Scott Fennessy has run into a bit of trouble in his 1883 APBA Baseball for Windows replay:
Wanted some advice. I was cruising along on my 1883 season when the inevitable happens. Once again, despite picking 19th century stamina, many pitchers, including Charles Radbourn, who pitched over 600 innings that SEASON have been injured. In the Cubs case, which is where my dilemma is. Starting Catcher injured, no problem. I move my one and only reserve player into the outfield and put the outfielder into the catchers spot where he is rated.
Now, problem two. BOTH starting pitchers are injured. Despite the fact that both started and went the distance 50 times, are injured for more than ten games each in less than a month. Great job APBA, now I literally don’t have any players, and there are no other players available.
So my question to you is do I just create a player and just not use his stats so I can muddle my way through the season? Or do I reboot the season and toss my efforts? If it’s option b, how do I abort a season and start a new one? I don’t see anything in the guide for that.
First of all, I am a little surprised that two pitchers who pitched 50+ complete games and I am assuming are rated J-0 were injured for 10 games by BBW. Or maybe I’m not. Looking through the APBA BBW help file, I did find this illuminating tidbit:
In general, pitchers injuries will occur more often and for a longer duration than batters. Most importantly, A.I.M. injuries are irrespective of J-Rating. An abused J0 has the same chance of injury as an abused J4!
When this kind of thing happens in modern day baseball replay, we can shake it off. But when it happens in a replay like Scott’s 1883 replay when there is literally just two other pitchers on the Providence roster, it has definite repercussions. Old Hoss Radbourn who essentially pitched 632 of the Providence’s 871 innings in 1883. Call it abuse but it’s what happened in the era of deadball.
| Name | W | L | G | GS | CG | SHO | IP | H | BB | SO | BF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Hoss Radbourn | 48 | 25 | .658 | ERA: 2.05FIP: 2.67Dif: -0.62">2.05 | 76 | 68 | 66 | 4 | 632.1 | 563 | 56 | 315 | 2540 |
| Charlie Sweeney | 7 | 7 | .500 | ERA: 3.13FIP: 3.44Dif: -0.31">3.13 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 146.2 | 142 | 28 | 48 | 626 |
| Lee Richmond* | 3 | 7 | .300 | ERA: 3.33FIP: 4.13Dif: -0.80">3.33 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 92.0 | 122 | 27 | 13 | 416 |
| Team Totals | 58 | 39 | .598 | ERA: 2.37FIP: 2.95Dif: -0.58">2.37 | 98 | 98 | 88 | 4 | 871.0 | 827 | 111 | 376 | 3582 |
Now as for what Scott can do… it may be too late for this but there is a solution. He might want to make sure that his Advanced Injury Management (AIM) is set for 19th century baseball. If it’s set for the default, it’s no wonder Old Hoss is getting dog tired.
You can get to this window from APBA Baseball League Manager –> A.I.M. –> A.I.M. Schedule and Rules. It’s probably best, especially in Scott’s case, do this before the season starts but hindsight is 20/20.
I’m 80% sure this will solve your problem, Scott. Poor Radbourn, he was pitching as if he was in today’s MLB baseball. Even Clayton Kershaw would be on DL. Scott, if I wasn’t too far into your replay, I would start over and make the A.I.M change to 19th century baseball. If you want however, you can change it mid-replay and it will take effect.
Hope that helps!
There are a couple of tripping points during the season with AIM which breaks the season into thirds as far as AIM is concerned.
The first third BBW lets the managers sort of get away with a bit of overuse.
The middle third it tightens things up a bit, and in the final third, it tightens up things even more.
Each of these transitions from one third to another is a tripping point. When one day your roster AIM status is A-OK, then the next game day half your roster is A or worse, you have just hit a tripping point which is what I think happened in your case.
I believe the original poster said that he DID chooses 19th century stamina.
I see that now. Dang, I had hoped that was it :(
Just an update here. I got an email from John at APBA and he believes it may have been the games based on and/or games per team may have been still at 162.
Since I had already closed off the schedule I won’t know. I have restarted with those changes and so far so good.
Loved the Hoss Radbourn dilemma. I use a Mac, so it’s nothing like I have ever encountered, but was totally entertained reading about how you address the loss of Hoss!
RC
this injury thing brings up question..what about pitcher injuriesor for that matter any injuries on board game..in 2016 there are tons in real life..in game afraction..same throughout years..no rotar cuff etc..??