162-0: The Perfect Season

162-0 is a quick drafting game built on real baseball statistics from 1871 to 2021. Each round deals a franchise and a decade, such as the Boston Red Sox in the 1910s, and shows that club's eligible hitters for the decade with their peak single seasons: home runs, runs batted in, runs, hits and stolen bases. You pick one for your lineup card, five rounds in all.

Stats are adjusted for era, so 40 home runs in the dead-ball years count for far more than 40 in a high-scoring decade. When the lineup is set, a season simulator on the game's server plays out 162 games, and the target is the record no real team has reached: 162 wins and no losses. The 2001 Mariners and the 1906 Cubs, the game notes, won 116.

The Daily is the shared mode: the same five deals for everyone that day, no skips and one attempt, with a new deal at midnight UTC and a streak for consecutive days. Classic (Free Play) adds two skips and a trade deadline for unlimited seasons, and Blind (Scout's Honor) shows names and years only, with no stats until the season ends. After a Daily you can share your record and put your initials on the day's board. The game runs in the browser on itch.io and takes two to five minutes.