IVT Demo - Roger Federer vs Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal def. Roger Federer on grass court 6-4 6-4

	Federer	Nadal
1st serve %	77.46%	76-82%
1st serve W/L	70.90%	79.36%
2nd serve %	100.00%	89.47%
2nd serve W/L	61.90%	58.82%
Aces	8	6
Double Faults	1	2
Total points	72	84
Break Points	2/6	3/3

IVT Demo - Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic

Roger Federer def. Novak Djokovic on hard court 6-2 7-5

	Federer	Djokovic
1st serve %	60.37%	65.57%
1st serve W/L	75.00%	62.50%
2nd serve %	95.23%	95.23%
2nd serve W/L	60.00%	40.00%
Aces	5	3
Double Faults	1	1
Total points	64	50
Break Points	4/8	1/2

Inside Volley Tennis Demo

The second tennis demo, also available from Inside Sports Games, is a point by point game. The players available are far fewer than in Scoreboard Tennis, but the top sixty for each year should be more than good enough, especially when used together with SBT for the earlier rounds. I am also able to provide most statistics.

The three cards I used are Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic: the top three men of 2008. Each has a card for clay, hard and grass courts.

Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic (Hard)
Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic (Clay)
Rafael Nadal vs Roger Federer (Grass)

Scoreboard Tennis Demo - Final

#1 Johannes Ager (AUT) def. #3 Rodrigo Albano (ARG) 6-1 6-0 6-0

Scoreboard Tennis Demo - Semifinals

#1 Johannes Ager (AUT) def. #4 Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP) 6-2 6-0 6-0
#3 Rodrigo Albano (ARG) def. #2 Radu Albot (MDA) 0-6 4-6 6-0 7-5 7-5

Final:
#1 Johannes Ager (AUT) vs #3 Rodrigo Albano (ARG)

Scoreboard Tennis Demo - Quarterfinals

#1 Johannes Ager (AUT) def. #8 Victor Acurcio Machada (BRA) 6-0 6-0 6-0 6-0
#4 Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP) def. #5 Jorge Alejandro Saurez-Zuleta (COL) 7-6 6-0 6-0

#3 Rodrigo Albano (ARG) def. #6 Ahmed Al Bitar (EGY) 6-3 6-1 6-1
#2 Radu Albot (MDA) def. #7 Erkin Aliyev (AZE) 4-6 6-2 6-0 6-1

Semifinal draw:

#1 Johannes Ager (AUT) vs #4 Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP)
#3 Rodrigo Albano (ARG) vs #2 Radu Albot (MDA)

Scoreboard Tennis Demo

Scoreboard Tennis from Inside Sports Games is the first of two tennis games I will be reporting on this week, with both demos successful in getting me interested enough to put them on my "must buy" list.

Scoreboard is a quick playing tennis game that can be played either in sets or games. I find the games too random as I did in Head to Head Tennis, but the sets seem just fine. For the sets version you determine who is the favourite player by comparing the provided numbers for that given surface, then throw 2d10 to determine the winner of teh set. A modified 2d6 roll then tells you what the score was for that set.

The greatest part about this game will be the season sets. Each set contains every single player that competed on the pro tour. The demo itself consists of one page of players from Peter Aarts to Angel Alonso-Campos and another sixty-eight in between. Imagine what each $9 set gives you!

For this demo I randomly picked eight men from those available and threw them together for a knockout tournament. Here they are (well done if you have heard of any of them!) with their nationality and rank for 2009.

Victor Acurcio Machado (BRA) NR
Johannes Ager (AUT) 404
Ahmed Al Bitar (EGY) NR
Rodrigo Albano (ARG) 1195
Radu Albot (MDA) 726
Jorge Alejandro Suarez-Zuleta (COL) NR
Erkin Aliyev (AZE) NR
Angel Alonso-Campos (ESP) 1246

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '56 @ NYY '09 Game #6

Yankees '56 6 @ 1 Yankees '09

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	M. Mantle	1	0	0	1	2	0			N. Swisher	2	2	0	0	0	0
	H. Bauer	1	0	1	0	0	0			D. Jeter	1	1	0	0	1	0
	G. McDougald	1	0	1	0	0	0			A. Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	0	1
	B. Skowron	1	0	0	0	0	0			M. Teixeira	1	0	0	0	0	0
										J. Posada	1	0	0	0	0	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
W	J. Kucks	9	6	1	1	1	3		L	A.J. Burnett	9	4	2	2	1	6

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '09 @ NYY '56 Game #5

Yankees '09 6 @ 1 Yankees '56

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	M. Teixeira	1	0	0	1	2	0			E. Howard	1	1	0	0	0	0
	R. Pena	1	1	0	0	2	0			M. Mantle	1	0	0	0	0	1
	J. Damon	2	0	0	0	1	0			Y. Berra	1	1	0	0	1	0
	A. Rodriguez	1	0	0	1	1	0
	R. Cano	2	0	0	0	0	1
	B. Gardner	1	0	0	0	0	1
	D. Jeter	1	0	0	0	0	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	K	BB
W	CC Sabathia	9	3	1	1	1	9		L	Whitey Ford	6	6	4	4	1	2
										T. Byrne	3	3	2	2	1	1

