The guest speaker is Steve Gardner, a baseball writer and the senior fantasy editor for USA TODAY Sports. He has covered 18 World Series and won 19 fantasy experts league titles. He’s a 2021 inductee of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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Derrick Beckner started playing Statis Pro baseball in 1979 and has produced Statis Pro Baseball Advanced since 2004.
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Inveterate baseball fanatic J. Thomas Hetrick is the author of several books on the sport he loves. He’s been playing tabletop baseball games for more than 50 years and has documented every one of them, which he stores in meticulous notebooks at home. Baseball Stats and Stories is the culmination of that effort. Tom also designed his own tabletop baseball game: Eighties Baseball.
Dave Koch, designer/programmer for DK Sports and the Action! PC line of sport games including Action! PC Baseball.
Ron Shandler, author, has been providing statistical insights to fantasy leaguers since his first Baseball Forecaster book in 1986. Thirty-eight years later, the Forecaster is still going strong, and Ron has now written a historical memoir, Fantasy Expert, which is scheduled for release on February 20, 2024.
This webpage is run by The Games and Simulations Research Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). The Games and Simulations Research Committee was formed in 2010 to explore how various simulation games work, what statistics are generated, and how organized baseball might benefit from strategies and tactics used in such games. The SABR Games and Simulations Committee focuses on the relationship between these entertainments and the sport they are based on—how they mirror baseball, how they effectively further our understanding of how the sport actually works, and how they influence our appreciation of its players, teams, and organizations. This blog, we hope, will provide a forum for explorations and interactions in these matters.
We will be generating content documenting baseball gaming in all forms and fashions, including tabletop, fantasy, computer and video/mobile games. If you are interested in contributing an article on a game or your gaming experience, please see our submissions form.
I have been a Canadian all my life, lived in Southern Ontario for over 40 years and lived in Northern British Columbia for the past 12 with my wife, three dogs and two kids. The kids have sorta moved out so now I have time for me not having to cart them every where for their sports. I was very active in their sports, coaching, managing, sitting on board of directors, and including being president of one of the organizations. In my spare time, I do my job at the college, teaching business courses utilizing my CPA and my MBA. I actually use simulations in my teaching. I joined SABR in 2019 and thoroughly enjoy the group, although because of where I am being active in a chapter is not possible. Growing up in Canada I have hockey in my blood and have been playing in a simulated hockey league for over 25 years and have been playing in baseball ones for 5 years. I currently am doing some research on a simulation regarding the best franchise ever.
A lifelong resident of central New Jersey, I enjoy spending quality time with my wife and three children. In my professional life I’ve worked for three local healthcare systems as a server and network administrator over the last 30 years. My hobbies include baseball, statistics, computers and video games along with freshwater fishing. I have authored five books and contributed articles to Seamheads, Fangraphs and my site, Baseball Analytics. Follow my HardballRetro channels on Twitch for live-streaming of classic and current baseball video games and view the resulting playthrough videos on YouTube!
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