Len McKnight is a longtime orange and black bleeding Baltimore Orioles fanatic. He grew up reading daily box scores and analyzing baseball statistics to better understand why teams and players perform as they did. Now retired after many decades in the Information Technology field, he continues to follow baseball and uses sabermetrics to compare replay and actual baseball game simulations outcomes. Golden Era Replay Project
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At SABR 54 in Cleveland, join us in the brand-new SABR Clubhouse area — an interactive hub to connect, relax, and have fun with fellow attendees. Featuring vendor booths, poster presentations, office hours with SABR leaders, tutorials, and meetups, drop by the SABR Clubhouse for conversation starters, a new book, or to check out daily activities.
Richard Dombrovski will be onsite in the SABR Clubhouse to demonstrate the Dombrov Baseball Sim on Friday, July 31 at 9 am ET.
At SABR 54 in Cleveland, join us in the brand-new SABR Clubhouse area — an interactive hub to connect, relax, and have fun with fellow attendees. Featuring vendor booths, poster presentations, office hours with SABR leaders, tutorials, and meetups, drop by the SABR Clubhouse for conversation starters, a new book, or to check out daily activities.
Brian Haferkamp (Clark & Addison Gaming Co.) will be onsite in the SABR Clubhouse to demonstrate his latest tabletop baseball sim, Between the Lines, on Friday, July 31 at 3:30 pm ET.
At SABR 54 in Cleveland, join us in the brand-new SABR Clubhouse area — an interactive hub to connect, relax, and have fun with fellow attendees. Featuring vendor booths, poster presentations, office hours with SABR leaders, tutorials, and meetups, drop by the SABR Clubhouse for conversation starters, a new book, or to check out daily activities.
Rick Schostek will be onsite in the SABR Clubhouse to demonstrate version 3 of Ball Park Baseball on Saturday, August 1 at 1 pm ET.
Our guest speakers, Marc Unger and Ron Juckett, will discuss the making of the upcoming documentary “Box Scores From the Basement” in which Ron’s story is one of many that will be told about people in the hobby and their passion for sports sim gaming. Marc is a long-time standup comedian, filmmaker and sports sim hobbyist. Ron covered the Washington Nationals for Fansided and did general baseball and golf for Bleacher Report before becoming a content creator on YouTube (Retro Sports Network) in 2018.
Mark Cohen, designer of Digital Diamond Baseball
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.
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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I was born in Cuba and grateful to be in the United States since 1971, the entire time in New Jersey with a brief stop in Florida. I’ve been a baseball fan since1974, I was originally a New York Mets fan, but in 1989 I discovered Fantasy Baseball which forced me to be more of an overall baseball fan, not just a fan of one team. Although I’ve enjoyed Fantasy Baseball, my first love has always been Simulation Baseball games. APBA was my introduction to the hobby and is still the game I play, but I appreciate all baseball simulation games, both cards and dice and computer versions. I wanted to parlay the fun of Fantasy Baseball auctions into the realm of Simulation baseball, so I created Baseball Sim Auctions where you can participate in a salary cap auction and bid on historical baseball seasons to create the ultimate team. I recently retired, so my days are consumed with the baseball sim hobby, reading, exercising and spending time with my wife!
Baseball Sim Auctions Website: https://baseballsimauctions.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCPRgxsV1fF1N0bkcDvTqkg
I am an Information Technology professional living in southern New Jersey. I enjoy reading historical baseball books, hiking, playing video games, qrp amateur radio, and listening to old time broadcasts. More at: https://www.workthecount.net
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