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Baseball Mogul: Identifying "Real" Players

7/20/2019

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"Chris V." recently wrote the following review for Baseball Mogul 2019:

My biggest complaint is the historical rosters having players you’ve never heard of having all these high ratings. For example, I just started a 1989 season for the Dodgers and there is a catcher named Homar Rojas. His ratings in commish mode are as follows: contact 77, power 81, gap power 90, eye 69, speed 67, arm 89, range 77, fielding 66, bunting 80, health 83. There are many more examples like that. It almost feels like the programmers are sneaking their names in here and making themselves really good. Make them save that for their own create a player game.

That ruins the game for me so for that, I give 2 stars.

My response:

Chris,

Thanks for the detailed review. Homar Rojas was a real prospect with the Dodgers, making it to Triple-A but never reaching the majors.

'80' is the major league average, so a player that is rated as 72/77 (like Rojas) is probably a borderline major leaguer. However, I do agree that his ratings may be higher than his minor league record warrants, so I'll take another look at the algorithm that projects major league performance from minor league stats.

For the record, I didn't sneak any players into the game with my name and "really good ratings". Starting with Baseball Mogul 2019, all players in any new game should be real historical players. If you want to check if a player is real or fictional, click on their name in the Scouting Report. If the player is real, this will take you to their page at Baseball-Reference.com.

Also, you can click 'Download Player Photos' in Advanced Options (on the Tools Menu). After doing this, the Scouting Report for many historical players will include their real-life photo.

Clay
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Baseball Mogul: Head-to-Head Records

6/24/2019

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Great question! There is a way. Click on the "Head-to-Head" button on the Calendar Page (see screen shot to the right).

This will open up an HTML file with every team's head-to-head record against every other team in the current season (click the image below for an example).
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The MVP Machine

5/30/2019

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I recently pre-ordered The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik, and I wanted to take a minute to recommend this book to like-minded baseball fans. I really enjoyed Ben's previous book, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, co-written with Sam Miller, Ben's co-host on Fangraph's Effectively Wild podcast (Nate Silver called the book "brutally honest" and "blissfully funny").

If you pre-order before June 4th (and forward your receipt to themvpmachine@gmail.com) you'll also get "a bonus chapter, an exclusive conversation about the book, and other extras" (on June 4th).

Semi-Retired?

In other news, I recently received the following e-mail:
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As many of you know, I was effectively "semi-retired" for several years while struggling with some health problems. But I'm now back to work full-time, and really appreciating all the positive feedback around this year's game. If you haven't played Baseball Mogul 2019 yet, the free version is now available here. And, through this weekend, you can still get 30% off the full version by using the coupon code 'NEWSLETTER' at checkout.

Free Downloads for U.S. Active Military

Finally, a reminder that Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul continue to be free for all active members of the United States armed forces with access to a ".mil" e-mail address, Just enter the coupon code 'MILITARY' at checkout. Please forward this information to friends and family who would benefit from it.

Thanks!

Clay
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Improved AI in Pitch-By-Pitch Mode

5/24/2019

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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:
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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:
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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:​
2019 Prospects (PDF)
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2019 Prospects (MS Word)
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2019 Prospects (Excel)
File Size: 29 kb
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2019 Prospects (CSV)
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