This is a great concept. Man, I remember the days of OOTP 4 through 7 in the early 2000s when I ran an online league and had to do the calculations on my own for Type A/B free agents (and do all the draft selections for every team manually to allow for compensation and sandwich picks) since the game didn't have that feature and I wanted to keep it accurate to the rules at the time. Offseasons took twice as long as the regular season. For the modern versions of the game with enhanced scouting features, I had always assumed Favor Tools vs Favor Ability was the opposite for high school and college players (since tools are more often in reference to projections of raw prospects, while ability sounds like current ability more than potential), so that part of the video was really interesting too.
You should, however, remember to start the play-through the year before so you can take over the team when they have no players. If you start the Marlins in 1993 and not 1992 it's MUCH easier.
@@AndThatsBaseball Will add... it's less fun to do that with earlier teams like the Mariners when free agency wasn't nearly as big as a thing. You pretty much sit as the worst team in the league for 3-4 years until your 1st overall draft picks start hitting the league.
