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Clay Dreslough (born December 22, 1970) is the creator of the Baseball Mogul and Football Mogul computer sports games, and is the founder of Sports Mogul, Inc. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) in 1970, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1993. He is married to Dee Dreslough. The name Dreslough (pronounced DRESS-lock) is a unique name, created by combining the former surnames Dresser and McLoughlin.
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'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.
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.
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