Разработчик: Sports Mogul, Inc.
Описание
What is Baseball Mogul?
Baseball Mogul® begins in any year you choose, from 1900 to present day with the full roster of your favorite team -- or an entirely fictional team of your own creation.
As General Manager (GM), your job is to build the best lineup of players to take your team to the World Series. You can make complex player trades and sign players to multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you'll have to compete with the other General Managers, and negotiate with the player's agents.
As GM you also have to manage all the finances for your ball club, making sure that the team doesn't go bankrupt. Raise revenue for your team by setting the price of tickets and concessions, and selling the TV broadcast rights, while you manage your team's expenses by setting the budget for your farm system, player scouts, medical staff, and player payroll. But be careful, because fans can be fickle if your team doesn't win or if your tickets become too expensive!
If you don’t succeed in your first year, you get a new chance with Baseball Mogul’s in-depth amateur draft. You pick and choose from the best high school and college talent around the world. If your new players are good enough, have them join your team right away, otherwise send them to your minor league franchise for training and improvement.
Your involvement as GM does not stop in the team's front office. Baseball Mogul gives you complete control over your team on the field. You start by setting the starting defense, batting order and pitching rotation for your team. On game day, you choose your level of involvement. You can retire to the luxury box and make calls to the dugout as needed. Or you can take control of each player, choosing what pitches to throw and when to bunt or go for an extra base. A powerful game engine simulates each pitch of the game based on customized player ratings and over 100 years of historical data, assuring you the maximum realism possible!
Baseball Mogul is designed to help you manage your team over many simulated years. Manage your team one day at a time, or let the computer simulate weeks or months at a stretch so you can play for virtual years or decades. As your players age, their abilities mature and decline realistically. Don't forget to build your team for the long term, rather than spending all your money on free agents this season.
Watch your team rise and fall in the standings, watch your bank statement, and read the news stories to stay on top of what's happening with all the ball clubs in both leagues. If you pick the right players, manage your finances well, and stick to a winning strategy, your team may win the Championship, and you too may become a Baseball Mogul!
New Features Include
Modern Simulations (2017-2200)
- Updated major and minor league statistics through 2016 season.
- Added biographical data for all 2016 MLB debuts and 326 additional minor league players.
- Updated 40-man rosters for opening day.
- Imported more than 600,000 additional lines of PITCHf/x pitch data.
- New filters to fix data errors on-the-fly
Historical Simulations (1901-2016)
- Rewrote code for deriving player ratings and statistical projections from historical data.
- Biggest change is a new system for normalizing historical stats. The game now calculates individual averages and standard deviation for each statistic by season, defensive position and stadium. (Previous code used all-time averages for standard deviation, and normalized player statistics over their entire career.)
- Improved historical accuracy for fielding error rates.
- Improved historical accuracy for determining pitcher "Endurance" ratings.
- More accurate defensive ratings, especially for designated hitters and pinch hitters.
- Incorporated more data in player aging model.
- For more accurate career paths in both historical and modern leagues.
Simulation Engine
- New model for player improvement at defensive positions.
- More realistic adjustments for playing time at all levels.
- Improved player health model and injury rates.
- Improved realism for platoon advantage by player type.
- Reworked code for simulating minor league games.
- Updated Win Expectancy data.
- Improved logic for intentional walks.
- New system for generating fictional players to improve long-term stability of talent pool.
- Bug fixes (e.g. small errors in Payroll Budget related to a bug estimated concessions revenue).
Artificial Intelligence
- Improved selection of defensive starters and starting lineup
- More realistic use of defensive substitutes
- Improved logic for 25-man and 40-man rosters
- Improved long-term (multi-year) roster management
- Improved management of pitching rotation
- Includes better logic for picking "alternate starters" from active roster
- Bug fixes (such as the computer over-riding changes to a player’s position)
Interface / Options
- Improved Player Rating Editor
- (e.g. dynamic updating of Predicted stats when ratings are changed)
- Improvements to Sortable Stats Dialog
- "40-Man Rosters" added as selectable category when viewing/sorting.
- "Pitches Thrown", "Strikes Thrown", "Strike Percentage" and "Pitches/Game" added.
- "Steal Tendency" and "Steal Success" player ratings added to Sortable Stats.
- Improved heat maps (in Charts Tab of Scouting Report).
- Improved interface and readability in Play-By-Play screen.
- Optimized League Builder to increase speed by about 400%
- Bug fixes
- Errors converting between rating scales (“50-100”, “20-80”, “1-20” etc.)
- etc.
Backwards Compatibility
Baseball Mogul 2017 automatically loads databases from previous versions of Baseball Mogul
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 512 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Not a demanding game on GPU or CPU. Basic or old computers will run this just fine.
