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Review of Draft Day Sports: Pro Basketball 3 Could a Basketball GM sim revolution be on the horizon? Stats and analytics aren’t just for baseball nerds any more. The geeks have made their way into basketball.

Review of Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2 Coaching in college is a lot of work. But it can also be very rewarding. Why anybody would choose to coach college sports over professional sports is mind-boggling. I realize most college coaches would jump at the opportunity to coach in the pros, but there are a handful who choose not to. Those coaches are crazy. I suppose there is something to be said for being the king of a campus instead of just another pro coach that has a slim chance of lasting more than a few years. But look at how much more work coaching in college is! •

We're excited to share the information about the seventh installment of Front Office Football 7 from Solecismic Software, released on December 13, 2013. It is only available through electronic download. Front Office Football is designed to represent a snapshot of professional football as it exists under the current salary cap system. You play the role of the general manager of a team. In order to succeed in Front Office Football, you need to perform as well as possible in four different areas. Team Performance On the field, your primary goal is winning the coveted Front Office Bowl. Your fans, players and staff all want to see that championship banner raised to a new position in the ring of honor surrounding your stadium. Financial Performance Off the field, your team needs to show a profit, or the owner will become angry and threaten your job. You need to control salary and staff costs while balancing the need to spend money to build and upgrade your stadium against the risk of facing stagnant ticket revenue with an aging arena. Roster Value You need to negotiate contracts, sign free agents, make wise decisions in the amateur draft and outsmart opposing general managers in trade. Building a strong, capable roster... Click here to view the full article on GM Games

SEGA's released Football Manager Handheld 2014 on the App Store and Google Play. The iOS version is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but is optimized for iPhone 5. The Android version requires 2.2 and up. The iOS version of Football Manager Handheld 2014 features cloud saving, so you can continue a single career on multiple iOS devices. GM Games will be monitoring and keep watching for a future review. Click here to view the full article on GM Games

Professional Football Simulator announces a new release (106) that brings in 2013 rosters. Just in time for the 2013-2014 Super Bowl you can now recreate the 2013 season. Now that you have the control, can you guide the Broncos to the Super Bowl? The post PFS Version 106 Released appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

Release Date: 5/7/2013 Main Release Features: New League FormatsTweaks to 2D display (midfield logos)Tweaks to AI for advanced playcalling ratiosEditing Players and modifications of jerseys now availableGames/Games Started updatesFixes for historical draft class duplicate playersFix for unicode strings in import files (now allows umlauts, etc.)New Minimum contract structure based on overallFix for draft pick trading during free agencyMisc UI updatesMisc HTML updates (draft picks)New League Chat screenThis is the first update of 2013. There are several updates to the game to make it more usable, add more features, and make it more accurate. There are also some advanced features that should enable experienced users to tune the playcalling engine to match the era they wish to simulate. The post Professional Football Simulator – May 2013 Release appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

We’re happy to announce that the PFS player universe has been updated with 2012-2013 players and rosters. There is also a rough draft class in for 2013-2014. Pro Football Simulator now has players and rosters from 1950 all the way through 2013. There are also league formats that cover just about every professional league in history, including NFL, AFL, CFL, WFL, and the USFL. There are several formats that you can use to recreate the entire history of the NFL, including expansion. This also helps online leagues expand and contract based on the popularity of the league. The post Pro Football Simulator – 2012 Rosters Available appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

Barcode Games has release version 1.1.92 which contains several new features. The main improvements are to the HTML output and the Watch Game screen which features new fields (turf and grass) as well as endzone logos. Features: 1. New Fields and Field Logos 2. Minor engine tweaks 3. Relative paths for exporting HTML 4. Updated HTML Menu The post Pro Football Simulator February Release appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

The latest version of the game was released on 1/14/2012. This version contains an update for the FBPro player import format, 2 new league formats, and some fixes for some minor issues with the engine and UI. The new formats include a 12 team 16 game format similar to the league structure used in many FBPro leagues. For more information, check out the forum at http://www.barcodegames.com/Forum The release version is 1.1.90 The post PFS January 2012 Update appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

Release Date: 01/07/2012 Release Features: 1) Ability to turn off championship game to support various scenarios like relegation, AFL NFL splits, etc. 2) New CSS screen in configuration so you can modify the CSS there instead of finding it on the file system. I really hope this leads to sharing of some nice .css code so we can build of a database of themes. 3) FBPro Import Format – BETA – For importing FB Pro rosters based on the ROSTER utility. The ratings are drastically different, so we’ll be tweaking things for the next update. 4) Compare player from player card 5) Fixes for game replay 6) League Highlights for Season or for Previous Week 7) Mail notification icon in bottom tray 8) Misc. html fixes The post Barcode Games releases PFS Version 1.1.89 appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

Kansas City Newspaper Article of the Replay Game Professional Football Simulator by Barcode Games was featured this week in the Kansas City Star newspaper. The sports department, led by Randy Ovitz, contacted BarcodeGames.com to see if PFS could be used to replay playoff games in 1971 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Colts, and again for the Chiefs versus the Dallas Cowboys. The premise of the article is what might have been for the Chiefs had they not had an early exit in the playoffs that season. Would their team, led by Len Dawson, been good enough to win the Super Bowl. Thanks to PFS and the historical players that the game universe contains, we were easily able to recreate these games to see what may have happened in January of 1972. Check out the full article here and see the boxscores here. The post PFS featured in historic game replay appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article

With the 2011 NFL season upon us Fantasy Football is in full swing. Many fantasy football players have a lot in common with fans of text-based sims. There are many different sims for many different sports, such as Professional Football Simulator for football and baseball sims like OOTP. 1985 Bears With text-based sims you get a similar feel to running a team in Fantasy Football, but instead of waiting week by week for actual results you use a game or sim engine to give those results. The games also allow you to set up leagues that are highly custom in both structure and historical accuracy. In Fantasy Football you get to control your roster and your starting lineup. You also control roster changes such as trades and free agent pickups. In sim games such as PFS you control much, much more. As a player in a league you would control all of the daily decisions that a team owner, GM, or coach would have to make. Off-season trades and signing, drafting players over multiple seasons, setting lineups each week, and creating game plans are all part of the game. You also get to compete against 10, 20, or many more other owners in your league who are vying for the same free agents, the same division championships and the same bragging rights that you are. Steel Curtain Another great feature of sim games is the ability to customize your league… imagine running the 1985 Bears, 1960’s Packers, the 1970’s Steelers, the 1980’s 49ers, or the 1990’s Cowboys. PFS includes a way to import these players so that you can recreate these seasons and see how you would do. Would you be a better owner? A more successful coach? So for those of you who are really enjoying fantasy football this season, I highly encourage you to check out a game such as PFS and see how much fun a text-based sim can be. Play in single player mode and relive all of the glory (or create some new glory!) for your favorite teams of history, or check out an online league for the ultimate in competition. 1990's Cowboys Available Online Leagues: WWPF: http://www.wwpf.us/The Football Chronicle: http://tfc.simsportleagues.comThe post Fantasy Football and Sims appeared first on Barcode Games. View the full article