Digital Diamond Baseball V14

Updated from version 12 to version 14 recently. Logged nearly 1,000 hours in version 12. I'm enjoying all of the new upgrades in V14. I really like the Statis Pro Advanced Board Game companion and the ability to simulate games using the Statis Pro Advanced engine.

I am enjoying playing this game. Back in the dark ages I used to play Statis Pro Baseball and now I can again with the program doing all the lookups and keeping better records.

This game is a lot of fun. So many features that are easy to use. Put player pics, logos, etc in like a snap. Get as detailed as changing the pbp descriptions, but can be played straight out of the box (download). So many different ways to play. Suggest you watch the videos on how to play. Thanks, Gary

Don't bite. There is absolutely nothing new here, aside from more bowing from the developer to the dice-chucking crowd (all of whom still yearn for Dwight Eisenhower, 8-track tapes, Pat Boone, and the Edsel). There is lots of sameness though: 1. Same game screens as the last half-dozen versions 2. Same lame stat package 3. Same lack of batter-by-batter spectator mode 4. Same deceptive advertising: the game DOES NOT come with all seasons from 1915 to 2025. Unless one doesn't care that the "seasons" one can load include average ratings for EVERYONE. Yup, so Clemente has the same arm rating as Greg Luzinski, Ozzie Smith has the same range as Johnny Lemaster, and Vince Coleman runs as fast as Moose Skowron. Pathetic. So please don't waste you money. Instead, spend it on the new boy on the block: Game Pulse Payoff Pitch PC. You'll be glad you did!

Digital Diamond Baseball V14 — reliability concerns DDB V14 is a capable stat engine and scorekeeper, but its game engine proved fragile in extended play, with several issues that surfaced repeatedly during my sessions. The most serious is outright freezing. On more than one occasion the game window locked up completely and had to be force-closed. Its own error log tells the story: the engine throws internal NullPointerException errors while building the game state that the interface relies on to redraw itself. When that happens, the window simply stops responding — in one session it errored nine times during an ordinary late-inning pinch-hit decision. This occurred on a clean install, so it isn't a case of user tinkering. A second freeze mode is a genuine deadlock on certain manual chart plays — a grounder with a runner on third and fewer than two outs, for instance, could hang the game for minutes at a time rather than crash cleanly. The Statis Pro resolution engine is also unreliable. Running-game plays like squeezes and steals resolve on a scale that produces plainly wrong outcomes — a squeeze that should succeed can fail on every attempt. It's dependable enough for standard at-bats but not for the finer tactical plays the mode is supposed to model. Compounding all of this is poor error handling. Every failure, no matter the cause, greets the player with the same unhelpful message — "Yikes! Unknown system error" — and a request to email a log file. There's no guidance on what broke or how to recover, and the real detail is buried where most players will never look. The underlying tech is dated as well, built on an old Java runtime with known stability limitations that long sessions tend to expose. None of this ruins the core experience, but for a paid simulation, the crashes, deadlocks, and silent failures are hard to overlook.

I keep getting an error message. How do I fix it. So far not happy with V14. I tried purchasing V14 again but Steam won't let me. Now I just want my V14 fixed.