Intellectual challenge even the busiest person can fit in their life

User Rating: 9

Pennant Chase is a richly rewarding slow-burn of a game. Basically, you GM baseball teams in leagues with three divisions of 4 teams each. In each league, a game day is simulated every 8 hours. You can check in on your teams periodically, or watch how each game played out. You have a wealth of stats to measure which players are best, from an overall rank for new players to stats like traditional batting and fielding stats, D-war, OPS, K rate and more. You have a choice of leagues, from individual years (like 2013, or 1998), Best of Franchise (play as the Yankees, or the Royals), best of a decade (select players from the 2000s, or the 1950s), Dead Ball era, and more. There’s also special leagues created by individual commissioners on the site. There’s trades, waiver wires, fast and slow drafting. You can have A LOT of leagues going at once, so there’s something to check on each day, but you can skip time looking at teams without a problem–you can have a life, this isn’t Farmville for baseball sims. I find it challenging, but not frustrating.