Clay Dreslough

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Clay Dreslough
Born Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation Game designer
NationalityAmerican
Notable works Baseball Mogul , Football Mogul
Spouse
Deirdre Dreslough
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(m. 1999)​
Children1

Clay Dreslough is an American video game designer. He is the creator of the Baseball Mogul [1] and Football Mogul computer sports games, and is the co-founder and president of Sports Mogul, Inc. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Wesleyan University.

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Professional life

Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball , Madden , Baseball Mogul , Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul , and MLB Slugfest Loaded . His production credits include NBA: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. According to MobyGames, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. As a successful computer game developer and publisher, Dreslough is rare in his outspoken stance against digital rights management and other forms of copy protection. [2]

According to MobyGames, Dreslough has been credited as a programmer, designer or video game producer on 17 computer game titles; the most recently credited one on that site being in 2013. [3]

Baseball research

Clay Dreslough has been a member of 'SABR', the Society for American Baseball Research, since 1995. [4] He is the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance. [5] His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, [6] an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA).

In 1999, Dreslough invented and popularized a new format for the MLB postseason. After an organized letter-writing campaign to the baseball commissioner, this format was adopted for the 2012 season. [7]

Personal life

Dreslough created his first baseball simulation game at the age of 5. [8] It used three six-sided dice to determine the batting results for each of 9 different types of players. [9] In high school, Dreslough created a baseball simulation game called Pennant Race and a "sperm simulation game" entitled Emission: Impossible. Both were distributed as shareware. He also co-wrote and published One Step Beyond, a tabletop role-playing game. [10]

His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an open license. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring dragon-like creatures and their interactions with humans and other sentient species. The name Dreslough (pronounced DRESS-lock) is a unique name, created by blending the surnames Dresser and McLoughlin.

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References

  1. ↑ c|net (2005-04-05). "Baseball Mogul 2006 Review (PC)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Allen Varney (2006-04-11). "Wal-Mart Rules". The Escapist.
  3. ↑ MobyGames. "Clay Dreslough, Developer Profile".
  4. ↑ "Baseball Prospectus" . Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  5. ↑ Maximum Awesome. "Interview with the designer of two top sports sims". Maximum Awesome Website. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  6. ↑ SABR. "SABR Style Guide" . Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  7. ↑ "Sports Simulation Influences MLB New Playoff Format" . Retrieved 2012-04-26.
  8. ↑ Junko Kaji. "Dream Job: Computer Game Guru". Salary.com.
  9. ↑ Gamasutra.com (2007-08-10). "Geek of the Week". Archived from the original on August 10, 2007.
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