Chris

I began to love basketball as a kid when i watched a basketball anime (Slam Dunk). And since then, I just fell in love with basketball. I started out playing NBA Live games but fell there's something missing. And i happened to find out about Draft Day Sport Basketball simulation game where i can actually take control of the basketball team.
 

I hope it's OK to transport this dynasty over here. I had intentions of starting a new dynasty with OOTP 15 soon, but in the meantime, I am trying to finish up my OOTP 14 dynasty, a journey into the post-game world of Fallout: New Vegas. This dynasty originally started on May 23, 2013, so it is nearly a year old and I am nearing its completion, but I hope you can enjoy it here. 
 
 
Disclaimer: The following dynasty is a Fan Fiction dynasty of the game Fallout: New Vegas. I am in no way associated with Fallout, Bethesda Games, or any affiliates thereof. All images used from the game are property of Bethesda Games. I have no financial gains from these images or the characters and locations from within the game.  The Dynasty: This dynasty will take place after the events of the end of the Fallout: New Vegas game. I am using the Courier, the main character of the game, as an ambassador in post-war New Vegas to generate a professional baseball league.  I am liberally using characters, places, and events from the Fallout universe to create this account of my dynasty. You can call it a true fan fiction dynasty because I am diverting from some story lines of the game to fit my fictional needs. Thus there will be some associations that are impossible in the game that I made possible in my rewritten account of the game.  I have not included any of the downloadable content because I have not played any of it, only the original version of the game. Thus some story lines or characters that may have been different in the downloadable content will not be reflected in the same way.  Also, this dynasty includes some Fallout: New Vegas SPOILERS. If you have not played the game but plan to in the future, you may want to consider that I am revealing the ending of the game and a few other key elements of the game in my dynasty. Please keep that in mind!!!  Additionally, I don’t know how the filters of the OOTP forums work, but I am using some language consistent with the language used in the Fallout games, so be aware that there will be adult words used.  As a final note, the logos used in this dynasty are taken from the Fallout Wiki and Google searches. I have created all team uniforms based on those logos.  I hope you enjoy this dynasty. Feedback appreciated!   
 

Long time member, first-time poster  
 
I have been a member of sports sim communites since 2007, I believe. Though I have been playing online sims longer than that, I never wanted to share in my hobby until I moved to Korea from the States. Then, I needed a place where I could finally unwind with some of my deepest and darkest secrets: playing sports sims until the wee hours of the morning with notebooks filled for player tracking, drafts, etc. 
 
As I mentioned, I moved to Korea in 2007 from the States. I have been in Korea nearly seven years now, and I plan to stay for the foreseeable future. I have a great Korean wife (beautiful inside and out, smart, and passionate), two young boys aged 3 and 9 months, and a great job (college English instructor) that gives me nearly five months of vacation per year, perfect for me to pursue my hobbies of sports sims and writing. 
 
The main reason I will be here is for dynasty writing. I have been intending to post dynasties here for a long time, but I forget. It's hard to keep up with where to go. These days, I almost exclusively play OOTP, but I own several other sports sims, including the newest version of Front Office Football, in which I will probably start to fire up in earnest again around August/September. I also look forward to the OOTP version of football. Football is my favorite sport to watch, but baseball is probably my favorite sport to read about and sim. 
 
Lee
 
 

Baseball has been my life.  It's all that I've ever known.  I've lived and breathed it my entire life.  I was drafted out of high school, passed up on a college scholarship, and agreed to a multi million dollar signing bonus.  I was going to pitch in the World Series and be a star, win Cy Young Awards, World Series rings, and go to the Hall of Fame.

 

Everything was heading in the right direction, but everything can change in an instant.  If I didn't get in the car and head to the park for  a pickup game with my buddies my career wouldn't have ended.  Maybe it was only a matter of time before I blew out my arm, but if I waited until after I took my physical I could have been a millionaire instead of damaged goods. 

