I was an APBA player also and have the computer game today.
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I made up a dice baseball game myself. I ranked the pitchers and hitters into Categories and then let the die fly.
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BRUTAL
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This inning looks vaguely familiar…
Soul crushing.
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I had some game that I played around 67-68 which, I’m ashamed to say, I cannot remember the name. It was a board game of some sort that had player cards with hitting values on their back, which were governed by the throw of the dice. I was new to San Antonio, and had no established friends for quite awhile. I disappeared into that game for a year or so. I also grabbed a book that addressed all of the members of baseball’s hall of fame up to that time, in great detail. I drank that book in and retained most of the knowledge for quite a while. I heard about APBA a few years later, and was a mite upset that I hadn’t discovered it earlier as it would have been perfect for the kid that I had become. I did also have the Sports Illustrated golf game which was a lot of fun as well. Still have that one hanging around in my closet.
Strat-O-Matic?
My dad gave me his copies of SI baseball, golf, and CFB when I was a kid, and I absolutely wore them out. Those and his APBA set (1962) are still in my closet.
Not Strat-O-Matic either l. It had player cards with dice rolls listed on the back. Rolls of 2-12 would have hits and outs distributed liberally depending on the talent of the player. Everyone had a HR on their card, but better players would have their’s in the middle numbers where there was an easier chance for a hit or big hit. Average players ha their Hr stacked at 2,3,11,12. Sorry to dwell on this. I loved the game.
Yes. I remember that game, but not its name.
Sounds a lot like APBA.
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No. This one was simpler. Dice were added not combined APBA style. 11 possible dice outcomes with BB outcomes distributed among them by probability. No base-situation boards needed, though I think there may have been tables about rubber advancement. And I do not recall how pitchers were handled. One of the games from that era had half the results in the pitcher cad and half on the batter, but I think that might have been Strat-o-matic.
Tigers getting their shit kicked in early.
To the tune of 5-0, Guardians still batting in 1st
So it took 1 inning for Guardians to outscore the Astros in the postseason.
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Not cool, man, not cool.
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Mets tie it up in the T8. Two on, nobody out…
Mets take the lead.
I firmly believe if we had won either of the first two games of the series that we’d of wiped the floor with DET in the third and final game of that series. But we didn’t and…well, nevermind.
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Mets open it up 5-1