Baseball Classic Replays

And with that…we are off and running.   As I mentioned in my introductory post, I’m still working out precisely how I want to post updates, but for now I like the idea of doing weekly updates with standings, recaps of some of the past games, league leaders, and highlighting some of the best performers during the week.   This post will actually be the first two seeks of the season, as the initial week was abbreviated so I thought it best go ahead and play the next week as well.   So with that out of the way, let’s take a look at the standings early in this season, up through games played on April 28, 1929: American League                                      Team         W   L   GB   PCT  Home  Road Strk  L10 Senators      7   2    ---    778   4-1  ...

  As I mentioned in the intro post, I’m currently working through two separate replays – one playing the Yankees and Reds 1961 seasons and simulating other games using Digital Diamond Baseball, the other a complete 1929 replay using NPIII/Skeetersoft.   I’m into June in the 1961 season, so I’ve made quite a bit of progress, but I’ve honestly become completely sidetracked and engrossed in the NPIII system.   I didn’t think I would enjoy something more digital (meaning no cards or something more tactile) like the Skeeterosft engine, but I absolutely love it.   I still manually roll the dice and enter results, so it remains interactive, and the system is exciting in its recreation of games.   Plus, you can play at such a rapid pace that a couple of games can be knocked it in a short period.   So, this is a bit of a longwinded of making it known that the 1929 NPIII replay is probably going to take priority for the foreseeable future.   I’m simply having to...

  Welcome to the Baseball Classic Replays, where anyone can follow along while I navigate the completely unfamiliar world of card and dice baseball simulations.  While I did dabble with OOTP during COVID, I am essentially new to all of this, trying to discover a number of different games at the same time and figure out which ones I like best.  It seems like there are a plethora of outstanding sims out there, so at times there are almost too many choices for the uninitiated to wade through.  Fortunately, there are a number of outstanding YouTube channels dedicated to this hobby that can be quite helpful in making these decisions, some of which I hope to eventually highlight here.   As some general background about myself, I am a lover of history and baseball and thus, unsurprisingly, enjoy delving into baseball history.  This is the aspect that appeals to me most about baseball sims - recreating some of the greatest individuals seasons, pennant races, e...