Updated: March 28, 2009
STRATEGIC BASEBALL SIMULATOR
Baseball Simulation Program - D.B. Schmidt
SBS version 4.9.1 for Windows (03/27/2009) Full Package
Update to 4.9.1 (from 4.9) (03/27/2009)
Team and Season Data
Logbeck's Team Generator
"RunSBS" and other Utilities - RunSBS 3.0 released
Links
What this country needs is a good, free baseball simulation - T.R. Marshall
I simulate, therefore I am - Descartes
Simple, free baseball simulation game superior to expensive, complicated one - Confucius
SBS BOARD, NEWS, REVIEWS, LEAGUES and GENERAL INFO
Here's a link to Grasso's forum on Delphi Forums.forums.delphiforums.com/sbsbaseball
General information and propaganda sheet:
General Info about Strategic Baseball Simulator
theory.txt - Details on the SBS baseball simulation design...
sbs491.pdf - PDF documentation for SBS 4.9.1
Reviews:
Tabletop Baseball Games
Download.com
Shane Holmes - Analysis of current baseball simulations
Email me at: d b s c h m i d t 1 @ y a h o o . c o m (remove the spaces)
PROGRAM DOWNLOAD
Full Package for New Users:
sbs491-setup.exe - SBS 4.9.1 for Windows (self-installing .EXE 03/27/2009).
If you want to update SBS from a version older than 4.9, it is recommended that you download the full version. You may wish to save your old baseball.cfg file for reference before your download:
sbs491-setup.exe - SBS 4.9.1 for Windows (self-installing .EXE 03/27/2009).
If you want to update SBS from version 4.9, choose one of the options below:
1. If you want to include the 2008 teams along with the 2008 schedule:
upg-491-2008dat.exe - (03/27/2009)
2. If you do NOT want the 2008 season data included:
upg-491-no-dat.exe - (03/27/2008)
The upgrades above do NOT include a "stadium.txt" or a "baseball.cfg" because you may have done some customizations on your existing files and we don't want to overwrite them. The included READ_ME file contains the updates to the stadium.txt and baseball.cfg that you may copy and paste into your current files.
See Changes in version 4.9.1, etc. for more information.
Want more ballpark photos??
Pat Senechal's Ballpark Library Get lots more background photos!
Other files that may be of interest:
sbsim.zip - Version 3.6 for DOS (.ZIP version 3/19/2001).
vuangle.zip - (9/28/2002) Crude utility to determine observer's location for background images
vuangle.txt - Source code for vuangle
Source Code
Some folks have expressed an interest in looking at my source code. I started writing this in FORTRAN back in the early 1980's and then in QuickBasic, Microsoft Basic and finally PowerBasic. Stylistically, the code is a real mess. However, it could be used in modern programming classes as a good example of how not to construct a program. It also makes heavy use of "global" variables which I will not bother to document. Examine the code if you like, but I do not have time to answer any "how does this work" questions.
sbs491-public.txt - Source code for SBS 4.9.1. PowerBasic Console Compiler, Console Tools and Graphics Tools required.
If you need an "unzip" program try one of the following:
JustZIPit - A simple, powerful and free ZIP tool
PKUnzip
WinZip (My favorite)
TEAM LIBRARY - Download Season and Team Data
Recent seasons:
2008 Season Data files with Schedule: 2008mlb.zip Pat Schechal's 2008 season (right-click and "Save Target As")
2007 Season Data files with Schedule: 2007data.exe Pat Senechal's 2007 season (right-click and "Save Target As")
2006 Season Data files with Schedule: 2006.zip Pat Senechal's 2006 season - Posted 3/24/07 (right-click and "Save Target As")
2006 Season Data files with Schedule: 2006mlb_EricCline.zip Eric Cline's 2006 season - Posted 4/7/07 (right-click and "Save Target As")
Pat Senechal is our official team librarian -- a very time-consuming job, so please thank Pat.
