OS Roundtable: Have you Ever Completed a 162 Game Season?

[Mo]

Yes, done it the last two years with the Show, playing every game, all 9 innings.

Did it with HH02 on the PC and HH04 on PS2 as well.

[Joey]

In '10 I finished a season using the Mets and my '86 roster set - got beat by the Blue Jays in the Series (Barfield and Bell were mashers). This year with the extra games I'll be able to get in on the Vita, I fully expect to finish a season with the Marlins (playing all 162 games) AND a full season using one of the classic roster sets. Probably will go with jemeyers '87 set.

[ootherocoo]

I've played a full 162 game season and a half of another in The Show '10.

This year I'm going to try an play a full 162 game season this year.....all while working a full time and planning my wedding!!....

[Dogslax41]

I usually play every game of the 162 in tune with the games in real life.

This can lead to some long catchup weekends as i generally try to make it to 30-40 games a year.

Once my first season is done, for any subsequent year I will play 2 games of each division series and 1 game of non division series unless it is a rivalry then I will play the entire series. Usually works out to about 70 games.

That let's me possibly get an additional season in before the next year comes out.

[dochalladay32]

Depends on what we are talking. Completely play? No. But I've finished many a complete season in MVP 05 between playing and managing games.

[saturn2187]

I'm going to chime in. My friend and I did an online league last year, and we both played all 162 games. No simulations.

Simulated every single CPU vs CPU game as well.

We both made the playoffs.

We are doing it again this year.

[sbmnky]

Good read.

I've only done once - HH 2001. I took the Dodgers to a WS title (the last one I've won in a video game) playing all 162 games. Dodgers swept the Yankees in the series. The only thing I remember from the season was Shawn Green hitting his 70th homer off the LF foul pole against John Rocker. I think that game determined home field throughout the playoffs.

I enjoy the simming aspect of the game now - especially with the rosters that are about to release. I figure I can get through 4-5 season in the same amount of time it would take me to play all 162 games of one season. That's much more interesting to me. This year, I plan on keeping my game to game stats on a spreadsheet.

[Mercury53]

Back when I play Triple Play 2000, I finished a few, but I really didn't have much to do back in those days. Now, I've only managed to finish one, and that was last year. It's so hard to develop a dynasty with such long seasons.