About

Escondida and OOTP

A note from the author

Thanks for stopping by.

I love Out of the Park Baseball. It's a wonderful simulation of baseball, and the most customisable game I know. Over the years it has inspired me to create entire baseball worlds spanning real-life MLB, fictional small-town America leagues, British leagues, future leagues and, eventually, leagues set in entirely made-up locations. My favourite type of set-up in OOTP has always been fictional leagues – I love creating everything and seeing a completely made up league grow and develop a unique character. In the past, I've mostly just done small, regional leagues (NY, Montana, Pacific Northwest, etc), but I've always wanted to make up a totally fictional baseball world of my own. I love reading about Eugene Church's Islandia, and my ultimate inspiration is Dreamteams' wonderful Metro Leagues, the website for which was the inspiration for this.

A couple of years ago I decided to finally get around to doing it – and I created a couple of my own little baseball nations. Some of you will have seen my efforts with Rockway on OOTP15, but now I'm starting up my other baseball nation in OOTP17 (moved to OOTP19 as of the 1936 season).

If you want the real story of Escondidan baseball, you'll have to follow my dynasty thread on the OOTP boards (when it's up and running that is). Here, you'll be able to find the background - information about the island, team profiles, player stats, league history, records and more.

For those of you who are interested, here's a little bit about the set up of my major league, the LNE:

The league starts play in 1932, with six teams playing a 60-game schedule (expansion for the 1935 season takes it to 8 teams playing 84 games). There is no DH rule. Each team has a 20-man active roster, and, because I don't like how the game handles reserve rosters, a single minor-league "B-Team" with a 35 man roster limit. Three-man rotations are in use.

Finances are on; there is a two-round draft (random order, to represent scouts securing some top youngsters, as feeder leagues don't work correctly with the draft disabled), and free agency, while enabled, is set at 10 years service time. Attendance baseline is set at 3,500, with fixed ticket price of ₱0.50, home team keeps all the gate receipts. Salary cap is ₱100,000, national media revenue is equal for all teams. Minimum player salary is ₱1,000 a year, notional superstar salary set at ₱10,000.

PCMs/stats/initial set up reflects 1932 baseball, but auto updating of them and strategies are off. Strategy settings include occasionally using highest rested starter, using starters in relief, very high pitcher stamina, rare use of pinch hitters, and very often stealing bases.

The only dynamic league evolution options turned on are more/less offence and more/less pitching.

Scouting and coaching are turned on. Scouting accuracy is set at low. Injuries are very low, fatigue low. Trade frequency is low, with difficulty set at normal. Ratings are displayed from 1-5 and AI selection logic is 10% ratings, 60% current year stats, 20% last year stats, 10% stats from two year ago.

Play ball!