The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
I want to play more tabletop baseball but I take too much time setting up the leagues in BallStat.
I should just handscore the games I play outside of the season replays.
But I use BallStat because my arthritis makes it difficult to handscore these games.
But then I handscore EVERY OTHER SPORT I PLAY ON THE TABLETOP BESIDES BASEBALL.
Not much of an excuse anymore, is it?
Onward and forward into the next year, there’s games to play!
Stay tuned!
I dug out my copies of Ultra Quick Football and Ultra Quick Soccer last week, which then gave me the idea to pick up Ultra Quick Baseball, since it’s supposed to be a way to quickly sim the rest of the games in a single team replay.
I’m going to try it with the 1921 and 1971 season replays that I’m currently playing (though stalled due to my own indifference toward what to play lately).
It’ll probably take as long to sim all the games up to the point where I am in those seasons as it took to play those games. I hope not.
Stay tuned!
Second Season Express still takes a while to play a game.
Not as long as a regular Second Season game, but still longer than other Express games from PLAAY.
Still, I may try to power through and finally finish the 1967 Denver Broncos season replay this week.
The plan is to finish some of these season replays that have been sitting idle under the full PLAAY games using the Express version, specifically this 1967 Broncos replay, perhaps the 1966-67 NHL replay, and maybe the 1974 John D’Acquisto season replay.
I may start a 1974 fictional Lacrosse season replay once Lacrosse Blast Express arrives.
Stay tuned!
Felt like playing Statis Pro Baseball today, so I dug it out and played the second game of the Giants’ 1979 season.
Final from Riverfront Stadium:
9th inning heroics by both teams, but the Reds end up winning on a wild pitch by Greg Minton.
Alas.
Eight years between games of this replay, so I don’t know if/when I’ll continue this one.
One of the freebies from this year’s PLAAY Holiday Sale was the 1995-96 NHL Season for Hockey Blast.
I happily downloaded and opened it up on my PC and smiled when I saw the names on the San Jose Sharks squad from that year.
I then went to print it out and again felt happy to see the team roster.
And then I went to hockey-reference.com to review that season.
20-55-7 record. Dead last in the Pacific Division. Yikes.
I remember going to more than a few games that season, and the seasons before and after that.
I remember the faces but not the names of some of the regulars who sat around us.
I remember the loudest CLANG off the crossbar when Eric Lindros fired a shot on goal. Not sure if it was that season, but it was certainly during that time.
And that Sharks team was one of my favorite sports teams during that period as well.
With the new Hockey Blast Express I expect to roll some games from that season, maybe not a full season replay, and not just Sharks games.
The Flyers won their division that season, only to be knocked out of the playoffs by the eventual Eastern Conference Champs, the Florida Panthers.
If I play out a Flyers-Sharks Cup final, I’m afraid San Jose is gonna get swept by the Flyers.
But we’ll see.
Stay tuned!
Welcome to Opening Day 1986!
Final from Three Rivers Stadium:
Doc goes the distance to secure the Mets’ first win of the season.
And I just realized that I’ve started my first non-Giants full season replay since 1989, when I replayed the Mets 1988 season.
Also, for some reason, rolling a game in APBA seemed less strenuous than any baseball game that I’d been playing lately, namely Ball Park Baseball and Payoff Pitch Baseball.
Go figure.
Next: The Mets travel to Philadelphia for a weekend series against the Phillies.
Stay tuned!
In preparation of the arrival of the new APBA Baseball box, I began to put together the lineups for Opening Day 1986 for the Mets and the Giants.
I looked up the lineups for the Mets-Pirates season opener on April 8th, 1986, started to sort out the lineups, and found that the 1986 set does not have Steve Kemp carded for the Pirates.
Hmph. I hate when that happens, but there you go.
So I started looking at possible solutions.
Option 1: purchase the updated 1986 APBA Baseball Season set, where all players are carded.
Nope. Not interested in purchasing any new APBA Baseball sets.
Option 2: play the game with Payoff Pitch Baseball 1986, where Kemp *is* carded.
Possible/probable route I’ll take, as I was thinking of rolling home games using APBA and away games using Payoff Pitch.
Option 3: same as #2, but just sub players in when playing APBA.
More probable since I had to do that with some games/players in my Ball Park Baseball 1971 SF Giants replay.
Option 4: APBA only and sub players as needed.
Most probable if I only want to use one game system. Which I kinda do, at least with either or both the Mets or Giants.
For starters I think I’ll play with the APBA Baseball 1986 season, basic set, with advanced fielding rules.
I’d like to also score these games by hand, there’s a website called Digital Dugout that will print out a blank scoresheet with lineups for any ball game from 1906 to now, but BallStat makes it easier on my arthritis and stat keeping.
I’ll figure it out after the new box arrives.
Stay tuned!
