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Wesleyan University.
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Clay Dreslough
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Dreslough"s design and programming credits include the Tony Louisiana Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Madden, Baseball Mogul, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul, and MLB Slugfest Loaded. His production credits include National Basketball Association: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. As a successful computer game developer and publisher, Dreslough is rare in his outspoken stance against digital rights management and other forms of copy protection.
According to Moby Games, Dreslough has been credited as a programmer, designer or video game producer on 17 computer game titles.
The most recently credited one on that site being in 2013. He is the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance.
His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a "Developing Information and Communications Technology Expertise for Micro SMEs " (Defense-Independent Component European Research Area). In 1999, Dreslough invented and popularized a new format for the MLB postseason.
After an organized letter-writing campaign to the baseball commissioner, this format was adopted for the 2012 season.
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According to MobyGames, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. Clay Dreslough has been a member of "SABR", the Society for American Baseball Research, since 1995.
