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Baseball Mogul Diamond

Baseball Mogul® Diamond is the 18th version of the "best baseball simulation you can buy" (PC Gamer).The groundbreaking franchise that revolutionized sports games continues to redefine the way you run and manage your favorite baseball team.

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Sports Mogul, Inc.
Publisher
Sports Mogul, Inc.
Release
August 9, 2016
9 years and 359 days ago
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Mostly Positive51 reviews76.5%

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About the Game

Baseball Mogul Diamond


New Features In Baseball Mogul Diamond

  • Compensatory Draft Picks (for teams that lose players to Free Agency)
  • Improved Player Aging, including mid-career position changes
  • Improved Manager AI (especially pitcher usage and defensive replacements)
  • Improved General Manager AI (roster management and player contracts)
  • Improved Trade AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Trades improve teams at specific positions, not just overall talent
  • Much greater News Story and Scouting Report variety
  • Improved historical and fictional season schedules
  • Faster simulation engine
  • More minor league and lefty-righty stats for active and historical players
  • Improved output for Head-To-Head Records
  • More realistic player fatigue and injuries
  • Improved simulation accuracy and stability
  • e.g. stolen base numbers no longer decline over time
  • Many bug fixes to prevent slowdowns and hangs
  • Problems fixed with Baseball Mogul Encyclopedia output
  • Fixed errors found in some historical All-Time Leader lists

Plus...

  • Build Your Own Expansion Team
  • Stat-based scouting
  • Individual strategy settings for each player
  • Includes individual pitch count limits
  • Lefty-righty batting and pitching stats
  • Includes every season back to 1951
  • Improved General Manager AI.
  • Mimics real-life trade and contract data
  • Scouting Report: copy player stats to clipboard with a single-click
  • Updated minor league stats
  • More than 1.2 million lines of data
  • More realistic high school, college and minor league stats
  • Improved Player Award AI (Gold Gloves, etc.)
  • Improved Pitch Tracking
  • Records velocity, break, location and result of every pitch
  • Accurate head-to-head stats for every batter-pitcher matchup
  • More accurate heat maps in player Scouting Reports

... and smaller improvements such as these:

  • Free agents available after expansion draft, to help complete your major and minor league rosters.
  • Bug fixed when calculating Defensive Runs
  • New stats and search options in "Sortable Stats" screen
  • Bug fixed with setting pitch count limits for individual pitchers
  • Ground balls to right side now advance runner on 2B more consistently
  • New directory created for each saved game
  • Prevents conflicts with box score and encyclopedia output

Updates for Opening Day of the 2015 Season

  • Updated rosters for every team
  • Over 2100 active players
  • Includes more than 45 minor leaguers per organization
  • Complete major league and minor league stats through 2014
  • Actual real-life 2015 season schedule (all 2430 games)

Backwards Compatibility

Baseball Mogul Diamond automatically loads databases from previous versions of Baseball Mogul.

Note: Advanced Roster Rules

Please note that Baseball Mogul Diamond does not include support for all of the advanced roster rules (such as enforcing a 40-man roster for each team or conducting the Rule 5 Draft). However, Qualifying Offers and Free Agent Compensation (via draft picks awarded in a "sandwich round") were added.
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