 

They would have paid for my surgery, and my rehab.  But things don't always work out as expected do they?  My dream of playing professional baseball is over, and there isn't much anybody can do about that.  My college scholarship is gone too, but not my dream of a World Series ring. 

 

Everyone felt bad for me.  My parents, my teammates, my girlfriend, my friends, even my agent.  I even felt bad for myself, and my last conversation with my agent, or former agent, I begged him to find me a job in baseball, and said goodbye.

 

Fast forward six months, one semester into college, on my dime I might add.  Or more appropriately, on my future dime's since I'll be paying off student loans until I'm 90.  It was my former agent calling to check in, wish me a happy holidays, and he hesitated before hanging up. 

 

"I called for a reason, but it sounds like you are doing better, so maybe I shouldn't even ask."

 

"I hate when people do that, just ask.", was my tense response.

 

"Do you speak Italian?"

 

"No, that's a strange question."

 

"Do you have a passport?'

 

"No, I've never needed one.  What are you going to give me a trip to Italy?"

 

"Do you like coffee?"

 

"Are you high?  You aren't making any sense."

 

"Like I said, I shouldn't even be doing this. But remember"

 

"Doing what?  Just spit it out!"

 

"Ok, this will sound strange, but do you remember how you begged me to find a job in baseball? I "

 

"What does that have to do with coffee?  I've got class in an hour, just spit it out!"

 

"Well"

 

"Sorry, I didn't mean to jump down your throat, you are just making me nervous."

 

"Well, I've felt bad about how things went down with your injury, and you begged me to find you a job in baseball.  But kid, you've got no experience.  Nobody wants to take a risk on you, but I've called in a couple of favors, and I've got a proposition for you."

 

.......

Cincinnati Moves

Michigan in the round of 8. Beat ‘em by 22 and 24.

March 10: 86-47. +21 RB. Great games all around.

Evanstown in the semis. They beat us by 14 at their place. Good outside game.

March 11: 86-65. Monster game for Reed, 36, 16, 3, 5 blocks. Ev’rybody played well.

#4 Indiana for the title.

March 12: 71-67. All 5 starters plus Flyn played well.

#1 OK ST lost so we should be #1 overall.

Selection time: Yep. #1 East.

We start with 13-18 Cal-SLO.

March 16: 65-34. 8 TOs, 46 RBs.

25-7, 13-3 Western KY. Decent outside game.

March 18: 68-40. Starting 5 were all dominating. 10 TOs, 48 RBs.
Sweet Sixteen.

Sub Clint Lund stretched a hamstring. About two weeks.

“We managed it.”

“Hm?”

“Employees now get a choice. If they want us to provide health insurance we will do that, and it takes priority over profit sharing. They still get profit sharing but only after the health insurance is paid for. Employees who don’t need health insurance get the full profit sharing. I wasn’t sure we’d find a way to allow for the choice but we did.”

“Great! What a great employer you are!”

“I want to do right by my employees.”

“You certainly do.”

25-9, 12-6, #4 seed, #14 ranked Kansas is next. This is a good team. All the bad teams went home at this point.

March 23: 79-67. Front court was overwhelming, including Flyn from the bench.

#2 seed, #5 ranked Duke, 28-6, 14-4. VERY good outside.

March 25: 65-57. Front line won it, 45 and 32 including Flyn, but backcourt did their job too, +9 TOs.

Final Four!

BETTER BULLPEN? PHILLIES PURSUING DOTEL, FELICIANO BEFORE SEASON OPENER

ESPN’s Buster Olney reported on Twitter that the Phillies are nearing a deal with free agent relievers Octavio Dotel and Pedro Feliciano. In 2013, the pair combined to throw 15 major league innings as they each struggled to come back from injury. Prior to their injuries however, both Dotel and Feliciano were serviceable bullpen arms—if not elite—and should drastically improve a hurting Phillies’ bullpen if they can return to their career norms.

