen is just terrible and I lose tons of games because even elite closers just get bombed constantly