There were simple skills such as running, and more complex ones such as stamina, all of which appeared to be on a scale of 1-159.

This included trivial aspects like their birthday and nickname, but at least 25 of these bits determined the skills of the player. The line of code for the custom player in the coach file (listed under backupstats0) contained 37 bits of information. TheMajesticYeti and Yurya were vital in determining the workings of the custom player. Many of these had been estimated or theorized until the full list of attributes for every player was found in the game's code.Įver since the revolution of Save State Hacking of Backyard Baseball, and the methodology behind creating Custom Players, it was theorized that there were many more statistics than just batting, running, pitching, and fielding.

The combination of these attributes are used to calculate the ratings, as seen on the player cards. Attributes are the different skills and aspects of playing sports given to all playable characters in each of the Backyard Sports games.

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