Maintaining an accurate record of the daily won-lost standings is a must. For keeping basic W-L standings and percentages, I record my standings in a simple 11 x 8 inch college ruled notebook, on a day-by-day basis, For a regular eight-team replay, you will need around 30-40 pages to record…
Recording the score of each game seems obvious. But you need to have a well- organized system that will enable you go far beyond simply keeping scores. Once you get rolling you will want insights into each team’s performances. Home and away? Extra-inning games? One-run games? How many shutouts has…
Baseball stats are a never-ending source of enjoyment for all of us. They started with the back sides of baseball cards and have graduated to baseballreference.com. Stats have birthed SABRmetrics and encouraged a myriad of books, websites, and other informative sources to measure how teams and players have performed. You…
OAPBA (Orlando APBA Association) has wrapped up their 2015 with Jonathan Stilwell’s Otters (55-25) running away with both halves to snare his first championship in the six-team league. Stilwell (right), who joined the league five years ago, dominated play in both halves, winning each half by five games over Walt…
Stat-keeping is all about paperwork. While that certainly sounds threatening, with the power of a personal computer and basic applications, the work involved in keeping your records up has been reduced considerably. To start with, here Is a list of important tools that you will need, at a minimum: The…
Keeping tabs on the numbers likely will prove to be the part of the replay that will give you the most headaches and take the most time. After more than 10,000 solo games, I can categorically state that keeping stats is THE most challenging part of a replay. Before you…
Figure on a full month to organize a replay. Organized preparation will save you lots of time and greatly enhance your replay when you actually start rolling. Let’s focus on what you will need to do to organize your replay. Basically, you can break a replay down into three parts:…
When you add up just how much time is required to stage a replay, it is surprising. The numbers can be daunting. First of all, there are a lot of games to be played. Consider: An eight team, 154-game schedule requires 616 games. A 10-team, 162-game schedule replay totals 810…
Before you consider launching a replay, you need to answer three tough questions: Do I really want to invest a lot of time, energy, administrative skills, and energy into what will be, at times, a laborious enterprise? Do I actually possess the necessary time and motivation to conduct a replay?…
I have exciting news! Rod Caborn (who has plenty of experience with APBA replays) has offered to write a series of articles on the topic of how to get the most out of your APBA replay! Here is his first installment. – Tom What’s your reason for wanting to undertake…