Anyone play Strat-O-Matic card and dice? - Page 2

Steve Kuffrey · 02-01-2006, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by molarmite

Is this kinda like APBA?

Yes, they are the same genre. I grew up playing APBA myself.

phenom · 02-01-2006, 08:01 AM

I'm a Statis-Pro player myself.

sporr · 02-01-2006, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by IamIowa

I use to play it a few years ago with Spoor and a couple other people. Great game that led us directly to forming the Maelstrom.

Yep, I remember that day well.

I used to input all of our Strat boxscores into the ballstat program and it would keep track of our situational stats. It was a 5-person league, so it wasn't too time consuming.

IatricSB · 02-01-2006, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by IatricSB

I did something similar but even calculated the odds (with help from my TRS-80) for every situation and every player in that situation. It showed me some gems like Lee Lacy. He couldn't start every day but through my study, I found out that he hit close to .500 with the bases loaded. So I kept him close at side and as soon as the bases were loaded (if they ever got loaded), in would come Lee to pinch hit regardless of who was at bat (he was by far the best on my team in that situation). He ended up with some really bizarre stats. Not many At Bats, but he hit .500 with over twice as many RBI as he had hits.

Doh! Just realized the Lee Lacy story was an APBA league where you had the various situational things. I programmed all of my teams cards into a TRS-80 then programmed all the various situations in and I'd get a report of how the players performed in those types of situations. Made it nice since I could use my "charts" to determine the optimal pinch hitter based on who was on base.

But Strat-O-Matic was a great game to play and I enjoyed it more than APBA and Statis Pro. Statis Pro never gave me the realistic stats I seemed to get from Strat.

ctorg · 02-01-2006, 02:28 PM

When I played, my friends and I discarded all rules about how often you could play players. So even guys with 50 AB could be starters. I learned about a lot of fringe players with good years that way.

Luis Medina was a homerun king.

phenom · 02-01-2006, 02:48 PM

Or this guy in 1984: http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chrisst01.shtml

sporr · 02-01-2006, 04:34 PM

Yep, Shane Spencer's card from a few seasons ago was a monster too.

But Barry's card from his record year? Amazing...

Jeremy Weimer · 02-01-2006, 04:43 PM

Is this game still sold in stores and such? I've always wanted to play it but I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere.

sporr · 02-01-2006, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeremy Weimer

Is this game still sold in stores and such? I've always wanted to play it but I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere.

Yep. If you don't get it online, you can find it at some game stores. I just saw it this past weekend at Gamer's Paradise in Chicago.

molarmite · 02-01-2006, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Kuffrey

Yes, they are the same genre. I grew up playing APBA myself.

I love APBA, I ended making my own updated cards one time, it was pretty fun.

ctorg · 02-02-2006, 09:22 AM

You can buy the game online, too. Or you can go to the company in person and pick it up, which some people I knew used to do (it's on Long Island and I lived in Brooklyn, which is also on Long Island).

swampdragon · 02-02-2006, 09:38 AM

They still send me their mailouts about twice a year, even though I quit playing all the board games 20 years ago and quit their computer game five or six years ago. The computer game has hideous copy protection, but it isn't a bad game. It's just not as good as several others out there, such as OOTP. I had at one time or another in my boardgame days APBA, Strat, Replay, Pursue the Pennant, and a few that don't deserve to be mentioned. I don't think I can go back to the board games. I bought the newest incarnation of Replay about a year ago. It's a good game, but statkeeping by hand is a joke. I had to give it up after 20 games or so. Even the Excel programs that help you keep the stats require manual entry, and I'd rather spend my gaming time actually playing the game.

ctorg · 02-02-2006, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by swampdragon

They still send me their mailouts about twice a year, even though I quit playing all the board games 20 years ago and quit their computer game five or six years ago. The computer game has hideous copy protection, but it isn't a bad game. It's just not as good as several others out there, such as OOTP. I had at one time or another in my boardgame days APBA, Strat, Replay, Pursue the Pennant, and a few that don't deserve to be mentioned. I don't think I can go back to the board games. I bought the newest incarnation of Replay about a year ago. It's a good game, but statkeeping by hand is a joke. I had to give it up after 20 games or so. Even the Excel programs that help you keep the stats require manual entry, and I'd rather spend my gaming time actually playing the game.

Yeah, the Strat computer game was really, really big on copy protection. It was one of the main reasons I stopped buying it. It was stifling. I had a season disk fail on me once, had problems reinstalling another time. I hated that.

