Our guest speaker is Scott Courlander, owner and CEO of Scorelander Games. An experienced and long-time fantasy baseball player, Scott designed and published the baseball card games Bat Flip and Bat Flip Dynasty.
Please join co-authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli for a discussion about their recently released book, Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds.
Derek Bain is the author of five baseball books and co-chair of the SABR Games and Simulations Committee. John Racanelli is the membership director for the Emil Rothe (Chicago) SABR Chapter, founder and Co-Chair of the SABR Baseball Landmarks Research Committee, and a regular contributor to the SABR Baseball Cards Research Committee blog.
The guest speaker is Glen Wolfram, an experienced software engineer, who spent nearly 20 years in the game industry. He was the primary league and statistics programmer for the Front Page Sports football and baseball franchises.
The guest speaker is Alex Ehrath, a German native who has worked as a software developer for several companies including Amazon and Roblox since 1989. In addition to programming ESPN Baseball Tonight for the Super Nintendo, he spent most of his career developing video games on a wide variety of hardware and software platforms spanning from the Atari Lynx to modern high-end PCs.
The guest speaker is Chris Witt, who has been playing and deconstructing tabletop baseball games for over 40 years. He is the developer of Deep Drive Baseball, which became available for sale in 2017.
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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