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Baseball Mogul 2018: New Team Logos

4/10/2018

Baseball Mogul is not licensed by Major League Baseball and does not include official team logos. Fortunately, it's now easy to find these assets on the internet, and very easy to download them to Baseball Mogul 2018:

1. Upgrade to version 21.04 if you haven't already done so.
2. Start a new game in 2018.
3. Go to Advanced Tools on the Tools Menu.
4. Click 'Download Team Logos'.

This should take less than a minute.

When you're done, I recommend clicking "Download Player Photos". This will take a bit longer (5-10 minutes), but it will download and resize photos for about 4,000 players in the 2018 database.

All art is permanently saved to the "downloads" folder. You don't need to repeat these steps every time you start a new game.

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Version 21.02: Fixing 112 Missing Players

4/2/2018

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So, it turns out that I had bad player IDs for about 5% of the database. Some were brought to my attention by Mogul players (thank you!). But I also learned that Baseball Databank uses a slightly different player ID format than Baseball-Reference.

I'm building Version 21.02 right now and will upload it shortly. If you were curious, here are the minor league players fixed/added in this build:

Victor Robles

Walker Buehler

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Setting the Lineup for Every Game

4/1/2018

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Play One Day will sim all the games for that day. But you don't need to sim each individual game to have control over the lineups. Turn on Commissioner Mode (in the upper left corner of the "Options" dialog in the Tools Menu). This gives you control of every team, and the computer manager won't alter the lineups you set for each team (unless someone is unable to play due to injury).

If you want to set the lineup for each team at the very beginning of the game, with access to head-to-head stats against the opposing pitcher, follow these steps:

Turn on Commissioner Mode.
Go to the Calendar Page and right-click on any three games. This will trigger a popup asking you if you want to select all games for Play-By-Play Mode.
Click More Options' and then click Yes. This selects all games for every team.

This will cause all of the day's games to be opened in Play-By-Play Mode, with the ability to choose the starting pitcher and starting lineup for both teams at the beginning of each game. If you want to sim the game after you've specified the exact lineup, click Finish in the upper right.

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Honey, I Screwed Up The Rosters

3/31/2018

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This year, I had the bright idea to crowdsource the rosters. This worked pretty well, except that about 215 players got messed up in the last two days of the beta. I'm not sure if it was a prank or an accident, but I've fixed it for Version 21.01.

You can download and Version 21.01 here. I've locked down the roster file for now. So if you have any corrections, please send them to me at cjd@sportsmogul.com. Thanks!

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Baseball Mogul 18 Preview: Historical Sims

3/29/2018

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Previous versions of Baseball Mogul had a problem with extreme outliers. Babe Ruth is the best example. Baseball Mogul’s rating system assumes that player performance almost always falls within about 4 standard deviations of the league average: this should cover 99.994% of all players.

Unfortunately, Babe Ruth hit home runs at a rate that was 4-6 standard deviations above the rest of the league. In a simulation that produces a realistic distribution of outcomes, the chance of a result that is 6 deviations above average is about 1 in a billion (1,013,594,692 to be exact).

Babe Ruth might able to hit 60 homers in 1987, when the league average was quite high, but he’ll never hit 60 homers in 1921 – even though this is what he did in real life. This means that if you simmed 1927 in Baseball Mogul 2017, Babe Ruth only hit 20-30 home runs.

Baseball Mogul 2018 fixes this. It’s complicated, but I re-wrote the rating calculation code to compress the distribution of player ratings in seasons when statistical output (e.g. home runs) is below the historical average. Then I adjusted the sim to correctly handle these new values.