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Old 04-10-2007, 09:49 PM   #1
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Talking I love my life . . .

So, I have an 11-year old son in middle school.

I've convinced his math teachers to play a game of OOTP with their classes, in order to help teach statistics. I'm setting up a league with all of the kids as the players.

I turned off finances, trading, injuries, and all of that stuff. Luckily, there are two teachers (divisions), with 5 classes (teams) each, and each class has around 25 kids (active roster). I'm making all of the players have equal ratings, so no one complains about one kid being super-powered.

We'll sim a week per school day for the rest of the school year, and the teachers will spend the first five minutes of class each day letting the kids look at their web reports and the news stories and such. The teachers will then discuss things like batting average, OBP, ERA, and so on, culminating in a class trip to a Phillies' game.

This is really cool.

Steve
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