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Reserve your copy of DICE Baseball now... http://www.gen1400.com/page3.html...
George
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Jun 1, 2008
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Personally I have always had doubts about the PB system that Statis- Pro uses. It is a simple game designed for quick and easy play however it results in...
robdeer2004
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Jun 7, 2008
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robdeer pretty much nails it as to why statis pro is a flawed game if you are striving for as accurate a simulation as possible. throw in things like no range...
Paul
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Jun 8, 2008
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I did a little experimenting and may have found a way to adjust for PB 2-9's & PB 2-5, and inaccuracies in Statis Pro, especially when comparing across eras...
robdeer2004
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Jun 9, 2008
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robdeer - It would be interesting if you posted your analysis in one of the forums frequented by a current Statis Pro game designer, so that one of them could...
review_boy
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Jun 9, 2008
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I'm becoming a very prolific card creator. My newly-created 1921 (and 1955, by the way) Statis Pro Baseball cards have been added to the files section. The...
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Jun 9, 2008
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What are you talking about? The Statis Pro Game was discontinued in the early 1990s....
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990
I can't find MSWorks. How can I print out the cards?...
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Jun 9, 2008
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991
Laura - I recommend you use either Microsoft's free Excel Reader or install the free OpenOffice suite and use its spreadsheet application....
review_boy
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Jun 9, 2008
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992
Does anyone need the charts for Statis Pro?...
laura lawson
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Jun 9, 2008
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993
There are various people producing player cards for Statis Pro. At least a couple of them have introduced various advanced rules for the game, along with the...
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Jun 9, 2008
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How many other forums could exist for a game not made officially in sixteen years? I was surprised to find this one... I am interested in hearing from earlier...
robdeer2004
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Jun 10, 2008
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... Change the file from XLR to XLS, and it will convert it to an Excel file which you should be able to open, assuming you have Excel....
bongoplyr
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Jun 10, 2008
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There are quite a bit of folks that actually create Statis Pro Player Cards. The ones I create feature full righty/lefty matchups. You can download my cards...
George
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Jun 10, 2008
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A couple quick comments for George. First, nothing wrong with people preferring any particular game for any particular reason. If you are talking about...
Paul
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Jun 10, 2008
7:05 pm
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George, thanks for the reply. I have to agree with you that Statis-Pro is a favorite of mine too, and I know it's not realistic. However with fans of the game...
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Jun 11, 2008
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Can anyone send me the ballpark effects for the 1969 Seattle Pilots? And is there a way to find these for specific old time teams without having to buy whole...
aldogljs
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Jun 11, 2008
3:51 am
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Paul, Like I said before. I can't comment on the accuracy of PTP and Start-O-Matic or any of the others because I didn't play a ton of games. I just think it...
George
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Jun 11, 2008
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I've gotten a couple e-mails from someone asking about creating cards for Classic Statis Pro Baseball -- not regular Statis Pro. I have no answers for him,...
emcline
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Jun 11, 2008
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Rob, Your experiment is definitely accurate. The only point I am trying to make is that in a baseball game, any baseball game, whether ptp, statis pro, or any...
George
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George, I think you are overfocused on where the results come from as opposed to what the results actually are. Let me simplify this for you. Let's say a...
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Jun 11, 2008
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Your example of the .300 hitter hitting .350 from his card is exactly what I was talking about. If you take a .300 hitter and a .300 pitcher, instead of...
George
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Jun 11, 2008
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... As someone who is involved as part of the design team for TIG (The IBL game), this thread has been interesting to read. George, I think it's admirable...
Chris Hartjes
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Jun 11, 2008
10:18 pm
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but in focusing on where a result comes from as opposed to what the result is, you typically sacrifice accuracy. simply put, the cards in a game like IBL make...
Paul
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Jun 11, 2008
10:19 pm
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Chris, It is my fault I must not be explaining myself correctly. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea that I am claiming one game to be better than any...
George
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Jun 12, 2008
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... George, I understand what you're saying now. I will say I disagree with the methodology of adjusting a players card based on who they are facing. In TIG,...
Chris Hartjes
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Jun 12, 2008
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Thank you so much for your efforts with the SP card sets. I'm having trouble printing all of the cards and hope you can help me out. You've got them set up...
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Jun 12, 2008
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Ok Chris so what you are saying is understandable. If you add all of those adjustments into every player card it makes sense. I still don't think I am...
George
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Jun 12, 2008
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In order to help all of you who are having trouble printing the five StatisPro card sets I've created, I've converted all the card files to PDF files. All are...
emcline
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Jun 12, 2008
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hey u guys: i think i c your 2 points of view and a viable solution 2 NOT change the probabilities but make the hitter card more powerful offensively and the...
curt young
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