Latest Finals
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//Take over a team
Every team below is run by a CPU manager. Take one over — first place included — and set its lineup from tonight’s games on. This season is part of Premium.
Every house league’s sims, on each league’s own clock
How many teams the league has. Every team plays once each game-day, so this sets how many games are played each game-day.
4 games each game-day
No house league · Start your own →
5 games each game-day
6 games each game-day
Whether each of a sim’s games gets its own first pitch through the day, or they all land at the sim time.
Every game of a sim is played at the sim time
A sim’s game-days split the time until the next sim. Games start one after another, never between 1:00 and 10:00 AM league time.
Whether games play out pitch by pitch in real time or land all at once.
Each game plays out over 25 minutes; lineups lock until the final out
Results appear the moment the sim runs
What happens when a sim is missed, for example while the league is paused.
Missed sims play 10 minutes apart until the league is back on schedule
Missed sims are dropped; the schedule picks up at the next sim
The preset a league is built from. It sets when the league sims, how many game-days each sim plays, and how long a season is.
House leagues shift these times by up to a few hours, so finals land all through the day; each league shows its own times.
No schedule: it sims only when someone taps Sim · 8 teams · 60 games
Every day at 9:00 AM, 3:00 PM, and 9:00 PM EDT · 2 game-days per sim · 10 teams · 60 games · a champion every 12–13 days
Every day at 9:00 PM EDT · 3 game-days per sim · 12 teams · 162 games · a champion every 60–62 days
Sat and Sun at 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, and 7:00 PM EDT · 3 game-days per sim · 10 teams · 81 games · a champion every 28 days
Every day at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM EDT · 2 game-days per sim · 12 teams · 120 games · a champion every 34–36 days
Every day at 7:00 PM, 7:15 PM, 7:30 PM, 7:45 PM, 8:00 PM, 8:15 PM, 8:30 PM, and 8:45 PM EDT · 1 game-day per sim · 8 teams · 20 games · a champion every 3 days
Who takes the field. A made-up league uses players the game invents. A real season deals out every player from that year, rated from its play-by-play.
Invented by the game, new every season, playing modern (2019-level) baseball
Every real player from 2019, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 2019’s run environment
Every real player from 2016, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 2016’s run environment
Every real player from 2001, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 2001’s run environment
Every real player from 1998, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 1998’s run environment
Every real player from 1986, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 1986’s run environment
Every real player from 1927, rated from Retrosheet play-by-play and played in 1927’s run environment. Experimental: rebuilt from box scores, so some detail is estimated
Regular-season games per team, before the playoffs.
20 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
40 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
60 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
81 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
120 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
162 game-days of regular season with an even number of teams
How well the computer runs the teams nobody has taken over.
Keen, but makes mistakes
Sensible lineups and moves
Sharp lineups, rotations, waivers and trades
How many teams make the playoffs.
2 rounds
3 rounds
Who bats in the pitcher’s spot.
Pitchers bat
Every lineup has a designated hitter
A DH only when the home team’s league used one
How a tie after nine is played.
Every extra inning starts with the bases empty
Every extra half-inning starts with a runner on second
How often players get hurt, and for how long.
No injuries
Fewer and shorter injuries than real baseball
Injuries at real-life rates and lengths
What a team keeps when one season rolls into the next.
Every season starts with a new draft
Teams keep a set number of players, then draft the rest
Teams keep their whole roster into the next season
1986 baseball: artificial turf, stolen bases and starters who finished what they began. Every player from that season, in the run environment they actually played in.
Mid-1980s baseball ran on speed and contact: stolen bases, artificial turf and starters who often finished their own games. Roger Clemens struck out 20 in a game that April, and Wade Boggs hit .357 to win another batting title.
Player ratings come from Retrosheet play-by-play. Clubs are shown by the game’s own team names; see credits.
