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Using sports games as sports simulations

According to the LA Times, over half of the teams in the NBA are using NBA Live 2008, the popular basketball game, to simulate potential trades and evaluate personnel.  The general manager of the Houston Rockets said, “I don’t play EA Sports as a game. I use it as a tool. Say if you’re thinking about acquiring Ron Artest.  On the game, you can see how adding Artest can change the dynamic of your team. You can program it to run offensive sets with Artest and any combination of your players.”  As the complexity of games increases, they become less toy and more tool.  We expect to see much more of this, in areas beyond sports, in the near future.

December 2nd, 2008 | Category: Recruiting & HR, Solving "Hard Problems" | Subscribe to comments | You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed

2 Responses to “Using sports games as sports simulations”

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    jeff:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 am

    What other sports are using games as sport simulations and what games are they utilyzing. You mention the GM but are the players starting to utilyze as well for cognitive training? I beleive using sports games as simulations would acclimate rookies and newly traded players to the teams offensive sets and so forth. Please provide any information in reference to same. Thank you.

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    Ethan:
    December 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    These are good questions, I don’t know if players are using the games for training, I’ll look into it and post here if I find anything interesting.

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