DMB Projection Disk

by Boxkutter on Feb 1, 2009 11:02 AM EST

I know a lot of members here use the DMB Simulation program for their sim leagues so I thought this would be a decent place to ask this...

It looks like DMB is going to keep us waiting before they finally tell us if they are going to release a projection disk for the 2009 season. They did the same thing last year before deciding at the last moment to release it... and it was obviously hurried (some players missing that should have been listed and some weird sim projections). For some of us who have been faithful subscribers for years now and depend on the projection disk to run their sim league this is disappointing and enfuriating.

What, if any, other plans are DMB users making this year? Our league may use the ZIPS Projections for this season, but it is lacking the same detail that DMB uses (no R/L splits). Are there any other great programs out there? What about any other projections that may be turned into a DMB Projection? Our league is looking to maybe make a permanant change instead of holding our breath every spring to see if this will be the year that DMB finally lets us down.

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Well they planned to make the projection disk last year only kept pushing it back until it’s release date was after the beginning of the season. A few people were upset, several e-mailed them and they listened to their customers and published it earlier. That is partly the reason why there were players left off but that isn’t meant to apologize for them, the disk was subpar compared to the previous years I had seen.

- As far as options, you could wait 6-7 months till they put out the season disk. This would mean running your season during the off-season.

- You could use Szymborski’s disk from BaseballThinkFactory.com. His disk doesn’t have splits but he does plan to introduce them this year for the first time. His arguement is a player needs x amount of ABs to accurately guess what his splits may be so he plans on adding splits to only those players who meet his requirement (6000 ABs?). This is my league’s backup plan and the easiest.

- You could make your own players. DMB gives you the ability to create new players and edit them. You could use James, Marcels…whatever projections you wanted. This would be the most difficult and time consuming.

Other then those, you could switch products.

by jfish26101 on Feb 1, 2009 11:53 AM EST reply actions

OOTP Baseball would be my first choice to replace DMB if my league were to make the kind of switch you are talking about. I’m more then willing to give Dan’s disk a change though and see how it plays.

by jfish26101 on Feb 1, 2009 11:57 AM EST up reply actions

Players

Don’t really have a list, but in the 3000 PA range is when it starts becoming meaningful for pitchers, with smaller numbers for pitchers and under 1000 PA for relievers.

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Dan Szymborski
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by D.Szymborski on Feb 3, 2009 12:45 AM EST reply actions