In November 2011 Editor-in-Chief Thomas Nelshoppen published “Card Analysis: Quick and dirty way to estimate what a card will hit” on the APBA Blog. It’s a great read that provides a simple way to interpret an APBA baseball card for its hitting capabilities.
Here’s some of what Tom wrote:
In his article, Tom wrote “that this is by no means an accurate ‘formula’ or some such. Just a fast and easy way to guesstimate the hitting prowess of an APBA card.” Please keep this in mind. If you’re interested in a more in-depth APBA card analysis, please check out something like “Evaluating APBA Cards” by Donald M. Sims—and put your math hat on before you start reading.
As a new contributor to the blog, I’ve been revisiting this method for some in-article card analysis. Like so many things APBA, it led me down another path to create a simple Excel calculator to more quickly calculate a card. You can download it here.
Then I tried to figure out how I could share the card calculator within the APBA blog. The result is below. So, please grab a card and give it a try.
I’m by no means an Excel expert, but this works for me. I’m hoping by sharing, it might help other APBA hobbyists out there too.
Well done, Kirk. I like the simplicity of your APBA Card Calculator. It seems to work very well, and it’s accurate.
Or just stick with cards that have the stats. To me cards without stats belong in the fireplace with the fire burning lol.
Please don’t burn those old APBA cards Wayne! ;) Some people find those pretty valuable.
On a more serious note, some cards with stats don’t actually perform to the stats listed. So people like to double-check for under and over performing cards.
I know was just stating my own personal feelings but not trying to tell anybody else what they should do. Got to do whatever makes this hobby fun for you. Have a good day.
The November 1973 issued of the APBA Journal (AJ) in an article titled “APBAx Card Ratings” Robert Ellis provided a formula from rating cards. It was an adaptation of Earnshaw Cook’s DX, which later become known as “Scoring Index.” The article was reprinted AJ’s Reference Pack #1.
I am looking for a way to calculate fielding points for cards I am making for private use, anyone have any ideas how to do this