#soccer in the backyard

[watchingyoufromthestars]

Something I haven’t seen anyone bring up before from Link’s hunger strike teen fact is — even though it was kind of an off handed joke from Freddie — Link and Taylor probably live super close to each other. Like possibly neighbors close.

[feymarche]

grant wilson in that room with willy actively ready to tear him to shreds the moment he gets the chance 4hgfjcdkxsz my little guy

[dmitris-notebook]

I executed this so fucking poorly that I want to apologize to everyone in the P.O.C community/hj + e (exaggerated)

[raidpirate52]

My Backyard Sports Character tier list 2.0 featuring up to the Atari era. My opinions are my own and I'm sorry if your favorite is ranked low, it's just my personal opinion. You're free to your own.

Source: Note that I personally added the Atari-era characters via uploading images and they're not apart of the original tier list, nor are the commentators or Mr. Clanky.

S: Pablo Sanchez, Ashley Webber, Sidney Webber, Luanne Lui, Reese Worthington, Ace Patterson, Create-A-Player, Vinnie the Gooch, Buddy Cheque

A: Ernie Steele, Dante Robinson, Ronny Dobbs, Angela Delvecchio, Marky DuBois, Mikey Thomas, Sunny Day, Chuck Downfield

B: Stephanie Morgan, Kenny Kawaguchi, Kiesha Phillips, Achmed Khan, Ricky Johnson, Amir Khan, Vicki Kawaguchi, Mr. Clanky

C: Jocinda Smith, Sally Dobbs, Maria Luna, Tony Delvecchio, Annie Frazier, Pete Wheeler, Earl Grey

D: Gretchen Hasselhoff, Kaytoo the Yeti, Billie Jean Blackwood, Lisa Crocket, Kimmy Eckman, Joey Macadoo, Arthur Chen, Samantha Pearce, Erik Stream

F: Abner Doubleplay, Barry deJay, Jimmy Knuckles, Jorge Garcia, Dmitri Petrovich

[tsuyoshikentsu]

OH MY G-D I'M CRYING WITH JOY

I MEAN IT I LITERALLY CANNOT STOP CRYING I'M SO HAPPY

[firestorm-can]

You better believe it, sports fans...

BACKYARD SPORTS IS COMIN' BACK!!!

New games, new ventures, and new merchandise are on the horizon, led by the recently-launched Playground Productions. All with the backyard kids' original designs, too! Sports Illustrated has more details:

The old clubhouse is back, too, in website form. Check it out!

I gotta tell ya folks, this was some incredible news to wake up to. How excited are you guys?

[itsbrucey]

I think if you gave the teens a trampoline, their lives would improve dramatically

[artzytrash]

I need to check the Backyard Sports wiki more often cus since I last checked, a bunch of the kid's parents and siblings have names now? What the heck did I miss

Not complaining though I love new information

[rustbeltjessie]

A Soccer Mom not in the sense that I’m a parent who makes my kid playing soccer their whole identity, but in the sense that I’m a parent who plays soccer with their kid.

(September 19)

[firespree]

The other team's guide to be a cheat:

1- Make sure the team you're up against hardly scores.

2-Get to penalties

3- Learn ball duplication

Seriously, I love how broken this game is at times. Sunny day and Earl Grey don't even see the ball in Lisa's arms and just counted the ball that went into the net-

Speaking of SUNNY day and Earl GREY... What if we made their names...

Literal?

[pernillecfcw]

I miss them already 🥹💙

[hi-im-greenjunipertree]

Luanne Lui x7

[cutiecookiecreme]

Forgot to post this on Tumblr

Backyard Sports iceberg

[dmitris-notebook]

A bit more early for me to post this, but that's because I decided to make more ealier (as of typing this, this was posted 3:38 on California timezone)

[raidpirate52]

Backyard Sports OC

Name: Jett Hawke

Nickname: The Flyer

Gender: Boy

Birthday: November 18th

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Hair:

Body: Tall (between Ricky and Jorge)

Wears sports goggles.

Best friends: Felix Grant, Ace Patterson, Reese Worthington, Sidney Webber (crush), Marky DuBois.

