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Originally Posted by swoboda
Nothing against Strat-O-Matic and in fact I highly endorse the 1971 version of Strat that I last played (loved rolling the dice, looking up the card info) but I cannot imagine a game that is more versatile , comprehensive, entertaining and affordable than OOTP.
PS No doubt that those of us who hand crunched the stats on paper in the pre calculator era, owe as much of our arithmetic prowess to Strat as we do to our math teachers !
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I used to walk through the local business store and get looks like "what is a kid doing in here?". Well I was looking at the first calculators that were probably $60-$100 (SWAG probably what $300-500 in today's dollars?) and dreamed of having one for the game. Not sure what year it was, but probably around 1976 the price came down to $13 and I had my first, a nice little Casio
Before that I had bought SOM's book "Batting Averages and Earned Run Averages at a Glance". Pages of columns\rows with AB\H or IP\ER, and a field where your answer was as easy as sliding your fingers. I was good at math and actually enjoyed doing the figures. But with the book I could do my "every 20 game" stat report much quicker.