IAL draft weekend to commence
Just got into town for the Illowa APBA League draft weekend. Party indeed.
The Great APBA Fan Survey: What do we play?
Yesterday, I started off by getting a sense of who APBA players were from a demographic standpoint. Today, I’m focusing on what games we play. I’m actually breaking up the the “Playing the Game” survey section into a couple articles (I’ll post the rest of the results of that section…
Great APBA Fan Survey Results: Who are we?
I’m finally ready to start revealing the data from the Great ABPA Fan Survey! We had 400 respondents. I’m quite pleased with the response. First, a couple things. Why have multiple choice/yes no questions? Those questions were easily quantifiable and analyzed and easier to graph. I didn’t want to have…
Survey closed. I’m working on results
As I promised, I closed the survey at 5pm CT today. Submissions were slowing down considerably anyway. I’m quite pleased with the initial results. I had about 400 respondents. Give me a day or two to look over the results and formulate a plan to disseminate the info. More than…
Last chance to take the Great APBA Fan Survey!
I’ve had the Great APBA Fan Survey up for over a week now. I’ve gotten a great response to it and now it’s (almost) time to deactivate it and start parsing through the results. I’m going to leave it up for one more day. If you haven’t filled it out…
Monster Card Monday: Cristobal Torriente
Thanks go to reader Tom Zuppa for suggesting this week’s MCM, Cristobal Torriente. His card APBA card was published as part of the Negro League Set in 1994. Generally, not a lot is known about Negro League statistics though recently, Baseball Reference published what IS known in their new Negro…
Great APBA Fan Survey update
I’m kind of amazed by the response I’m getting from everyone to the survey. In three or four days, over 300 people have filled it out. And so far, the pace has only just now started to slow down just a little (I know this because I’m having the system…
A Review of Ballstat/Ballscore software by Jeff Papas
Note: I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about Ballstat/Ballscore statkeeping software. So much so that I asked Jeff Papas to do a review of the software for The APBA Blog. He graciously agreed. -Tom There’s been a good bit of talk on this blog recently about statistics and how…
New APBA Co. website design
I just spent a few minutes clicking away at the new APBA Co. website. I think it still needs work but I think the basic structure is there for APBA to include content now. At least, now the contact information is correct and references to the old office are gone. …
Rules posted for the 2012 Convention Tournament
Francis Rose announced that the rules for the 2012 Convention Tournament have now been posted. You can see them at the Convention website. Nothing too dramatically different. First of all, you’re not limited as far as team selection: “Any STOCK team from a complete season card set issued by APBA…