Matrix Games

PureSim Baseball 2005 allows you to choose how much you want to do.  You can play out each at bat in every game or focus on the financial or statistical aspects.  Creating a league can be as easy as a simple three step wizard and allows fictional or real players from any season since 1871 with PureSim’s integrated support for the free Lahman 2004 MLB player database.  Career play allows you to keep going for as many seasons as you like.  Multiplayer support is included, run an entire league with other players!

PureSim Baseball 2005 also allows detailed statistical analysis, allowing multiple replays for checking lineup combinations, a full almanac system and metrics, full player editor support and unattended simulation features.  Every pitch is tracked, with reports such as Runs Created 27 (RC/27), Relative Batting Average, Pitching Runs, Park Factors, Defensive Independent Percentage, and more.  Add-in support allows the creation of mods that plug directly into the game.

• Play with fictional players or real players from any season since 1871 with PureSim's integrated support for the free Lahman 2004 MLB player database!
• Re-Create any season in Major League History! A simple 3 step wizard automates the process and automatically generates the league based on the year of your choosing and assigns the players onto their appropriate teams.
• Play an unlimited number of seasons with career play.
• Animated in-game 2D graphical rendering of ball flight greatly adds to the experience and speed at which games can be played.
• Manage every at bat in every game or run as a GM.
• Full financial model with salary caps, small market challenges, free agency and player contract negotiations.
• Dynamically generated in-game PSPN web site with dynamic stories on topics such as sabermetrics, what colleges produced the most players, association highlights, highlights from years past, your prospects to watch and about 35 other variants.
• Multiplayer support with integrated FTP upload and download for exchanging information with the commissioner and other owners. You never have to leave the game!
• Full almanac system for tracking the history of your league, hall of fame, record books, post season results, and more...
• Schedule creation and import features including the ability to import schedules from Out of The Park Baseball 6, Retrosheet.org.
• Create your own schedule with custom schedule import/export.
• Fantasy draft.
• Drag and drop ball park designer to easily assign real park photos to the game and map the game's ball flight animation onto the photos appropriately.
• Wide variety of league configurations from 4 to 40 teams.
• League expansion, player protection and league expansion drafts.
• What If? Import support lets you mix and match real players from any ERA. Pedro against Teddy Ballgame anyone?
• "Replay Mode" lets you play PureSim in a non-career fashion, giving you the ability to continuously play the same season, while at the same time storing all the stats for each replay so you can cross-reference how different lineup combinations performed etc.
• PureSim ships with real major league schedules from 71 seasons. When playing real seasons the game will automatically detect if a real schedule is available and prompt you to use it.
• Full player editor support all ratings, biographical, roster assignment and salary information is fully editable.
• Unattended simulation features lets you auto-sim games up to a certain day, year or indefinitely.
• Add-In support allows users to create mods that plug directly into the game.
• Full suite of awards (From MVPs to Gold Gloves).
• All Star Selection.
• Player Performance Charts available from player card gives a graphical representation of player performance in key statistical categories over his career.
• Milestone and hitting streak tracking (100HR, 1000 Games etc.).

Baseball Sim Central - 8/10
PureSim Baseball 2006 Gold Edition is far above its competition in terms of displaying statistics simulated in your leagues.

Gameburst 7.25/10
If you're into management sims then this is the game for you hands down.

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