Pitching stats, particularly the number of starts, is a key statistic in keeping track of what is going on in your replay. Starts, unlike total appearances (starts and/or relief appearances, provide you a means of ensuring that your pitching stats are correct and accurate. Simply stated, a team’s won-lost record…
Generally speaking baseball has evolved through three different periods on pitcher usage, centering around starting pitchers. Prior to 1900, starting pitchers usually pitched with one or two games rest, e.g. Hoss Radbourn, Pud Galvin, Tim Keefe and other 19th century greats. From around 1900 to the early ‘60s, starters worked…
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…
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…
The information on APBA baseball cards and the APBA’s yellow lineup sheet only gives you a limited amount of information. Fortunately, with the explosion of SABRmetrics, there is more information now available than anyone can digest. For replayers, the info available is great for helping to create guidelines for player…
It took me a while to figure this out, but a section that will help you better enjoy your replay (and save some time when the Replay is finished) is to record the results of team vs. team competition. In other words, what’s one team done against another team? I…
Your replay binder book generally can serve as Ground Zero for key information related to your replay. Keeping key information in the binder book cuts down on the amount of paper you will have flying around. It provides you a “home” you can use to help keep your replay organized.…
Keeping your key information in one place is one way to better organize your replay. Start with an all-encompassing three-ring D binder book. There are lots of different sizes, but I use a one-and-a-half inch binder book. The D-ring specification may sound picky, but when you start going back and…
In the past few blogs, we have stress the importance of organizing and maintaining accuracy in recording game scores on a day-by-day basis and keeping one’s standings up to date and accurate. Fall short in either area and count on eventually having to pore through your records trying to accurately…
The most important statistic you can keep in your replay is the daily standings. Maintaining daily standings sound easy. It is surprising, however, how easily one can transpose a number or flip-flop a win or a loss. Once an error occurs, it will continue replicate itself in your daily standings…