Regular readers and listeners know that I play in an Out of the Park Baseball league with a bunch of people. I only really “know” two of them, but over the last couple of years, my email inbox has been filled with complaints, stories, analysis, and Commissioner Abner smackdowns. We play a fictional league, so […]
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Out of the Park Baseball 11 And Some Thoughts on Role Playing
June 11th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Baseball, Review
If you listened to the podcast a couple of weeks ago, then you know that I ruined my computer by being an idiot. My good friend Loyd Case set me up with a new one at a great price (I am forever in his debt) and I’m now in the stage of restoring what was […]
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Out of the Park Baseball Draft
July 26th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Baseball
Yesterday, we had our opening draft for the OOTP 10 Baseball league I am in. These things take forever in person. I only sat through three rounds, and that took three hours. Apparently they went for six more rounds and six more hours. So my roster is nowhere near complete, though I thank Bill Abner […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 22 – Blood Bowl and Sports Sims
July 21st, 2009 · 16 Comments · Baseball, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
After a month of absences, Bruce Geryk more than makes up for it in a tour de force conversation with special guest Bill Abner as they relive the fun of 1970s baseball simulation games. We open with a discussion of Blood Bowl, which Julian finds too difficult and Troy finds too easy. Then Tom, Julian […]
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Baseball Game Comparison
April 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Baseball Game Comparison · Baseball, Crispy Gamer
One of the reasons that Bill Abner remains the dean of sports video game journalism is that he insists on running lots of simulations to see how the stats work out. He did this to great effect last year with some football sims. He chose to do a smaller sample sim for Crispy Gamer to […]
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In the spring
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Baseball
It’s that time of year. And in a long IM conversation with Bill Abner about war games and sports, I caved to a base impulse and pre-ordered. Less than a week until the Nats lose the first of 93 games.
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