Jeff Papas unveiled his Facebook page devoted to his 1916 NL replay and it’s fantastic! Jeff updates the the page with line scores, highlights and includes links to relevant Baseball Reference and Wikipedia pages. Very nice!
I’ll bet we’ll see more of this in the future. The Facebook fan page feature is free and allows for simple updating though as Jeff says, there is a limit on post formatting so posting full box scores is a little difficult.
The big advantage, of course is the built-in audience of Facebook’s social networking and the ease of interacting with others.
Also, Jeff and I got into an email discussion on adjusting for eras when replaying a season. I told Jeff that I thought the styles of play for baseball in 1966 ( the season which I’m replaying now) were different. I could only imagine what it would be like for his 1916 replay.
Jeff says he spends a lot of time on Retrosheet and uses actual rotations and actual transactions. He’s also done a “fair bit of reading on the dead-ball style” so he’s got a good idea how to approach things.
Tom, thank you the for the plug. I’m chugging along on the games but it’s certainly fun to post and learn a bit about some of the game’s great early players in the process.
I’m open to suggestions from visitors on how to improve the page. Thanks for the help!
Until then, players like Hunt (well, to be honest, there weren’t too many like Hunt) had to suffice with multiple 22s. I should know. I did a replay of the 1970 season once a long time ago and to replicate Hunt’s 26 HBPs, his card had something like three or four 22s on it. It was a fun card to look at, no doubt. But it was cumbersome and definitely relied on a base runner for him to get any mileage out of it.