Category Archives: Baseball

SFBAL

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Since this league plays on Mondays only, all players are available to play, including all pitchers, starters or relievers.

There is a starting pitching rotation that the teams use, and since all relievers are on 6 days rest, they can be used in the following game.  Starters will only relieve if absolutely necessary (read: probably never).

The 5 bench players will be rotated into the starting lineups as the season goes on.

A barnstorming team will be created to play games against the other 10 teams, with no impact on the league standings.

The championship will be the top teams from each division (East and West).  They will play a best of 3 series, again played on Mondays only, in order to allow the full bullpen to be available.

Deadball: SFBAL

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I remembered that the league that I created had a team (Napa Vinters) who plays their home games at the fictional Bill Buckner Field @ Silverado.  Buckner is from the area, born in Vallejo and  graduated from Napa High School.

I think I’ll revisit that league sometime this week.

Suffice to say that this fictional team will be wearing a memorial patch on their uniforms.

Rest in Peace, Bill Buckner.

 

Ball Park Baseball Changes

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I missed the initial announcements by about a week, but apparently there are plans in the works for a revamping of the look and feel of the cards and dice version of the game, in addition to a COMPUTER version of the game.

What’s most impressive to me is the news that the computer version will run on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS and Android.

ANDROID.

AS IN I CAN PLAY ON MY FREAKING PHONE.

Or at the very least, my iPad via iOS.

The thing is, as exciting as this is, I may still opt to play the cards and dice version.

At least all of my older season cards will still be playable with the new stuff.  And thy’re going to release sets with ALL players per team, which is an issue when you play full season replays with current BPB sets.

Sadly, since I was a week late on this news, I missed out on being a tester for either the new format or the computer version of the game.  Ah well.

Stay tuned!

1971 Giants Replay

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I mentioned it elsewhere (Facebook) that I decided to abandon the Box Seat Baseball replay and just play this one with Ball Park Baseball, which I’m more familiar with, and I had the season cards for this one as well.

Box Seat Baseball is a solid game, it just seems like there’s even more chart flipping that I would do with BP Baseball.

Let’s see how long it takes me to do THIS replay.

Stay tuned!

Getting there…

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My second attempt at playing the Opening Day game of the Giants 1971 season using Box Seat Baseball seems to be going smoother than the first one.

I found myself making so many mistakes that I couldn’t justify that first play through as a legitimate game.

And I’m leaning toward not wiping the current game because I think I’ve made fewer mistakes in game play, the flow of which I’m getting used to.

I’ll probably end up replaying this one, though, once I feel that I have a more solid grasp of all the rules.

Dice AND flip cards.  What a concept.

Through 4-1/2 innings the Giants are up 4-1 on the Padres.  I’ll finish the game up later.

Stay tuned!

Plodding Through

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My brother was right about the rules for Box Seat Baseball: they’re a bit much to get through after one read-through.

Plus I’m distracted by the arrival of other games (sport and non-sport), and I’m trying to fit in a round of golf as suggested by another friend on Facebook.

Hopefully all this will clear by the beginning of next week.

Stay tuned!