Sports Sim Magazine, Issue #18

110 Pages. PRINT VERSION. Issue #18 of Sports Sim Magazine features the new Season Ticket Football by Clay Dreslough. Clay talks about the creation of the game, as well as the statistical questions and challenges that presented themselves in that creation. S.T. Patrick then does an extensive Q&A with Dreslough about creating a football game. as part of our seasonal coverage, S.T. Patrick discusses Black Friday and the 2025 live events, and we invited seven of our friends (Cast, Guzzo, Patrick, Kerwin, Burghardt, Browne, and Webb) to tell us some of their "Favorite Things" in the sports sim gaming hobby. Also, John Turnbull introduces us to Drive Time Football, Tom McHugh provides four more heptathletes for the SI Decathlon game, and Soren Narnia donates his Diamond Chaos baseball game to our readers. Kevin Burghardt is back with his Beyond the Dice interview with Bob Eller, his Classic Matchups series featuring the 1988 "Catholics vs. Convicts" game, and a look at the Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament. Phil Vento and Ron Emch cover the Glass City APBA Baseball Tournament. Michael Webb discusses a new kind of annual project that has been made possible due to PLAAY's Sports Time Machine release for 1980. Gregory Rasheed replays a What-If in the boxing ring, wondering what would have happened had Teofilo Stevenson had left Cuba. Finally, S.T. Patrick looks at the mythologies of weather and its impact on football, and he continues his series on what to do if you roll a long pass from the seven yard line.