06-20-2018, 11:12 AM
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Rookie
OVR: 7
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Re: baseball sims
Strat O Matic is based on the statistical performance of a given season. It is all put in terms of statistical probabilities of dice rolls (two 6-sided, supplemented by an occasional 20-sided roll). Ratings are given to a player's Bunting, hit and run, clutch hitting, stealing, pitcher fatigue points, etc. Also ranges (or modifiers) provided for running (taking extra bases), advanced stealing, holding runners, wild pitches, passed balls, balks, throwing arm from the outfield. Also, there are weather effects for each city that effect some potential home runs and singles depending on the ball park.
Basically, if you use players identically to their actual season use, and manage similarly to the real life manager, things will come out fairly accurate.... with a little variance.
It sounds complex, but it really isn't that difficult to play.
The computer version puts a lot of it under the hood, but you can also mimic playing on the table top (even can input your own dice rolls). You can customize the logos, sounds, player photos, ballpark images, etc, and there is a community out there with ready to go goodies. The computer version also comes with pre-set "as played" seasons, so you can plug it in and start playing a 1985 Royals season with the exact lineups, starting pitchers, etc for each and every game.
You can also modify anything you want. Mix players up, create your own draft league, cross teams from different seasons, form a tournament of a group of teams, etc...
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