Different ways to play through a season

[tribefanisu2003]

Different ways to play through a season

That’s a good question. Honestly I’m only in my second season, so I haven’t taken a real deep look yet as to what the cpu benches / rotations look like. But now I’m curious. So I think I’m going to test a couple of things:

1 - start a new test franchise with the sim fantasy draft method, and see how the cpu teams picked to see if they did the same overload of pitchers vs bench players

2 - get into the regular season and see how the cpu resolves those same roster issues / see if they add more bench depth


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Ok, did some testing here. After simming the fantasy draft, my team actually had 4 guys on the bench. However, the cpu teams were a mixed bag. Some had 4 bench players, some had 1. I simmed a month into the season to see if they worked themselves out, and the teams that only had 1 or 2 bench players still only had 1 or 2. So, I then checked my franchise that I’m actually playing through (in year 2), and these roster issues are not present on any of the cpu teams.

So, I guess I never noticed this issue before because typically I do sim through the first year when I start a new franchise, just because I like to get one offseason in, get my first round of draft picks in, get a start on filling the holes on my roster from the fantasy draft sim, etc.


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[bryanm1982]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

Ok, did some testing here. After simming the fantasy draft, my team actually had 4 guys on the bench. However, the cpu teams were a mixed bag. Some had 4 bench players, some had 1. I simmed a month into the season to see if they worked themselves out, and the teams that only had 1 or 2 bench players still only had 1 or 2. So, I then checked my franchise that I’m actually playing through (in year 2), and these roster issues are not present on any of the cpu teams.

So, I guess I never noticed this issue before because typically I do sim through the first year when I start a new franchise, just because I like to get one offseason in, get my first round of draft picks in, get a start on filling the holes on my roster from the fantasy draft sim, etc.


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Thank you for testing it out. Maybe that will be the thing to do is sim the first season.

[dukebeatsuncagainn]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

Player lock a different position every game

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[Neil33]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

What I have found to be fun and keeps you involved and "trying" to get "your" stats is when I start the season I play the first game. If I win I continue to play until I lose. Once I lose, I quick manage the rest of the series and then start the process over with the next series on the schedule.

This way I feel like I've been a part of every series of the season. The only time it got a bit cumbersome is when I went on a twenty game winning streak a couple of years ago.

I usually get three seasons in before the next version comes out.

[Ballgame59]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

With this thread and one I started a couple of days ago, I am prepared to start a franchise with either Toronto or San Diego using OSFM rosters.

Do any of you sim the 1st season?

[Executioner042]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

This past year I starting doing something different as well. My buddies and I would pick a player to use before the game and control their at-bats only. We would sim the pitching and sim the other hitters. Solo, I would just control my hitters and sim everything else. Occasionally, in late innings, I would take over the pitching. It really helped me complete more games and it’s a blast!


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[wcu25rs]

Re: Different ways to play through a season

I usually switch up how I go through a season. Right now, on my Cardinals franchise, I pick one player to player lock each game. I basically just go down the lineup. Only downside is that you have to alter your lineups every 3 or 4 games to get the bench guys in as there is no fatigue when player locking thus the cpu wont alter the lineup before the game.