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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Richard Grisham, Chief Marketing Officer [email protected] Mike Suszek, License Relations and Digital Content Manager [email protected] T.J. Lauerman, Community Manager [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/ootpbaseball http://www.twitter.com/ootpbaseball OOTP 18 Media Assets: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/19p1wujyyjz5sxp/AADnuXXYlCyq62_PDB8ArRola?dl=0 OOTP 18 Trailer:
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I'm still getting lots of reports of people not able to access certain pages, especially My League List.The best option is to clear your browser's history /cache. Depending on your browser, go to Google and search for "Clear cache in Chrome" or "Clear cache in Firefox" or "Clear cache in Safari iOS" etc. Google will give you basic instructions on how to clear your cache. If you are having trouble with the mobile app, you'll need to clear the cache of the Safari iOS browser (or in the case of the Android app, the Android web browser).NEW NOTE: Users have reported uninstalling and re-installing the app on your phone also works. Another option is to access the website via http://test.pennantchase.com. You will have to login again, but then should be able to use the site as normal. Unfortunately, I don't have any control of clearing this up for people - what happened was, our hosting provider pointed our domain back to an older version of the website around 2:00 PM PST on 4/4. For a few hours, people were going to the wrong site, and when this happened, your browser saved that old domain in its history/cache. I fixed the issue around 5:00 PM PST, but folks who visited the website during the downtime were hanging onto the old information. That's why some people are having the issue, and some people are not. (Or why one browser might work fine for you, but another browser won't.)Please continue to reach out to me if you have issues, and I am hopefully this starts clearing up for people soon.
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I'm still getting lots of reports of people not able to access certain pages, especially My League List.The best option is to clear your browser's history /cache. Depending on your browser, go to Google and search for "Clear cache in Chrome" or "Clear cache in Firefox" or "Clear cache in Safari iOS" etc. Google will give you basic instructions on how to clear your cache. If you are having trouble with the mobile app, you'll need to clear the cache of the Safari iOS browser (or in the case of the Android app, the Android web browser).Another option is to access the website via http://test.pennantchase.com. You will have to login again, but then should be able to use the site as normal. Unfortunately, I don't have any control of clearing this up for people - what happened was, our hosting provider pointed our domain back to an older version of the website around 2:00 PM PST on 4/4. For a few hours, people were going to the wrong site, and when this happened, your browser saved that old domain in its history/cache. I fixed the issue around 5:00 PM PST, but folks who visited the website during the downtime were hanging onto the old information. That's why some people are having the issue, and some people are not. (Or why one browser might work fine for you, but another browser won't.)Please continue to reach out to me if you have issues, and I am hopefully this starts clearing up for people soon.
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Baseball is back and Out of the Park Baseball 18 – the sequel to Metacritic’s PC Game of the Year 2016 – delivers countless baseball dreams!
[This press release is made available courtesy of OOTP Developments]
Officially licensed by MLB.com, the MLBPA and Minor League Baseball, Out of the Park Baseball 18 includes the latest projected 2017 MLB Opening Day rosters, including the complete minor league system and over a dozen international and independent leagues, with thousands of real players. Player ratings are based on a combination of the industry-leading ZiPS player projection system and research conducted by our skilled and experienced roster team. The result is the most realistic and entertaining baseball management game on the planet. Guide your team to glory and build a dynasty!
New Features in Out of the Park Baseball 18 Include:
- Experience a new game mode in OOTP 18: Challenge! This mode adds a unique twist, along with new rewards, while playing OOTP. Your achievements are tracked in an (optional) online profile. Are you the best OOTP manager on the planet?
- Improved 3D Mode & Game Highlight Reels. With even more ballpark detail than before and enhanced player animations, the 3D game mode in OOTP has taken another leap forward.
- New Tournaments & Fall Leagues. Set up your own national or international tournaments. Choose from different tournament modes and manage your favorite nation to international glory.
- Historical Negro Leagues. With the help of Seamheads.com, our historical database experts have been able to add most Negro leagues seasons to the historical minor league feature of Out of the Park Baseball 18, including accurate rosters and player statistics.
