Mine is a percentage based dice game. I obviously had to be the manager of both teams but tried to be realistic in the decisions I made. It's a little hard to describe here, but I took the player stats and plotted them out over 1,000 plate appearances. Using three ten-sided dice (red, white, and blue), a player card looks like this:
Betts
HR 052
3b 060
2b 137
1b 293
BB 425
HBP 438
K 586
G 715
F 000
So roll the three dice. Red 2, White 7, Blue 1 = 271. 271 fits between the 137 and 293 on Betts' card, and therefore that's a single. I then have a separate chart indicating where the single lands and whether it's a soft single or a hard single. That matters, obviously, if you have a runner at second say, and the difference between hitting a hard single to left or a soft single to right center is the difference between scoring that runner from second or not. Also a separate chart indicating where grounders and flies/pops go.
Here's Devers playing card, to see how different it is from Betts
Devers
HR 043
3b 043 (meaning that his card cannot produce a triple; more on that in a moment)
2b 092
1b 220
BB 298
HBP 298
K 545
G 766
F 000
That same 271 roll for Devers is a walk instead of a single for Betts. A roll of 050 is a homer for Betts but a double for Devers. A roll of 393 is a walk for Betts and a strikeout for Devers.
Now, you see that the HR and 3b numbers (as well as BB/HBP) are the same. That means that you can't roll a triple on Devers' card (nor can you roll a HBP). That's because Devers had zero triples and zero HBP this year. In order for you to get a triple for Devers, it has to be rolled on the pitcher's card. Here are two pitchers' cards.
Sale
HR 018
3b 023
2b 058
1b 165
BB 220
HBP 243
K 627
G 780
F 000
Pomeranz
HR 035
3b 038
2b 102
1b 253
BB 381
HBP 392
K 584
G 784
F 000
So a 355 roll is a strikeout for Sale and a walk for Pomeranz. A 247 roll is a strikeout for Sale and a single for Pomeranz. A 600 roll is a strikeout for Sale and a ground out for Pomeranz. If say Pomeranz were facing Devers (obviously they're teammates, but just to show how this works), Devers could get a triple ONLY if 036, 037, or 038 were rolled *using Pomeranz'* card.
We determine which card is used by simultaneously rolling two six-sided dice (one for the batter, one for the pitcher). The die with the higher number represents which card we are going to use. In the case of a tie, if it's a same-side matchup (R/R or L/L), we use the pitcher's card and if it's an opposite side matchup (R/L or L/R) we use the batter's card.
This game is WAY WAY WAY simpler than stratomatic. That's on purpose. I love stratomatic, but it's very complicated. I wanted to create something easy to use so that I could play a game in 10-15 minutes or less. This is super simple (I could make a variation using actual L-R splits, but that's a lot more work) and very fun to play and yet after a full season, the season-ending stats are remarkably similar to their actual stats the cards are based off of.
I had fun and years ago made single-year player cards for some of the all-time greats. Ruth, Maris, Yaz, etc. Some of their numbers are just insane. Anyway, this is a very fun way to play baseball games for anyone who likes board games and who likes baseball.
And yes, I'd love to market it but have NO idea how to do that or if it's even worth it. I think there's a market for it somewhere though.
I realize this isn't quite the main topic of the thread, but reading this I was reminded of a game I played growing up that used a similar system. I THINK it was Statis Pro Baseball -- at least that is what seems most recognizable after some Google Image searching. A link here, I remember playing this a whole lot and it had a similar system where certain players had certain ranges of of numbers allocated for different outcomes. I never played Strat-o-Matic, but it seems like a much simpler version of a similar idea.Mine is a percentage based dice game. I obviously had to be the manager of both teams but tried to be realistic in the decisions I made. It's a little hard to describe here, but I took the player stats and plotted them out over 1,000 plate appearances. Using three ten-sided dice (red, white, and blue), a player card looks like this:
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And yes, I'd love to market it but have NO idea how to do that or if it's even worth it. I think there's a market for it somewhere though.
