DataBaseball Season3 is just a few days away. Here's how to get started. 1) Start a team at databaseball.fun by minting some players. They cost ~$1 on Base, and each NFT represents a random player season from baseball history. We've minted about 1/3 of the historical player seasons so far! 2) Once you have a few players, go to the Team section of the app and set up your lineups and pitching roles. You can use the Auto Lineups feature there too. 3) Wait for games to start! Your team will be slotted into one of five competitive leagues based on how strong your team is (you need 15 total Player Value to play games). 4) You can brand your team, upgrade it with $DAT, trades players and collect points over the course of the season as you notch wins. The whole season takes about 2 months, so plenty of time to get your squad tuned up for the playoffs. 5) Don't forget to join /database-sports channel on FC and DM if you want to be part of the direct cast group on FC or Base App. Lets play ball.

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Spending the day tuning the simulation engine. Found issues that were creating too many extreme defensive outcomes, and penalizing high walk-rate hitters. Still on the hunt for more. I expect stats to normalize starting with the next sim, and will keep tuning the engine as the season progresses. databaseball.fun

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Check out Willie Mays (1954 NY1). He hit 0.345 with 41 hr and 8 sb, a 6.6 Player Value on DatabaseBall! 🏆⚾

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The Big Tone organization is thrilled to field 6 teams from the start of season 3 of databaseball.fun - some teams are off to better starts than others

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Joining the Swans in the edge of season 3 opener (12:00 EST today barring bugs with the new sim engine)… Barry Bonds 2001! This might be one of the best seasons in history: 73 HR and 176 walks, put in by the steroid era’s top dog. We have pulled about 1/2 of Barry Bonds seasons so far, this might be the best of them. From 2001-2004, Barry Binds had more fWAR (an aggregate value stat) than 5 entire teams in MLB! Kinda proves that pulls are still the best way to upgrade your team, with the Free Agent marketplace not yet built, trading for stars very tough, and secondary sales still below the value people put on top cards. Check out Barry Bonds (2001 SFN). He hit 0.328 with 73 hr and 13 sb, a 9.9 Player Value on DatabaseBall! 🏆⚾

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Check out Julian Tavarez (2001 CHN). He had a 4.52 ERA with 107 strikeouts in 161.3 IP - 2.0 Player Value on DatabaseBall! 🏆⚾

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New Season, new frame art. ~200 teams are playing Databaseball and Season 3 starts tomorrow! Would love to see new owners join, and will help fill out teams for anyone that jumps in today with a team in our starter tier. If you have a fren that loves baseball, let em know. there will be prizes, fun, and a growing economy of player szn NFTs based on $DAT /database-sports databaseball.fun

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Dev Update: been tuning and testing Sim Engine V2 in prep for opening day. Feels pretty baked now! Get ready, here is what's new Complete SimV2 Guide for DataBaseball

 ⚾ 1) Core Hitting Logic
 Fixed issues that globally inflated hit outcomes for players with lots of walks. Sorry Barry Bonds and Ted Williams, you will forever have an asterisk next to your crazy season 2 stat lines.

Crazy S Tier lineups still expected to swat but maybe a bit less so. ⚾ 2) Historical Defensive Stats Outcomes
 A deep defensive outcome system has been included in the new sim engine. Really proud of this one. Based on real historical defensive stats, fielders will feature their skills (or lack there of) on both Hitter and Pitcher controlled at bats. Poor fielders will sometimes turn outs into errors or bloopers, where runners reach base. Good fielders will take hits away as web-gems. We use real-life fielding zone ratios to determine what position is involved in each ball in play, and these plays are all logged in boxes and game logs.

 ⚾ 3) Pitcher Dominance
 Pitchers with markers of dominance, including Fielding Independent Pitching stats like K rate and K/BB, as well as counting stats like Wins and Saves, will be able to control more at bats in high leverage situations. This includes runners in scoring position and close / late. When this comes into effect, it will be visable in Game Logs as the pitcher “locking in.”

 ⚾ 4) Tuned Pitching Fatigue
 Pitchers will be more sensitive to historical endurance, and managers will be more aware of struggling arms. Workhorses will still get their shutouts and CGs, but if your arm is not used to throwing lots of innings in a season, and they start to falter at all in the early innings, it will show.

 ⚾ 5) Improved bullpen usage patterns
 Relief pitchers will pitch when you expect them to pitch most of the time. Closers will close, setup men will handle the 8th. 
Sometimes, implied fatigue will force other relievers into high leverage roles. No longer possible to hide a negative PV pitcher at MR2 and feel safe he won’t effect the games from time to time.

