Nukester
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Joined: 7/3/2006 From: Newburgh, NY Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: KG Erwin At the risk of sounding like a rabid fanboy, it's one thing to read the histories, but it's something entirely different to watch these long-gone teams and long-dead players on the field. The feeling is different, of course. However, it is through this game that I've become a fan of players that I have only seen on film: Pete Reiser (damn, that boy coulda been a Hall of Famer, but cruel fate intervened), Kirby ("f*ckin") Higbe (a fascinating character, and wildly unpredictable), George Kell (one of the great thirdbasemen of all time) etc etc. Sure, I love the stats, but I wanna go deeper, into the human aspect, and this game gives it to you. Sure. Absolutely. I learn baseball history by looking at stories about players Ive never heard of before that are performing well/poorly in my league. I probably would have never heard of Rube Kroh had he not become a 6 time A.G Spalding Award winner in my league (my Cy Young Award). The way I play is to play as GM/manager but I dont play out every game. Most of the time I will sim a week at a time, look at boxscores for my team, look at a bunch of other screens, maybe make some roster moves, then rinse and repeat. I dont sim entire decades just to get stats (although you could if you wanted too). In my historicals, I only play out playoff games that my team is in. For fictionals I play a bit differently. Then I play 1 or 2 games per series. What I try and do is win a series. So for a 3 game series, I might sim the first game, then play out the second game. If I win the first 2 of 3, then Ill sim the 3rd game. If I split the first 2 games, Ill play out the 3rd game (to try and win the series 2 games to 1)
< Message edited by Nukester -- 11/8/2007 3:44:55 AM >
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