And once you have a game that keeps stats for you, it's incredibly difficult to go back to doing it manually.

phenom · 02-02-2006, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ctorg

Yeah, the Strat computer game was really, really big on copy protection. It was one of the main reasons I stopped buying it. It was stifling. I had a season disk fail on me once, had problems reinstalling another time. I hated that.

And once you have a game that keeps stats for you, it's incredibly difficult to go back to doing it manually.

Real men get quoted as saying

"4-1-1-0-0-0-1-0
8-2-1-0-0-0-2-0
13-4-4-1-0-0-3-0
16-4-4-1-0-0-3-0"

Art99 · 02-04-2006, 04:14 AM

I played strat baseball and football religiously for about 15 years. After computers came out I continued to play it because I was never happy with computer sports games. Once Front Page sports football came out that was the end of strat football for me and then when High heat baseball came out that was the end of Strat baseball for me.

I have not played Strat's pc baseball game for many years and never have truied their pc football game. If Strat were to get a career mode though I'd consider it but one prob is the expense. Buying all the season disks is rathar pricey compared to OOTP.

One of my favorite things was how every player card was unique. I'd love to see Barry Bonds strat cards in recent years.

ctorg · 02-06-2006, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Art99

I played strat baseball and football religiously for about 15 years. After computers came out I continued to play it because I was never happy with computer sports games. Once Front Page sports football came out that was the end of strat football for me and then when High heat baseball came out that was the end of Strat baseball for me.

I have not played Strat's pc baseball game for many years and never have truied their pc football game. If Strat were to get a career mode though I'd consider it but one prob is the expense. Buying all the season disks is rathar pricey compared to OOTP.

One of my favorite things was how every player card was unique. I'd love to see Barry Bonds strat cards in recent years.

The computer baseball game did let you track career stats. It was a little clunky, but it worked. I haven't played in over half a decade, so I'm sure they've improved upon that by now (they had planned to back then).

LeiterFanatic · 02-07-2006, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by swampdragon

Statkeeping by hand is a joke. I had to give it up after 20 games or so.

How times change, lol.

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02-02-2006, 09:22 AM	#31
ctorg Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 9,848	You can buy the game online, too. Or you can go to the company in person and pick it up, which some people I knew used to do (it's on Long Island and I lived in Brooklyn, which is also on Long Island). __________________ My music "When the trees blow back and forth, that's what makes the wind." - Steven Wright Fjord emena pancreas thorax fornicate marmalade morpheme proteolysis smaxa cabana offal srue vitriol grope hallelujah lentils

02-01-2006, 08:01 AM	#22
phenom Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Near the Great Wall. On the GOOD side. Posts: 3,774	I'm a Statis-Pro player myself.

02-01-2006, 02:48 PM	#26
phenom Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Near the Great Wall. On the GOOD side. Posts: 3,774	Or this guy in 1984: http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chrisst01.shtml

02-01-2006, 04:34 PM	#27
sporr Global Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Muscatine, IA Posts: 8,277	Yep, Shane Spencer's card from a few seasons ago was a monster too. But Barry's card from his record year? Amazing...

02-01-2006, 04:43 PM	#28
Jeremy Weimer Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 3,411	Is this game still sold in stores and such? I've always wanted to play it but I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere.

02-02-2006, 09:38 AM	#32
swampdragon Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Lonely Mountain Posts: 2,506	They still send me their mailouts about twice a year, even though I quit playing all the board games 20 years ago and quit their computer game five or six years ago. The computer game has hideous copy protection, but it isn't a bad game. It's just not as good as several others out there, such as OOTP. I had at one time or another in my boardgame days APBA, Strat, Replay, Pursue the Pennant, and a few that don't deserve to be mentioned. I don't think I can go back to the board games. I bought the newest incarnation of Replay about a year ago. It's a good game, but statkeeping by hand is a joke. I had to give it up after 20 games or so. Even the Excel programs that help you keep the stats require manual entry, and I'd rather spend my gaming time actually playing the game.

02-04-2006, 04:14 AM	#35
Art99 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 242	I played strat baseball and football religiously for about 15 years. After computers came out I continued to play it because I was never happy with computer sports games. Once Front Page sports football came out that was the end of strat football for me and then when High heat baseball came out that was the end of Strat baseball for me. I have not played Strat's pc baseball game for many years and never have truied their pc football game. If Strat were to get a career mode though I'd consider it but one prob is the expense. Buying all the season disks is rathar pricey compared to OOTP. One of my favorite things was how every player card was unique. I'd love to see Barry Bonds strat cards in recent years.