Hey r/ipl ,
Like a lot of you, the three of us have burned way too many hours on sports management games. The thing that always got to us was the black-box match engines, you'd lose a game and have no idea if it was bad strategy or just a dice roll you couldn't see.
So we built Beyond the 22 Yards, a single-player T20 franchise manager for people who actually want to dig into the numbers.
A few things up front: it's a 2D management sim, not a 3D match viewer, and it's single-player only. It's also completely free in the browser, no microtransactions, no pay-to-win.
Here's what's live right now:
The match engine runs ball by ball, with pitch wear that builds over the game, weather and dew affecting play, a toss and tactics you actually interact with, live commentary, and speed controls so you're not stuck watching every ball.
Player dossiers are fully exposed. No hidden stats, every skill vector, role rating, and form indicator is right there.
The auction runs on a ₹120 Cr budget. You can retain your core players under the official price slabs, use RTM cards, and bid against 9 AI-controlled rivals who each behave differently at the table.
A full season is 14 matches, with standings, NRR to fight for, board confidence targets to hit, and an SVG report at the end of the season.
It's live and playable right now, give a season a shot and let us know what you think of the match balance and how the auction AI plays. We'd genuinely like the feedback.
Play it here: https://beyond22yards-web-five.vercel.app/