Wonderfully intricate and accurate-feeling simulation of managing a baseball team's roster over as many innings or seasons as you like.

I wish life had commissioner mode.

Same old classic with a few new bells and whistles. There is few sports simulations like it.

This is the best baseball sim on the market. Whether you want to take control of a team, just simulate the league and see how things pan out, or just watch a random series/repeat history, this game is amazing. If you are remotely interested in baseball sims, I cannot recommend this enough.

OOTP 17 is a great baseball sim. You get to play with your favorite team while acting as a GM, Manager or both. I like that both the authentic emblems and the authentic major and minor league system rosters are intact. The simulation between days or games is a quick process. What I would like for the game is the upgrade in ball placement around the field. The statistics for defense should be more of an accurate read on the game. And, the 3d view should show more of an detailed improvement. Overall I think this game is a good buy both for those baseball fans who love moding their teams from top to bottom and casual fans who like to have fun as a GM, Manager or both.

Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP for short) 17 is a text based baseball simulation. It contains features for historical gameplay, single player gameplay, custom universe/leagues gameplay and online multiplayer gameplay. The game allows you to take an active role in developing rosters and teams, or managing them. This is done through being a General manager, a manager and even play as the commissioner(you are able to play all three at once, or any combination of the two).

OOTP 17 offers new features over previous editions. They now have full support from MLB and MLBPA(obtained through licensing), so you will have accurate rosters, faces(done through facegen models) and with no worries that they will disappear. Simulation speed has been increased as the new code is allowing the use of multicore processors, which is a huge benefit. The AI also has been enhanced to be smarter in how they draft players, manage players, and develop teams. They will also make decisions depending on your goals and strategy. These are just some of the major changes that OOTP has offered over previous editions.

OOTP has one of the strongest modding communities around for sport simulation games. The community greatly enhances the vanilla gameplay. For instance, historical gameplay has accurate rosters, player attributes, statistics and settings for the era you choose to play(you can play from the grass roots of baseball, negro leagues, or any specific season). You can choose to play it as a single season campaign or start a franchise and build your league from the 1880’s to whenever you choose to end(the starting point is up to you!). The community also offers tools to develop uniforms and baseball caps, and there’s literally thousands already pre-made for you to use if you want to choose from them.

The gaming modes available(and some of this is a repeat of above, I apologize), are single player, and multiplayer. Single player modes allow you to play out single exhibition games with modern and historical teams. You can play as MLB teams, which will have player accurate rosters and attributes. You are also able to create your own fictional leagues, which is a massively popular feature for many players in the OOTP community. You can start from any time frame, and you can customize the league to fit your needs or gameplay style(there are many sliders to adjust to your likings, and needs). Regardless of the league, the game will track and keep a massive history of your statistics as your world/league develops.

The game also features multiplayer gameplay where you can compete in leagues against others, which will put you against the most difficult of opponents(or easy, if they don’t know what they’re doing ;) ). The league will track statistics as if you were in a single player franchise. Many leagues out there have dedicated websites where you can follow the action of the league as it unfolds. It is really a neat feature.

The development team is very active and proactive in fixing bugs and glitches within their games. You don’t have to worry about issues going unnoticed or fixed, and they are very open minded to additional features they may have fixed(as long as they are deemed reasonable of course). The best way to suggest and fill out bug notifications is to use the main forums on their websites, which is ootpdevelopments.com . The community is also very helpful in helping new players learn and teach players about the game(I myself have helped a few players learn the game of baseball and the workings of OOTP).

In conclusion, after 2000+ hours of OOTP 16 gameplay, and 1200+ hours of OOTP15 gameplay, I can honestly say this is the best addition to the series to date. I have never had a game give back so much in value then what OOTP has. It is simply the best baseball simulation on the market(possibly the best sports simulation as well). The game is very polished, and if you are a baseball fan, or a sports fan, I highly recommend that you take a chance on OOTP17. You will NOT be disappointed.

This game is a 10/10 for me. I hope to see you on the field!

