Clay Dreslough is an American video game designer. He is the creator of the '' Baseball Mogul'' and '' Football Mogul'' computer sports games, and is the co-founder and president of Sports Mogul, Inc. He was born in

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and graduated from

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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

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, 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

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and other forms of

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. According to

, Dreslough has been credited as a

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on 17 computer game titles; the most recently credited one on that site being in 2013.

Baseball research

Clay Dreslough has been a member of 'SABR', the

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, since 1995. He is the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance. His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (

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). In 1999, Dreslough invented and popularized a new format for the

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postseason. After an organized letter-writing campaign to the

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, this format was adopted for the 2012 season.

Personal life

Dreslough created his first baseball simulation game at the age of 5. It used three six-sided dice to determine the batting results for each of 9 different types of players. In high school, Dreslough created a baseball simulation game called ''Pennant Race'' and a "sperm simulation game" entitled ''Emission: Impossible''. Both were distributed as

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. He also co-wrote and published ''One Step Beyond'', a

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. His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an

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. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring

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-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.

References

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