Keep an eye on BTL!
Word has it on the Delphi APBA Between the Lines forum that the APBA Baseball disks are on the way and one customer even received his already.
Of course, that means a lot to the APBA Baseball community. With the disk release, that means we know pitchers’ grades and fielding ratings at a glance. If you browse through the BTL forums, you might get a smattering of that right now. I honestly couldn’t find a lot right now but soon it will be flooded with questions and hopefully, answers of what grade your favorite pitcher received.
Here’s something to keep in mind. It’s a post by forum moderator Kevin Cluff reiterating the importance of intellectual property pertaining to APBA and its numbers and cards/disk in general.
Kevin’s post:
Just a quick note to reiterate what APBA has requested from us in the past, in regard to the sharing of the APBA data from the 2013 data disk . . .
I hope and expect that you will get the ratings for every player on your draft team and every player you might want to draft. Please remember that what John Herson has said in the past is that he doesn’t want to see a spreadsheet posted here with the ratings.
I see people have been conducting chats, and I hope every request for information gets answered. However, please don’t create a list and post it, either in the body of a post or in a spreadsheet attached to a post.
What we should do is the same we have always done, which is ask about the players we need, and people can answer for those players specifically.
I don’t have a number of players that is too many to ask about at one time, but it seems reasonable to ask for a handful at a time, so that someone can look them up for you and post them without it being a big job, and/or have so many ratings in one place that it causes a problem.
This should be like if you go to the commissioners house when the cards come, you should be able to see everything you need, get all the data, etc. Have fun, complain and exult over the ratings.
Well put Kevin. I know a lot of you are probably rolling your eyes and saying “yeah, yeah”. But let’s face it, APBA does this not just to protect their own bottom line (it’s true that’s part of it) but in order to continue to roll out these products. If they can’t prove to those they have licensing agreements with, it jeopardizes that.
Just play fair.
Among the grades I did notice, was Jeremy Hellickson’s, a starter on my Twin City Thunderchickens. With a 5.17 ERA, his 12 wins was enough to barely get him a C. He was rated a MG grade of 5 (whew!).
