The Statis Pro experience · online and alive
Classic tabletop baseball,
now online.
Base8Ball brings the classic Statis Pro card-draw system into the browser: season-true rosters, full league play, live head-to-head games, and a commissioner suite that handles everything from the draft to the pennant race.
Free to start. No credit card required.
Fourth inning at Dodger Stadium: Judge against Ohtani with a live representation of the game's current state, accompanied by the radio keeping the play-by-play.
Play
A real game, in your browser, tonight.
Pick any two teams from any season, tap Play Ball, and you are watching a first pitch inside a minute. Underneath is the classic card draw, extended with calibrated fielding, fatigue, and per-park effects, so Coors plays like Coors and a 1968 arm is worth what it was worth. Every at-bat resolves the way you remember it, card against card.
- First pitch in under a minute, no setup homework
- Season-true rosters from any year, with era rules and park effects to match
- Play the CPU, or a friend three time zones away
Cards are generated directly from real season stats, just as they were 40 years ago in the tabletop version.
Commissioner
Everything a commissioner needs
You bring the people, Base8Ball carries the clipboard. Create the league, set the rules once, and run the draft from a live board. The season keeps itself moving after that: schedules generate, results file themselves, standings update, and a digest lands in every inbox. Trades wait in your approvals queue, not in your group chat.
- Live draft board with pick-by-pick history
- Division setup and schedule generator
- Trade approvals and roster management in one queue
- Telemetry dashboard for league health
- Keeper protection and compensation picks
The commissioner's desk in mid-season: the full menu, both divisions' standings, and every result in the activity feed.
Manage
Run your clubhouse
Set the batting order, name the rotation, and decide who warms up when the seventh inning gets loud. Your strategy sheet carries your tendencies into games you cannot attend, the coach assistant taps your shoulder in the ones you can, and the trade desk handles the horse trading, commissioner approval included.
- Lineup, depth chart, rotation, and bullpen editors
- Strategy sheet that manages auto-played games your way
- In-game coaching prompts for pinch decisions and pitching changes
- A trade wizard with negotiation threads and counters
The first-place McGraw Giants set their lineup in the Team Workspace: bench on the left, batting order on the right, a tab for every split.
Exhibition — free to play
Any two teams, any two seasons, tonight
Exhibition mode is the free game, and it is the whole game. Pick any club from any imported season (the 2025 Yankees, the 1968 Tigers, both at once) and set the ground rules yourself: DH on or off, the three-batter minimum, the extra-innings ghost runner, ABS challenges, ballpark effects, classic or modern engine. The confirm screen hands you both dugouts, batting orders, positions, saved presets, starting pitchers, so you can play it straight or start rewriting history before first pitch. Then manage against the CPU with the coach assistant at your elbow, or hand the other dugout to a friend.
- No subscription required: exhibition play is free, forever
- Cross-era matchups with era-true rules and ballparks
- Full manager controls: lineups, bullpen, tactics, challenges
- Every game files its newspaper: boxscore, scorecard, story
Confirming lineups before first pitch: both dugouts are yours in exhibition play.
More inside
A quick look around
Postgame Updates
Every game files its own newspaper: headline, box score, scorecard, play-by-play, and a written game story, like a beat writer was in the press box.
Scorecard
A pencil-and-paper scorecard, kept for you: hits in red ink, home runs ringed, runs in diamonds, and the backwards K for a called third strike.
Draft night
A live board with the clock running, stats on every row, and auto-draft for the no-shows.
The trade desk
Propose, counter, and close deals, with the commissioner's sign-off built in.
Challenge the call
The ABS system lets each side contest ball-strike calls, just like the big leagues.
Pricing
Start free. Subscribe to run leagues.
Think of it like the old season disk, one annual price for a full year of play. No auto-renewal, no surprise charges.
$0
Free forever with any account.
- Unlimited exhibition games (CPU or head-to-head)
- The Classic Seasons Collection (12 championship teams)
- The full Statis Pro engine, boxscores & game stories
- Join live head-to-head games hosted by subscribers
The collection: 1927 Yankees · 1955 Dodgers · 1967 Cardinals · 1969 Mets · 1975 Reds · 1984 Tigers · 1986 Mets · 1998 Yankees · 2001 Mariners · 2004 Red Sox · 2016 Cubs · 2024 Dodgers.
$29/year
One-time annual charge, not auto-renewing.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Create and commission your own leagues
- Join other managers' leagues
- Every season, including the current year
- Full commissioner toolkit for draft, trades, and playoffs
- 30-day grace period if your subscription lapses
Subscribe from your account after signing up.
Invited to a league? Accepting the invite starts a 30-day full-access trial, no card required to start.
Ready to play ball?
No app to install. Play in your browser.
Base8Ball runs entirely in your browser. Create a free account and play your first game today.