Many of you have been following along with Rod Caborn’s excellent series of replay guidelines and tips entitled Rod’s Replay Insider. For those interested in conducting a full replay, his series is a great introduction to how to do it well.
Well, Rod just sent me a good example of his fruits of his labor. It’s the 1911 AL Yearbook from his replay.
True to Rod’s style, his 1911 AL Yearbook is not lacking in detail with a full 105 pages documenting Ty Cobb’s MVP season and Joe Wood’s Cy Young performance. It is full of stats, highlights and even photos of the players of the day. If there is a Pulitzer Prize for APBA, Rod has it wrapped up.
Rod says:
“Have been busy completing my 1911 American League replay and 1911 World Series. The complete report is attached in the attached PDF…105 pages long, which is way more information than anyone will want to read, but it illustrates just how much stuff one can extract from statistics if one wants to put in the work.
Next up will be 1912…I’ve become hooked on the 1910s, which I was knew only in an incomplete fashion prior to plowing through 1911 (you have already kindly published the 1911 National League yearbook).
Have come up with lots of new blog info while doing the replay. These things are always an education and you bump into all kinds of time-saving ways to get replays done and still keep everything organized and accurate along the way.”
Between Rod and Scott Fennessy who is replaying almost all of 1900 decade, they’ll have the the first two decades covered before we know it.
Rod has many more Replay Insiders on the way. In fact, I think I’ll be posting one soon.
I’ve never seen a season report anywhwere near as beautiful as the ones Rod Caborn creates.