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '56 @ NYY '09 Game #4

Yankees '56 7 @ 8 Yankees '09

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	B. Martin	1	0	0	1	4	0			J. Damon	3	2	0	1	3	0
	B. Skowron	1	0	0	0	1	0			M. Cabrera	2	1	0	0	2	0
	M. Mantle	1	0	0	1	1	0			M. Teixeira	3	0	0	0	1	0
	E. Howard	2	0	1	0	0	0			H. Matsui	1	0	0	1	1	0
	A. Carey	2	0	0	0	0	1			A. Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	1	0
	B. Turley	1	0	0	0	0	0			D. Jeter	1	0	0	0	0	0
										R. Cano	1	0	0	0	0	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
	B. Turley	7	5	2	2	6	4			J. Chamberlain	6	7	6	5	3	3
	T. Morgan	1	4	3	3	1	0		W	M. Melancon	3	1	1	1	3	1
L	D. Larson	1	3	3	3	1	0

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '56 @ NYY '09 Game #3

Yankees '56 4 @ 1 Yankees '09

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	H. Bauer	1	0	0	1	2	0			M. Teixeira	2	0	0	1	1	0
	B. Skowron	1	0	0	1	2	0			D. Jeter	1	0	0	0	0	0
	P. Rizzuto	1	0	0	0	0	1			F. Cervelli	1	0	0	0	0	0
	B. Martin	1	0	0	0	0	1			H. Matsui	1	0	0	0	0	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
W	J. Knucks	9	5	1	1	2	6		L	A.J. Burnett	6	3	4	4	4	7
										M. Melancon	3	1	0	0	0	2

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '09 @ NYY '56 Game #2

Yankees '09 0 @ 9 Yankees '56

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	M. Teixeira	1	1	0	0	0	0			M. Mantle	3	1	0	2	6	0
	D. Jeter	1	0	0	0	0	1			G. McDougald	3	0	0	0	0	1
	M. Cabrera	1	0	0	0	0	1			H. Bauer	1	1	0	0	0	0
	N. Swisher	1	0	0	0	0	0			Y. Berra	1	1	0	0	0	0
	R. Cano	1	0	0	0	0	0			J. Collins	1	0	0	0	1	0
										B. Skowron	1	0	0	0	1	0
										B. Cerv	1	0	0	0	1	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
L	A. Pettite	6	5	4	4	2	6		W	D. Larson	8	4	0	0	7	5
	M. Melancon	1	6	5	5	0	0			J. Konstanty	1	1	0	0	0	0
	A. Aceves	1	0	0	0	0	1

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - NYY '09 @ NYY '56 Game #1

Yankees '09 0 @ 3 Yankees '56

		H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB				H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
	R. Pena	1	0	0	0	0	1			G. McDougald	3	0	0	2	3	0
	J. Molina	1	0	0	0	0	0			A. Carey	3	0	0	0	0	1
	M. Teixeira	1	1	0	0	0	0			M. Mantle	1	0	0	0	0	1
										E. Howard	1	0	0	0	0	0
										W. Ford	1	0	0	0	0	0
		IP	H	R	ER	BB	K				IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
L	CC Sabathia	7	6	2	2	1	7		W	W. Ford	9	3	0	0	0	5
	J. Abaladejo	1	3	1	1	1	1

Scoreboard Baseball Demo - New York Yankees 1956 vs NYY 2009

A new demo, and it's a game I have completely fallen for: Scoreboard Baseball from Inside Sports Games. This dice and chart replay game is fast-flowing and has a decent amount of stats to flesh out the final score a little. The one drawback is the amount of dice used (or dice rolled if you only have a certain amount available to you), but ISG provides a dice roller that gives you all the rolls in one handy window.

Gameplay is very simple. The dice lead you through the who of the key offensive player each inning, and if they score and how. The pitchers then finish off their line with hits, strikeouts and walks, and the end of the game is cleaning up any hits and RBIs that have to find a player.

I picked a pair of teams from those available to try out with the free rules and began a best-of-seven game series between the 1956 and 2009 New York Yankees.

Head to Head Demo - WTA 2008 Ladies

I recently downloaded and played the demo of a new tennis game: Head to Head. Each individual player card has ratings for serve and return for each court surface, along with ratings for stealing serve, aces, and tie-breaks, the latter two of which are unused in the demo version. The demo and players are available at TableTop Sports

3d10s are rolled for each game with the first compared with the servers serve ratings, and the third for the returners steal rating. If the server rolls too high, then it's a break of serve. If the third die is within range and a second 2d10 roll is within the stealing range that is also a break of serve. In my mini-tournament using the top sixteen ladies of 2008 there were a lot of breaks of serve, much higher than real life. So, my results will just give you the final set scores rather than how they came about.

