shel311 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:37 am
Welcome to the league!
Joshua Biddle wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 11:25 pm
and have run a sim racing team since 2010.
Tell me more!
The world will be a better place when we finally get a legit OOTP like NBA sim.
The_Niddler wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:55 pm
Welcome!
Are you using Draft Day Sports (Wolverine Studios) for the basketball and football sims?
And like Shel, tell me more about the sim racing team/league.
So back in 2010 through 2011, my team ran in an Xbox NASCAR 08 league which ran full 100% length races. The league then migrated over to ARCA Sim Racing on the PC which we still ran 100% length races, just on more of a sim (NASCAR 08 was more "simcade" as they call it, EA Sports made it). League lasted until 2014 when it folded as car counts diminished a bit.
From then on, we paused and then kind of got back into it over the past couple years (probably mid-2020ish - 2021, in the midst of the pandemic). My teammate, who I met on the EASports forum when I posted looking for teammates for my team when I was starting out), runs in a league now on iRacing, which is basically the premier racing sim. I've dabbled a bit in league racing and such, but I "hot lap" more than anything at this time.
In addition to league racing, we also had drivers signed who ran in the official iRacing seasons in the past, but we exited that in about 2016ish I believe it was. Might want to get back into it full-time at some point, but it's a huge time investment, haha.
I should mention too, I used to be in a Madden custom league on PC from 2002-2009. League was awesome, it's downfall basically coincided when EA ditched making Madden for the PC. And even newer versions I'm pretty sure haven't brought back custom teams. Big reason as to why I'm attracted to leagues that have a custom environment.
In a few sim basketball leagues and they use FBB3. I think it's pretty good; the leagues are competitive, fun, and feel like a challenge. But I'd certainly agree there's no sim out there in any other sport (that I know of) that offers everything OOTP does. I really don't think anything is even in the vicinity at this point. With FBB3, it's text-based, so you can' t watch the games (but you can read the play-by-play if you choose to).
Football sim league does use the Wolverine Studios one, which is ok. It serves the purpose of at least scratching the sim football itch, although again, not comparable to OOTP. If you watch the games, it really lacks in time management during the last two-minutes of the half/game, which is really annoying. I was excited when OOTP was in the process of working on a football sim, disappointed that didn't work out.