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2022 World Cup Pre-Play: Semifinals

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Less than a week away from the World Cup tournament starting, and I finally got around to playing my semifinal matches.

Final score from Al Bayt Stadium:

Alas, England couldn’t get anything going, and two quick second half goals allow the Netherlands to advance to the Finals.

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Final score from Lusail Iconic Stadium:

A hard fought match between the two squads as an injury time goal sends Portugal into the Finals.

Hat trick for Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Finals matchup:

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!

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!