Sports & GM7 min read
Baseball Stats Explained for Beginners
ERA, WHIP, OBP, slugging, fielding percentage and WAR, each with the formula and a worked example, plus what every one of them fails to tell you.
12 articles
Sports Career & GM Games
Draft boards, franchise decisions, and full career arcs across seven sports.
Covering 7 apps in this category.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Basketball Positions Explained: What the Five Numbers Mean
What a point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and centre each do, why the rulebook never mentions any of them, and what position means today.
- Sports & GM7 min read
How Boxing Scoring Works: The 10-Point Must System, Round by Round
What the 10-point must system means, when a round is 10-9 or 10-8, the four factors judges are told to weigh, and how three scorecards become a result.
- Sports & GM7 min read
How to Build a Balanced Basketball Roster
Balance is coverage, not averages. The team-level jobs every lineup has to cover, why overlap wastes picks, and how minutes turn depth into a real constraint.
- Sports & GM8 min read
Soccer Formations Explained: What the Numbers Actually Decide
How to read formation notation, what each common shape gives up to get what it wants, and why the formation you defend in is rarely the one you attack in.
- Sports & GM8 min read
Read the Numbers First: A Guide to Baseball Draft Simulators
What ERA, WHIP and WAR are telling you on a draft card, what they leave out, and how to read a projected 162-game record without over-trusting it.
- Sports & GM8 min read
Basketball Career Sims: What They Model, and How to Play One Well
How a basketball career sim differs from a GM game, what the possession decisions are really asking, and how early choices compound across a whole career.
- Sports & GM7 min read
How a Basketball Draft Simulator Works — and How to Draft Better in One
What a basketball draft simulator models, why the highest-rated pick is often the wrong one, and how to read a projected season without over-reading it.
- Sports & GM7 min read
The Football Draft Simulator, Explained: Units, Budgets and the Cost of a Refresh
Why football rosters are a unit problem, what a no-refresh draft really tests, and how to read a simulated season record for what it actually measures.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Seven Picks, Nowhere to Hide: How Hockey Draft Simulators Work
A six-player roster plus a coach is the tightest draft puzzle in the genre. How to balance scoring against defence, and what an 84-game projection measures.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Styles Make Fights: How an MMA and Boxing Draft Simulator Decides a Bout
Why the higher-rated fighter loses, how separate MMA and boxing simulators resolve a bout, and how to draft a stable that covers matchups, not ratings.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Building an XI That Holds Up: A Guide to Soccer Draft Simulators
Why the draw changes everything in a soccer draft game, how position fit differs from position coverage, and what a 38-game simulated campaign really measures.