Friends: Ashley Webber, Luanne Lui, Angela Delvecchio, Betty Houston, Buddy Cheque

Friendly Rivals: Pablo Sanchez, Kiesha Phillips, Ernie Steele, Dante Robinson, Stephanie Morgan

Bitter Rivals (but okay with off the field): Achmed Khan, Tony Delvecchio, Ronny Dobbs, Joey MacAdoo.

Enemies: Jay Green, Dmitri Petrovich, Jimmy Knuckles

Bio: A standard jock, Jett loves sports and loves to boast. Whether it's guarding the plate, guarding the endzone, the basket or the goal, you can expect Jett to come up with big defensive plays and then mock you in your face. Very competitive, he's often at ends with the Backyard Sports neighborhood at large with the more casual sports kids and likewise more competitive ones.

Around Sidney, however, his stats either go up or down. In front of her as a teammate he'll want to impress her and will play better. On the other team, however, he'll be at her whim (i.e.: He'll tell her what pitch is coming next, leading her to have a big hit, or hand the ball off to her for an easy basket in basketball), much to his teammates annoyance.

Before Reese rose to power as a sports captain, Jett was mostly an above-average generic, but one season would put the two together and the two would bond over their mutual liking of comics, film and video games. After that season, he, Felix, and Ace would become friends and nominate Reese to become a captain to regularly recruit the three of them.

(I might make a post about the shenanigans these four get into some other time, but as for Jett): His main role in the group is often protecting Reese after the latter runs his mouth off to the wrong person and has to run behind him.

General Notes:

Gets a stat increase when wearing green; a stat decrease if wearing pink.

Gets a stat increase when teamed with Sidney Webber; decrease if opposing her. Sidney is unaffected.

Nicknamed "The Flyer", beyond his name, is after "The Land Before Time" character, Petrie. His birthday was chosen to coincide the film's anniversary.

Sports Accomplishments:

-1x Backyard Soccer Town Champion*

-2x Cereal Bowl Champion**

-4x Clanky Cup Champion

*- I head canon that the neighborhood has its own league then sends its best players for the international tournament after season's end, which he isn't selected, but Reese regularly is.

**- Wone one without Reese and his other friends (there was a season where all four were strategically broken up).

Below is his sports stats.

Baseball Stats:

Main position: Catcher

Batting: 7/10

Running: 8/10

Pitching : 3/10

Fielding: 5/10

Football Stats:

Main Position: Linebacker

Throwing: 2/4

Catching: 3/4

Blocking: 3/4

Kicking: 2/4

Soccer Stats:

Main position: Defender

Kicking: 2/4

Control: 2/4

Defending: 4/4

Running: 4/4

Basketball Stats:

Inside Shooting: 6/10

Outside Shooting: 5/10

Ball-Handling: 5/10

Defense: 8/10

Quickness: 8/10

Hockey Stats:

Main Position: Defender

Shooting: 8/10

Passing: 5/10

Skating: 9/10

Defending: 10/10

Goaltending: 6/10

[danielbitten946]

Backyard Sports Generic Players as Townie Names!

One day, I managed to follow this tutorial by MTS user ijustneedsomeeyes, and got that working in my game. So I decided to copy every name from "all" generic kids from Backyard Sports (Baseball '97 to Football '02 only!) into a Sims 2 package file.

Here is the link. Try to make sense of it.

What this (currently) includes: - 190 male first and last names - 190 female first and last names

Current languages: - English - English (UK) - French - German - Italian - Spanish - Dutch - Danish - Swedish - Norwegian (upcoming) - Finnish (upcoming) - Hebrew (planned for the future) - Russian (upcoming) - Portuguese (upcoming)

Extract the file, then copy "Live.package" to: "C:\(USERNAME)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\" or... "C:\(USERNAME)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\"

Update Log: - Version 1.3b (UPCOMING): Added four translations: Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Portuguese. - Version 1.3a (10/11/2024): Added seven translations: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish. Also added 4 more female first and last names, as well as correcting a male name. ("Radolph" -> "Randolph") - Version 1.2 (10/07/2024): Made strings set to only "English" and "English (UK)". - Version 1.1 (09/28/2024): Mod gets published to Tumblr. - Version 1.1 (09/13/2024): Fixed one of the female last names. ("TIpton" -> "Tipton") - Version 1.0 (08/24/2024): Mod gets published to DropBox.