Clay Dreslough

Clay Dreslough
Born	December 22, 1970(1970-12-22) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Game designer
Nationality	American
Notable work(s)	Baseball Mogul, Football Mogul
Spouse(s)	Deirdre Dreslough (m. 1995–present) «start: (1995)»"Marriage: Deirdre Dreslough to Clay Dreslough" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Dreslough)
Children	Eleanor

Clay Dreslough (born December 22, 1970) is the creator of the Baseball Mogul^[1] and Football Mogul computer sports games, and is the co-founder and President of Sports Mogul, Inc.^[2] He was born in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) in 1970, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1993.

Professional life

Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Baseball Mogul, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul, and MLB Slugfest Loaded. His production credits include NBA: Phenom and MLB: Road To The Show. Clay has been designing and programming sports video and computer games since 1987. According to MobyGames, Clay has more published baseball and football titles than any other member of the game industry. 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 more published computer game titles (27) than any other member of the industry.^[3]

Baseball research

Clay Dreslough is a member of 'SABR', the Society for American Baseball Research. His contributions to baseball research include an article on the fluctuating effectiveness (aka "streakiness") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a 'DICE' (Defense-Independent Component ERA), a Defense-Independent Pitching Stat. Dreslough was the first baseball researcher to invent and publish a statistic used to measure defense-independent pitching performance.

Personal life

Dreslough created his first baseball simulation game in 1976, at the age of 5. It used 3 six-sided dice to determine the batting results for each of 9 different types of players. In high school, Dreslough created a computer simulation for DOS called 'Pennant Race' that was distributed as shareware.

His wife, Dee Dreslough, is a writer and digital artist who has released some of her works under an open license. She is the creator of the fictional world of Dimar, featuring dragon-like creatures and their interactions with humans and other sentient species. The name Dreslough (pronounced DRESS-lock) is a unique name, created by combining the former surnames Dresser and McLoughlin.

References

1. ^ http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-games/baseball-mogul-2006-pc/4505-9696_7-31447924.htm
2. ^ http://www.salary.com/personal/layoutscripts/psnl_articles.asp?tab=psn&cat=cat197&ser=ser032&part=par348
3. ^ http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,52183/

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Name	Dreslough, Clay
Alternative names	Dresser
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Date of birth	December 22, 1970
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
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