with apologies to Lady Gaga. (Mum mum mum mah Mum mum mum mah) I wanna hold my APBA cards like they do in Lancaster please Pick up the dice, hit sixty-six, dude stay with me (I love it) Luck and intuition, make sure Pujols is in there to start And…
No doubt, every APBA League has something that is different or unique about it. Whether it’s how they play the game, its the geographical location or something special about how they take advantage of resources to make their league run smoothly. But several things stand out about the Bump Proffitt…
Sometimes getting lucky dice isn’t always a good thing. Brian Cavanagh will testify to this as his 1994 Montreal Expos fell victim to some good dice rolling by the Atlanta Braves in a key pennant-clinching game. Here’s Brian’s wrap-up: My 1994 Expos were 3 outs away from clinching the…
I’ll have to hand it to APBA. They make the results on the Baseball boards crystal clear. Rarely is there a board result which causes confusion. It’s pretty much spelled out. Sure you’ll see postings on the Between the Lines forum asking for clarification on this or that but…
Following up on my last article on luck in APBA, I’m going to take a quick look at the ‘66’ and more precisely the ‘6’ dice roll. We all want to roll the ‘66’ in APBA, of course. It transcends all APBA games and it epitomizes the game itself. The…
“I can’t believe (insert manager’s name). He’s rolling so lucky this weekend.” “Bad dice. That’s what it is. Bad dice. I can’t roll a 66 to save my life.” These are typical comments we hear at every APBA get together. When we’re down, we blame bad luck on our dice…
I’m writing this on APBA Day, 6/6/11, Happy APBA Day to you all! Three times a year the Illowa APBA League gets together, as a whole, twice in Naperville & once in Champaign. This is when the Chicago teams play the out of Chicago teams. I needed to get back…
This past weekend, the Illowa APBA League all got together for our annual Spring Weekend. The IAL has three yearly get-togethers when we all manage to assemble in one place; The World Series/Draft weekend early in the year, the All-Star weekend and the Spring Weekend. The other two weekends have…
Don S in the Illowa APBA League will occasionally email the managers with a MLB stat update on the players that were picked in current year’s first round, essentially the league’s rookies. It’s usually pretty interesting and sometimes it’s a harsh reminder of our drafting ability. His latest report has…
Brian Cavanaugh posted a question on Facebook that raises an interesting point: "Wilson Valdez pitched a scoreless 19th for us last night and got the win……will he get a *A pitcher rating as well as a 2B, SS,and 3B rating????" I read about that today. Ryan Howard had…