- Redesigned Injury System. Injuries in OOTP 18 has been reworked to be more realistic and interesting. A detailed injury history is tracked for players, the injury database has been enhanced, there are now nagging little long-term injuries, injuries to different body types have different long-term effects, and much more.
- Team Promotion and Relegation Support. Create a challenging new league setup where teams fight for promotion and try to defend against relegation to a lower league level.
- Retain player salaries in trades. Can you strike the perfect deal and save your team some money?
- Improved AI throughout the game, for a more challenging experience than ever.
- Beautiful new interface design with three different skins.
- Many 2017 CBA rule changes are incorporated in modern MLB games.
- 7-Day lineups now support double-headers
- Improved player morale / team chemistry system.
- Improved player creation & development system.
- Improved game recaps, enhanced play-by-play text and league news.
- Updated authentic historical minor league database from 1915 through 2016 (including the Federal League) with a database of more than 100,000 real players.
- Support for individual player import from the historical database.
- And of course, the Out of the Park Baseball trademark of historical seasons spanning 150 years of baseball.
- And much more!
Can the Chicago Cubs repeat as World Series winners, despite the loss of Aroldis Chapman and Dexter Fowler? Or did the Cleveland Indians’ successful offseason set them up for taking the World Series trophy home this year? Will the Boston Red Sox’s rotation, anchored by Chris Sale and David Price, dominate in the AL East, or are the rebuilding Yankees already a contender? Which team will win the tight National League West Division, the powerhouse LA Dodgers, led by the best pitcher in baseball, Clayton Kershaw? Play Out of the Park Baseball 18 and find out!
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Hello Managers!
From April 17th, 2017 we will retire the Flash Player version of Top Eleven. This means that you will no longer be able to play the old version of Top Eleven.
All Managers who are currently playing the old version will be able to continue playing normally with their very same club on:
- our official site http://www.topeleven.com/play/
- our application on Facebook
- our application for iOS and Android devices
The decision to stop supporting the Flash Player version of Top Eleven was tough, particularly in regard to those Managers who enjoy playing on it, but it will allow us to put more energy into the quality of the current Top Eleven 2017 and future versions.
We deeply apologize for the inconvenience of removing this option for good.
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On March 20th we released Top Eleven version 5.4 on all platforms: iOS, Android and web-browser. We bring great improvements to our Managers and below you can find the full change-log:
IMPROVEMENTS
- When disconnected, the whole experience when reconnecting is now faster and the Manager won’t have to restart the game
- We have improved the tutorial for new Managers
- We have made some improvement in Arabic language in the game
FIXED BUGS
- We’ve worked to reduce the number of connectivity issues when watching video offers and to improve the over all experience with video ads
- We’ve fixed the issue that some Managers were facing when they couldn’t change the jersey number of their players
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It’s here – the day we NEED to be turned into a national holiday. It’s TOURNAMENT TIME BABY! That’s right, sound the trumpets, grab your favorite snacks and a cold beverage and prepare to not leave your couch until Monday. We know that every year people fill out millions of brackets with such scientific methods such as which team has the best BPI Rank while holding their opponents to the lowest PPG or, you know, which team has the coolest looking mascot. We decided to try another method – we’re using the brand new Tournament Maker feature in Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2017 along with some custom ratings for each team and see what the game thinks.
Now a scientific study this hardly is – we ran one sim and if you think we created actual player and player ratings for 64 teams you’re crazy. We just adjusted the initial team prestige to generate a league, setup the tournament and voila. It may not be perfect but it’s at least as good as picking the brackets based on which teams wear your favorite colors. So lets fire this up – and remember, it’s all in fun.
Before we begin – don’t forget you can do this yourself. The Tournament Maker feature is just one of the new features in DDS:CB 2017 this year and of course you can grab hold of your favorite team and lead them to the tournament yourself over and over again while you play out your storied coaching career. Click the link in the opening paragraph to learn all about the game.
EAST REGION
Well the East Region starts pretty chalky and then all hell breaks lose in the second round as Wisconsin pulls off a major upset knocking out last year’s champs paving the way for a Virginia/SMU showdown with SMU advancing.
