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Improvements to Play-By-Play Screen

2/28/2025

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I've made several improvements to the Play-By-Play Screen for Baseball Mogul 2025. The first is a relatively small change but it was requested by several users: you can now hit the 'Enter' key instead of using your mouse to click the 'Pitch' and 'Bat' buttons for each at-bat.
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There's also a new option for watching games between two computer-controlled teams. In previous versions, the plays and animations would zip by without stopping. So I've implemented a suggested option to require a click between each play (similar to the interface when you are controlling one or both teams). This option can be turned on in the Tools Menu, or by clicking the 'Pause' button on the Play-By-Play Screen.
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New Pitch Arsenal Data

1/31/2025

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Baseball Mogul 2025 adds detailed pitch-by-pitch data for more than 5,000 pitchers. This includes pitch arsenals and pitching styles for more than 59,000 pitcher-seasons from 1901 through 2024 and pitch usage patterns for more than 16,000 pitcher-seasons from 2002 through  2024.

A "pitcher-season" is data for one season of a pitcher's career. For example, our database includes 14 pitcher-seasons for A.J. Burnett (2002-2015).


New pitch ratings have been calculated for all pitchers based on available data regarding each pitch's effectiveness and usage rate, ensuring that Baseball Mogul continues to be the most realistic plate appearance simulator in video game history.
​The Play-By-Play Screen now shows the usage rate for each pitch next to that pitch's ratings. For seasons since 2002, these usage rates reflect historical PITCHf/x data. For seasons before 2002, these rates  are estimated from scouting reports and other sources.

As games are simulated, these rates are updated to reflect each pitch's usage rate.
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Baseball Mogul tracks pitch usage throughout the season, showing a moving average of each pitcher's usage patterns.
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Baseball Mogul's "Replay Mode"

11/15/2024

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Update (November 2024): Replay Mode is being revised for Baseball Mogul 2025 to generate more realistic results for players with very little playing time in the given season (e.g. previous versions had trouble creating accurate ratings for a player with only a handful of plate appearances or batters faced).
Baseball Mogul is a multi-season General Manager simulator in which player talent is calculated from overall career stats. An example can be seen below. Although Dwight Gooden pitched poorly in 1994, his ratings at the beginning of the season are quite high — because of his performance in the rest of his career.
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However, I've gotten a number of emails from people who would like to use Baseball Mogul to replay single historical seasons, in the same way that they might use a game like Strat-O-Matic or Season Ticket Baseball. Replay Mode makes this possible by determining each player's performance from their real-life statistics for the single season that is being simulated. This is Gooden's Scouting Report when a new game is started in Replay Mode:
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Replay Mode loads each player's historical stats for the season that is being simulated, and uses these as the player's "Predicted" stats for the upcoming season. Because Gooden had a bad year in 1994, his ratings are much lower than they were in the previous example.
Playing Time Limits
Replay Mode also lets you view your team's real-life stats for the current season by choosing "Predicted" from the relevant dropdown box. This is useful because Replay Mode uses historical playing time as an upper limit for simulated playing time. Players can be used after they exceed their historical playing time, but their performance will suffer (as shown below).
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Replay Mode uses historical stats (Innings Pitched and At Bats) to limit playing time.
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A warning is displayed when Dwight Gooden's simulated playing time exceeds his historical ("Predicted") stats.
Continued Development
As mentioned above, Replay Mode is designed for single-season historical replays. Playing multiple seasons can cause problems — primarily because teams will no longer have enough playing time at every position. I could have limited Replay Mode to a single season, but I left it open so that I can continue to test and get feedback. If you are using Replay Mode in a multi-season sim, please let me know how I can improve this feature going forward. (For example, I could add a feature that forced team trades to match historical trades if there is enough interest.)

Thanks!
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Football Mogul's New Exhibition Mode

10/1/2024

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Football Mogul now includes a new Exhibition Mode — the ability to play a single game between any two teams from the last 74 seasons.

To play an Exhibition Game, run Football Mogul and click the button that says "Play a Single Game Between Any Two Teams".

​(See screenshot at right.)

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​This brings up the Exhibition Game Dialog that lets you choose the home and away team for the game, and specify whether each team is controlled by a human or computer manager:
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My most recent test of this feature produced an amazing game between the 1985 Bears  (15-1) and the 2007 Patriots (16-0):
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Warning about "TheSportsMogul.com"

9/26/2024

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We have been receiving customer complaints in reference to a monthly subscription they were fraudulently charged for. The culprit is a website called "TheSportsMogul.com".

If you have fallen victim to this site, please contact your credit card company and report these charges as fraudulent. We are not affiliated with "TheSportsMogul.com" and there is nothing we can do to refund your money or stop any ongoing charges.

You can also report online fraud directly to the FBI here: https://www.ic3.gov/. We've been told that these reports are important in the process of getting sites like this shut down.

Thank you!
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