Out of the Park Baseball Manager Interview
Evidently Big City Baseball did an interview with the creator of Out of the Park Baseball Manager (Markus Heinsohn)last month (I only just found it). While it is on the short side, they do ask some good questions about the upcoming version and get some good answers from Markus. If you’re fan of OOTP it’s well worth a look. Here’s a taste:
BigCity : I understand that GM and manager “personalities” now play a part in what happens with AI teams. Could you tell us what kind of things these personalities effect?
Markus : Every coach/manager/GM has a set of prefered strategy tendencies, both for in-game strategy and roster strategy. That results in a lot of different styles. Manager A for example builds in speed and batting AVG, while manager B looks for OBP machines and strong starting pitching. These preferences are used throughout the entire AI.
This one’s on my short list of highly anticipated sports games for the first half of the year.