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Background about the new MLB-Pro.com website: MLB-Pro.com has been built on a robust Content Management System (CMS) that allows for every content submission by a GM to be expressed on the front-page and categorized by your GM or team. The template used includes photoslides, news managers while incorporating a javascript chat room that can be monitored on all pages, including a Twitter box from all the GM's, Rumour Twitter Account and League news account. Each General Manager profile page has been associated with their Forum account to find Trade Blocks, obtain AIM contacts, private message offline. The page is the vision of General Manager Games , Sports General Manager Games - GMgames.org to become the flagship league of our simulation news, review and community. At the moment we are still considering more leagues where we host a domain, make your forum pages, allow OOTPOU and point the domain to your league reports. We look forward to having you check MLB-Pro.com out and follow their Podcasts, Real Time Sims, news at a pace most of us working folk can keep up with!

February 12th, 2013 - We preview the first batch of screenshots from Out of the Park Baseball Version 14 Click Here

January 25, 2013 - Out of the Park Developments has announced that Out of the Park Baseball 14 will be released in early April, and can be pre-ordered now. A pre-order before February 15th will save $5. Starting February 16th the price becomes the regular $39.99, but you still get the game 3 days early on a pre-order. OOTP 14 Features 2013 Opening Day Major League Rosters 2013 roster set, which features up-to-date Opening Day rosters for all major league teams but also thousands of individually-rated players for all minor leagues and hundreds of players from the 2013 first-year player draft class. Major league player ratings are officially based on Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA projection system. Completely Recoded Player Origin System Completely recoded player origin to make your league's development much more realistic. There are now 5 different ways new players enter the league, and each one can be customized for the number of created players and their nationalities: The First-Year Player Draft: By default, players in the draft pool are now from the USA, Canada or Puerto Rico. However, the nationality can be tweaked in great detail and can also include a set percentage of random nationalities. That also applies to the following optional player entry methods. International Amateur Top Prospects (optional): These players are typically 16-to-17-years-old who have a reputation of being top talents. They appear as free agents in a new special international section of the league transaction screen and most likely will demand contracts with high signing bonuses (another new feature). You can customize the number of these players who will be created each year. Established International Free Agents (optional): These players are typically from Japan, South Korea, Cuba, Taiwan and Mexico and are between 22 and 32 years old. They typically have slightly below average major league talent, but there will be the occasional star player, like Yu Darvish, Ichiro, or Aroldis Chapman. International Scouting Discoveries (optional): Your team's scouts constantly evaluate the international leagues as they seek young, raw, and unknown talent. The success of your head scout is determined by the scouting budget, the quality of your scout, and his assigned regions. When your head scout discovers a player who he feels may have a shot at becoming a pro, that player is automatically assigned to your team's new international complex. Players in the international complex may remain there until their 20th birthdays, after which they will have to be assigned to a minor league team or released. Players from Independent Leagues (optional): You may also have your head scout look for talent in hidden independent leagues. These players are typically from the league home nation, but once in a while an international talent may be discovered here too. Independent league players are typically in their early-to-mid-20s and usually only have an outside shot at becoming borderline major league players. However, there may be the occasional feel-good success story. Recoded Player Creation Algorithms Recoded OOTP's complex player creation routines. This ensures more stable long-term simulations and more realistic player careers and stats output. New Fielding Ratings Development System In real life, young players usually start out playing positions that demand a certain grade of athleticism. However, as players mature, they often grow out of these so-called skill positions (such as shortstop, catcher, or center field) and have to shift to the right side of the defensive spectrum. This is now properly modeled in the OOTP player development engine. For example, if you draft that talented 18-year-old 6'3" 175 lb shortstop, you may end up with a below-average 230 lb corner outfielder eventually. Recoded Scouting System Recoded the way OOTP evaluates players, both for the OOTP Scouting Agency ("OSA") and your head scout. For example, players with several years of pro experience are now better scouted than in previous versions, and the OSA is more accurate overall, providing a valid second opinion on players. There are also players who are vastly overrated or underrated by almost all scouts, resulting in more late-round surprises. Better Player Development Tracking OOTP now properly tracks the development of your players and offers several ways to analyze the data. You receive monthly player development updates from your head scout (or the OSA, if scouts are disabled), who highlights the most important changes, such as when a pitcher in the lower minor leagues learns a new pitch and improves his prospect status. Expanded Real-Time Simulation Experience Adding an expanded view on a single game that is currently in progress. This new view shows you the most important facts of the selected game, like the current batter-pitcher matchup, past plays, basic box scores, win probability, and so forth. Improved Trading Added a screen that keeps track of all the trades in the history of the league, with a detailed look at the involved players' salaries, overall ratings, prospect rankings, and so forth. OOTP 14 also adds a "Not interested in Player X" function that prevents the AI from repeatedly offering a certain player to you. Miscellaneous Features On top of these headline features, we are tweaking and improving other areas of the game too, such as: - Improved interface - Better player evaluation AI - Roster AI recoding, resulting in better managing of minor leagues and the 40-man roster - Better contract negotiation AI - Improved depth charts and pitching staff control, i.e. list your preferred pinch-hitters, pinch-runners and "LOOGY"-Pitcher. - New graphical depth chart screen -Improved league strategy settings; i.e., define the number of starting pitchers, relief pitchers, and position players carried by the AI teams, split by DH and non-DH sub-leagues. - Smarter in-game AI - Improved in-game control, including "Pitch to Contact" option and better stealing control in one-pitch mode - Much more storylines - Improved play-by-play commentary - One-click joining of online leagues - New playoff series analysis screen GM Games will be following the release of OOTP14 very closely. Brandon Warne, our lead Baseball writer is eager to bring you his take. For the Full Article: http://gmgames.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=74:new-features-for-out-of-the-park-baseball-14&Itemid=220

As a Canadian myself, I hope you get Junior Hoilett!

