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 […]
Tabletop Baseball Takes Over the Hall of Fame with APBA Tournament in Cooperstown
What’s better than bringing your Baseball Hall of Fame heroes to life with a statistically accurate tabletop sports game? Bringing them to life inside the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. The APBA community and the broader tabletop sports game community achieved a milestone on April 1, 2023 — the same day George Plimpton’s famous […]
Baseball Sim Auctions
In the long overdue 2nd edition of Talkin’ Baseball Games, I sat down with Andy Palomino to discuss his fascinating project, Baseball Sim Auctions. Enjoy it!
Pedro and the Splendid Splinter!
When selecting teams for Baseball Sim Auctions you want to incorporate great teams or great individuals seasons. For this auction we’ve chosen the 1941 Red Sox and the 1999 Red Sox. The teams themselves were not dominant, although they were good teams (the 1941 team won 84 games and the 1999 team won 94 games), […]
Going once…going twice…sold!
What would happen if you applied the dynamics of a Fantasy Baseball auction to a baseball simulation game like APBA? Let’s say you took the players from 4 historical teams and made them all free agents and you held an auction to create 4 new teams. Let’s assume all the “General Managers” at the auction […]
Hello!
A short time ago, committee chair Derek Bain asked me if I’d like to contribute to this group. In responding with an enthusiastic, “absolutely”, I wondered if I had anything to offer—other than the occasional update on the stats from my replays. To begin, a little about me. A resident of New London, NH, I’m […]
What if Ed Delahanty Had Lived? – Q&A on Narration Powered by Simulation
It was one hour to the end of July 2, 1903 as Michigan Central No. 6 rattled across the International Bridge and the darkness of the Niagara River below. He traveled alone, leaving his teammates what turned out to be a half day behind. Back then, the shortest trip from Detroit back east was […]