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Chris reacted to stingray075 in How I started.. Playing Sports Sims
As a Brit born in the mid 70's I didn't discover NFL until the mid 80's. I sat with my mom and watched a Denver Broncos game featuring John Elway. Later on I caught a San Fran and they quickly became my team.
Tried to follow it sporadically until I emigrated to Canada a few years ago. Now I can watch all the football I want.
I played the Madden games to death but when it came to management games I could only find Football (soccer) management games, which I tried, but they never scratched the itch.
I just discovered DDS Pro Football and am trying the Demo though I must admit, none of the rosters are filled so I am at a loss. Trying to figure it out.
Wish me luck.
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Chris reacted to [email protected] in How I started.. Playing Sports Sims
I started playing management sims way back in the days of the Sinclair Spectrum. Soccer management sims such as Football Manager and The Double, Wasted many hours of my youth playing those games.
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Chris reacted to pwrsackers in How I started.. Playing Sports Sims
Baseball Stars on Nintendo. So many hours. In College in 1998 I started with DMB baseball. Just thew away the floppies. LOL>
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Chris reacted to cutz1994 in DDS Pro Basketball 21 Questions
Also very keen on using the photo database. Looks like a lot of effort has gone into it and they look great.
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Chris reacted to Slipky in [DDS:PB21] The Wizards of D.C. | A Washington Wizards Franchise
WIZARDS REVEAL HALLORAN AS NEW GENERAL MANAGER
The Washington Wizards has decided on terminating Thomas Sheppard's contract after their playoff exit, and went with signing 52 year-old Robert Halloran, former college and high school head coach with 14 years of experience. Halloran also worked as a front office executive in several other NBA teams, such as the Boston Celtics. On Tuesday, Ted Leonsis released a statement to The Washington Post in which he shared the plan to take his time in forming the franchise’s new leadership team. Halloran, according to a source from inside the club, was highly sought after due to his preference of player development and long term planning.
Halloran served as the Celtics’ Senior Director of Team Services and Player Relations before his arrival in Washington. With Boston, he oversaw all internal and external communications functions and scouted international, high school, collegiate and minor league talent. He has also organized the Wizards’ training camp and preseason schedules, overseen the athletic training, strength training, video, technology and equipment areas for the team and directed in-arena renovations to areas including the Wizards’ locker room, players’ lounge, family lounge and front offices.
CURRENT WIZARDS STAFF:
According to sources within the club, Halloran is tending to give head coach Scott Brooks a chance to impress him before going and making changes to the front office of the wizards.
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Chris reacted to Vincelewis in DDS Pro Basketball 21 Questions
Most of their games are easy to add mods to I have found. Great fun games for sure.
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Chris reacted to thinkminority in Intro
What's up good people? Finally HOME. Great to see a site full or armchair GMs making it happen. Love what I see already. Best. TM
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Chris reacted to rhaums_ in Real Team Mod 2021 season
This looks really good - very excited to test this out!
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Chris reacted to rhaums_ in CT Football manager is awesome!
Yeah this looks really good and seems to be fun, at least from the few minutes i've put into it!
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Chris got a reaction from [email protected] in DDS Pro Basketball 21 Questions
We don't make the game but how it works is if you buy from their website, you get a renewal promo code. The release dates are the same for these games every year. PB22 is Oct/Nov and CB22 is Feb/Mar.
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Chris reacted to TR202 in Favorite sports sim?
Football Manager by miles, but the DDS games are developing really nicely these days. The latest college bball game was excellent.
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Chris reacted to Havencheese in How I started.. Playing Sports Sims
The original Football Manager from 1982, I started playing it on my Commodore 64 around 1990. Then Championship Manager the original on my Amiga around 1992, played a few versions until they rebadged it Football Manager (different to the Commodore one) on PC.
Since then I've played EHM and FHM as a big hockey fan, OOTP Baseball which introduced me to the joys of baseball, Starters Orders and now DDSPB 21 I'm trying my hand at. There have been some Aussie Rules attempts but I'd love to see a really good AFL one someday.
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Chris reacted to XGN_patton in Guide
It's pretty tough to get the hang of things when you get started, especially the training, recruting etc. A tutorial would be very helpful.
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Chris reacted to SecretAgentMan in 2020 Summer Games Sim- Sign-Up Thread
Greetings! My name is SecretAgentMan, and every time the Summer Games or Winter Games comes around, I run a sim tied to that. Given that the 2020 Summer Games in Japan start next week....well, that means it's time! This year, I am jointly running it between both SimNation and GMGames. (In the past, I've just been at SimNation)
We will be using Going for Gold, a game that I am developing, as the method for simming this event. The game is still in what I would call an alpha state, though unlike in the past, I do have a functional career mode. There's also a Winter Games mode, which will be relevant in about 6 months, but for right now, we'll be using Summer Games mode.
