An offline baseball game for iPhone and iPad
You're the general manager and the manager. Build the roster, call the game pitch by pitch, and try to still be standing in October. Every one of the 2,430 games in a season is played out in full on your iPhone or iPad, and none of it is sent anywhere.
Your club
Each club comes with a market, a plan the owner expects you to follow, and a park with its own habits. Tap one. The page will follow you around.
CL East · Richmond
Short porch in right, cavernous left-center alley: a pull hitter's park.
The job
A 26-man roster, a 40-man behind it and a farm system under that. You make the trades and you make the pitching changes, and twenty-nine other front offices are doing the same thing to you.
The screens
Nothing is cut off and nothing is too small to tap. It comes in light and dark, and follows whatever your phone is set to.
Today
Today opens on a scoreboard that follows the calendar: the race in season, camp in spring, the series in October. Under it, the scores around the league as they happen, the schedule, the matchup, and every decision waiting on you.
The live game
The line score sits on top. Under it, your runners stand on their bases, the pitch map shows where every pitch of the at-bat crossed the plate, and the pitcher and the hitter are face to face. One big Pitch button, with the at-bat, the half inning and the rest of the game beside it.
The player
His portrait in front of his number, overall and potential as rings, and this season's line. Below it: the year-by-year table, a scouting report, platoon splits, and percentile ranks for contact quality, discipline, running and fielding.
The club
Team average, wRC+ and ERA with their league ranks, then record, payroll and room. One player row is used everywhere: portrait, grade, stat line, condition, overall and potential.
The league
The Cobblestone and the Fieldstone, three divisions each. Standings by record, runs or splits, a wild-card table, and October odds that move every night.
The farm
The system's rank, how its ceilings split, and when the prospects arrive. Each one has a ceiling and an ETA, and plays a real minor-league season, a plate appearance at a time.
The trade center
Tick players and picks on both sides and the deal builds in a tray at the bottom: value both ways, payroll and room for both clubs, cash and retained salary.
The front office
Payroll against the tax line, the 40-man and the farm's rank. From here: free agency, extensions, arbitration, department budgets, a coaching staff, and an owner with a mandate for the year.
Every portrait is drawn in his club's colours, and the same man always looks the same. On your own club a pencil opens his look, his name and his number.
Each club has a park card: the field with its fences, the tall walls marked, and how the park plays for runs, home runs, doubles and triples.
The year
A season is one lap: camp, 162 games, a deadline, a bracket, and a winter with its own work. Start a save in the spring, on Opening Day, at the break or in October.
The engine
A season is 2,430 games and every one of them is played out in full, pitch by pitch, including the ones you never watch. Left alone for six full seasons, here is what the league does.
Try an at-bat
A toy for this page, drawn the way the app draws an at-bat. The real games are in the app.
The box scores, the leaderboards and the career pages are the record of games that actually happened, one pitch at a time, in a league that keeps playing like baseball year after year.
No account, no ads, no tracking, and the game itself never goes online. The whole game is on your iPhone or iPad, and so are your saves. It plays in airplane mode, on a plane, in a basement, anywhere. Spring training is on the house, and so is your first save. The season ticket ($4.99) unlocks the full game, from Opening Day through October and every winter after, and extra save slots are $2.99 each. One-time purchases through the App Store, no subscription.
Thirty clubs are hiring. The Ironsides would like a word.