A method of practicing educational exercises in the context of a simulated professional competitive sports game. The method includes assembling teams of students to compete against each other in the competitive sports game. Questions are posed to students during play of the sport and the correctness and time of response determines play outcome in the sport. Students have opportunities to make strategy decisions within the sports game context and such strategy decisions can result in harder or easier questions being posed depending on the potential reward of playing one strategy over another. The disclosure is based on baseball as the competitive background, while performing similar exercises in the context of other sports is equally possible.