The way Summer Games mode works is that you pick one of 65 countries, each of which have different strengths/weaknesses based as best we can on real-life historical results. A world will be populated with athletes to represent each of those countries (so, not the real athletes of the 2020 Summer Games). As the head of that country's national athletics committee, you get 200 training points that you can spread amongst your athletes (with a max of 10 per athlete per event) to give them a boost and help push them towards the medal stand. Then, as the 2020 Summer Games occur in real life, we will sim along-side them.
Deadline to join is Friday, July 23rd, the date of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Games. The alpha version of the program will start being sent out by e-mail early next week, and the sim will begin on Saturday, July 24th
How do you join? Please provide the following information:
Your forum handle OR a name you'd like to be called:
Your e-mail address:
1st Choice of Country (see below):
2nd Choice of Country (see below):
IF you have a particular connection to a country (such as being a citizen, having ancestors from that country, etc.), please also state that in your application. I will be assigning by first choice when possible, but accounting for personal connections when there is a conflict between multiple people wanting the same country. (Which may not always be obvious, since there are people from 2 different forums participating)
Please allow 48 hours for your application to be processed and decisions to be made about which country you'll be given
The 65 available countries are as follows:
Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Cuba Czech_Republic Denmark Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Georgia Germany Great_Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Israel India Indonesia Ireland Iran Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Nepal Netherlands New_Zealand Nigeria North_Korea Norway Pakistan Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South_Africa South_Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uruguay USA Zimbabwe How do you tell who will be good? Well, for some context, here are the Top 20 all-time medals lists, in real life, at the Summer Games.
No. Nation Games Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 27 1022 795 705 2522
2 Soviet Union (URS) 10 395 319 296 1010
3 Great Britain (GBR) 28 263 295 293 851
4 China (CHN) 10 224 167 155 546
5 France (FRA) 28 212 241 263 716
6 Italy (ITA) 27 206 178 193 577
7 Germany (GER) 16 191 194 230 615
8 Hungary (HUN) 26 175 147 169 491
9 East Germany (GDR) 5 153 129 127 409
10 Russia (RUS) 6 148 125 153 426
11 Australia (AUS) 26 147 163 187 497
12 Sweden (SWE) 27 145 170 179 494
13 Japan (JPN) 22 142 136 161 439
14 Finland (FIN) 25 101 85 117 303
15 South Korea (KOR) 17 90 87 90 267
16 Romania (ROU) 21 89 95 122 306
17 Netherlands (NED) 26 85 92 108 285
18 Cuba (CUB) 20 78 68 80 226
19 Poland (POL) 21 68 84 132 284
20 Canada (CAN) 26 64 102 136 302
And here are the Top 10 medals results from the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil, and the 2012 Summer Games in England
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 46 37 38 121
2 Great Britain (GBR) 27 23 17 67
3 China (CHN) 26 18 26 70
4 Russia (RUS) 19 17 20 56
5 Germany (GER) 17 10 15 42
6 Japan (JPN) 12 8 21 41
7 France (FRA) 10 18 14 42
8 South Korea (KOR) 9 3 9 21
9 Italy (ITA) 8 12 8 28
10 Australia (AUS) 8 11 10 29
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 46 28 30 104
2 China (CHN) 38 31 22 91
3 Great Britain (GBR) 29 17 19 65
4 Russia (RUS) 20 20 28 68
5 South Korea (KOR) 13 9 8 30
6 Germany (GER) 11 20 13 44
7 France (FRA) 11 11 13 35
8 Australia (AUS) 8 15 12 35
9 Italy (ITA) 8 9 11 28
10 Hungary (HUN) 8 4 6 18
I really hope you consider joining me on this journey as we sim alongside one of the world's biggest sporting events!
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Chris reacted to palitongo in DDS Pro Basketball 21 Questions
Hi im new on this site and want to download the mod , thank u for your work
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Chris reacted to tod1122 in Buzz City | A Charlotte Hornets Dynasty (DDS:PB21)
Absolutely love this dynasty and after reading this I think I might need to put the breaks on trying to fix my Washington Wizards and instead see if I can bring my (complete lack of) talents to Charlotte and turn the team that was once referred to as "Pro Basketball's Crying Jordan" into an actual respectable organization.
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Chris reacted to trojan in Detailed GM Games to Recommend?
Draft Day Sports Pro Football or Basketball are really well put together in my view
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Chris reacted to CaptBruce in Detailed GM Games to Recommend?
Just downloaded Draft Day Sports Pro demo and decided to buy it after 30 mins of tooling around.
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Chris reacted to CaptBruce in Detailed GM Games to Recommend?
I have also played Front Office games (last 4 versions) and enjoyed them, but wanted to give something else a try.