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Thursday, January 09, 2014
I know what I do, I spend a lot of time prepping for my Dynasty League Baseball fantasy draft. For years I spent most of my time coming up with my own WAR system based on real stats. I now I spend that time coming up a WAR system for the game. I’m not sure it’s the best use of my time but if it helps me win I’ll be able to live with it.
Jim Furtado
Posted: January 09, 2014 at 08:25 AM | 28 comment(s)
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: January 09, 2014 at 09:42 AM (#4634411)That sounds a lot geekier when I type it out than it did in my head.
Dave Studeman posted the following on Hardball Times in November:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/must-see-mlb.tv-2013/
In his words, "a list of the 150 most watchable games from last year. These games were ranked by the total number of swings in Win Probability as well as the average Leverage Index of each play. In non-geek speak, these games featured the biggest swings in leads along with the most intense, close plays. The pennant race wasn't taken into account, but you can pick games from late in the season, or ones that featured your favorite teams."
I started and watched a few at the top of the list. Spoiler alert: most of the games at the top of the list were REALLY long. But those types of crazy games can be fun to watch as well, and again, you can fast forward through commericals and pitching changes. Double Spoiler alert: Casper Wells kept showing up in really weird situations.
I decided to switch over to the Postseason and re-watch that and will probably go back to the Must-See MLB.TV list afterwards.
(It was a Steam sale gift around Xmas.)
I dealt J.P.Arencibia for Ryan Roberts before the season started. I didn't want to have to fight the urge punch my monitor like I wanted to do during the real 2013 season when J.P. was up to bat...
APBA draft starts soon.
I have never played Baseball Mogul.
Anyhow I inherited everything. Strat Baseball, Football, APBA horse racing?
Like Howard, I am married with small children. So finding time to play the simulations can be a challenge. But when I find the time it is sooooo worth it.
Just began playing the 1961 season of strat cards published back in 1962. Should the cards be put in plastic card protectors? Probably. 1961 Angels have a fun expansion team to play with. Many of the players had nice slash stats: Albie Pearson, Steve (Sergent) Bilko, George Thomas, Leon Wagner, Lee Thomas, Ken Hunt. Not much pitching to speak of all thought having Ryan Duran in the pen makes it interesting late in the game. How many batters will he walk today?
I use a PC at work all day long. So PC based sim's just don't do it for me. Rolling the dice and doing the stats on Excel is a great escape from the everyday grind.
I prefer DMB for realistic sim play on a year-to-year basis, but OOTP is pretty fun for dynasties, although perhaps not as realistic. I have never played Baseball Mogul. OOTP would be pretty hard to beat I would think, its pretty comprehensive.
Does DMB have projection seasons for past year? Like say, if I wanted to play a world where guys like Roberto Petagine get a fair shake, is that possible? Right now the past season disks are only based on actual performance, and the small sample size prevents a guy like Petagine from being very good.
Worth noting, this was No. 1.*
Post, that is.
I also like collecting broadcasts of old games. I've got well over 1,000 MP3s of old radio games, going back to 1934. I don't know how many recordings of TV broadcasts of vintage games I have, though it's at least several hundred. I prefer radio games, however.
I also like to lurk on BBTF.
EDIT: #11, please let me know if you find any of your old tapes. I will pay money for them.
Also, as for OOTP versus Mogul, I'd recommend OOTP. It's been a little while since I last tried Mogul (probably 2009), but it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I doubt I'll ever try it again. OOTP is a lot of fun as a management sim, though the in-game baseball engine is extremely lacking. If you are looking for a good management game, go for OOTP. If you want to sim individual games, though, look at DMB or Action or something similar.
That's a great link, especially since he had the restraint to just list the games without any description so I can watch them without knowing what's going to happen.
As for Strat:
1) I got the Negro League set for Christmas, it's fantastic. Easily the best production values for any strat set, with colourful glossy cards and a handy guide that contains brief bios of all the players in the set.
2) A while ago I discovered that someone tried to replicate strat's Hall of Fame set (eg: make one card out of a player's 7 year peak) with Japanese players. It was released for free for both the PC version and as a PDF you can print off to make your own cards. It has everyone from Sawamura to Oh to Darvish. I haven't had a chance to play with them yet, but I've discovered that NPB players had the best nicknames: Unruly Buffalo, The Balance Scale, The Iron Shogun, The Precision Machine, Mr. Red Helmet, The Messiah, The Lone Wolf, Headhunter, Heartbeat, and The Human Tank.
Thank You.I had no clue this existed.This is awesome
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