The Table Top Sports Games of Chris Saguisag
Whoa, two sports game plays in as many days?
March 24th, 2013: the Sun Coast Capital 400 @ Sun King Speedway.
Race Results
Alex Hodge wins his first race of the season.
Current standings:
Ray Bob Walker jumps to the top of the points standings after Mark Forth and Wayne Montana finish poorly in the race.
Next: the California Raisin 250 @ Ocean Pacific International.
Stay tuned!
As I said in the previous post, I have tried to start this shorter replay using BallScore, but it never calculated games correctly, so I decided to try Digital Diamond’s Boardgame Companion, and it worked pretty well.
The game gave me a running play-by-play commentary, which was nice. I had a few moments of having to look stuff up, specifically how to enter plays into the game and relearning Inside Pitch Baseball.
I also had to figure out how to replace pitchers after pinch hitting for them, and after the game I corrected the team names and logos.
I’ll probably run this replay with this program, and my other existing replays using BallScore.
The boxscores come out about the same as in BallScore.
The result was the same for Gooden (no decision) but Jack Clark changed the outcome with a 2-run blast in the 11th inning.
I’d been using BallScore for quite a while, still do, but for some reason the program keeps messing up whenever I try starting a short replay of Doc Gooden’s 1985 Cy Young season.
So I’m trying out Digital Diamond Baseball and it’s Board Game Companion instead.
Report coming later, I hope.
Stay tuned!
As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.
Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation. Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.
I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms. Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those. None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.
And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports. Someday, I keep telling myself.
I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today. Yikes.
So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.
Stay tuned, I guess…
Sometimes I have to tell myself that. Like now.
No, I’m not going to complete the APBA base game collection with the football game.
I have a very old set from 1996, with two teams from 1995: San Francisco and Kansas City.
I looked at the price of the game online: $44.
I then looked at the price of an NFL season set: over $100 for anything post-1966! And they don’t even have 1997 available!
I also perused a couple of videos on YouTube, one stating that I’d have to get the new base game to play with the new card sets, I couldn’t play the seasons with my old game.
And seeing how I hardly play football games anyway (have yet to finish a season replay), this purchase is a big fat no.
Second Season/SS Express will scratch that football itch when I get it, along with the two quick play options I have, Game-Winning Drive FB and Fast Drive FB.
