John Heneghan emailed me and told me about a modification he’s come up with for his 1965 replay. In keeping with the theme of my last post, it has to do with baserunning. In this case, it’s a way for good defensive catchers to have an effect on steals. John…
A few years back when APBA went through their board changes, our basic baseball game league made some pretty radical changes in retrospect to how we play the game. In short, we decided to play the game “out of the box” with just a few exceptions. No error chart, no…
Chris Witt contacted The APBA Blog to me know about a project he’s been working on. He’s come up with a web tool that will project or predict pitcher’s grades for any major league pitcher from 1876-2008. In his words: I snooped around, and got into contact with some…
I’ve working with APBA baseball stats lately. First, our 30 game stats were due from our league weekend a week ago. As much as I like doing stats, compiling stats from 30 game score sheets is quite a chore. Second, during our league weekend, Tedd M whispered to me that…
On the APBA- Between the Lines forum, Bruce Norlander wrote: With the season ending today I was thinking of doing pitching predictions this weekend. Are you guys still interested? What a leading question! Bruce aka “Padres Manager” has been doing his predictions for as long as I can…
Cyrus D’Amato writes The APBA Blog regarding a project he’s working on: I see you run the APBA Blog and I have a question for you. I have created a Windows program which follows the Basic version of the APBA Baseball simulation game. It is not yet 100% complete……
Northside Hitmen manager Chuck Lucas poses with All-Star Game MVP Miguel Cabrera and winning manager Tedd Mallasch This past weekend, the Illowa APBA League assembled to play some APBA as well as to play our annual All-Star Game. The Chicago Division continued their dominance of the All-Star Classic as they…
The Illowa APBA League All-Star Weekend commences tomorrow! My buddy John Brandeberry will pick me up at 9am to drive to Naperville, IL to meet with the rest of the league. While we will be playing regular season games Friday, Saturday is when we roll for the All-Star Game. Speaking…
It’s the second go-round. APBA Game Company CEO John Herson has again agreed to answer a few questions for The APBA Blog. I put out a call for questions a few days ago and even polled my league (hey, do they all read this blog… who knows?) and got a…
I just filled out the Illowa APBA League All-Star ballot for our upcoming league All-Star Game this weekend. A daunting task indeed. I usually pay more attention to runs produced (runs plus rbis) than statisticians would like. My theory is that the goal of the game is to win and…