WEST REGION
Looks like some interesting fireworks on the docket for the West region although top seed Gonzaga gets out and you know that a 12 is going to take down a 5 – looks like DDS:CB 2017 suggests candidate one for that job is Princeton.
MIDWEST REGION
It happened last year when Middle Tennessee upset perennial March juggernaut Michigan State, Dunk City made it happen in 2013 and it happened TWICE in 2012 – could we see another 15 v 2 upset? While it seems very unlikely DDS:CB 2017 wasn’t afraid to go out on a limb and predict that Jacksonville State would be this year’s Cinderella. The upset throws this bracket upside down paving the way for Oklahoma State to take it home – after all if they can beat a team like Michigan they clearly are an amazing team!
SOUTH REGION
Speaking of Middle Tennessee, if any team is in position for the annual 12 seed upset it could be them and Butler has been no stranger to some March magic. This has to be possibly the toughest of the four brackets with North Carolina, Kentucky and UCLA all as contenders and the simulation shows Butler making a nice run but not quite enough to slide past Kentucky.
FINALS
So – who wins it all? Who should you be scrambling to take as you fill out your final brackets before tip-off? Well, Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2017 says Gonzaga takes it home. I guess it helps they only have to go through a six and a ten seed in the finals but who wants a boring, chalky final anyway? That’s the best thing about the tournament – its unpredictable and anything can happen. So happy tournament watching – enjoy the greatest day in sports of the year!
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March is just around the corner and sports fans know that can mean only one thing…its tournament time, baby!
This press release is written and courtesy of the Wolverine Studios development company with slight modifications:
So the big question is what’s new for Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2017? Before we dive into the new features let’s talk about some upgrades. We’ve upgraded the AI to make teams even better at recruiting – especially transfer and JUCO players and we’ve also given you sliders to control the amount of injuries, the recruiting difficulty level and the threshold of patience level before you and other coaches get the boot as head coach! We’ve also upped the customization of your league – you can now edit most tournament info and even swap teams around conferences through the in-game commissioners office for more control over your game world. But that’s not even close to being all. Here’s an in-depth look at some of our favorite new features – all screen shots are shown at 1920×1017 resolution – smaller resolutions can play the game but may not see all the windows present.
NEW USER INTERFACEWe’ve tweaked the UI to make navigation easier and faster. You’ll notice the new team menu bar at the top for you to quickly switch between teams and the expanded menu below it offering depth chart and sub matrix as their own destinations rather than accessing them through the roster page. We’ve also changed the bar at the bottom to include links to those same screens except that they always remain tied to your team so you can feel free to look through your association with the top menu and can always come back to your team pertinent info with one click.
TOURNAMENT MAKER MODEBrand new to the game is an exhibition mode we call Tournament Maker. This feature allows you to take any one of your created associations and hold a 64 team exhibition tournament letting you sim out the results or play any and every game yourself.
NEW IN-GAME TOURNAMENTSWe didn’t leave all the new tournament fun for exhibition mode. Your season play now consists of a fourth post-season tournament as well as six brand new pre-season tournaments. Best of all we’ve given you both the ability to edit the names/logos for most of the pre-season tournaments and using the home office screen there is a new link for Tournaments & Dates which will give you a link to the above screen so that you can see a recap of all 14 pre-season tournaments at once.
QUICK RECRUITING FEATUREWe know the job of recruiting can be a tough one so if you’re looking to move through it quicker without turning duties over to the AI we’re introducing “quick recruiting” – just simply add players to your watch list and activate the check box on the recruiting screen and you’ll be able to scroll through all the recruits you are watching and assign your weekly instructions right then and there without leaving to go to each individual recruit card. If you prefer the old method you simply don’t check the quick recruit option box and you will be able to double-click on the recruits to bring up their card and recruit from there. Nothing has been taken away – only added functionality to make the experience better for everyone!
PRESTIGE TRACKINGDid you ever wish you could look back and see just how far you’ve lead your team in the past decade? Well now you’ll be able to look at a graph of your team’s prestige throughout time as well as having the option to comparing it to any team you wish or even to a conference as a whole!
