After this weekend’s Illowa APBA League’ Draft weekend, my fellow co-Manager of the Year (yes, that was a feeble attempt to subtly brag) Marcus Bunch asked me if I have ever featured Todd Helton’s 2001 card on Monster Card Monday. No, I hadn’t! And what a card it is! For…
Chris compiled some good info on pitching last week. Here is a continuation of the discussion… On Grading Approaches There are five viable generations (or four and one major sub-category) of grades for the National Pastime-APBA game, of which the Skeetersoft boards are certainly a derivative. 1. The APBA grades,…
Thanks to Dom Provisiero for sending the results of the O.Z. League draft results. Dom tells me that the O.Z. League drafted on February 8th. Here are the top ten players who were selected: 1. ZEPHYRS Pete Alonso 2. KNIGHTS Mike Soroka 3. GAMBLERS Gavin Lux 4. DRAGONS Dakota Hudson…
In a couple days, the Illowa APBA League will convene for the biggest weekend of their year. During the process, we will play out the 2019 playoffs and World Series and follow it up with the 2020 IAL draft. With our teams intact, we will then proceed to start the…
No doubt, it’s draft season in a lot of APBA baseball league right now. I posted about the NAPBA League’s draft which saw Fernando Tatis Jr. go #1. Not so with the Roberto Clemente Memorial Baseball Association. John Briggs hailed me to let me know that they completed their draft…
I’m hearing this second hand but news of the 2020 NAPBA rookie draft reached my phone this morning. Rumor has it that the top five picks of the Minneapolis-based NAPBA League draft went as follows: Fernando Tatis Jr. Pete Alonso Yordan Alvarez Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Chris Paddack This is relevant…
Chris Williams shares what information he’s collected about APBA with TAB readers! Q. Certain Board sets contain a Master Game Pitching Grade Conversion Chart. However, they’re based on the old pitching conversion scheme, i.e., 1-5 = D, instead of 1-4 = D. How do you use this and other pitching…
I received some pointed feedback about my choice of 2019 Javier Baez as last week’s Monster Card. The comments were fair and principled. Daniel Diehm said: I‘m glad the trade is working out for you! And nothing against Mr. Baez, but this is in no way a “monster card”. A…
A quick BBW tip from new columnist Chris Williams… Q: Suppose I want to create a league that only includes 150 of the players on the 1908 data disk. I could create a new organization in Advanced Draft and copy the 150 players one by one to it. However, you…
News rang out on Facebook last week that my Thunderchickens made a blockbuster deal in the Illowa APBA League. We made a mutually beneficial deal which sent former Thunderchickens’ first pick Stephen Strasburg (a BXYZ pitcher) to Marcus Bunch’s Moline Upperdeckers for shortstop Javier Baez. I needed a shortstop, that…