Baseball Mogul 2015

Baseball Mogul 2015 is a baseball management game in which you run a team as its general manager and control its play on the field. Start in any year from 1901 to 2014 with the full roster of your favorite team, or create a fictional team of your own.

Manage your team

Set your starting defense, batting order and pitching rotation. On game day, choose how closely to manage the action: watch from the luxury box and call the dugout when needed, or control each player by choosing pitches and deciding when to bunt or attempt an extra base.

A simulation engine resolves each pitch using customized player ratings and more than 100 years of historical data. You can manage one day at a time or have the computer simulate weeks or months, building a career across virtual years or decades. Players’ abilities mature and decline as they age, so you must balance spending on free agents this season with building for the long term. Follow the standings, finances and news across both leagues as you pursue a Championship.

Data and strategy

The game includes more than 1.2 million lines of data, updated major- and minor-league rosters and statistics through 2013, and the real-life 2014 schedule of all 2,430 games. It also includes every season back to 1951. Scouting uses player statistics, with reports that include more accurate heat maps and more realistic high school, college and minor-league stats.

You can set individual strategies and pitch-count limits for players, and compare left- and right-handed batting and pitching statistics. Pitch tracking records the velocity, break, location and result of every pitch, with head-to-head statistics for each batter-pitcher matchup. Sortable Stats adds statistics and search options.

Teams and simulation

You can build an expansion team, and free agents become available after the expansion draft to help fill major- and minor-league rosters. The improved trade AI targets teams’ needs at specific positions, while the general manager AI reflects real-life trade and contract data. Player award decisions, including Gold Gloves, also use improved AI.

The simulation has improved speed, accuracy and stability; for example, stolen-base numbers no longer decline over time. Other changes address defensive runs calculations, baserunner advancement on ground balls to the right side, pitcher pitch-count settings, slowdowns and hangs, and Baseball Mogul Encyclopedia output. Saved games use separate directories to prevent conflicts with box-score and encyclopedia output. Baseball Mogul 2015 can also load databases from previous versions of Baseball Mogul.