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Results from Tabletop and Computer Baseball Sim replays

Hardball Retro Replays – 1980-1984 “Originals”

My objective with this project is simple: simulate multiple seasons using “Original” and “Actual” team rosters that I’ve created using the Methodology outlined below compile and review those results, then seed the top teams in a playoff structure live-stream the playoff games and upload the resulting videos to YouTube have fun! Methodology The “Original” rosters […]

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Hardball Retro Replays – 1985-1989 “Originals”

My objective with this project is simple: simulate multiple seasons using “Original” and “Actual” team rosters that I’ve created using the Methodology outlined below compile and review those results, then seed the top teams in a playoff structure live-stream the playoff games and upload the resulting videos to YouTube have fun! Methodology The “Original” rosters […]

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SABR 51 All-Time Greatest Teams Tournament – What team was really the best?

During the SABR 51 convention one of the events that took place was a 64 team tournament of all time greatest teams using Dynasty League Baseball as the simulation engine. During that tournament Olin Simpson did a masterful managerial job in leading his 2006 Detroit Tigers over my 1954 Cleveland Indians. The contest was fun […]

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Retro World Baseball Classic, Revisited

The World Baseball Classic features ballplayers from various geographical regions competing in a tournament which culminates in bragging rights for the winning team and the country that they represent. I devised a slight twist on this theme back in 2017 to retroactively create a computer-based simulation of the best baseball players in the World based […]

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Reliving 1962 On My Tabletop

Awhile back, I grabbed a copy of David Krell’s book 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK. In pouring through the pages, I became nostalgic for what I feel was an easier time in American history. It was this book that got me to thinking about playing the ’62 NL season (with Strat-O-Matic, […]

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Why ’74?

On a relatively frequent basis, I’m asked how my replays are going and why I chose the seasons in which I’m immersed. And while it’s unfortunate that my theory of actual reality (where did that phrase come from?) more than occasionally gets in the way of rolling dice, the Strat-O-Matic box has finally been reopened […]

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