I do the vast majority of my gaming with PC versions of these games. Although I do like the idea of reading results off the cards one thing that I never miss is to manually score the games or later tabulate stats.
Like most other baseball simulation gamers "of a certain age," my introduction to this pastime came through a card and dice game (APBA in my case). I loved it. It was far better than the various self-created games that I played. Over the years I started a number of season replays, but always gave up soon after I started.
There were a couple of challenges. First, it simply took too long to play the games. But, the biggest problem was record keeping. Even with color coding, I could never keep accurate stats.
With the advent of PC's I began to play text based computer simulation baseball games and never looked back. I'd rather play the games and let the machine keep the stats.
While I've purchased a range of games over the years, Diamond Mind Baseball remains my first choice. It's statistically accurate and baseball realistic. Its play-by-play calls are the interesting and immersive. While it lacks some of the visual and audio aspects of other games, it is highly stable and virtually glitch free.
I do have Digital Diamond Baseball which I purchase primarily because I appreciate the involvement, openness and willingness to make improvements of the game's creator. However, whenever I do play DDBB I simply use the basic game engine rather than trying to use it to keep stats for a card and dice game.
I mix it up and yes, also the written box score entered into the digital stat keeper afterward option. I don't mind a rehashing of the game, especially if it was an exciting one. I use iscore for tournaments because of it's ability to break down the stats by opponent as well as total. I use Digital Diamond and Strat-O-Matic's computer version for as played replays. Strat, in my opinion, has the better stat package. As far as keeping score, just plain ol pencil and paper, however the paper is a printed version of pre-filled lineup score sheets found on the internet. These old hands get writer's cramp pretty quickly lol.
I do the vast majority of my gaming with PC versions of these games. Although I do like the idea of reading results off the cards one thing that I never miss is to manually score the games or later tabulate stats.
I score my games in black ink, but use red ink to designate errors and unearned runs
Like most other baseball simulation gamers "of a certain age," my introduction to this pastime came through a card and dice game (APBA in my case). I loved it. It was far better than the various self-created games that I played. Over the years I started a number of season replays, but always gave up soon after I started.
There were a couple of challenges. First, it simply took too long to play the games. But, the biggest problem was record keeping. Even with color coding, I could never keep accurate stats.
With the advent of PC's I began to play text based computer simulation baseball games and never looked back. I'd rather play the games and let the machine keep the stats.
While I've purchased a range of games over the years, Diamond Mind Baseball remains my first choice. It's statistically accurate and baseball realistic. Its play-by-play calls are the interesting and immersive. While it lacks some of the visual and audio aspects of other games, it is highly stable and virtually glitch free.
I do have Digital Diamond Baseball which I purchase primarily because I appreciate the involvement, openness and willingness to make improvements of the game's creator. However, whenever I do play DDBB I simply use the basic game engine rather than trying to use it to keep stats for a card and dice game.
I mix it up and yes, also the written box score entered into the digital stat keeper afterward option. I don't mind a rehashing of the game, especially if it was an exciting one. I use iscore for tournaments because of it's ability to break down the stats by opponent as well as total. I use Digital Diamond and Strat-O-Matic's computer version for as played replays. Strat, in my opinion, has the better stat package. As far as keeping score, just plain ol pencil and paper, however the paper is a printed version of pre-filled lineup score sheets found on the internet. These old hands get writer's cramp pretty quickly lol.