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I'm going to build a dual match tennis simulator

How I Fixed Baseball Sim Prospect Development Breaks

Several weeks of (fake baseball) iteration

Updating Baseball's Operating System

Making O27 baseball even more...like baseball?

Another bad creation: O27 (or how I broke baseball)

What happens when you turn a 9-inning baseball game into a single inning with 27 outs?

Building a team chemistry model

Improving how teams work together in a text sim

Changelog for Oregontennis.org

The Chip Window

How to eliminate tanking from the NBA draft lottery, while raising the incentives to win.

More sims led to more changes

Lots of iteration this week as I got through some to-do items that had been on my list for a while. Others were nagging problems I saw from playtesting.

Bringing the nerdiest problem in sports to my fake football game

What the Delta Kickoff System Actually Is

Viperball has a strange way of handling kickoffs -- by eliminating them -- and some data on how the Delta system doesn't correlate to worse results for winning teams.

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I Asked for a Box Score. I Ended Up Building a Universe.

Coding a Fictional League into Existence