I just uploaded another quick video on how I set up my stats for the Excel fans out there. It’s a follow-up to the first one when I created player worksheets. This video takes the data from those player worksheets from the first one and displays it all in a…
Ryan Morrison recently suggested this 1998 Juan Gonzalez APBA card for Monster Monday. Juan Gone was a big star in our Illowa APBA League. My buddy Chuck Lucas even traded him to me but Chuck’s no dummy. He waited just before his usefulness was about to expire. I got one…
Take some pitches, Lou I noticed two things about my stats in my 1966 NL replay (Basic Game, actual lineups, rotations) recently that gave me a reason to pause but after investigating they were mostly vindicated. As of now, I am just finishing up May with two more days left…
My friend Don Smith has been conducting a little Illowa APBA League “spring training” for his Molly Putts Marauders before our regular season starts. I’ve seen some of his writeups on Facebook. Quite enjoyable. Don told me that in his quest in finding teams to play Molly, he ran across…
It is getting close to April 1st and that means Prairieland 2 tourney time! More to the point, in less than two weeks, tourney participants will be selecting their teams and fantasy players in a two-round snake style draft. The draft will begin on February 18 and Eric Berg is…
When Pastor Rich Zawadzki sent me this Zach Britton card for last season and said “Monster card”, I first thought he was referring to Zach’s hitting skills. I’m a little behind the times though. It was in 2011 when Britton was a C starter but had double 1s and a…
I received some good feedback on my video tour of my Excel stats setup of my 1966 National League replay so I thought I’d put together a series of videos on how I got to the point where I’m at now. Here is the first one. The best place to…
No dashes for 1968 Minnesota Twin Cesar Tovar’s APBA card. There is no room with every position listed on his card. All told, Tovar is rated as a 3B-4, OF-2, SS-6, 2B-6, C-5, 1B-2, and a Grade DXW P-1. Whew! While Tovar is quite the versatile player (I count at…
No doubt, Hank Aaron is recognized as one of the all-time greats. Yet, in some ways, he is still underrated. Here is a man who was hitting double-digit homers ten years before I was born. He still managed to have a superstar year as I was entering junior high school. …
The Transcontinental Baseball League is nearing their 2017 draft and by tradition, there is no lack of analysis, water-cooler talk and outright gossip about what teams will take who and when. The managers of the TBL take pride in their league and they go all out in writing up pre-draft…