Now that the Major League Baseball season is over, some of you may want to have a copy of the stats on your computer to view, sort and filter. Most of us are fine with browsing the nicely formatted web pages at Baseball Reference, MLB.com or ESPN.com. However, if you’re…
Wrigley Field Chicago, IL 4/13/2015 A weary and somewhat down team arrived in Chicago after two straight extra-inning games followed by a devastating blowout against their ace left them wondering if a slump was about to begin. Their opponents today are the Cincinnati Reds, a struggling ball club that has…
Bob Botelho sends the APBA Blog info on his APBA league, the International Simulation Baseball Association. The ISBA is an APBA Baseball for Windows league that been around since 2010. Info on the ISBA: League Name International Simulation Baseball Association Contact Person Bob Botelho Sport Baseball # of teams 12…
First, thanks to Ron Emch for providing this YouTube video of the playoff announcements at the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities APBA Baseball Tournament this past weekend. Check out Ron’s YouTube channel. Lots of good stuff! Tournament organizer Jim Fraasch has already updated his blog, Jim’s APBA Barn with a…
I’m going on rumor here but news on the grapevine has it that Bruce Tyler and his 1930 St. Louis Cardinals won the Neil Ess Memorial Twin Cities Area APBA Tournament this past weekend. Almost as incredible is that the man he beat in the championship game was Leroy Arnoldi…
Most replayers adhere to maintaining realistic use of how players were used at particular positions during a replay. How you use your players is solely up to you, but some of the realism of the game is lost if you overuse players at a position to the exemption of other…
The beauty of the game of APBA is that despite most real life conditions or events, we can rewrite history. A rainout? Doesn’t matter, we can still play. A strike or lockout? We can still play a full season. But some things still hit home pretty hard. Jose Fernandez’ death…
What’s this? A weird season? Well, Rodney Woodward and I were trading emails after he submitted Red Ruffing for last week’s WCW. He informed me of a very strange anomaly that occurred with the 1931 set that was published in 2012. It seems that the pitcher’s stats on the cards…
April 12, 2015 Coors Field Denver, CO It’s the end of the Cubs first road trip of the season and it was a successful one for certain. They are 4-0 as we reach “get away day” and after two straight nights of extra inning ballgames, both teams are dragging a…
Replayers wrestle with how to govern player usage during a replay. There is no precise or totally correct answer. Your choice depends solely on how much work you want to put into the replay and how much precision or realism you want to try and generate. Any once of the…