{"id":1339,"date":"2009-04-07T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2009-04-07T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:59:44","slug":"baseball-game-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/07\/baseball-game-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Game Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons that <a href=\"http:\/\/nutweasel.blogspot.com\/\">Bill Abner<\/a> remains the dean of sports video game journalism is that he insists on running lots of simulations to see how the stats work out. He did this to great effect last year with some football sims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/features\/2009-04-06\/diamond-mining-putting-mlb-2k9-and-mlb-09-the-show-to-the-test.aspx?utm_source=TeamCrispy&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=TroyGoodfellow\">He chose to do a smaller sample sim for Crispy Gamer to compare <em>MLB 09: The Show<\/em> and <em>Major League Baseball 2K9 <\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I see noting wrong with <em>2K9&#8217;s<\/em> National League East predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons that Bill Abner remains the dean of sports video game journalism is that he insists on running lots of simulations to see how the stats work out. He did this to great effect last year with some football sims. He chose to do a smaller sample sim for Crispy Gamer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76,117],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-lB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}