SimYard Walkthrough

Here’s a brief summary of how to get started on my fantasy baseball simulator: SimYard.

First, get an account and create a team.  You can play this team in the public fields to gain fans.  Be sure to use the Interact feature in the park to increase your team’s buzz and to find better players.

When you’re ready to move on, buy a Stadium Permit.  Make a second team and a stadium.  It’s probably too soon financially for you to support a third team and second stadium, so put that off for one more season.  Look for a league with a low salary cap and join it.  You can still make the third team, but don’t make a second stadium.  Remember to buy advertising for your stadium, and a starting stadium should hold roughly 2,000 people.  Set a budget so that you can pay off your loan in a couple of years.

Search for players to sign.  Sign the best players from your team because you can have an advantage being the home team.  Offer them slightly lower contracts than you would offer to other teams, but be sure to offer them a decent amount.  Sign a whole starting lineup and pitching rotation and bullpen.

Your second season, you’ll have one (or two) teams in the park and one in a league.  You should earn lots of revenue from the league which you will use to build a stadium for your second team and join a second league.  Be sure the two leagues have different salary caps, because you will put your best players on the higher salary cap league.  Sign more players to fill out two complete starting lineups, rotations, and bullpens.

Your third season, build some upgrades to your first stadium, which should be nearing capacity.  Sign better players.  You’re off and running in SimYard.