LINEUP TRACKINGStats are becoming more and more important in basketball and you need all the information you can get which is why we’ve included lineup tracking in DDS:CB 2017. Get a look at every lineup you use and see how effective each one is so you know exactly where to look for when its time to shake things up and make lineup adjustments!
EXPANDED NEWS FEATURESEvery day you can get a daily news blurb on players from around the association but through the Media tab on the home office we’re introducing a season long recap of the biggest and best highlights. Look for stories on top matchups, outstanding performances and even which coaches are on the hot seat.
From GM Games (Final Note)We will be hosting soon the full court images, college team logos, and any player names etc when they become available. Keep an eye out for these mods to appear on GM Games.
The post Now ready for download, DDS: College Basketball 2017 (PC) appeared first on GM Games - Sports General Manager Video Games.
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March is just around the corner and sports fans know that can mean only one thing…its tournament time, baby! Wolverine Studios is proud to announce that Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2017 will be launched on Friday March 3, 2017 exclusively here at wolverinestudios.com
But to thank our loyal customers we have a special pre-order/upgrade offer for you. If you pre-order before March 3rd and you purchased DDS: College Basketball 2016 we’re going to give you 25% OFF – all you will have to do is put DDS:CB 2017 in your cart in our webstore and then go to check out. When you begin the check-out process be sure to enter the same email address you used when buying DDS:CB 2016 and after you have entered your personal info put in the coupon code CB17UPGRADE and you will see the discount. Don’t worry, if you didn’t get in on DDS:CB16 we’re offering coupon code CB17PRE to anyone to save 15% for pre-ordering. With the pre-order you will also get early access to the game with our last beta build.
So the big question is what’s new for 2017? Before we dive into the new features let’s talk about some upgrades. We’ve upgraded the AI to make teams even better at recruiting – especially transfer and JUCO players and we’ve also given you sliders to control the amount of injuries, the recruiting difficulty level and the threshold of patience level before you and other coaches get the boot as head coach! We’ve also upped the customization of your league – you can now edit most tournament info and even swap teams around conferences through the in-game commissioners office for more control over your game world. But that’s not even close to being all. Here’s an in-depth look at some of our favorite new features – all screen shots are shown at 1920×1017 resolution – smaller resolutions can play the game but may not see all the windows present.
NEW USER INTERFACE
We’ve tweaked the UI to make navigation easier and faster. You’ll notice the new team menu bar at the top for you to quickly switch between teams and the expanded menu below it offering depth chart and sub matrix as their own destinations rather than accessing them through the roster page. We’ve also changed the bar at the bottom to include links to those same screens except that they always remain tied to your team so you can feel free to look through your association with the top menu and can always come back to your team pertinent info with one click.
TOURNAMENT MAKER MODE
Brand new to the game is an exhibition mode we call Tournament Maker. This feature allows you to take any one of your created associations and hold a 64 team exhibition tournament letting you sim out the results or play any and every game yourself.
NEW IN-GAME TOURNAMENTS
We didn’t leave all the new tournament fun for exhibition mode. Your season play now consists of a fourth post-season tournament as well as six brand new pre-season tournaments. Best of all we’ve given you both the ability to edit the names/logos for most of the pre-season tournaments and using the home office screen there is a new link for Tournaments & Dates which will give you a link to the above screen so that you can see a recap of all 14 pre-season tournaments at once.
QUICK RECRUITING FEATURE
We know the job of recruiting can be a tough one so if you’re looking to move through it quicker without turning duties over to the AI we’re introducing “quick recruiting” – just simply add players to your watch list and activate the check box on the recruiting screen and you’ll be able to scroll through all the recruits you are watching and assign your weekly instructions right then and there without leaving to go to each individual recruit card. If you prefer the old method you simply don’t check the quick recruit option box and you will be able to double-click on the recruits to bring up their card and recruit from there. Nothing has been taken away – only added functionality to make the experience better for everyone!
PRESTIGE TRACKING
Did you ever wish you could look back and see just how far you’ve lead your team in the past decade? Well now you’ll be able to look at a graph of your team’s prestige throughout time as well as having the option to comparing it to any team you wish or even to a conference as a whole!
