How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

[WazzuRC]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Ended up playing for 4+ hours last night and getting through the rest of my season. After a great 48-40 start, just 2 games behind St. Louis, heading into the AS Break I thought I might be poised for a great run in the 2nd half. Nope .

I proceeded to **** the bed in the 2nd half with the worst record in all the big leagues. I ended up at 75-87, finishing 4th in the NL Central.

During the offseason, I've dealt Ryan Doumit and cash for a hard throwing AAA Reliever, a quality SP prospect, and a switch hitting 1B.

I avoided arbitration with Zach Duke, Lastings Milledge (who was great for me), Joel Hanrahan, and Andy LaRoche by signing them to extensions. The other arbitration cases I ended up winning.

I'm now in free agency and looking to pick up both a 2B and SS, upgrade my OF depth, pick up a utility IF, and get a decent SP.

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Put Matt Diaz on waivers two days ago, he has been claimed by Pitt or Milkwaukee... doing terrible as a lefty specialist hitter, so I'm probably bringing Clevlen up who's absolutely raking in the minors. I'll give you guys a more thorough update at the end of the month.

Also, I'm thinking I shouldn't have played with coaches. I'm worried that they may be doing something bad with the players in the lower minors. For example, Bethancourt is playing bad and he's supposed to be a 4 and a half star potential catcher. Granted, he's only 20 but still. Also, with coaches on, I see Derek Lowe batting .333 with 5 RBI's and 4 doubles.

[Pielet]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

6-11 so far with the White Sox, just like real life. Too bad in OOTP that Juan Pierre is out for 2 mos and Gordon Beckham has 3 weeks left with a strained hamstring.

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

I feel like starting over. Just because I don't like having the coaches on, and I think I need to change around the settings a little bit. All-in-One mod got updated BTW.

[bkrich83]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

40-61 at the trade deadline.

Injuries have really hurt. Season is lost, and this team needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

I have begun trading away aging veterans and players who don't fit what I am trying to accomplish.

David Eckstein, Chris Young, and Jon Garland were most recently sent packing. I did get Manny Parra from Milwaukee in exchange for Chris Young.

Lost Matt LaPorta for the season with torn ankle ligaments. Which was too bad. In 88 games he was hitting .304 with 15 HR's and 54 RBI.

[PadresFan104]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

You traded away Eck!?!?!?!

40-61 at the trade deadline.

Injuries have really hurt. Season is lost, and this team needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

I have begun trading away aging veterans and players who don't fit what I am trying to accomplish.

David Eckstein, Chris Young, and Jon Garland were most recently sent packing. I did get Manny Parra from Milwaukee in exchange for Chris Young.

Lost Matt LaPorta for the season with torn ankle ligaments. Which was too bad. In 88 games he was hitting .304 with 15 HR's and 54 RBI.

[bkrich83]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

You traded away Eck!?!?!?!

I had no use for a 35 year old 2B in the last year of his contract with this team. It's a complete rebuild.

Nick Hundley got sent down to AAA. He was hitting a whopping .188 midway in to July.

You wouldn't even recognize the lineup.

Matt LaPorta and Everth Cabrera did make the All Star Team. Cabrera is having a ridiculous season.

[Yasko]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

I did a complete rebuild for the Texas Rangers so that I can better identify with the young team as it grows and I learn to manage over the seasons. Its fun to start with young eager prospects that have been hand picked.

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Starting a new save... realistic MLB league playing as the Braves. 20-80 rating, scouts/coaches on, etc. Should be fun. I was going to write up a dynasty report in the Dynsty HQ but that's too time consuming. I'll update you guys every month or so.

My lineup is:
SS Escobar
2B Prado
3B Chipper
C McCann
1B Glaus
CF McLouth/LF Diaz
LF Cabrera/CF McLouth
RF Heyward (starting him here til he matures into the role)

Rotation:
Lowe
Jurrjens
Hanson
Hudson
Kawakami

Bullpen:
CL Wagner
SU Saito
Moylan
O'Flaherty
Medlen
Chavez
Valdez

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Scrap that Braves one... I think I'm going to start a Giants one.

[Yasko]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

101 wins and out in the 1st round of the playoffs. My farm system is now loaded with top prospects for later trades. My fan rate is up to 87 from the low 70s. I look forward to seeing how my young team comes out after a full year together. The owner is demanding WIN now for year 2.
Also $40 million + in profit for my team.

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

I've joined an online league called Over the Mound, and I took over a team called Ruston Rabbits. After this year, I plan on changing the team name to symbolize change (with me coming in and all). I don't want to change it too much so I was wondering if there is something any of you guys can come up with that I could change Rabbits to. And I might switch cities as well.

I was thinking (City Name) Jackrabbits?

I don't know but my current logo is this:

[mattlanta]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

So in my OOTP league, I was trying to play out every game but that's just way too much of a hassle, lol. Now I'm going to start another league (again) but this time I'll probably try to build a dynasty with the Marlins or the Nationals or some other crappy team like that.

[Perceptor]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Going to start running with this game. Had it installed on my MBP, but haven't had any time to play it with a 3-month old and Football Manager. However, after reading your updates, it's time to play

[CStateAttack]

Re: How is your franchise doing in OOTP11?

Just started my franchsie with my favorite team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Currently at 3-3, I will toss an update here from time to time if you guys are interested. Here's the current roster..

Pitchers:
Sp Paul Maholm
Sp Daniel McCutchen
Sp Charlie Morton
Sp Hayden Penn (Duke was injuried, so Penn took his spot for the time being)
Sp Ross Ohlendorf

MR D.J. Carrasco
MR Brendan Donnelly
MR Steven Jackson
MR Evan Meek
MR Robinson Tejada (Waiver Claim, could be one of my better MR)
MR Ryan Webb (Waiver Claim)
CL Octavio Dotel

Batters: (Bold Designates Starter)
C Ryan Doumit
C Jason Jaramillo
1B Bobby Crosby
1B Bryan Myrow (Andrew McCutchen was injuried, so Myrow was promoted)
2B Akinori Iwamura
2B Delwyn Young
3B Andy LaRoche
SS Rony Cedeno
LF John Raynor
LF Garrett Jones
CF Jonathan Van Every
RF Ryan Church
RF Lastings Milledge