- OS: Windows 10
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
you could make your own world of sports
I'm not a huge baseball fan, but this game is amazing simulator. I am very jealous because I'd like a game like this for NFL Football. Imagine getting start in the 1920s with Jim Thorpe? I highly recommend this game for anyone interested in Sport History, especially baseball.
Best stat based baseball sim out there.
Not for action fans or casuals.
Can manage at:
-Grand Strategic level, (Owner / GM tasks like: ticket prices, when to build a new stadium, or vote on expansion or rules changes).
-Strategic level, (GM, VP of Player Devlopment, tasks like: trades, drafts, scouting, player assignments, change player's positions).
-Game to game tactical, (Field Manager tasks like: Daily roster, pitching assigments, platooning strategy, infield / outfield stances).
-Pitch by pitch by pitch tactical, no fancy graphics but you can throw every pitch, swing every at bat, initiate every steal, pull pitchers, put in PH's or PR's etc. etc. for every play, for every inning, for every game all year.
If you like action based or console style sports games you will be bored.
If you revel in the minutia of baseball tactics, stats, and history you will love it.
Wish I could see previous world series winners in the history section, and previous awards winners but there seems to be no way? Still a very and simple little sim game. It nowhere near the depth of OOTP but sometimes you want just a derpy simple sim game, this is like that.
I've loved this game for quite a while, now. Indeed, I was playing it when my present computer was merely a dream of future-tech.
Baseball is based upon probabilities, and is perfectly suited for a computer simulation. Baseball Mogul is not about taking control of the player, fielding a ball, and throwing it for the tagout. The graphics are very simple, and in the age of Witcher III seem like they're from a long past era. This game is different.
You are the owner of a baseball team, and your whole purpose is to make money. To make money, you need fans, and to make fans, your team needs to win (except for my favorite, the Cubs). In this game, however, you also play the part of the manager, setting up the batting order and the pitching rotation, and making decisions as to positioning the fielders to make the anticpated play when the opposing team is at bat, at making decisions for your batters: will they hit away, bunt, and will there be a hit and run when the pitch comes, and so on. You can replace pitchers and other players in any given game. You can move players in the minors up or down, depending on the probability of how they will perform.
I just bought the game, today, and (of course) I'm the 2016 Chicago Cubs. We lost our first two games of the season against the Rockies, and won the third. In the third game, I brought Kyle Schwarber up from 1-A and put him in left field. In that game, he hit a home run, and went 3-5 at bat. Cubs Win! I just finished our first game against the Angels, and Lackey pitched a two hit shut out, and Cubs win 2-0.
This game is incredibly complicated, so expect a high learning curve, even if you are a baseball expert.
I should point out that, years ago, I took the 1969 Cubs to a World Series Championship ... they won on the 7th game of the Series.
Besides this, the game is fun. Enjoy! Highly Recommended.
If you're not familiar with Baseball Mogul, there are 3 things about it which cause people to give the series a lot of crap:
1. It was the dominant, if not only text-based baseball sim for Windows at one time, and they squandered that lead by focusing on things that didn't matter and generally not working on it like OOTP Developments worked on their game. It could easily have been like Football Manager or OOTP by now, but it's nowhere near as good as it was supposed to be.
2. Some of the releases over the years have been really, really terrible. Like, "How dare they?" level of terrible with major features not in the game at all and bugs and so forth.
3. The interface still looks and feels very much like it did 15 years ago.
But if you put the prejudices away and play BB Mogul 2017 with fresh eyes like I did, it's really not bad. The sim speed is lightning fast. If you're not into micromanaging you can easily get though a season in an hour or two. And if you like to play 'stats only' and don't like to rely on ratings, BB Mogul is pretty compatible with that.
I especially love stat based scouting, which gives an overall rating not only on ability but shades it based on performance. So what that means is, you can put a ton of money into scouting ability which gives you a decent read on a players specific skills , find underperforming players on bad teams (pitchers with bad defenses behind them, hitters who would be great platoon players but are being used full time because the team doesn't have anyone better, etc), turn those players into stars or at least guys who put up numbers, and either keep them or move them on at a profit. Dumpster diving. That's my favorite part of being a GM, and you can't play that way effectively even in OOTP.
BB Mogul isn't a game that you should be buying every year, or two, or even three. I'm guessing this is a hobby/part time project for one or two guys, and it doesn't get updated quickly enough to be worth spending the money on. But the Mogul series is a good enough spin on baseball and enough of a change of pace, that one of the better BB Mogul games does deserve a place in your library if you're into this genre at all.
And BB Mogul 2017 is one of the better BB Mogul releases.
It's not worth $30... let's not go that far. But it is worth $20. It's a solid game.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Sports Mogul, Inc. |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 100% положительных (6) |