LINEUP TRACKING
Stats are becoming more and more important in basketball and you need all the information you can get which is why we’ve included lineup tracking in DDS:CB 2017. Get a look at every lineup you use and see how effective each one is so you know exactly where to look for when its time to shake things up and make lineup adjustments!
EXPANDED NEWS FEATURES
Every day you can get a daily news blurb on players from around the association but through the Media tab on the home office we’re introducing a season long recap of the biggest and best highlights. Look for stories on top matchups, outstanding performances and even which coaches are on the hot seat.
We could go on and on about all of the other tweaks and changes that have gone into making this version the best college basketball sim on the market but we’ll let you discover some of those things on your own! Don’t forget our pre-order and upgrade offers are good only through March 2nd so don’t delay in getting to the webstore to reserve your copy today and best of luck on your road to tournament glory and building a collegiate dynasty!
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Everybody loves Achievements! They add interesting wrinkles to many games, and their presence in Franchise Hockey Manager 3 is no exception. Available when you choose Path to Glory mode, achievements in FHM 3 allow you to tout your ability to do many things, from winning a minor league championship to emerging victorious in the Stanley […]
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This year’s big game sure looks like an exciting matchup. The high flying Atlanta offense sporting the league MVP at quarterback versus one of the all-time great QBs looking for ring number five. Since DDS: Pro Football developer Brooks Piggott just released an update to our 2016 game which included rosters from this season we thought lets fire up another edition of We Simmed It and find out who’s going to win the big one.
If our simulation is any indication of what will take place on the field we’re in for a real treat. Here’s the scoring recap by quarter
1st QUARTER :
Atlanta draws first blood on a 3 yd TD run by Tevin Coleman (7-0 ATL)
Tom Brady ties it up with a 21 yard TD pass to Julian Edelman (7-7)
2nd QUARTER :
The MVP pulls Atlanta ahead again with a 20 yard strike to Nick Williams (14-7 ATL)
New England drives and ends the half with a 17 yd FG by Stephen Gostkowski (14-10 ATL)
3rd QUARTER :
Not much action here until Tom Brady drops a 19 yard TD pass to Chris Hogan with about five minutes to go (17-14 NE)
4th QUARTER :
Matty Ice once again gives the ATL the lead with a 3 yard TD pass to Austin Hooper (21-17 ATL)
With just over two minutes to go in the game LeGarrette Blount punches one in from a yard out which looks like it will give Brady ring number 5 (24-21 NE)
But…just as a MVP would be expected to do…Ryan moves the team down the field but time is running out. Ryan drops back and finds Julio Jones (who else) who beats his man and then outruns everyone else to the house for a 60 yard TD to win the championship! (28-24 ATL)
We will see how it plays out tomorrow – if you want to see for yourself get yourself a copy of DDS: Pro Football 2016 – it’s even on a reduced price in our webstore. Here’s the box score from our simulation – definitely a classic!
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Greetings football fans! We know you’re gearing up for the big game this weekend and even though our football line was focused entirely on the release of DDS: College Football 2017 this season game developer Brooks Piggott still wanted to work up something on the pro game for his fans.
Brooks has released a FREE update to DDS:PF 2016 which includes the following
1) New 2016-2017 rosters
2) Fixes for bad team id’s in historical imports… should be able to re-create any league from 1970 forward (1960-1970 may be possible but I haven’t tested each year)
3) Fixes for CSV export
4) Fix for crashes when personalities were disabled
5) Updated training camps
6) Updated rank players screen
7) Updated custom playbooks (filters and updating of weights)
8) Added original position label to player form
9) Updates to prevent/penalize backs going over 25-30 carries.If you haven’t purchased DDS: Pro Football 2016 then head over to the webstore and get your copy now. If you do have the game and would like the free update or just want to try out a free demo of it then hit up our downloads page and you can grab it there. Enjoy the big game!
