Out Of The Park (OOTP) Baseball: anyone else playing this?

aaaand OOTP 17 just went on sale for $10 for the WS. look like i'll be updating!

I play iootp on ios but its not that great.. some of the player progression is mystifying and its basically impossible to build a team through the draft since theres usually about 1-2 good players period and the rest are all relievers and 1/2 star prospects.

huh. on the desktop platform i've had some decent luck with the draft (tho my preference is to focus on international talent). once a team gets good tho, it's tough because the 70-80 rated talent is def concentrated in the top 10 picks – but i've still gotten some decent talent in the earlier rounds. the guy i mentioned going into the hall was a 20th round pick!
the key is to have a scout that's really good (excellent/legendary) with amateur talent.

yeah iootp is way stripped down - no scouts or anything like that. its still fun to sim for a couple years to see what happens but once the players name shift into purely AI generated names I lose interest

This sounds cool, I've never played sim games but it seems like something I'd really like. I'll have to check this out during the offseason.

do it dude. you won't miss the rest of your life.

played 2 seasons now, blew a 3-1 game WS lead with 3 outs from victory in season1, just won it all in season 2, but I am a trade happy and not concentrating on the farm so I am anticipating a steep drop off for upcoming year

You're missing out! The Most rewarding thing in the game for me is having one of my draft picks/international amateurs come through the system and light the big leagues on fire. Right now one of my best guys was a low A throw-in I got in a p huge trade. My scouts really liked the guy, looked big league ready, but he'd been languishing in the low minors for no apparent reason. Two years later he was an all-star, ROY and basically replaced Mike trout in RF (Trout was 38 at this point).