Out of the Park is a baseball simulation league where you act as General Manager of a baseball team. You draft amateur players, manage your minor league system, make trades with other owners, set the lineups and rotations and manage the scouting and player development of your team.
Our league began here on the SDMB back in 2002 and have been playing for over fifteen years and have just started our 31st season.
The Atlanta franchise is currently available for someone who wants to take it over. Here is your chance to take a franchise that has been down on its luck of late and turn it around. The down side is that the team lost 106 games last year. The up side, however, is that Atlanta has the first pick in this year’s amateur draft (and the first pick in every round).
We are using version 19 of Out of the Park baseball. The software can be purchased from Out of the Park Developments where it is currently available for 50% off ($19.99).
Have any questions? Feel free to reach out to me either via direct message or here in the thread.
What that means is that at some time after the sim is run (currently on Wednesday nights), you have to download the latest league updates to your local game. You make your changes and then upload the changes to the league server.
Edit for clarity: You can do this at any point between sims. So, for example, for this week, you’d have from when the sim is run tonight until next Wednesday to upload your changes.
How long you spend with your team is up to you. You can take just a few mintues to do some tweaks, or you could spend hours analyzing every player in your system. You also can spend a lot or no time talking with other owners about trades. It’s all up to you. We do ask that you upload changes every sim, but it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes (at a minimum) to do so.
During the off-season we sim more often, but you don’t need to make changes every sim – only if you want to sign free agents or the like.
I, uh, live in the metro Atlanta area, but that’s really my only qualification (beyond being a casual PC gamer). I haven’t paid much attention to baseball in the last 20 years. I’ve never played a baseball sim.
So consider me the equivalent of the 1906 Toledo Mud Hens; I’ll buy the software and play if no one else steps up, but surely there must be someone better…
I knew nothing of the game when I bought it and joined a few years back. Now I have my own "stand alone’ league I play between Zev’s/online league sims. I’m on year (about) 80(!) now and the game itself is highly addictive and great fun.