However, I suspect that this deal is not about improving Philadelphia’s chances at contending in 2014. Instead, I suspect that the Phillies want to give Dotel and Feliciano each a chance to show that they are both good relief pitchers and may be able to offer something to a contending team during the hunt in August and September. In other words, it seems to me as if they are being brought in to be flipped for prospects near the non-waiver trade deadline at the end of July. If so, what can the Phillies expect to get in return for Dotel and Feliciano?

Back in 2010, the Pittsburgh Pirates traded Octavio Dotel to the Los Angeles Dodgers for two players: SP James McDonald and OF/1B Andrew Lambo. James McDonald became one of Pittsburgh’s more respectable starters that year, as he mustered up a 2.84 FIP in 64 innings for Pennsylvania’s other baseball team. In other words, he showed a lot of promise until injuries derailed the starter’s career. Is it realistic to expect the Phillies to receive the next James McDonald for Octavio Dotel at the deadline? No—but MLB teams have a history of overpaying in prospects for relief help at the trade deadline. Assuming that this trend holds in 2014, then the Phillies should be able to pick up valuable pieces for both Feliciano and Dotel, which will definitely help this franchise reinvigorate its failing farm system.

Yet, this all seems too far away; as you are aware, the trade deadline is another four months away. A lot can go wrong—players can get injured or not perform—and even the best plan on paper can go up in flames. Thus, it seems best to focus more on the impact that this trade has on the Phillies now than what it may do for the team four months from now. That is, who will Dotel and Feliciano replace on the 25 man roster, and do they represent significant upgrades over either of those player?

To answer the first part, it is expected that the Phillies will send RHP Brad Lincoln and LHP Cesar Jimenez down to make room for Dotel and Feliciano respectively. Lincoln, acquired during the off-season from Toronto, is 28-years-old and has two option years remaining. While his arsenal features a plus changeup, his other offerings are just average, so he has not had much success as either a starter or a reliever. Like Lincoln, Cesar Jimenez has not had much success throughout his major league career. Unlike Lincoln though, Jimenez does not have a plus pitch to turn to get himself out of a jam. This made it likely that Jimenez would have found himself in the mop-up role in 2014. Are these descriptions of Lincoln and Jimenez exciting you? No? I thought so. That’s why signing both Dotel and Feliciano is so important—worst case scenario with them is still better than best case scenario Lincoln and Jimenez.

QUICK TO ACT: NEW GM CLEANS HOUSE, HIRES OWN MAN


 
Nicholas Hoff wasted no time in making his presence felt around the Phillies front office, as he announced the firing of Director of Scouting Marti Wolever. The casual fan may not know much about Wolever, but the learned fan is very familiar with the Scouting Director’s work as he is the man responsible for drafting Cole Hamels, Ryan Howard, and Kyle Kendrick, along with several other established big league players in other organizations.
 
“It’s a major blow to the organization,” said an anonymous source. “Marti was a great guy, liked by everyone, and real good at his job too.” When asked why Hoff thought it necessary to fire someone well regarded by most in the Phillies organization and across Major League Baseball, Hoff declined to comment. Instead, he chose to announce that Wolever’s replacement had already signed a contract and that nothing would slip through the cracks during the transition from one Director of Scouting to the next.
 
Replacing Wolever is former Orioles’ General Manager Andy MacPhail. MacPhail, 60, is up there in age but many still consider him one of the wiser minds in the game. While the Orioles never achieved much under his watch, many of Baltimore’s core players acquired under MacPhail’s leadership, including Chris Davis and Adam Jones. “He’s a good choice,” said an anonymous AL executive that previously worked with MacPhail. “When he came into Baltimore, he said, “Okay, we need to stop patching this roster. Let’s start developing our own guys.” It took time, but Baltimore’s now reaping the rewards of his labor.”
 
That same executive remarked that the Orioles, when they first hired MacPhail, were in a similar position to the one the Phillies are now. In fact, he said, bringing in MacPhail is about his player evaluation skills as much as it is about experience. “You cannot dig the Phillies out of their hole overnight, so to get someone on your side that’s done it before is a big plus.”
 
