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04-19-2006, 01:40 PM | #1 |
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Marc and Markus ???
I see these names all the time since I've been a member of this forum. But I don't know enough about software development to know what they do exactly. Can someone explain a little. I'm just curious. I've also always wondered why it says they are from London. Is that true? How is it possible for them to make such a great baseball sim when they are use to cricket?
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04-19-2006, 01:54 PM | #2 |
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Markus Heinsohn is actually from Germany. He's the lead programmer for the game. Marc Duffy is the lead for marketing, etc. and is from England. (I hope these are accurate enough descriptions).
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04-19-2006, 01:56 PM | #3 |
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Baseball in Britain as been played since 1890, it's even said that the British game of rounders is actually the Father of baseball as we know it and if it wasn't for World War 2 that Britain could actually have turned into one of the top countries for baseball talent, reason being they started to play baseball in schools over here but at the start of the war they stopped and after the war they never started it up again.
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04-19-2006, 10:49 PM | #8 |
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I think part of it is that Markus was a stats nut (maybe he studied it in university) and obviously was enamoured with baseball being a heavy stats sport
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04-20-2006, 09:12 AM | #9 |
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Take a look at this : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BGI5EH7JS1.DTL
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If you hit 50 HRs you are a good hitter? I'd say if you hit .270 with 15 HRs you are a good hitter. 50 HRs=Extraordinary hitter.
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I never saw that SF Chronicle article. It's a good one.
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