I love the fact that the all time HR champs or whatever they were hit zero homers in the final two games, but the crucial hit last night was a HR by our #9 hitter with an OPS+ of 46 and 10 HR in his career.It cant get much sweeter than the MFYs now having their own equivalent of Bucky effing Dent! Not quite as dramatic as far as the timing, but Vazquez (with his 3 regular season homers) hits the homer that just barely clears the short porch and ends up being the winning run. And to add another cherry on top, I heard Dent threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game!
This is greatI’m not ready to call it a curse just yet....but the MF Yankees haven’t won a postseason game since Judge played Sinatra when leaving Fenway.
Just like Game 7 2004 at the old Toilet. I hope they never learn.And to add another cherry on top, I heard Dent threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game!
Sounds a little Colts-y. Your eventual 2018 WS t-shirt will do fine.I love wearing my 2004 ALCS T-shirt to NYC. Am I going to have to find a 2018 ALDS shirt now?
Only way the 9th could have possibly gotten more ridiculous. We might have seen a SWAT team escort the Sox out.Random thought on the final out.
Imagine the shit-show if the call was "safe" and tieing run scores, and then upon review, it was reversed to "out"
The Toilet would explode
What they actually need is a great starter. Happ, Severino, and CC produced this:Some MFY fan on another board said “Yellich is the kind of star we need.”
Are you fucking kidding me? What— Andujar, Voit, Torres, and Judge aren’t enough young sluggers for you? Greedy bastard.
+1Is there an MVP named for DS series? My pick would be Porcello...pitched great in Game 4 of course, but the outs he got in Game 1 when the bullpen was struggling to throw strikes just restored order and flipped the game.
Happ, Severino and CC were all Price-like.What they actually need is a great starter. Happ, Severino, and CC produced this:
Happ: 2.0 ip, 4 h, 5 r, 5 er, 1 bb, 2 k
Severino: 3.0 ip, 7 h, 6 r, 6 er, 2 bb, 2 k
Sabathia: 3.0 ip, 5 h, 3 r, 3 er, 2 bb, 1 k
TOTAL: 8.0 ip, 16 h, 14 r, 14 er, 5 bb, 5 k, 15.75 era, 2.63 whip, 5.6 k/9
I mean, that's just HORRIFIC. Give them one stud pitcher and this team becomes incredibly difficult to beat. But you're just not gonna win many series if your starters are giving you that.
Yep. Fortunately, the Sox' other three starters were terrific while the Yankees only had one starter pitch well.Happ, Severino and CC were all Price-like.
Price 1.2 ip, 3 h, 3 r, 3 er, 2 bb, 0 k
True, but the lead runner was on second and didn't try to score.Random thought on the final out.
Imagine the shit-show if the call was "safe" and tieing run scores, and then upon review, it was reversed to "out"
The Toilet would explode
No idea if you can lift the gif from here.Does a gif exist of Braiser's "get in the f-----g box"?
I agree with this. Porcello would be my choice as well. Honorable mention to J.D. Martinez with divisional round best 6 RBIs. With .992 OPS he continued to produce offensively in this round.Is there an MVP named for DS series? My pick would be Porcello...pitched great in Game 4 of course, but the outs he got in Game 1 when the bullpen was struggling to throw strikes just restored order and flipped the game.
I have seen a lot of that recently. "We should have traded for Yelich". The only reason they got Stanton is because he forced a trade to the NYY. The Brewers had to give up real assets to trade for him, they didnt get him for free bc he had an albatross contract.Some MFY fan on another board said “Yellich is the kind of star we need.”
Are you fucking kidding me? What— Andujar, Voit, Torres, and Judge aren’t enough young sluggers for you? Greedy bastard.
