Full Count - The Bigs

Full Count: The Bigs - The Major League Expansion

Full Count goes to the majors. Five-man rotations, a live bullpen, two ready-to-play leagues.

Cup of Coffee is the minors: one pitching number, one lineup, a season of churn while your best players keep getting called up to somewhere you never see. The Bigs is that somewhere.

It runs on the exact same engine. No new dice, no new math, nothing you learned is thrown away. What changes is depth. In the majors a team does not pitch with one arm - your single PIT becomes a five-man rotation, and the starter who takes the ball today sets the column you read. Your ace start is a different team than your number five, and that swing is the whole point.

Then it adds the rest of the big-league furniture: a bullpen and a closer to read when the starter is pulled, stealing and the sacrifice for the small-ball game, major-league narrative tables, and the full league cycle from the pennant race to October.

And it ships you two leagues ready to play out of the box.

What's inside:

- The Bigs Rules - the major-league layer: the rotation, the bullpen, the running game, how to rate a big-league club from real numbers or off a tier, and the league all the way to the Series

- The Bigs Narrative Tables - big-league Big Innings, blown saves, web gems, and the Clubhouse Report (where fatigue and the call-ups live)

- The Majors - a 24-club league ready to play: the Founders and Frontier Leagues, three divisions of four apiece, every club rated and balanced by simulation

- The Metro League - a tighter 10-club city league, two divisions of five, every game a derby

- Standings sheets for both leagues, with the October bracket

- App update - the Long Play game app now reads a five-man rotation: pick today's starter, drop in the league ratings, play

The rotation is the one idea it is built on, and it pays for itself twice. In a single game it is free - you just read a different PIT depending on who took the ball. Across a season it becomes a discipline: you cannot ace your way through 162 games or a seven-game series, and the club you built on one arm finds that out in October.

Requires Full Count: Cup of Coffee. Free for every Full Count owner - it is in the pack. PWYW here it on its own.

Print and play. Solo or two-player. A4 PDFs - US buyers, select "Fit to page" to print on Letter.