Baseball pc games

The ability to move inside the box actually throws these hot and cold zones off-center, making it harder for a pitcher to place a throw in a bad location. Of course, this also means that the umpires can potentially make a bad call, calling an apparent ball a strike and vice versa. Fortunately, MVP now gives players the ability to argue calls with a new Manager Argument feature.

On bum calls or replays of pitches, you can send your manager out of the bullpen to yell about the decision, even going so far as kicking dirt on official's shoes. This can jazz your team up and provide them with a definite boost to their play, although if you take it too far, your manager will get ejected. While pitchers weren't completely redone for MVP , there was some retooling made towards the pitching meter and other facets of throwing in the game.

Previous games in the series essentially redesigned the pitch meter, providing a better sense of power, accuracy and speed when the ball is released. However, these games also suffered when players were even the slightest bit outside of the 'optimal' green zone for pitching release.

In MVP , this meter has been given a larger amount of leeway than before, meaning that gamers can release a pitch in the green and even the yellow zones of the meter while still receiving an adequate throw. Obviously, balls hurled in the green area will be much more accurate, but it definitely decreases the number of wild throws. Similarly, fielders and runners find themselves governed by what's known as 'Big Play Control,' a system that provides more realistic plays in the game.

First of all, fielders have the option to make difficult plays by stretching out for balls, leaping for flies over their head or climbing walls to rob batters of home runs.

Regardless of how successful that initial play is, these fielders can then attempt to whip the ball towards a base with as much strength as they want. If properly timed, these throws can quickly get a ball to a baseman to make a play; if it isn't, however, the ball will most likely be overthrown, missing cutoff men entirely along with its target.

Runners also have a chance to combat these defensive moves, particularly by choosing a side of the bag to slide into, along with how they choose to slide. Whether it's stealing a base or outrunning a pick-off attempt, runners can perform headfirst, pop-up or hook slides, which can potentially give you an advantage in beating a throw. Simulation lovers have the chance to play any game in Manager mode, where commands control every aspect of a match.

Home run derby has returned, along with two new mini-games. The batting mini-game works on a player's ball placement ability, placing them in a field with a number of obstacles, ramps and black holes among other things.

Accurately directing fly balls in specific directions, as well as hitting objects nets you points. The pitching mini-game, by contrast, is sort of a strike zone-meets Tetris, where each one of the pitcher's balls corresponding to a color on the screen. Hitting a color with the matching pitch clears all of the blocks associated with that area of the strike zone, making blocks fall and scoring points as well. In APBA, you're controlling a team from the past or drafting a team and playing against the computer or a friend in person.

This is more of a solitary quest than most of the other games on this list. You have to be in the regular season to play Scoresheet, but it's another interesting concept—it doesn't use past stats, as essentially every other game does. Played in real time during the season, this service touts itself as the only baseball simulation that plays based on stats from the current week's major-league games.

Scoresheet is essentially like drafting a traditional fantasy team, but playing alternate games on the computer and you actually manage the team—at-bat by at-bat—working the matchups like a real manager. Strategic Baseball Simulator SBS isn't the prettiest computer baseball game out there, but it can't be beaten in one area: It's free. It's worth trying—after all, since it's free, there's nothing to lose. Diamond Mind is a computer simulation that's been around for more than 20 years.

Its intricate engine is used by ESPN and other media to simulate seasons and is considered by many to be the best simulator out there. The way it works is, users draft a team using past players and then try to beat other owners in a team league for a simulated game season. It's not as easy as sticking Mickey Mantle in center, Babe Ruth in right, and putting Cy Young on the mound, either, as the salary cap means you can only afford a few superstars for your team.

Sure, you'll be filling out your roster with players you've probably forgotten about, but that's part of the fun. The simulator comes in web-based and downloadable versions. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data.

Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. All of the tools that you need to set game preferences, play exhibition or league games, and create reports are conveniently organized in our user-friendly game interface. Once game play begins, you can make strategic game-changing decisions with the click of a mouse.