Pat's 2008 MLB data files with schedule
Pat's New Library (under construction)
Pat's Old Library
Submit your work to Pat at: patsen@sunclan.org
Bryan Bollman still has a collection of many older teams available at: Old Library
Mischa Gelman has personally built a large collection of Minor League and Japanese teams here: Mischa Gelman's Library
LOGBECK'S TEAM GENERATOR
Generate any team .DAT file!
Rob Logbeck has built an application to generate the SBS .DAT files that you want!Rob's Team Generator: sbsteam.zip Team Generator 2.02
UTILITIES and Other Postings
Utility programs by Bryan Bollman - RunSBS 3.0 now available!
RUNSBS, is a Windows "front-end" for SBS by Bryan Bollman.With RUNSBS you can easily switch directories, edit data files, select teams, pitchers, statistics and program options in Windows BEFORE launching SBS. You can save your configurations.
Bryan has also written several other useful utilities and updates them frequently. For details: RunSBS
Utility programs by Brandon Cope
Brandon Cope's baseball pageTeam Evaluator
This handy program gives a detailed statistical breakdown of batters, fielders and pitchers in a SBS data file.
Note: You can run it directly from the main team display screen in SBS by selecting the desired .DAT file and pressing "A". But first you must add a line to your BASEBALL.CFG file to tell SBS about the program:
AUX=sbeval.exe
Random Player Generator
This program creates random baseball players for use with SBS. It creates multiple players at each position and sorts players by position.
Random Team Generator
This program creates a .DAT file that requires only a small amount of editing for use with the game.
Link to Brandon Cope's baseball page to download these programs:
Brandon Cope's Baseball Page
Utility programs by Joe Gucciardo
Joe Gucciardo's baseball pageOutfielders By Position - Excel
Outfielders By Position - Text
SimEval Utility
Compare .PRN results to .DAT: simeval.zip
SBS Name Utility
DOS Version: sbsnames.zip
Windows Version: sbswname.zip - 01/08/2001
You'll like what this utility can do for your data files.
SBS Board Game
Here's the link to get everything you need to play Joe's tabletop version of SBS. It even includes a dice simulation program in case you don't have three different colored die.
Strategic Baseball Board Game
Programs by Jeff Carrie
Jeff Carrie's baseball pageJeff built a marvelous Perl script to build SBS historical teams, but it's not working with the current Lahman database. Jeff has indicated that he may work on this project this summer so stay tuned.
Other miscellaneous files/utilities
"Search and Replace" utility for schedule files: sbssar.zipDesigned for those of you who would like to copy an existing .SCH file and do global "search and replace" type operations to create new .SCH files. Not fancy. Just does one string at a time.
"Schedule Builder" schbldr.exe
Another utility to build schedule files from simple text files.
LINKS/RESOURCES
www.baseball-reference.com - World's Greatest Source of Baseball Statshome.comcast.net/~markmiller/main.htm - Mark Miller: Great collection of rosters and lineups
SportsIllustrated.cnn.com
BaseballStuff.com
Baseball1.com
www.Retrosheet.org
www.SABR.org
baseballprospectus.com
Misc. Links
Tabletop Baseball GamesScience of Baseball
Extra-Innings Computer Baseball by Harrison Newhouse
John Skilton's Baseball Links - All kinds of baseball links
www.ForeverRed.com Red Sox page --- Not to be confused with... TheEastIsRed.com
Other Web sites of our SBS community
hockeysimulation.com - Joe Gucciardo's Quest Hockey Simulationsportsreplays.net/baseball.htm - John Gardiner
www.geocities.com/copeab - Brandon Cope
www.geocities.com/jscarrie - Jeff Carrie
www.city-net.com/~mgelman - Mischa Gelman
www.BobNewell.net - Bob Newell
home.epix.net/~maywrite/game.htm - Mary and Eric
www.geocities.com/garyco_77521/SBS.html - Gary's Baseball Simulation
If you play SBS and would like your home page listed here, drop me an email.