Finally, here are the ladies and the draw for the opening round on this hard court tournament.

(1) Jelena Jankovic (SER) vs (16) Alize Cornet (FRA)
(2) Serena Williams (USA) vs (15) Victoria Azarenka (SER)
(3) Dinara Safina (RUS) vs (14) Patty Schnyder (SWI)
(4) Elena Dementieva (RUS) vs (13) Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
(5) Ana Ivanovic (SER) vs (12) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)
(6) Venus Williams (USA) vs (11) Nadia Petrova (RUS)
(7) Vera Zvonareva (RUS) vs (10) Agnieska Radwanska (POL)
(8) Svetlana Kutznetsova (RUS) vs (9) Maria Sharapova (RUS)

DICE Golf - Turnberry

For this difficult Scottish course, the eight highest golfers that are included with the demo have a -9 to deal with when rolling for shots to land on the fairway or green. There are three kinds of shots on each player card: A, B, and C.

The A shots are for four and five par holes for the fairway.Most of the time it all starts here
The B shots are for when they aim to land on the green. Par three holes begin here.
The C shots are for  when you miss the green on a B shot, but there are no modifiers on C shots.
After this, of course, comes the putting

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par:	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	35
Carl Petterson	4	4	2	3	3	3	4	3	3	-6
Robert Allenby	3	3	3	2	4	4	4	3	3	-6
Hunter Mahan	4	3	4	3	4	2	5	3	3	-4
Billy Mayfair	4	4	4	2	4	2	6	3	4	-2
Ken Duke	4	4	6	3	3	2	5	3	3	-2
Stuart Appleby	4	3	4	3	3	3	5	5	3	-2
Stewart Cink	4	4	4	3	4	3	5	3	4	-1
DJ Trahan	3	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	5	Even
	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Par:	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	35	70
Carl Petterson	4	3	3	4	5	3	3	3	3	-4	-10
Robert Allenby	3	3	4	3	3	2	5	6	4	-2	-8
Stewart Cink	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	5	3	-7	-8
Hunter Mahan	5	2	5	4	5	3	5	5	4	-2	-6
Stuart Appleby	3	3	4	3	3	2	5	6	4	-2	-4
Ken Duke	5	3	4	3	4	2	4	4	4	-2	-4
Billy Mayfair	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	5	-1	-3
DJ Trahan	3	4	3	5	4	3	4	5	5	+1	+1

DICE Golf - Kapalua

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par:	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	3	5	36
Glen Day	4	3	4	3	5	4	3	3	4	-3
Justin Rose	3	2	5	4	4	4	4	2	5	-3
Fred Couples	3	2	4	4	4	5	4	3	6	-1
Matt Kuchar	4	3	4	4	6	4	4	4	4	+1
Alex Cejka	3	3	5	3	5	5	4	4	5	+1
Lee Janzen	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	3	4	+2
Michael Letzig	4	3	3	5	6	5	6	2	5	+3
Cliff Kresge	3	3	4	6	8	4	4	3	5	+4
	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Par:	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	37	73
Glen Day	4	2	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	-4	-7
Fred Couples	3	3	4	3	3	4	4	4	5	-4	-5
Justin Rose	4	2	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	-1	-4
Matt Kuchar	4	2	4	3	4	4	5	3	6	-2	-1
Lee Janzen	8	3	4	3	4	4	3	6	4	+2	+4
Alex Cejka	5	3	3	4	4	6	4	4	5	+1	+2
Cliff Kresge	4	3	3	4	4	6	3	3	4	-3	+1
Michael Letzig	5	3	3	4	3	4	5	3	5	-2	+1

DICE Golf Demo

Yes, another game from gen1400, and again it's a fun one.

As with DICE Boxing each individual has their own card. With DICE Golf you get all golfers from the 2008 season, but it is possible to make cards for golfers from other years yourself. Two d10s are rolled for each golfer, on each hole, to see hoe they do on their putting, tee, and fairway shots. They may end up in light or heavy rough, a bunker, or even lose the ball altogether. On a tricky lie the dice roll becomes tougher to make the next shot.

There were two courses with the demo: Kapalua and Turnberry. There are many courses in the full game, and, again, you can use other real world courses and bring them into the game. You can play these courses straight, or you can use the difficulty modifiers for the golfers. On Turnberry for example, each golfer has a -9 on a lot of his/her shots. Not surprisingly, this is fourth toughest course in the game.

I split up the sixteen golfers provided with the demo into two groups: lower and higher ranked. The higher ranked men went to Turnberry, while the rest took on Kapalua. The latter is one I will be sharing here. I played it without modifiers.