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Recapping 2016And just like that, another year is gone. It's hard to believe 2017 is already upon us. As I mentioned in a recent podcast, the past year was mostly a calm one for Pennant Chase. The major accomplishments were clearing out a bunch of Auto Leagues so that folks wouldn't have to wait around so long for leagues to fill, and starting the podcast, of which three episodes have now been posted.As always, 2016 MLB stats were loaded onto the site shortly after the season concluded - an annual accomplishment I continue to be proud of! After a crazy, hectic 2015, which featured the new mobile app, Player Potential, and Daily Drafts, 2016 was a year of stabilization.Shout out to our top usersUser kingstreet has been dominant the past several years, but we have some new "kings" in 2016. User sheikyerboudi had the most Auto League wins with 27,057. User plpl512 went 11,322 - 5,447 for a 2016-best .675 winning PCT, but props to papadharma who went 21,500 - 10,567 and finished with the second best PCT at .670.How many users do we have?After purging inactive users at the end of 2015, we were left with about 10,500 accounts. At the end of 2016, we ended up with nearly 12,000, so we gained about 125 users per month this year.But, after purging users at the end of 2016, another 3,000 accounts were deleted, making the new number of total accounts a little over 9,000.These numbers have been pretty consistent the past few years: we gain about 125 new people per month, or about 1,500 a year, but we purge about 3,000 inactive accounts, for a net loss of 1,500 accounts.Obviously if this trend continues, in a few years we may stabilize somewhere around 2,000-3,000 accounts. So what does this all mean? Ironically, I think we have the most passionate, active group of users that PC has ever seen on our website. As long as this great community is enjoying the site, I am not too worried about the total number of accounts.It's much harder to attract and retain users now than it was eight years ago when we first started. There are so many competing entertainment and gaming options, it's crazy.The site still makes about the same amount of money, which is obviously the key measure of viability, and means we can keep the lights on!What's coming up for Pennant Chase?I personally think the site could use a refresh on usability to make it more friendly to newbies and even those who have been around for a while. If I had to put one big goal out there for 2017, I think it would be to start testing some different approaches to re-imagining some of the key areas of the site. For example, message boards & personal inbox could use better features and usability all around.If I am able to redesign some areas, I'd love to use that as a launching point for a bigger marketing push.My other big push will be to start getting all of us to give reviews and ratings where possible, such as in the app store (our awesome mobile app needs some good reviews!). All of this work is an effort to help baseball fans find us so that your awesome leagues have great owners and this awesome site can keep on chugging for years to come.Thanks again for a great year, hope you all had a nice holiday season, and happy New Year!
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Recapping 2016And just like that, another year is gone. It's hard to believe 2017 is already upon us. As I mentioned in a recent podcast, the past year was mostly a calm one for Pennant Chase. The major accomplishments were clearing out a bunch of Auto Leagues so that folks wouldn't have to wait around so long for leagues to fill, and starting the podcast, of which three episodes have now been posted.As always, 2016 MLB stats were loaded onto the site shortly after the season concluded - an annual accomplishment I continue to be proud of! After a crazy, hectic 2015, which featured the new mobile app, Player Potential, and Daily Drafts, 2016 was a year of stabilization.Shout out to our top usersUser kingstreet has been dominant the past several years, but we have some new "kings" in 2016. User sheikyerboudi had the most Auto League wins with 27,057. User plpl512 went 11,322 - 5,447 for a 2016-best .675 winning PCT, but props to papadharma who went 21,500 - 10,567 and finished with the second best PCT at .670.How many users do we have?After purging inactive users at the end of 2015, we were left with about 10,500 accounts. At the end of 2016, we ended up with nearly 12,000, so we gained about 125 users per month this year.But, after purging users at the end of 2016, another 3,000 accounts were deleted, making the new number of total accounts a little over 9,000.These numbers have been pretty consistent the past few years: we gain about 125 new people per month, or about 1,500 a year, but we purge about 3,000 inactive accounts, for a net loss of 1,500 accounts.Obviously if this trend continues, in a few years we may stabilize somewhere around 2,000-3,000 accounts. So what does this all mean? Ironically, I think we have the most passionate, active group of users that PC has ever seen on our website. As long as this great community is enjoying the site, I am not too worried about the total number of accounts.It's much harder to attract and retain users now than it was eight years ago when we first started. There are so many competing entertainment and gaming options, it's crazy.The site still makes about the same amount of money, which is obviously the key measure of viability, and means we can keep the lights on!What's coming up for Pennant Chase?I personally think the site could use a refresh on usability to make it more friendly to newbies and even those who have been around for a while. If I had to put one big goal out there for 2017, I think it would be to start testing some different approaches to re-imagining some of the key areas of the site. For example, message boards & personal inbox could use better features and usability all around.If I am able to redesign some areas, I'd love to use that as a launching point for a bigger marketing push.My other big push will be to start getting all of us to give reviews and ratings where possible, such as in the app store (our awesome mobile app needs some good reviews!). All of this work is an effort to help baseball fans find us so that your awesome leagues have great owners and this awesome site can keep on chugging for years to come.Thanks again for a great year, hope you all had a nice holiday season, and happy New Year!
