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The 2015 Library has been updated on our site with stats through July. You can choose to download the current library, which has all of the latest stats and transactions for the 2015 season through July. Or you can update your current 2015 library replay with the latest players and transactions through July. Detailed instructions for both of these options can be found here: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/2015Replay.php Keep in mind, this library is meant to be played through July. As a result, any trades that happened at the very end of July will not be in this library. You have to wait until the next update (through August) to use players that were traded at the trade deadline. Enjoy!

Version 5.0.5 of Digital Diamond Baseball was just release. This release contains several enhancements and bug fixes. Perhaps the most exciting change is an improved play-by-play engine. The updated engine adds new events that allow users to create even more sophisticated play-by-play during a game. Long time customer "Johnny Bravo" has released a new version of his custom play-by-play file that takes advantage of the 5.0.0 update. His play-by-play file can be downloaded from here: http://twikisandbox.com/do/view/DDBB/PbpVersion5 Here is a sample of an inning called by JB's custom play-by-play file. The game is part of a "play-at-home" league that is going on using 2014 stats: So here's Fowler. He entered the game batting .240 with 2 RBI... nobody down here in the Top of the 1st. Wainwright turns and delivers ... Line drive ... off the glove of Aybar ... and into left field for a base hit ... picked up by Zobrist ... and that'll be a single for Fowler ... despite what was almost a great play by Aybar. Now here's Heyward... nobody down. Fowler is on at first. Wainwright looks at Fowler ... Fowler has a good lead ... There goes Fowler ... the throw from Santana ... is a good one, but he beats it out. Heyward taking a moment to clean some dirt from his spikes ... And now he steps in to face Wainwright... nobody gone here in the Top of the 1st. Fowler at second. The pitch coming up ... the runner is off with the pitch... Ball four ... and Heyward trots down to first. So here's Cabrera... nobody down here in the Top of the 1st. Fowler is on at second. Heyward is on at first. Cabrera waits ... Wainwright turns on the rubber, and deals ... the runners are on the move ... Swung on ... And that ball is absolutely crushed to right field ... Cruz just turns and watches ... a towering Home Run for Cabrera! Fowler scores. That drives in Heyward. And Cabrera comes up with the big hit, the Gashouse Gang are on top now 3 - 0. Here's Posey... nobody down here in the Top of the 1st. Wainwright delivers ... Slow roller to third base ... taken there by Carpenter ... and he throws to Morneau to get him. Now here's Duda. He entered the game batting .303 with 2 HR and 6 RBI... one out. Wainwright delivers ... Swung on ... and there's a dunker to left field ... Zobrist got a great jump and is coming in a hurry ... and he puts it away for the out ... great hustle there! Here's Harrison... two down. The pitch ... Little roller behind the mound ... Aybar will make the play ... and he tosses over to Morneau for the out. And that'll do it. Wainwright finally puts out the fire, but the Gashouse Gang get 3 runs in the inning, and now they lead 3 - 0.

The 2015 Library has been updated on our site with stats through June. You can choose to download the current library, which has all of the latest stats and transactions for the 2015 season through June. Or you can update your current 2015 library replay with the latest players and transactions through June. Detailed instructions for both of these options can be found here: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/2015Replay.php Enjoy!

The 2015 Library has been updated on our site. You have two choices. You can choose to download the current library, which has all of the latest stats and transactions for the 2015 season through May. Or you can update your current 2015 library replay with the latest players and transactions through May. Detailed instructions for both of these options can be found here: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/2015Replay.php Enjoy!

In Derek Bain's book Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era, Derek has placed every ballplayer in the modern era (from 1901-present) on their original teams. Fortunately for the Digital Diamond Baseball community, Derek is also building Digital Diamond Baseball libraries for each season in his book, and is making these available for download for free! The first five seasons (1901-1905) are available now, and more libraries will be added over time. You can find the libraries here.

