Is it possible to customize the schedules in APBA Baseball 5.75? Yes, here’s a quick look

The question came up in The APBA Blog’s comment section about how customizable the APBA Baseball Game (aka Baseball for Windows) was.  I knew from my experience in Shawn Baier’s Boys of Summer APBA League that it had to have the capability to customize to your liking but I didn’t know the details.  I thought I’d take a deeper look.

While you probably CAN play with the original disk that comes with the game (or that you install), the APBA game usually recommends that you use APBA’s Advanced Draft to make a copy of it to play.  That way, you still have a pristine version if you ever want to start again. 

This is what you see when you make that copy:

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The important step is to give it a unique name and initials.  If you’re playing a regular season, keep that checked.  Don’t worry, there are more steps that allow you to customize your setup. 

Close out Advanced Draft and open League Manager.  To actually set up your schedule, click on “Schedule” at the top and then “Generate New Schedule”. 

You will see this window

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From here, you configure your schedule’s length, divisional play, and other features (doubleheaders? All-Star break? Night games?)  

Finally, you can configure some of APBA Baseball’s other features such as Advanced Injury Management (AIM) by clicking on “Schedule” and then “Schedule and A.I.M. Rules”. 

You will then see this window.

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Again, you can set length of season and parameters like Inter-League play, Wild card teams.  However, you can also configure whether your replay will be affected by injuries, fatigue or you can disable the entire concept and play who you like (hint: AIM is pretty awesome.  Use it!). 

In the above photo, you see the section on Pitcher Durability and Recovery.  It’s pretty self-explanatory but pitchers from different era simply tire out at different rates.  This takes that into consideration. 

I haven’t addressed pitching rotations yet but the above should give those who were wondering about scheduling customization enough to go on for a while.  Feel free to ask any questions. 

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

3 Comments:

  1. Hello
    I have a question…
    With the computer game, can you create a customized schedule, with 2 expansion teams?
    32 teams total, 16 each leAgue?

  2. I like doing solo season replays using AIM. The problem I have had, is that some of the teams will have so many injuries, that they can’t finish the season. Someone told me that if you set up your farm teams that will solve your problem. My question is, how do you create your farm teams? I have looked in the help section of the game, but that has not helped. I have replayed four seasons, 1927,
    (no AIM), 1961, 2011,2017,with AIM. I am currently replaying the 2016 season, at game 103, I started having this problem. I do have the latest version, 5.75. of the computer game. Thanks in advance for your help.

  3. Guys, I posted my AIM question in the wrong place. My bad!

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