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Brent Long, commissioner of the GAF Online Baseball League that came together on the NeoGAF forum, discovered Out of the Park Baseball with last year’s version 16, but once he did, he was hooked. “When I play any game that tries to simulate a sport, I’m always most interested in the long-term development of my […]
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International competition has provided some of hockey’s most memorable moments. From the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series and the American Miracle on Ice in 1980 to the Czech upset win in Nagano in 1998 and the US-Canada showdown in Vancouver in 2010, the intense battles between national teams have showcased hockey at its highest level, both […]
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Hi Managers,
On Dec. 1st we released Top Eleven version 5.1.1 from Android and web browsers. This version brings great improvements for all our Managers, so check our change-log below
IMPROVEMENTS
- New Managers will experience an updated tutorial sequence, which provides better immersion into the Squad feature and Top Eleven Live Matches.
FIXED BUGS
- We’ve fixed the text wrapping issue from the last update that occurred in Chinese, Japanese and Thai.
- We’ve fixed the log-in issue by making it faster and now it works as intended.
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We know you like a good deal for Black Friday and Wolverine Studios always comes through. This year we’re offering 50% off the already discounted prices on some of our favorites. The titles eligible for this deal are :
DDS: Pro Football 2016
DDS: Pro Basketball 2016
DDS: College Basketball 2016
Total Pro Golf 3All you need to do is put those in your cart in the webstore and use code BLACKFRIDAY and you’ll get the immediate savings. That means you can get any of those Draft Day Sports titles for less than ten bucks and Total Pro Golf 3 for under five dollars!
Also don’t forget our new releases Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2017, Draft Day Sports: College Football 2017 and Faceoff Hockey 2017 – Wolverine Studios has plenty of exciting games to keep you entertained this holiday season!
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Hi everyone,It's been a busy year personally and professionally, but I wanted to take a moment to pause and express my thanks for those who come to this website every day and make it such an awesome community. I'm especially thankful for those diehards who are always there to answer questions on the boards and help newcomers get acquainted with things. There's no way I could do it all. One exciting piece of news, I've tried my hand at creating a podcast, and hope to make this is a somewhat regular thing. Check out the first episode on itunes or Google Music by searching for baseball simulation, you should be able to find it. Here is the itunes links:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-baseball-simulation/id1175538167I've already gotten some great feedback on the board, and will be open to ideas for future episodes at any time!Stay tuned for the annual "state of Pennant Chase" and more podcast material. And have a great Thanksgiving weekend!
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Hi everyone,It's been a busy year personally and professionally, but I wanted to take a moment to pause and express my thanks for those who come to this website every day and make it such an awesome community. I'm especially thankful for those diehards who are always there to answer questions on the boards and help newcomers get acquainted with things. There's no way I could do it all. One exciting piece of news, I've tried my hand at creating a podcast, and hope to make this is a somewhat regular thing. Check out the first episode on itunes or Google Music by searching for baseball simulation, you should be able to find it. Here is the itunes links:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-baseball-simulation/id1175538167I've already gotten some great feedback on the board, and will be open to ideas for future episodes at any time!Stay tuned for the annual "state of Pennant Chase" and more podcast material. And have a great Thanksgiving weekend!
