Another interesting observation is that several HOF Managers received cards and they didn’t necessarily have HOF playing careers. In fact, I haven’t seen any cards with first and second column 1s.

In these cases, it appears those players don’t have a one in the second column. Some cards have three power numbers (1-6) at the 66-11-33 locations followed by a 0 at 22. While the BBW data doesn’t show it, some cards have specific outfield positions listed for players.

All the players available were drafted except for 9 pitchers. The cards are totally different than any set I have seen before with very few A Grade pitchers and fewer D Grade pitchers. I had a bit of a plan for how I wanted to build my team and I wasn’t overly familiar with this set. All the other teams were set to auto-pick. I created labels for the teams and sorted the cards after the draft and balanced numbers – minimum 7 pitchers on each team with a roster limit of 24.Ĭity Division on the left – County DIvision on the right.įor the draft I did a straight draft with a two-minute limit on picks. My limitation in team names was that the city and nickname would be alliterative and found within the pronunciation capacity of Ernie Harwell in BBW. I created 14 teams – 7 based on cities in Tennessee and 7 based on Counties in Tennessee. I randomly assigned some characteristics/ratings to the BBW GM & Scout modules then randomly assigned those modules to 13 teams. Looking at the cards I am excited to use this set. I don’t recall if the cards were generated from a career average type of statistical model or a player’s best season. I assume it means stats have the ballpark effects removed and regenerated based on an average season, usually a season from the late 1950’s. The BBW data file also has no stats for the players, but I know the set has been normalized – whatever that means. The card set has Master Symbols, but no stats on the cards.

The APBA Hall of Fame set was made available in 2016 and I bought the data file to use in Baseball for Windows as well as the card set. It was a fun tournament but I am considering something a little different. I recently finished a 40 team double elimination tournament.

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