I have enjoyed playing in some of the greatest teams tournaments. The head to head games have, at times, been intense and a lot of fun (no connection problems whatsoever), but my main interest would have been in the draft leagues. I’ve been lobbying hard on other forums to get Mike and Jamie to consider computer manager/ netplay optional formats. It would be pretty tough to free up a couple of hours every week to play a series head to head with families and work commitments. I would love to take part in a 162 game draft league and it’s doable if a person can play exactly when they want.
Today, I’m up at 5 in the morning. Toast and coffee in the morning before heading off to work, enough time to play a few innings against my opposition’s computer manager. I can finish off the game when I get home after work before the kids get home. Up late on another occasion…1 AM, love to play a game and one that matters..…a league game, I can play the opposition’s computer manager. Next Thursday night, everyone else in the house is busy and that frees up some time, I’ll get a hold of the opposition’s manager and ask him if he would like to netplay a double header! Have leagues that are netplay optional…they will be far more popular than leagues that essentially force you to play your games head to head at set times.
Sometimes you want to zip through your games, sometimes you want to take your time and spend some time gazing over and dissecting your opposition’s cards, sometimes in the middle of a game I want to refer to my Baseball Prospectus to look at the scouting reports of a specific player….all of these instances lend themselves to the computer manager/ netplay optional format.
I really want to get involved in a 162 game draft league with Dynasty but without this kind of flexibility, I'll probably be sticking to a couple of stable OOTP leagues.
OOTP is a great game, too, but it's a completely different experience, one that I immensely enjoy but I am definitely more of a Stratomatic/ Replay/ Pursue the Pennant type of guy.