OOTP 2 Demo
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The demo allows you to play OOTP 2 with these limitations :

- You cannot play league games past April
- You cannot create or load leagues

Otherwise no features are disabled, so you can check out 
almost everything OOTP has to offer. The manual is not
included.

If you are having troubles getting the game to start, try this :
- Install DirectX 7.0a
- Terminate all applications and programs that are running in the 
  background (except Systray and Explorer)


CHECK OUT THE OOTP WEBSITE (www.ootp.net) FOR MORE INFO ON OOTP
AND FOR ORDERING ON-LINE.

The full version of OOTP 2 offers :

- Statistical accuracy. 
- Statistical depth. It's all here : Common stats like ERA, 
  batting AVG and uncommon ones like Components ERA, 
  Runs created / 27 outs, runners thrown out as catcher .... 
- Injuries. 
- Rare plays that happen as often as in real life. You'd be lucky 
  if you see an unassisted triple play by the second baseman, 
  but you could ... 
- Play-by-play that tells you what happens on the field in style. 
- Complete roster management. Set up your pitching staff, lineups, 
  depth charts and so on. Demote players, recall them, put injured 
  players on the DL, sign free agents .... 
- Complete team reports. 
- Real life players with real life stats. 
- Comprehensive player ratings. Players are rated in several aspects 
  of batting, pitching, fielding and baserunning. 
- Customizable leagues. 
- Player editor, team, season and league import/export ability, 
  delete and create players .... 
- Very easy to use graphical interface. Completely mouse driven. 
- Big league leaders board. 
- Two play modes: Replay mode and career mode. 
- Great career mode : Players age, their talents fade away, youngsters
  are generated, they develop into big leaguers, players retire, they
  suffer career ending injuries. Just like real life. After the end of
  each season young players are generated and then drafted. So if you
  want to guide your team from last to first, go ahead. See your 
  youngsters develop and perhaps their induction to the hall of fame 
  after a great career ... Will your first round pick be the first 
  player in 60 years to hit .400 ? 
- Weekly and monthly stats and career stats for every player. 
- Awards. Player of the week/month and the big ones at the end of 
  the season. 
- Built in playoffs. Capture the world championship ! 
- Import players from the past using Sean Lahman's Baseball Database. 
- Draft module included. If you like to draft your own team, simply 
  create a league and draft your team. The computer will draft for 
  the others. 
- Great play-by-play : You won't see boring phrases on nice plays. 
  You'll feel what's happening on the field. No matter if McGwire 
  hits one 500 feet or Griffey robs someone of a homer, you'll 
  experience what's going on . Piazza was injured in a collision at 
  home plate ? Jeter leads the league in batting ? Gwynn 
  gets his 3000th hit ? The PbP will let you know ... 

And here the new features of OOTP 2 : 

- Two leagues : A 1999 replay league and a 2000 career league with 
  real players and stats. 
- A financial system: Sign free agents, negotiate contract extensions,
  try to lead a cellar-dwelling, small market team to the top ! 
- Full minor league system. Guide your prospects through the system 
  with care. 
- MORE stats, for example game-by-game stats, more splits (home, away,
  close/late and more) and more streaks and personal records. 
- A record book with team and league records. 
- Schedule generator for custom leagues. 
- FULL online league support. Play your home series at home and send 
  the results to the commish ! 
- More reports. 
- HTML export for all reports. 
- Full Master HTML export, create a whole website with one 
  mouse-click !!! 
- Computer generated scouting reports on all players. 
- Improved play-by-play. 
- More than a hundred injuries. 
- Expanded league and team history. You have access to all retired 
  players, for example. 
- Expanded leader board, with HTML export function. 
- Import seasons from the past using the Sean Lahman Database. 
- A REVOLUTION : Import a past season, play it in career mode and all 
  players that entered the league in the next years can be imported 
  into the rookie draft !! So it will be possible to replay the entire
  history of baseball ! 
- More editing options, for example adjust the criterias for the 
  OOTP Hall Of Fame 
- And much more, for example better AI, pitcher warmup rule, 
  day-to-day status for injured players, control of the baserunner
  while playing a game. 

AND ALL THAT FOR JUST $39.90 + shipping !

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ENJOY THE GAME

Markus Heinsohn
Steve Kuffrey

Developers