The 2015 MLB season is now available for Digital Diamond Baseball for free! Unlike previous years, this time around we have real-life transactions in the library. This is all thanks to some hard work by customer Larry Ryall. Each month we will release import files for player stats and real-life transactions so that you can update your library and replay the 2015 MLB season as it unfolds. You can download the 2015 library from our site at: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php The next update will be June 1st! Here are the standings for my replay at the end of April: 2015 League Standings (All Leagues-All Divisions-All Teams) **AL - Central** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 KCR 19 4 .826 - 9-1 L1 7-3 12-1 2015 DET 16 7 .696 3.0 6-4 W2 8-5 8-2 2015 CLE 8 13 .381 10.0 2-8 L4 3-6 5-7 2015 CHW 7 15 .318 11.5 3-7 L2 5-5 2-10 2015 MIN 6 16 .273 12.5 4-6 W1 3-7 3-9 **AL - East** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 BOS 15 7 .682 - 7-3 L1 8-2 7-5 2015 NYY 14 8 .636 1.0 5-5 L1 8-4 6-4 2015 TBR 12 10 .545 3.0 7-3 W1 8-4 4-6 2015 TOR 9 14 .391 6.5 4-6 W2 6-4 3-10 2015 BAL 8 14 .364 7.0 3-7 W1 5-7 3-7 **AL - West** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 HOU 16 6 .727 - 8-2 W1 7-3 9-3 2015 SEA 12 10 .545 4.0 5-5 L1 5-7 7-3 2015 OAK 11 12 .478 5.5 6-4 W3 6-7 5-5 2015 TEX 9 12 .429 6.5 3-7 L3 3-6 6-6 2015 LAA 7 15 .318 9.0 1-9 L6 1-9 6-6 **NL - Central** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 STL 14 8 .636 - 7-3 W3 8-2 6-6 2015 PIT 13 9 .591 1.0 6-4 L3 7-3 6-6 2015 CIN 13 10 .565 1.5 6-4 L2 8-4 5-6 2015 CHC 10 12 .455 4.0 4-6 W3 8-4 2-8 2015 MIL 5 17 .227 9.0 5-5 W1 4-9 1-8 **NL - East** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 NYM 13 10 .565 - 6-4 L2 6-5 7-5 2015 MIA 12 10 .545 0.5 6-4 W1 7-5 5-5 2015 ATL 12 10 .545 0.5 4-6 W1 7-3 5-7 2015 PHI 10 13 .435 3.0 5-5 L3 7-5 3-8 2015 WSN 6 17 .261 7.0 3-7 W2 2-8 4-9 **NL - West** Year Team W L PCT GB L10 STRK HOME AWAY 2015 LAD 12 9 .571 - 7-3 W6 6-6 6-3 2015 SDP 13 10 .565 - 5-5 W1 7-6 6-4 2015 COL 12 10 .545 0.5 3-7 L2 4-6 8-4 2015 ARI 10 11 .476 2.0 5-5 W2 8-6 2-5 2015 SFG 9 14 .391 4.0 4-6 L3 7-3 2-11

The 2015 ZIPS Projections Library is now available for Digital Diamond Baseball for free. The library can be downloaded from our collection of premium libraries at http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php. This library was created using Dan Szymborski's annual player projections (https://twitter.com/dszymborski). The library includes ballpark images and a schedule taken from the 2014 season.

The 1963 premium library for Digital Diamond Baseball is now available for download from our site for free. This is a brand new library and is only available in version 5 format. You can download the library from here: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php. Thanks to "pfunkone" who was kind enough to create this library and share it with the community. Enjoy!

The 1953 premium library is now available for Digital Diamond Baseball. This is a brand new library and is only available in version 5 format. You can download the library from here: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php. Thanks to Jon Conner for sharing this library with the community. Enjoy!

The 1950, 1952, 1969, and 1971 seasons are now available for Digital Diamond Baseball. These libraries are for version 5 and can be downloaded for free from http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php.

"The Universal Baseball Association, Inc" library is now available for free for Digital Diamond Baseball. One of our customers (Rickengeezer) has created a player library based on the fictional baseball world created by Robert Coover's in his 1968 book "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop." You can download the player library from our site at: http://digitaldiamondbaseball.com/libraries.php Here is short description of the player library as provided by Rickengeezer: Often hailed as one of the best baseball books of all time, it tells the story of J. Henry Waugh, an accountant who immerses himself in his fantasy baseball league every night after work. This library is patterned on the fateful 56th season of the UBA, but precise statistical information on the players in the league is largely absent in the book. Thus, rather than a true simulation of Coover's universe, this library is an approximation--but one that uses the names, positions, and descriptions of the ballplayers to guide the selection of statistics for ballplayers like Maggie Everts,the bowlegged old catcher, or star centerfielder Witness York, who led the league in slugging percentage.Virtually every player mentioned in Coover's volume is included in this league, although it should be noted that many of these players were "historical" figures in Henry's fantasy--nonetheless, all are included in this UBA season. In order to round out the full league, other players are also included, but an effort was made to maintain consistency with the naming conventions and player characteristics found in Henry's project. The eight UBA teams play an 84-game schedule, as they did for Henry. But, perhaps the fate of the players will be different in different hands.