This is my first year playing OOTP and I must say I am very impressed with the game. Altho the mass amount of menu screens makes it look daunting, A few games in and it just gets easier to use and navigate. Currently it is spring training and after playing the first 5 games of the season on the game it really feels like baseball is back in real life. The detail and numbers that goes into this game is incredible! I will definietly be buying OOTP every year now. Great game and I strongly recommend it

I bought OOTP 15 because it was £2 on offer because I like sport management simulators and played it for 50 hours without a clue about the rules of baseball, strategy or the league. I deciced to buy OOTP17 because i was enjoying 15 so much and I now have over 200 hours spent on it as well as MLB online subscription to watch games. Do not be put off if you have never watched baseball (for the non-US players), if you like sport simulators, building a team, analysing stats, managing wages and transfers and finding the next superstar then give it a go. Beginners tip however, you need more than one starting pitcher.........

Do you like baseball?

I didn't. I really didn't. I liked a lot of different sports but I always thought baseball was boring, archaic and more an excuse to sit outside, drink beer and gawk at the occasional on-field event.

But then, for whatever reason -- I didn't have much else going on -- I started to watch baseball, because it was always on, pretty much every day, and it started to wrap itself around my brain in a pleasing way. Baseball is low-intensity matched with extreme peaks and valleys of emotion.

More importantly -- Baseball is a long continuous set of calculations based on the manipulation of variables in series after series of problems. Every at-bat, every pitch, every inning, every game is a test of odds and outcomes based on the pitcher, the batter, the fielders, the field, the weather, past results obscuring present values... Baseball is a worthwhile flux.

So - OOTP 17. This is the most advanced and ridiculously satisfying way to run your own personal baseball simulations. So maybe I should rephrase - Do you like Baseball as a concept? Because you will love OOTP.

(Also this year they added little moving pawns to the broadcast view, so it's starting to get satisfyingly similar to half-watching an actual baseball game.)

For those already owning OOTP 16 and mulling an upgrade I would say - the engine runs much faster this year on x64, some under the hood stuff has been nicely tweaked, bells and whistles (the pawns) aren't nothing, and of course, I feel pretty good about supporting this developer, given their track record.

Managed the Pirates to the playoffs only to score 5 runs in 6 games.

10/10 Realism

Former Microleague player, yea back in the mid 80's I started getting into that game. I had all the floppy disk and finally the editor so I could edit and add all the major league players individually, which I did. Played a whole season with each individual team then. I can tell you that was a lot of games I had to play and I loved every minute. This is just to tell you how dedicated I was to simming a entire one season of baseball. Then came Tony Larussa Baseball, and then OOTP, where I can sim entire season in one day instead of one year of my life.

Last OOTP I played was OOTP 11 which was few years ago. Enjoyed the game but it had a few faults in it, especially the not so friendly interface. I haven't bought baseball sim game since, thinking my joy for the game had faded.

So you ask why I bought this game? Well it peeked my interest from the high reviews I have read about it. So I said to myself why not, lets see if we can spark that old flame again. It not only sparked the flame, it has caused a three alarm fire. This game is going to be a classic. It has surprassed any of my expectectations I had for it.

The Quick Sim is now extremely fast because of the 4 processor support. No more simming and waiting for few minutes, just a quick click and a few seconds delay and the day is done. I love how technology has made it this easy, instead of the days of me individually going to play each game for each team.

One thing I truely love and pretty much look forward to is the unique things that pop in a season. Things can put your player out, not just basic injuries either. You might have caused one of your players to be overworked one game, for example a pitcher. That said pitcher you push him to his limits trying to get him a complete game and his arm figuratively falls off with a tired arm syndrome. So you loss him for few starts. Stuff like that and players being suspended for fighting is all in this game. Also players age as years go by and you can see how this effects them on thier portrait. Aging also has effect on how well and bad they play. Like a upcoming player starting to reach thier potential or a aging star fading away during his twighlight of his career. There is soo much content in this game, I am only skimming the surface of what this game has.

If you want to be just a coach for minor league team, you can. If you want to control every aspect of your franchise you can too. The choice is yours, if you want to relive your childhood and see your favorite heros from the past play, you can. Having every authentic player from both minor leagues and majors makes this game so realistic.

I am probably just babbling now. But for me this game has been enlightening and has taken me back to when I was a kid and when I was playing Microleague, I had wished a computer game just like this. I mean some of the extra stuff they did to this game is stuff I never thought off back then, but boy I am enjoying each and every new surprise each day.

Buy it if you love Baseball, buy it if you like micromanaging, buy it if your a strategy fan, buy it if you like history, and buy it if you like gaming. This is just a game, but its more then game. If you get my meaning. This is the Best and I mean "The Best Sim Game" out there bar none.