How does MacPhail stack up compared to Wolever? First, they have different philosophies when it comes to selecting players. Wolever prefers 'toolsy' players, like Cole Hamels, whereas MacPhail prefers players with lower ceilings but higher floors. In other words, MacPhail would rather take a sure Major Leaguer than the guy who may wake up one day hitting like Mike Schmidt or never wake up at all. Moreover, MacPhail is better at evaluating present-day big league talent and players in the minors than Wolever is according to the sources I interviewed.
 
In summary, while the Phillies fired one of their most-beloved executives, they replaced him with someone that brings just as much, if not more, to the table. Not only that but the hiring of MacPhail also shows that the front office is embracing a new philosophy. What that philosophy is, and how successful it will be, we do not know. But we should be patient. In Hoff We Trust.

To The Reader

At best, I am a casual observer of Major League Baseball. I follow one team, and I really do not care about the rest. However, the Philadelphia Phillies have always interested me. Back in 2008, the talent that the Phillies had developed and accumulated during their World Series run impressed me. With names like Cole Hamels, Chase Utley, Shane Victorino, Jimmy Rollins, and Ryan Howard, it seemed like the sky was the limit for Philadelphia and they were on the precipice of becoming one of baseball's storied dynasties.

Unfortunately, the Phillies never lived up to what I thought was there potential. Like I said though, I really only follow one team -- not the Phillies -- so I am not quite sure what went wrong. However, I do know that Ruben Amaro Jr. is not the best General Manager in baseball. From what I can gather, it is as-if he brought too deeply into the "playoff window theory," and mortgaged his team's future in order to improve their chances at making, and winning, the World Series. In some ways, it seems as though the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox took the same path -- feeding what Theo Epstein called the "Monster" -- and both turned up empty-handed.

Ben Cherington’s tenure at the helm of the Boston Red Sox, particularly after the famous Dodgers trade involving Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, and Nick Punto, has focused primarily on redeveloping Boston’s prospect pipeline that historically brought them much success. It is not hard to imagine 2007 and 2013 never happening if the Red Sox had not developed the likes of Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis, and Jon Lester. In many ways, I hope that fictional GM Nicholas (Nick) Hoff can do for the Phillies what Ben Cherington did for the Red Sox.

That’s enough about the direction that I plan to take dynasty for now. It’s time to write about how I plan on doing updates, etc. I will be covering the team as a journalist named John Rawls (of no relation to the philosopher of the same name). Periodically, I will do sit-down interviews with Nicholas Hoff where he will give his thoughts on the team. Otherwise, everything written will be from Rawls’ perspective. Since I find it difficult to multi-task and follow more than one team, Rawls’ writing will focus exclusively on the Phillies. If you want to know about another team in the league, then ask about them. I will be more than happy to oblige your request. Otherwise, the standings and/or league leaders will hardly receive attention.

Moreover, I also plan to take advantage of OOTP 15’s game sound and experimental text-to-speech feature so I can watch (and listen) to every game as it unfolds. While I will set the team’s lineup and strategy, I will never take control of the team or attempt to manipulate a game’s results by abusing the take pitch function, etc. My hope is that doing this will immerse me in the league to the to the point where I feel like a fan (or beat-writer) of an individual team.

I think that covers everything that I wanted to cover. Game settings, for the most part, remain unchanged. I did enable a posting fee for the Korean and Cuban international leagues as well as disable the generation of established international free agents. Other than that, I cannot think of any noteworthy changes that impact gameplay. Anyways, let this be the beginning of a wonderful dynasty and good fortune for the OOTP 15 Philadelphia Phillies!

My username is Rawlsian, and I am an OOTP player. I just started a dynasty on the Phillies here at GMGames. This is my first time ever doing a dynasty, so I would appreciate it if some of you more seasoned dynasty writers and readers could give me some helpful tips as I progress.