That's exactly right.What they actually need is a great starter. Happ, Severino, and CC produced this:
Happ: 2.0 ip, 4 h, 5 r, 5 er, 1 bb, 2 k
Severino: 3.0 ip, 7 h, 6 r, 6 er, 2 bb, 2 k
Sabathia: 3.0 ip, 5 h, 3 r, 3 er, 2 bb, 1 k
TOTAL: 8.0 ip, 16 h, 14 r, 14 er, 5 bb, 5 k, 15.75 era, 2.63 whip, 5.6 k/9
I mean, that's just HORRIFIC. Give them one stud pitcher and this team becomes incredibly difficult to beat. But you're just not gonna win many series if your starters are giving you that.
Love this! Was thinking along the same lines about my Dad last night. Watching all those hearts get broken in the Bronx last night was just so much fun.The Red Sox have won four in a row at Yankee stadium in the playoffs; I can just see my Dad, two uncles and two grandfathers sitting around a table up in heaven laughing their asses off as Babe Ruth waddles by
Was just wondering this. Porcello's a good pick. Sale, Eovaldi (who threw the most innings), JDM, Beni, even Vazquez are all defensible choices.Is there an MVP named for DS series? My pick would be Porcello...pitched great in Game 4 of course, but the outs he got in Game 1 when the bullpen was struggling to throw strikes just restored order and flipped the game.
No MVP named for LDSs, but there is for LCS (and World Series, of course).Is there an MVP named for DS series? My pick would be Porcello...pitched great in Game 4 of course, but the outs he got in Game 1 when the bullpen was struggling to throw strikes just restored order and flipped the game.
56 and same here, except...As a 55-year-old lifelong Sox fan who has lived and died with the Old Towne Team since the early 1970's, I was more than a little surprised to realize over the past week how much winning this series meant to me. It wasn't just the validation of the 108 wins in the regular season, although that was part of it. It was the feeling that, just once in my life, I wanted to see a Red Sox team clearly show without any reasonable doubt that they were the better team and leave the Yankees gasping in the dust. They did that in the regular season - going 8-5 vs. the MFY's when the division was still in doubt - and I wanted to see them impose their will in October as well. I wasn't ready for a resumption of Yankee dominance, not with their ascending group of young players amidst our possibly closing window (and sure as s*** not in a year ending in '18'). I wasn't ready for people to start suggesting more loudly that 2004 was just an outlier. I wanted our version of the 1999 ALCS, where the Yankees could laugh and casually dismiss a game 3 beatdown by the Sox as 'it was their World Series' before resuming their own march to the real World Series.
I could have done without that ninth inning drama, but in the end, the Sox gave us a tremendously satisfying series win, complete with universal acknowledgements that the Sox were clearly the better team, that Bucky Bleepin' Dent holds no power over the Red Sox any more, that Alex Cora managed rings around Aaron Bleepin' Boone, and at least a year's worth of glorious agonizing by the New York fan base about 'Why can't the Yankees beat the Red Sox when it counts?'
And just as NY brought out Bucky Dent to throw out the ceremonial first pitch last night, 40 years from now Christian Vazquez will have the same honor in a postseason NY/Boston game to be played by players yet unborn.I love the fact that the all time HR champs or whatever they were hit zero homers in the final two games, but the crucial hit last night was a HR by our #9 hitter with an OPS+ of 46 and 10 HR in his career.
From now on I'm calling that sort of not-quite-catastrophic and cruelly tantalizing meltdown a Smell-No-Taste.letting the MFY fans smell, but not taste victory, made it all the better.
My thoughts exactly, loved how they got their hopes up, then murdered.56 and same here, except...
...as stressful as the Kimbrel 9th was, I’m glad that we got their hopes up, then dashed them. I’d never have planned it that way, but letting the MFY fans smell, but not taste victory, made it all the better. Beating them 4-3 was weirdly better than beating them 4-1.
This was especially the case following the humiliating 16-1 beatdown, which was delicious in its own right.
Who was this to? Is there a longer cut that shows what was going on? Missed it.Was able to make a better quality version.
Of course.Sanchez stepped out of the box 2-3 times in a row, the last one pretty late in the windup.