I have never totally recorded detailed fielding statistics for a replay. The number of putouts and assists and the work required to compile stats like assists and putouts is overwhelming and would turn a replay into tedium, not enjoyment.
Third-place finishers in real-life, the White Sox upended the Yankees and Indians, who finished ahead of them in 1955, clinching the AL crown with more than a week to go in this replay.
After flailing away for nearly 50 years of replays, I have finally adopted a simple way to track consecutive game hitting streaks. It’s so simple that I cannot believe I didn’t figure it out sooner. And, like everything else I have used in replays, I borrowed this from one of…
Using the Errors Chart, tabulating errors is simple. After you tally up your batting stats, simply record errors, by individual on the Errors Chart. It only takes about 10 seconds and the information adds another dimension to your replay. You can simply record total errors or, if you want to…
The final feature incorporated into the Fielding Range Chart is Dropped Throws on Stealing Tags. This is another feature that saves flipping through the pages to the right page in the booklet. Fielding Range Chart features dropped throws by 2b and SS. The other positions are also listed, but…
In our mind’s eye, the enduring image of Tom Seaver is one of the hard-throwing right hander in the uniform of the New York Mets, for whom Seaver won 198 games during his career. While fans vividly remember Seaver’s glory days with the Mets, particularly his wonderful 1969 season…
Another feature of the Fielding Range Chart is speeding up the identification of catcher’s wild throws on safe steals. Rather than flip through the pages to see if a catcher’s throw found its way into center field, use this feature on the chart to see if there even is a…
The Fielding Range Chart does more than identify the three different Fielding ratings. It also tracks RP results on Bases Empty and Catcher wild throws on safe steals. For the more ambitious, it also tracks Dropped Throws on Stealing Tags. First the RP Bases Empty. This saves having to consult…
The Beefers (2-1) piled up 30 hits and 10 home runs in a record-setting 27-3 runaway win over the Taz Devils (1-2) in the league’s first season of the 2018 campaign. The Beefs started the carnage in the top of the first, pushing over six runs against Devils starter Drew…
Dave Larson’s Taz Devils (49-32) emerged as the winner the 2017 OAPBA World Series, edging Jonathan Stilwell’s Otters (45-36) in a hard-fought World Series to give the Devils the 2017 OAPBA championship. The teams were evenly matched, with two games going into extra innings and the Devils scoring 18 runs…