I use FAC in Payoff Pitch, but for baserunner advancement, sac bunts, and stolen bases. I still roll the dice for the initial result on the pitcher/batter card. The FAC saves me from having to look at charts.
I'm uncomfortable with games where you're expected to use every FA card in the deck over the course of a quarter or a game. It's been quite a while since I played one, but I think Mickey Basketball and Pigskin (Tom Hamilton) Football were examples. Seems to unfairly preclude unusual outcomes. That said, I play my APBA mail league games (baseball Master Game) using the "Quarter Million Random Numbers" book from the APBA Journal, using the first number in a given row to determine the column to use, so that I'm not looking ahead. (Further dice rolls to the same batter use the same row, except for steals or throws for runners.) It definitely seems faster than dice rolling, but I think I started because even though I was rolling out of a dice cup, I'd get concerned that I was doing something wrong if, say, I rolled three 66s in a row. With the numbers coming from different columns, I was satisfied that wasn't a problem,
Yeah, I agree. I'm a bigger fan of, say, the no dice version of Replay Basketball, where you have to keep track of time using a different mechanism. It feels strange to me when you know you're going through the entire FAC deck every single time.
Cards are nice for sports that have a game clock (like basketball or hockey) as they can eliminate the need to keep time. But for me dice are only way to go when it comes to baseball.
My favorite tabletop baseball game was Statis-Pro. Though I was not a, huge, fan of the 'FAC' system...it worked. interestingly enough, one could use 8-sided dice, for those that prefer (as me) rolling.
Dice almost exclusively. With that said, I do like to use the FACs for Shoot-out Hockey and Pay-off Pitch from some results. More of a dice/FAC hybrid. I will say that a game like PLAAY Tennis is a turn-off with dice, but a great game using 100% FACs. So, I have to say that my preference is for dice, but I like the fact that I can use FACs :-)
I am waiting on two sets of Dice Cards from The Game Crafter. The Dice Cards per set have 36 cards that reflect the 2d6 dice reading one die as the tens and the other die as the ones. I will use this with APBA Sacrifice Booklet
I use FAC in Payoff Pitch, but for baserunner advancement, sac bunts, and stolen bases. I still roll the dice for the initial result on the pitcher/batter card. The FAC saves me from having to look at charts.
I'm uncomfortable with games where you're expected to use every FA card in the deck over the course of a quarter or a game. It's been quite a while since I played one, but I think Mickey Basketball and Pigskin (Tom Hamilton) Football were examples. Seems to unfairly preclude unusual outcomes. That said, I play my APBA mail league games (baseball Master Game) using the "Quarter Million Random Numbers" book from the APBA Journal, using the first number in a given row to determine the column to use, so that I'm not looking ahead. (Further dice rolls to the same batter use the same row, except for steals or throws for runners.) It definitely seems faster than dice rolling, but I think I started because even though I was rolling out of a dice cup, I'd get concerned that I was doing something wrong if, say, I rolled three 66s in a row. With the numbers coming from different columns, I was satisfied that wasn't a problem,
Yeah, I agree. I'm a bigger fan of, say, the no dice version of Replay Basketball, where you have to keep track of time using a different mechanism. It feels strange to me when you know you're going through the entire FAC deck every single time.
Cards are nice for sports that have a game clock (like basketball or hockey) as they can eliminate the need to keep time. But for me dice are only way to go when it comes to baseball.
My favorite tabletop baseball game was Statis-Pro. Though I was not a, huge, fan of the 'FAC' system...it worked. interestingly enough, one could use 8-sided dice, for those that prefer (as me) rolling.
Dice almost exclusively. With that said, I do like to use the FACs for Shoot-out Hockey and Pay-off Pitch from some results. More of a dice/FAC hybrid. I will say that a game like PLAAY Tennis is a turn-off with dice, but a great game using 100% FACs. So, I have to say that my preference is for dice, but I like the fact that I can use FACs :-)
I am waiting on two sets of Dice Cards from The Game Crafter. The Dice Cards per set have 36 cards that reflect the 2d6 dice reading one die as the tens and the other die as the ones. I will use this with APBA Sacrifice Booklet
Always prefer to roll dice however do like Statis Pro which is all FAC's
I like FACs because they generally eliminate most charts and simplify baserunning results..