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Improved AI in Pitch-By-Pitch Mode

5/24/2019

Version 22.08 of Baseball Mogul 2019 includes improvements to the artificial intelligence in Pitch-By-Pitch mode. Pitchers now select and locate pitches more realistically -- based on the count, batter and game situation -- and batters behave more realistically in terms of the pitches they choose to swing at.

One way to see these changes is by viewing pitch-by-pitch results in Version 22.08 alongside results from Version 22.06, and comparing them to actual data from Major League Baseball:

As you can see, the first-pitch swing rate in Version 22.07 was way too high (52%). Version 22.08 is much more realistic, with swing rates within a few percentage points in every count.

Similarly, pitch selection by count is now much more realistic:

Thanks to everyone that gave feedback about the pitch-by-pitch AI and brought some of these discrepancies to my attention.

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Sports Mogul's 2019 Prospect Rankings

4/7/2019

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FYI, these are the internal scouting ratings used for the 300+ top prospects added to the player database for Baseball Mogul 2019:

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2019 Prospects (Excel)
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Top Prospects in Baseball Mogul 2019

3/27/2019

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Version 22.00 of Baseball Mogul 2019 (released on March 21st) includes about 60% of the "Top-10" prospects for each team. The other 40% were omitted were several reasons. One is that I was using "Top-100" prospect lists, which is only about 3 players per organization. Another is that I can't yet include players without any playing time in either the major or minor leagues (e.g. Victor Victor Mesa and Marco Luciano).

The good news is that Version 22.01 adds 126 more players from MLB.com's list of top 10 players in each organization (see file).

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Thanks to some help from Mogul fan Damian Henning, Version 22.02 should include about 15 more "Top-10" prospects, leaving less than 3% of this group missing from the database.

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Baseball Mogul 2019: Downloading Photos

3/21/2019

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Baseball Mogul 2019 makes it possible to download player photos and team logos from the internet. Depending on your connection speed, this should take about 5-10 minutes.

After starting a new game, choose "Advanced Tools" from the Tools Menu and then click the following buttons. (The order doesn't matter).

Support for 3rd-Party Photos

Downloaded player photos are saved to the 'Downloads' folder inside Baseball Mogul's 'Photos' folder. The 'Photos' folder also contains folders labelled 'Action' (for news stories) and 'Portraits' (for Scouting Reports).

Starting with Version 22.02, Baseball Mogul will display photos in the 'Portraits' folders before checking the 'Downloads' folder. Therefore, if you place higher-resolution photos in the 'Portraits' folder, these will over-ride any photos in the 'Downloads' folder.

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Baseball Mogul 2019: Trading Block Button

3/20/2019

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You buy Baseball Mogul and take control of the Los Angeles Angels, hoping to build a dynasty around Mike Trout and young arms like Jaime Barria and Jose Suarez. But when you open trade talks with other GMs, they ask for players you aren't willing to give up.

Baseball Mogul 2019 eliminates this problem by letting you flag any player as off-limits in trade talks.

Each player's Trading Block Status is shown on their Scouting Report under their photo. To elminate all trade offers for a player, click on the status and then select "Won't Trade". To increase offers for a player, choose "On The Block".