THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

What the heck is happening at DMB?

http://dmbforum.yuku.com/topic/567/t/Updating-DMB-s-website.html?page=3

Is this the case of someone who loves his work so much and was so ingrained in the company (Tippett) leaving, and his replacements simply not up to the task?  Were Tippett’s intangibles simply not properly valued?

The new guy is preoccupied (as in, where’s the real money to be made?) with his online ventures (Imagine Sports baseball, Total Hoops basketball) and seems to view the purchase of the DMB game engine mainly as a way to furnish the brain and heart for his online baseball game.  Tippett now has a job with the Red Sox.  Although he’s the one who sold DMB to the new guy, the old schoolers who play the game pretty much understand his move (it’s a job with the Red Sox after all) and still appreciate that it’s his intelligence that informs DMB’s virtues.  It seems the new guy could not possibly care less about those virtues, and his lack of attention to DMB’s PC game has folks plenty worried.  The web site mess is just indicative of the neglect the old DMB is getting.  There’s still some smart baseball guys working for DMB, but there’s a question about whether they’re getting the support they need to carry on something of what Tippett started.

Yeah, losing Tippett has hurt the company.  They originally planned to release their projection disk on April 4, which is crazy considering the season is starting on March 25.  Enough of us complained that they moved up the release date, but I think it was an indicator of where their focus lies nowadays, which is the online stuff.

You can get to the old homepage here btw:

http://www.diamond-mind.com/oldindex.html

Wow, sounds like when STATS got bought out, and the Scoreboard (R.I.P.) died shortly thereafter.  This must be killing Tippett.  Not only is his legacy as a gamer being threatened, but as one of the top sabermetricians around, the rest of us are prevented by the Redsox from appreciating his work.  I really hope the Sox are an outlet for all his creative work.

I still haven’t found a game to replace APBA, though it’s been years since the game has been upgraded.  I need at least some graphics in the game.

I tried the Out of the Park game last summer, but found the whole thing completely overwhelming. It was hard enough just to set it up, and I gave up before I could even play out a game (I was able to sim a few, but not manage directly).

There has to be a market out there for an Apple-style baseball game, something that gives you accurate & realistic results, is easy and intuitive to set up and run, and gives you some graphics.  Ideally something that could quickly import a team straight from the Lahman database.