1967: NHL

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As if I didn’t have enough sports replays on my plate, I decided to expand the 1966-67 Toronto Maple Leafs replay into a full NHL season replay, which is about 210 games long.

My reacquaintance with PLAAY’s Hockey Blast has me wanting to play more hockey, but we’ll see if I can fit it in to my non-existent play schedule.

Perhaps I need to create one of those die-roll decider tables again.

I managed to play game one of the 1966-67 NHL season, but I may replay the game  because I wasn’t happy with the way I was chronicling the game itself.

So though Detroit beat Boston 4-1 in that first game, I’m wiping the slate clean and will start the season over.

    

Stay tuned!

2022 World Cup Pre-Play

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Using the Universal Instant Results Table for Soccer Blast, I came up the Round of 16, Quarter and Semi Finals, the latter of which I’ll try to play before the real World Cup begins.

Group winner in bold, runner up in bold italic. 

Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
Group B: England, Iran, United States, Wales
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia
Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea

ROUND OF 16:
Winner in bold.
Netherlands vs. United States
Argentina vs. Denmark
France vs. Poland
England vs. Senegal
Germany vs. Belgium
Brazil vs. Portugal
Morocco vs. Japan
South Korea vs. Switzerland

Quarter Finals:
Winner in bold.
Netherlands vs. Argentina
Poland vs. England
Belgium vs. Portugal
Morocco vs. Switzerland

Semi Finals:
Netherlands vs. England
Portugal vs. Switzerland

Stay tuned!

Stone Cold Hockey

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I picked up Yet Another Game, Stone Cold Hockey from Stone Mountain Press.

The game engine is very much like Dice United, their soccer game, so it was fairly easy  to learn and play a game.

I used a couple of the fictional teams that come with the core game.

The Indianapolis Lugnuts beat the Dayton Bombers 3-1.

I bought the 1964-65 season along with the game, so I’ll probably play a game with teams from the original 6 soon.

Stay tuned!

2020: Ted Lasso Finale Replay

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I picked up a new copy of Soccer Blast, and the first match I played was the final game of the fictional 2020 Premier League season as shown in the finale of Ted Lasso Season 1.

Final from Nelson Road Stadium:

RIC 1 – 1 MCI

46′ – RIC – Rojas (PK)
88′ – MCI – Tartt

AFC Richmond ties Manchester City, which allows the Greyhounds to stay in the Premier League instead of relegation to the Champions League!

Better result that the other fictional result, sure, and I wonder what Season 2 would have been like with this ending?

1990: Bears Replay Game 19

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Uncharted territory, as this game was actually played between the Giants and 49ers.

Final from Candlestick Park: (Game 19 – January 20, 1991)

Blowout win by the 49ers.  Bears go one more game than in real life, but fall short of the Big Game.

I’m gonna play the Super Bowl that didn’t happen,  the 49ers vs. Bills.  Can the 49ers three-peat?

Stay tuned!

1990: Bears Replay Game 18

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This is as far as the Bears went in the 1990 post season, having been defeated by the New York Giants in the Divisional Round.

Final from Giants Stadium: (Game 18 – January 13, 1991)

In this replay, the Bears move on to the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park vs. the San Francisco 49ers.

Next: NFC Championship game vs. the San Francisco 49ers.

Stay tuned!

1990: Bears Replay Game 16

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This was a replay that I started 6 years ago, playing out the rest of the 1990 season with Jim Harbaugh not injured down the stretch.

The one game I had played with the full Second Season rules resulted in the Bears beating Tampa Bay 23-10.

As with my 1967 Broncos replay I never went back to it because of the time involved in playing a full game of Second Season.

Now that I’ve rediscoved Second Season Express, football games go MUCH quicker and the results suit me fine.

So here we go with the rest of this replay!

Final from Soldier Field: (Game 16 – December 30, 1990)

Jim Harbaugh throws 5 touchdown passes in the final game of the regular season.

The Bears lost this game in real life, but the win doesn’t affect the standings (Bears still win the division) or the playoff matchups (Bears still face off against the #3 wildcard spot, the New Orleans Saints).

Next up: Wildcard Playoff Game: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears.

Stay tuned!