Make basic decisions like changing pitchers or using a pinch hitter, to more in-depth moves such as maneuvering your infield and outfield depth, pitching around batters, and warming up pitchers in the bullpen. Determine whether your players will hit, bunt, hit and run, or steal. The Action! PC base coach displays the percentage chance of successfully sending a runner to the next base as well as the arm strength of the player who will be throwing the ball!

Substitute a late inning defensive replacement, or use that situational lefty to get a tough out in the 8th inning. All of the strategic decisions are in your hands! PC Baseball allows you to customize your game screen with a variety of display options. It features every big league park and the ability to import your own!

The optional video chalkboard option allows you to view ball flight, throws, base runner and fielder movements. Rich and varied play-by-play, including hundreds of rare plays, will pull you into the action.

Play-by-Play refers to many game and season statistics such as hitting with runners in scoring position, monthly batting, hitting streaks, and in-game summaries. Color commentary includes ballpark specific references, player nicknames, and even home run distances! In fact, there are over 10, play-by-play descriptions for a simple ground out to shortstop! Optional pitch-by-pitch mode with realistic adjustments to balls, strikes, balls put in play, batting average and other results.

All adjustments are based on batter, pitcher and ball-strike count. Pitch-by-pitch mode can be utilized based on inning and base runner situation and can be changed from batter to batter. The Game Preferences form allows you to display a number of player features, including player game and season stats to date, fielder range, throwing arm and fielding percentage, and base runner rating and steal percentage. Features such as video chalkboard, pitcher fatigue, pitch speed, bullpen warm-up, projected outcome box, and out-of-town scoreboard are just a click away.

The Roster form allows you to fill out your team's lineup for the day. Program a lineup and starting pitcher for every game if you wish. After the game, you can view the box score or email game files to your league statistician or other league members with the click of a button.

As is with all of the Action! PC games, Action! PC Baseball offers an extensive number of league and team reports. Any report may be printed, saved to disk, or saved to an html file! Leader Boards: View league leaders in a number of customized statistical categories. PC Baseball Leader Boards include hundreds of standard statistics as well as many unique stats you can use to create your own leader boards. Player Game Logs: View day-by-day reports for any player. Click a game to view the complete box score.

Database: Analyze league data with this powerful tool. Choose from many standard reports or create a custom report.

Filter and sort your report in any way imaginable. Prepare simple reports ex. Box Search: Scan all completed games to find special events. Click any of the found results to view the complete box score.

League Reports: Compare teams in your league by any batting pitching or fielding statistic! Our standings report displays division and wild card standings. PC Baseball exclusive—Estimate player statistics in different eras and parks. Get a glimpse of how a Colorado player might have hit had he played his home games at a park other than Coors Field! Records: View the top five game and season record holders.

Reports may be created for batting, pitching, and fielding. Build customized team reports. View player statistics, rosters and box scores by team. Baseball Cards: Print baseball cards in two different sizes. The cards are loaded with stats and can even include a player photo!

PC baseball allows you to easily customize your own league. The Schedule tool allows you to build your own schedule or use a computer generated schedule function to build an entire season.

The Modify Team form allows you to change the manager, team colors, stadium, base year, and team logo. If you're interested in building a league full of your favorite teams from past seasons, the Import Team function allows you to do just that. Insert any team from a past season disk with just a couple of clicks, and start a league full of your favorite teams. Starting up a new draft league is easy. Start up a new league with any past season disk by releasing all players into the draft pool.

The Draft function allows you to set up and modify the draft order, and displays the list of available players, which are sortable by name, position, stats, or ratings.

You can even draft against the computer. Teams may be created, modified, moved or imported as desired with a maximum roster size of players! You can even edit team colors and logos. Players may be created, edited, released, erased, drafted or traded. From the Roster form, you are also able to set a number of different lineups. You can save up to ten regular starting lineups, as well as set lineups for any particular date of the season.

In addition, you can fill out a position depth chart for vs. View each player's statistics and ratings for a season directly from the team roster. By double-clicking a position player, both his real-life and computer stats are displayed on the Player form: pinch, clutch, home, road, stats by month, vs. You can display a player's fielding stats by position, as well as individual ratings such as bunt, base running, OF arm, C arm, hit and run, Power vs.

L, Power vs. R, and many more.