Roger's 1941 APBA Replay

All the prep work is done, and it's time to start playing games. The player’s disk is installed, the league set-up is complete, and the non-game impacting updates have been made. ATMgr is configured and the opening day lineups are set as well as all the scheduled transactions that will occur over the course of the season. The stadium backdrops are all in place as well, and so with all that, it's time to play. New York (AL) opens at Washington on April 14, 1941 , Marius Russo versus Dutch Leonard. Only one game today and the rest of the league will start their seasons off tomorrow. Ted Williams As part of the preparation activities, I try to do some level of research as to details that occurred during and around the season. While it doesn't strictly impact gameplay, it is always nice to absorb a little of the history of the league, the players, and the times. Somewhere along the way, I had previously acquired a book by John Holway : Ted Williams - The Last .400 Hitter ( A...

I started doing the prep work for my upcoming 1941 BBW replay and that means one of the first things to be done was to purchase a 1941 card set and a 1941 BBW disk . No, I don't really need both, but I do like to flip through the card set from time to time and after all, old habits are hard to break. The 1941 set is listed as a revised set (all 546 players are carded). The Master Game numbers are all included on the cards as we have come to expect from a revised set, plus a stats line is included for pitchers and hitters. It is a very good-looking set of cards. One of the first things that gets done to get this replay preparation started is that a spreadsheet is set up, including dumps of the batting, pitching, and fielding stats, all pulled from Baseball-Reference.com (BBR). Using the player names and team names from the batter’s spreadsheet tab, a new tab was created and the Master Game ratings from the BBW disk were entered by hand into the new tab. I suppose it is a bit obs...

04/12/2022: I will be starting an APBA BBW replay of the 1941 baseball season in the next few months, and this is a placeholder for the time being. More to come.