ZenGM Blog

The play-by-play in BBGM has always been a little weird.

The new football drive charts made me think more about how ugly the live sim experience is in all of my games.

Big news for Football GM today - live game sim now shows a drive chart!

Groundhog Day is a cool feature that lets you replay the same season over and over again.

The finances revamp from a couple months ago went pretty smoothly.

Thank you to everyone on Reddit and Discord for suggesting names for new teams in some international cities.

When you make a real players league in BBGM, it does try to use real contract data.

This is not actually a new feature, just an easier UI for an existing feature!

Simulated sports can never be exactly the same as real sports, but the closer it gets, the better.

There are plenty of bugs in my games.

The finances system in Basketball GM (and the other games) has been basically unchanged for a long time.

When developing ZenGM Baseball last year, there were a bunch of things I wanted to do but decided to leave for later.

In the initial release of ZenGM Hockey, starting goalies played literally every game, which was unrealistic.

Just to be clear, this is about real players rosters in Basketball GM, for players who had some gap in the middle of their career where they didn't play.

Inspired by basketball-reference.com, on player profile pages I added bold/highlighted text for each stat a player leads the league in.

Click to regenerate Every ZenGM game now supports women's leagues!

Every now and then I write a blog post about purely technical issues I've dealt with that have nothing to do with sports or video games.

There have been a lot of blog posts about the trade AI in the past - just click that Trades tag above if you don't believe me!

Every year I post some traffic stats here.

For a long time, Basketball GM has had raw plus/minus (or +/-) as a stat, which is how many points per game his team scores with him on the floor minus how many points it gives up.

There have been settings in Basketball GM to let you make leaguewide changes to game simulation - like changing the pace of games, the number of three pointers, etc.

I know there have been a lot of logo updates lately, but this one is especially exciting.

This time there are two new teams: the Quebec Voyageurs and the Anchorage Glaciers!

There's a new team in the ZenGM universe, the Albuquerque Thunderbirds!

Recently I added an exhibition game feature that lets you play a game between two teams from any season in any of your leagues.

This isn't that important of a bug fix, and I bet most people won't notice either way.

There's a new team in the ZenGM universe, the Oakland Blue Oaks!

The All-Star Game has been in Basketball GM for a few years now, but I never got around to putting it in the other sports.

Earlier today I released an update allowing the draft lottery to be customized, rather than only having a handful of preset options.

Some people reported performance issues in my games recently.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with baseball.

Inspired by a really cool feature for GitHub, I just added a command palette to my games.

Previously you could choose between a soft cap and a hard cap.

Happy New Year!

Omicron messed up your New Year's Eve plans?

Compared to other popular sports sim games like Football Manager and OOTP Baseball, the ZenGM games let you sim through many seasons a lot faster.

In Basketball GM, regular season and playoff games are a bit different.

Previously, exporting leagues only worked for small leagues.

There are many ways in which my video games differ from reality.

One frustrating thing about Football GM, both for me and for users of the game, is all the game simluation bugs.

Do you like text-based basketball simulation?

Version 2021.09.01.0705 of Basketball GM finally supports the play-in tournament.

I just added three new playoff settings in version 2021.08.14.1172.

You may have noticed a funny thing about the number of three pointers that certain players take.

The new player mood system introduced last year is working pretty well overall, but there are some small issues with it.

There are now 50 different built-in teams.

New feature in version 2021.05.31.0967 - players can now play through minor injuries.

Over at zengm.com it says: Simulation games need depth, but they need the right amount of depth with a UI to help you make sense of it.

There's a few new things related to the built-in teams: 8 new teams.

This update is only for Football GM and ZenGM Hockey.