OOTP Baseball in general is excellent, and I would recommend one of the versions. However, my last version of OOTP 15 appears to basically be the same as OOTP 25. There are some superficial changes, the best of which is better shop player options. But the game as a whole appears to be the same.

Also, I have run into a lot of bugs right out of the gates. I made a fictional MLB game, so I would use the real life MLB structure but fictional players. The minor league teams weren't set up properly though. I had two single A leagues instead of high A and low A/short season A. Also, schedules weren't generated for AA, what was supposed to be short season A, and the Dominican Summer Leagues. I looked at editing the schedule, and games were supposed to be played, but something didn't register properly and the games weren't played. I can't generate a schedule now because you can only do such a thing in preseason. So I am going to restart, as otherwise half of the minor leagues wouldn't play any games this year. I got the game on sale for $10 so I am not too upset about it, but if I paid the no-sale current price of $50 I would have been much more upset about such a basic bug. It also undermines my confidence in the rest of the game.

I would recommend getting an older version on sale, or this version for $10. I would not get this version for full price though. Also, a large portion of my hours 'playing the game' is the game being on but not actually being played.

The only way to live out Juan Soto signing with the Yankees :')

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This version of OOTP has some glaring issues, both feature-wise and gameplay-wise.

In trying to create my first "US League" (stupid name and shows the dev's intentions) the game wouldn't even generate enough players to fill out a lineup card or even enough pitchers to assemble any sort of bullpen. Thus I was unable to copy/paste my lineups or reasonably advance to the first day of preseason.

In creating a game, itself, you no longer have the option to create teams from anywhere other than the United States. This is pure baloney, and isn't at all what the spirit of baseball is about. I know that in the OOTP forums they *claimed* that they took away the ability to create leagues from other parts of the globe for "legal reasons". Lies, lies, lies. They did this because they don't want to spend as much time and money developing the game, and wanted to allocate more resources toward their "perfect team" bullcrap that generates a lot of additional revenue from suckers with holes in their pockets.

I'd just stick with an older version of OOTP, if I were you. You'll have more options, and less bloat.