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Out of the Park Baseball 8 is an award-winning baseball simulation which won Metacritic PC Game of the Year 2007 and is still their 2nd highest-ranked PC game of all time! It's also PC Gamer's "Sports Game of the Year 2007". We're so confident that you'll love this series that we're now offering the fully-functional 2007 version of our game, OOTP 8, FOR FREE! OOTP offers unparalleled flexibility in creating your own baseball world. Play solo with a baseball world of your own creation: make a simple, 8-team league, play a typical major league game with 2000 rosters, create a historical league with real players from any year between 1901 and 2007 or build an enormous world with baseball leagues in multiple countries. For the ultimate challenge, join an online league and test your mettle against other human players! Handle GM tasks like drafts, trades, scouting, waivers, team finances and personnel. Negotiate player contracts. Or, dive into the more hands-on management and set your team's lineups, pitching staffs, and in-game strategy. You can oversee your league at a high level, or play out each game, managing pitch by pitch. Players in OOTP are rated across multiple skills, and include individual personalities and custom faces created with FaceGen technology. OOTP players progress realistically over time. Try to build a team through the draft, or try to sign big free agents to put you over the top! OOTP also has a powerful news engine that generates personal messages and news articles. Behind all of this is an incredibly powerful statistical engine that tracks an enormous number of statistics for each player in your world. Want to know how your star hitter is doing against righties with runners in scoring position? No problem! OOTP also has a vibrant and helpful user community, and an active one that creates a vast number of user customizations, including special roster sets, logos, player images, and more.