Rockway and OOTP
a note from the authorThanks for stopping by.
I love Out of the Park Baseball. It is 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, to which this website is a loving homage (or a shameful rip-off of, depending on your point of view).
A couple of years ago I decided to finally get around to doing it – and I created my own little baseball nation. Now I'm restarting my baseball world in OOTP17, and thought I'd go the whole hog with a league website to boot.
My country is called Rockway - you can find a bit of a backstory to the islands, and their baseball leagues, on the Rockway tab above.
A little info about how the league is set up, for those of you who are interested. The league started in the year 1887, with the various import options from that year - historically accurate totals and pcms are on, but strategy changes, etc will be turned off and managed by me.
My baseball nation started out with a single 6 team league, playing a 60 game regular season, along with a single minor "B" league, and a 4 team feeder series. The Clubs League teams have 18-man rosters, 3-man rotations (pitching stamina is set to very high and use highest rested, and allow starters to pitch in relief is checked). The season currently starts in April and finishes by the end of August. There are no playoffs - the best overall record wins.
Financials are on, but so is the Reserve Clause. Salary cap is off. Scouting on (low accuracy), coaching on. Ratings 1-5 scale (so I don't know exactly how good everyone is), with stars.
There's probably other stuff that I should have told you, but I can't think of anything right now so I'll get started. Hope you find Rockway interesting!
