1967 Denver Broncos and Second Season Express

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I bought Second Season Express back in 2019, put it in the Second Season game box, and let it sit for about 3 years.

Tonight I finally pulled it back out, after having a nice game with History Maker Baseball Express, and continued my 1967 Denver Broncos season replay.

I should have done this 3 years ago.  Chances are I’d be finished with the replay by the time COVID rolled around in March 2020.

Final from Rice Stadium:

Broncos record: 2-3, which still better than their real-life record at this point in the season (1-4).

Next up: Bills come to Bears Stadium in Denver.

Stay tuned!

2022 Baseball America & History Maker Baseball Express

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This week I picked up History Maker Baseball Express from PLAAY Games.  It’s a quick-play version of their History Maker Baseball Game.

After one play with the first game of my Baseball America 2022 league, I think it’s a good game.  I may run the entire season with this game engine.

Game 1: New England Minutemen @ Portland Mavericks

Mavericks 10
Minutemen 1

WP: Sinclair
LP: Rentschler

Game took longer than advertised (10 minutes) because of learning the game mode.

We’ll see how often I get to this one, and how I end up presenting game stats.

Stay tuned!

2022 Baseball America

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One of the first non-APBA/Stat-O-Matic games that I picked up was History Maker Baseball.

It came out 10 years ago, and as PLAAY Games usually does, they introduced a fictional league for this game called Baseball America.

I opted not to get that league, instead picking up the Century League along with the 2012 MLB season.

As it’s the 10th anniversary of History Maker Baseball, it’s also the 10th anniversary of Baseball America, which they commemorated with a deluxe card set, with bigger cards and names of the teams on the cards.

I picked up the PDF of the standard edition, having recently picked up their new basketball game.

And of course I created my own variation on the fictional league, keeping  most of the existing team names, and retaining the rosters intact.

I took all the unsigned players and distributed them equally among the 12 teams, giving each of them 27 players on their rosters.

Here are the teams!

My additions were Portland, Detroit, Terre Haute, Seattle, and Bay City (San Francisco).

As to when I’ll start up this league?

Stay tuned!

Highlight Maker Hoops

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PLAAY Games came out with a basketball game called Highlight Maker Hoops.

I picked it up along with the fictional Basketball League of America (BLAM) 2021-22 season.

As usual I’ve started by creating a league.  It’s unnamed at the moment, but here are the teams:

Eastern Conferences:
New York Guard
Chicago Express
Cleveland Nets
Boston Commons
St Louis Bombers
Cincinnati Royals

Western Conference:
Denver Dynamos
Tulsa Bandits
San Francisco Pioneers
Phoenix Sunset
Kansas City Knights
Los Angeles Stars

I’m not sure if I’ll keep BLAM league name, but we’ll see.

Stay tuned!

1921: Giants Replay, Games 54-58

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Let’s Play Five!

I decided to play catchup today on my 1921 Giants season replay, which, because of COVID, I should have been finished before the 100th anniversary of the season, but for some reason I never committed to finish this one or the 1971 season, on it’s 50th anniversary.

Heck, I should have had these finished in 2020.

And I played Game 54 back in February of this year.

We’ll see how it goes from here, but I’d really like to finish one of these replays by the end of the actual 2022 baseball season.

Finals from Wrigley Field:

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