The statistics come from a license with Stats Inc. Players decisions and tendencies come from these stats personalizing the game play and making the play less predictable, unless you study each player individually. Batters have stats for how hard and high they hit, and where they hit, while pitchers have a favorite and least favorite pitch. The lineup is complete, which is not like some basketball games we know, that leave out essential players like Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and others. The artificial intelligence for player trades will not let you trade poor players for good players. Trade offers can arrive by telegram during the season.
Views are very important in simulations.
For the very slow PCs Grand Slam has an optional fixed camera system that picks predetermined points in the stadium to view plays. Plot Graphics Real baseball players were digitized using motion capture. Batters and pitchers have four body styles each, with different styles and stances. Virgin used motion captured digitized players because they felt the polygonal players were not lifelike. The players are all 2D sprites and the stadiums are all accurately rendered in three dimensional polygons.