OOTP Baseball:Creating Games/Custom Games

OOTP's custom game feature allows you to define every aspect of your game. It offers the most flexibility in creating your perfect baseball universe. When creating custom games, OOTP offers a League Creation Wizard, which will walk you through the process of configuring your saved game with the most common rules and options. However, at any time you can drop into Advanced Mode, where you have access to every possible setting. This section of the online manual will show you how the League Creation Wizard works.

To create a custom game, just click on the New Custom Game button on the Main page. The League Creation Wizard will open automatically.

You can create a historical game through the league creation wizard. For the specific differences there, you can check out the OOTP Baseball:Creating Games/Historical Games Options.

Step 1 - Select League Structure

In Step 1 of the Standard League Creation Wizard, pick your league structure, or choose one of the standard league configurations on the right side of the screen.

Step 2 - Set Up League/Teams

Your selected league will load, and you can make any edits you desire to the league's basic information, the subleague and division structure, and the team data. You can also switch to historical team selection at this point.

Steps 3 and 4 - Other settings

In the following steps, you can decide the league's financial settings, schedule setup, the accuracy of scouting in your game, the scales used to display player ratings, and your preferences for the FaceGen settings that determine how player portraits are created.

Step 5 - Game settings

First, decide on a name for your game and the starting year for your game. You can also decide how often the game will save automatically - daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

Then, select a name, nationality, and birth date for your manager.

Next, decide whether or not to play in Commissioner Mode. If the Play in Commissioner Mode check box is selected, this manager is also the commissioner and has the ability to interact with the game in many ways that managers can't. You can also choose to act only as a General Manager, in which case on-field management will be handled by your manager, and whether or not you cannot be fired.

Step 6 - Team Selection

Finally, select a team to manage. During league creation, you can choose to manage any team in your league. You can choose to start unemployed, but be careful - once you start the game, you are at the mercy of team owners, who might not want to hire a greenhorn like you! Read more about human manager identities in OOTP for more information.

When you are done, click Start Game! OOTP will process all the information you have selected and drop you onto the Manager Home Screen. If you want to add more leagues into this world, you can do so through the Game Setup option.

You can also cancel out of the League Creation Wizard at any time, or click to switch into Advanced Mode.