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Hi Managers,
On Nov. 18th we released Top Eleven version 5.1 on all platforms: iOS, Android and web-browser. We bring great news and improvements to our Managers and below you can find the full change-log:
NEW
- We’ve heard your feedback and the players from your Youth Academy (U-21) from now on will have a better quality and will cost less tokens.
IMPROVEMENTS
- With this version we are improving the player experience by bringing a faster login to our Managers. Olé!
- We have improved the memory consumption of the game. Note that inn order to lower the impact on memory, we have removed the gift animation on Assistant Report screen on low-end devices.
- We have improved our notification system and now our Managers can expect notifications promptly in time for their matches.
- We have fixed the League Table overview that wasn’t fully displayed on some devices.
- In the Club Shop the font has been fixed and there are no longer weirdly split words.
- In the Manager screen we’ve added “country” instead of “nationality” in the Manager Details.
- We have assured that all Football Association emblems load correctly in all devices.
- We have fixed some connectivity issues that some Managers were facing when they sent thanks to their supporters after the Live Match.
- We have improved the balance of levels in Champions League and Super League competitions.
FIXED BUGS
- We have fixed the quality percentage of players in their info screens.
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Some consider baseball the most cerebral of the pro sports, so it’s not a surprise that an enterprising Out of the Park Baseball player would capitalize on the idea with the Overeducated Baseball League. Consisting of fictional athletes playing in the Platonic and Socratic Leagues, with Kant and Hobbes Divisions in the former and Hegel […]
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Dear Managers,
Now you can find Support content in Chinese Simplified and Traditional! Check it out by clicking on the “?” button in Top Eleven app or by visiting Nordeus Support site (Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional). If by any change you don’t find the answer your looking for, our Support Agents are ready to asnwer you promptly in both languages. Enjoy!
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Franchise Hockey Manager 3 is now available worldwide, so we thought we’d take it for a spin and highlight the major features that armchair hockey GMs have been anticipating the most. Like OOTP Developments’ other games, FHM 3 offers a deep, authentic experience that you can explore any way you want, from a day-to-day, nuts-and-bolts […]
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[Wolverine Studios] Reviewing our DDS:PB 2017 Season Preview
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At the beginning of the season this year we put Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 2017 to the test and simulated the 2016-17 season. Now with the regular season in the books lets take a look back and see what sort of predictions the game made and how accurate they turned out.
But before we get on to the results we’re running a special playoff pricing sale on DDS:PB 2017 – you can save nearly 30% on the game right now in our webstore and don’t forget to pickup its college counterpart Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2017 while you’re at it!
OK so let’s start with the championship prediction – the game predicted Golden State would take home the crown and there’s a pretty good chance that might happen but it did predict they would defeat Indiana to do so. Indiana looked a whole lot better on paper (and in code) before the season but they did make the playoffs so I guess we will have to see how that one plays out still.
As for the division winners DDS:PB predicted Boston, Indiana and Atlanta in the East with Golden State, San Antonio and OKC out West. Boston, Golden State and San Antonio all won their divisions while Atlanta and OKC finished second and Indiana only finished in third.
Other playoff teams predicted were Cleveland, Orlando, Charlotte, Philly and Chicago (2/5 there) and LA, Sacramento, Houston, Portland and Minnesota (3/5 there)
DDS:PB 17 predicted James Harden would thrive in Mike D’Antoni’s offense and would lead the league in scoring – he finished second to Russell Westbrook.
Speaking of Beastbrook – the game predicted he would go for 28.6/9.2/7.1 which at the time seemed like really lofty numbers. Instead he averaged 31.6/10.4/10.7 – just averaged a triple double per game, no big deal…Our favorite quote from our preview was “Our sim shows him dropping 40 or more 11 times out of 82 games. The crazy thing is that number might actually be low!” – turns out we were right to suspect that could be low as he did it 18 times including 4 50+ games! Maybe he used a cheat code!
Our other Misc Predictions from the game
All in all we’re pretty pleased with the realism and accuracy of the sim and it gets better with each version. Don’t forget to get in our our playoff sale while you can and look for more blog posts from us as we will sim the conference and league finals again this season.
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