 ⚾ 6) Ghost Players Nerfed
 You can still have holes in your lineup and rotation, but unlike in season 2 this will be a real issue in games. Holes will be filled with ghost players as always, and now ghost players will be the suck. databaseball.fun

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Checked out the teams in Databaseball closest to entering league play... The following users' teams are within 6 PV of competing in Season 3, probably $1-$10 of mints gets you there. Seeing a Lou Gehrig (8.2 PV!), Jacob DeGrom, Carl Hubbell, Bob Lemon among these teams. Jus FYI @eljuniordiaz.eth
@kryptocockcoin
@zoopdrop.eth
@leu1408
@dish
@adiics96
@kcj101
@mastermoein
@tcw
@indicawolf
@simi4n
@crazyeighty
@elbandito77
@niftytime.eth
@jawarpe https://www.databaseball.fun/player/22278

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This is the kind of player that I think will end up being more valuable than expected next year. Well rounded hitter with power, patience and running speed - and an above average defender. With a more balanced approach to how offense is generated and a new defensive skills element to the sim engine, Toby Harrah and player like him will become more important to good teams. No doubt OnlyDingers will find a way to use him. Check out Toby Harrah (1975 TEX). He hit 0.293 with 20 hr and 23 sb, a 5.4 Player Value on DatabaseBall! 🏆⚾

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Every time I do this I rekt the market but Databaseball.fun player mint price has been dropped back to its target $1

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Major trade action during the slow part of the offseason. The Devs org sent Gary Carter 1981 to the fledgling Ex-Mets team of the Funny/Cool Org for RP Koji Uehara 2014. Then, in the biggest trade ever in databaseball.fun by sheer numbers of players, the Kagami Org sent 7 players to the Ex-mets for a package including Daryl Strawberry, Jacob Degrom and Carlos Baerga. Though Strawberry is the best player in the package, Benchwarmers are the last team that needs more options. Can they use this deal to pull off a 3rd straight title in the B Tier? @kagami @funnyandcool

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New mini-feature is live! Trophies are Base NFTs that have been distributed to each World Series winner for Season 2. This is a general in-game primitive that can be a reward for anything in Databaseball.fun. You can see the current Trophies in the Teams section. Right now only World Series winners get them, though Bets winners will too when I have a chance to process. On top of fungible in-game currency $DAT, Trophies are intended to be "equipable" NFTs, used as Buffs for various game play potentials. The contract has an Equip function that takes a contract and tokenID and emits an event. They are also transferable, so can be sold if you don't want to use them your self. Right now they are inert, but they have that potential when there is a moment to make a decision with the community on how / if we use them. Season 3 soon! Get your team going if you don't have one yet.

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Congratulations to the Databaseball.fun Season 2 Champs! S Tier: The NotPhillies @shrutebuck AAA: The Hard90s @kagami AA: AA HOFers @blockchainhof A: Moneyballers @kagami B: Benchwarmers @kagami This year's champs, pictured below with team captains, will be taking home the first DataBaseball Trophy NFTs. This bling will display in team pages and potentially be equip-able, with TBD play effects in consideration. And yes you saw that right, Kagami took THREE world series trophies this year, a feat I doubt will be topped, or at least not for a very long time. We had lots of drama this season, but only one Game 7 in the final round. Big ups also to all 40 playoff participants, truly no bad teams in DataBaseball. Even the ones with ghost players at key positions are dang good teams. Get ready for Season 3. Sure to be exciting with a new sim engine, free agency, defensive metrics involved, and some legit rivalries starting to form.

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Today we wrap up the 2nd season of DataBaseball /database_sports ! There are some close World Series matches going in the 5 tiers of play, with only one resolved so far (congrats @kagami on the hard90s five game win over the Prospectors). By the end of the night we will have our five champs and betting winners. More on what's next for that later. For now, I want to reflect a lil bit on what's happened since we launched in September, and what's next. New Year always good for that. What we've done: 200+ teams built for league play 42,000 player-seasons minted Ecosystem token $DAT launched and held by ~500 wallets DataFootball kicked off by @trimaxion with dozens of teams formed We took this from a pretty rough MVP to a decent (not perfect) baseball simulator game, saw trades and secondary market sales, community formation and building, and experimented with various uses for DAT. Community has been awesome, we've taken the mini app / web3 social feed + wallet concept to places I don't think has been done better on Farcaster and Base App. Feels good man. But we have also seen signs of challenges to scaling, as its been tough to penetrate into CT / web3 gaming in general, and even harder to engage baseball enthusiasts outside of crypto. That remains the next edge I need to traverse. Whats next: Near Term: Resolve the end of season2, archive and collate winnings. I'm working on a new in-game prize for winning teams that will hopefully be ready soon, in addition to $DAT Medium Term: SimV2 implementation, rollover to season 3, Finalize DAT based secondary marketplace for free-agents. Longer Term: Working on growth, decentralizing league management, creating more tactical and inter-season strategic gameplay decisions. These are things that I think can all work in tandem to make Databaseball and DataSports in general more and more viable in the sprots gaming market at large. All this will take time, but I'm here for it. Here's to 2025 -> 2026. Lets get it.

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