Pretty wild seeing Butler beat Indiana.. I couldn't even imagine what was going through YOUR mind , haha

I've been lazy the last couple of months but normally I would work out pretty intensely.. Especially knowing when summer is coming around.. Tubs of protein all over my place

SI Games takes sports simulation on iPad, iPhone and Android to new heights with the release of Football Manager Handheld 2013. December 13rd, 2012 - Sports Interactive and SEGA are delighted to announce the launch of Football Manager Handheld 2013 for iOS and Android devices. This season’s release not only includes up-to-date player and competition data, it also includes a number of gameplay enhancements, many of which have been implemented as a direct result of user feedback. These include: - An all-new player comparison module (allowing managers to compare potential recruits against existing squad members or existing squad members against one another). - Player photos (in licensed leagues) - An increase in the number of playable leagues (from 12 to 14) - A player form ‘hot list’ - The facility to promote reserve team players to the first-team squad - Club captain selection - Improvements to the in-game news, media interaction and match engine - Twitter support for all devices – allowing managers to share their exploits with friends - A host of in-game achievements for manager to strive towards In addition to these gameplay enhancements, there have also been a number of improvements to the user interface; in particular, specific ‘skins’ have been developed for the most popular tablet devices and retina support has been added for high-end iOS devices. For managers who like to accelerate their progress through the game, Football Manager Handheld 2013 allows, for the first time, the purchase of a number of ‘unlockable’ features, including the introduction to the club of a ‘sugar daddy’, the option to expand the club’s stadium, the ability to manage national teams from the beginning of the game and even taking a place on the board (giving the manager immunity from the dreaded sack). While all of these unlockables are available through the in-game store, many can also be ‘earned’ through in-game achievements as with previous iterations of the game. Football Manager Handheld 2013 also sees the reappearance of the popular challenges (which first appeared in Football Manager Handheld 2012) and the introduction of a whole new challenge, ‘The Dangers of Capitalism’.

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I am in love with all sim sports games! I would start with some sports you like though .. and then other sports grow on you too I am impartial to which games you should try but based on ratings from our writers, I would recommend OOTP for Baseball if you like baseball, then other games like Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 3 if you really like Basketball the most .. Overall though the soccer guys from SI Games/Football Manager are most advanced in how realistic these games are

It is the most in-depth simulation game for Android by far. For soccer fans, the PC/Mac version is a must have and the handheld has had very strong reviews

What if Peyton Manning decided to sign in San Francisco instead of Denver?

Done. I just removed it completely..

Chat box will be the next Phase of the forum. Once we take care of more repeat visitors, have a couple leagues we promote, it will be a requirement to have. For now, its all about building threads and posts cheers

Raptors look like they got fleeced on that Bargnani deal. Your roster headers are off, you put Bulls players under Indiana Pacers, and vice versa.

It's looking like it'll be a great year for Crean and Indiana!

For DDSPB3 - 2012, with Season Disk. From Wolverine Studios Forums. LOGOS: (here is a link to all of them in one nice folder you just unzip to your c:\Wolverine Studios\DDSPB3\graphics folder: logos.zip) (thank you MizzouRah) PLAYER PHOTOS: To complete the NBA experience, download the excellent player PHOTOS from here: https://rapidshare.com/files/4191024006/RealplayerfacesDDS3.rar (thank you buddy) GM Coach and Picture File: https://rapidshare.com/files/2242589808/nonplayers.rar (thank you buddy) COURTS: from here (rename newjersey to brooklyn): http://rapidshare.com/files/43980495...s-by-Rocko.rar (thank you rocko)

Kevin Love was a great score. He is showing versatility of a hall of famer. He is such a threat from the perimeter now too, although he should stick to being near the key for all of those boards.. AK47 had a very good run with Russian National team and in Europe.. He seems serviceable. The shooting-guard area is definitely a concern. Ridnour and Rubio make a good pg 1-2 punch. Wolves are on their way .. but too bad Roy isn't the same. Could have been the game-changer for the team since the days of KG. Shved and Barea make it seem like there's way too many PG's.

Indiana came through nicely. Not a fan of Purdue? haha

I think that's a good idea considering it's not sports all the time, even though for the most part it is

A double digit win too ! Butler is a beast .. how about another finals run

-9 Indiana , looks like they should win

Done. Let me know if it's working for you.. cheers

HTML has been allowed, cheers!

Hey Ross, great to meet another supporter of sports games. Interesting first match up between Andrew Luck & Brady .. I bet he learned from the experience .. Where's your avatar? cheers

Who blows the most .. Wizards, Magic, (hopefully not Pistons) eek or Kings?