Anyone heard of/seen this baseball game?

Tim Tellean · 12-07-2005, 09:01 AM

http://www.nostalgiabaseball.net/

Looks interesting, anyone know anything about it?

Steve Kuffrey · 12-07-2005, 09:14 AM

Never heard of it before, but it is a pay to play online game.

swampdragon · 12-07-2005, 10:32 AM

From the link, it looks like it's not as good as OOTP leagues. The forum has fewer posts than most of the leagues here, and these don't cost $18.95 apiece.

SandMan · 12-07-2005, 10:53 AM

When STATS first came out with their Diamond Legends and later was also on ESPN I spent over $3000 to play the game. Basically it was the PTP(Diamond Mind) game but with career players, the game was developed by Tom Tippett the original creator of PTP. Back then the game was $99.95 a season plus $1.00 per transactions......very costly. I then found OOTP and never paid to be in a league again..... I havent played in 5 years or so.....

I had this same idea in the late 80's and early 90's. I created a simulation that was accurate but not to much fun to play. Players stats were very accurate and I even normalized players across the many eras of baseball. So I was going to start this type of business, but the costs were high for sites then and very few people were actually on line. Pages were text based and most communications were done via bulletin boards....so that tells you how long ago it was. Hell I had a 300kb external Hayes modem...... A few years later I found the STATS site and started playing the game then my wife bitched about the $100-200 a month I was spending on a sim.....

But I do believe that paid leagues, if at a minimal cost are a good idea. This keeps the ownership to people that are dedicated to the league. But my idea of a paid league was like $20.00 a year (not season) per team and this was just to basically cover the commissioners cost of a website. But with sites being so cheap now a days this may even be too much - because there are so many free leagues out there......

12-07-2005, 09:01 AM	#1
Tim Tellean Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Washington, DC suburbs for now Posts: 295	Anyone heard of/seen this baseball game? http://www.nostalgiabaseball.net/ Looks interesting, anyone know anything about it?

12-07-2005, 09:14 AM	#2
Steve Kuffrey Administrator Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: S.E. TN - Georgia born and raised Posts: 17,023	Never heard of it before, but it is a pay to play online game. __________________ Steve Kuffrey DABS Atlanta Braves - 2008 Eastern Division Champ *DBLC Atlanta Braves - 2011, 2014 East Division Champ, 2012, 2013 NL Wildcard Baseball Maelstrom-Montreal Expos-2013 Tourney winner, 2014 WC Team Sparky's League - Tampa Bay D'Rays Epicenter Baseball League - Astros 2014 The CBL Rewind - Phillies '95

12-07-2005, 10:53 AM	#4
SandMan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,946	When STATS first came out with their Diamond Legends and later was also on ESPN I spent over $3000 to play the game. Basically it was the PTP(Diamond Mind) game but with career players, the game was developed by Tom Tippett the original creator of PTP. Back then the game was $99.95 a season plus $1.00 per transactions......very costly. I then found OOTP and never paid to be in a league again..... I havent played in 5 years or so..... I had this same idea in the late 80's and early 90's. I created a simulation that was accurate but not to much fun to play. Players stats were very accurate and I even normalized players across the many eras of baseball. So I was going to start this type of business, but the costs were high for sites then and very few people were actually on line. Pages were text based and most communications were done via bulletin boards....so that tells you how long ago it was. Hell I had a 300kb external Hayes modem...... A few years later I found the STATS site and started playing the game then my wife bitched about the $100-200 a month I was spending on a sim..... But I do believe that paid leagues, if at a minimal cost are a good idea. This keeps the ownership to people that are dedicated to the league. But my idea of a paid league was like $20.00 a year (not season) per team and this was just to basically cover the commissioners cost of a website. But with sites being so cheap now a days this may even be too much - because there are so many free leagues out there...... Last edited by SandMan; 12-07-2005 at 10:54 AM.

12-07-2005, 10:32 AM	#3
swampdragon Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Lonely Mountain Posts: 2,509	From the link, it looks like it's not as good as OOTP leagues. The forum has fewer posts than most of the leagues here, and these don't cost $18.95 apiece.