[Leo_The_Lip]

Some other memories of early dice sports games:

1) Keeping manual stats and computing batting averages was how boys learned long division. Girls never did this. They were invariably amazed when otherwise 'dumb' boys could barrel through a long division test and get A's.

2) Seasons were shorter in the sense that you had to replay fewer games to complete a season. My biggest example is APBA pro football with 14 NFL teams. At seven games per week, we could each almost keep up playing the seven games 'on-time' and then comparing results.

3) Everybody had their own way of tracking the stats while playing the games. Invariably large gum erasers were involved as we updated.