#northamericanbaseballassociation — Public Fediverse posts

@APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @Eilistraee @RuthODay @WolfofWords @YakyuNightOwl @atomictrivia @cwgrody @oldladyplays @olliethewobbly @tabletopmania

Project Advancing-this-Game is underway! And the Orioles...*sigh*. I suppose it's inevitable that as the real-life O's decide to reverse field and win ballgames, the simulation O's are dramatically nosediving. We are in sixth place in the Eastern League, 25-27. Hitting is now a problem, as several key players (Hurst at 1B, Charbonneau in LF, Saavedra at SS) turned in some Mendoza-worthy numbers in May, and we got pummeled by the Phillies, the Dodgers, and ffs the Knights even took us 2 out of 3. Pitching has been underwhelming: Scantlebury sits at a 4.59 ERA and O'Toole is 1-6, 4.58. Trevor May had an ulnar ligament come unraveled and is out indefinitely, while Tippy cannot find home plate with a road map and a Hot Wheels track (9.41 ERA).

Adding to the misery, we picked dead last in the draft, grabbing some kids who aren't likely to help us in the near term, with the possible exception of Willie Palacios, a college product originally from the DR who has a fastball my scouts are describing as "whoa!"

It looks like the changes made to the sim have worked:
League totals for April: 329 HR, .283
League totals for May: 482 HR, .276

#NABA #NorthAmericanBaseballAssociation #SimBaseball #FakeBaseball #MyOwnLittleWorld

@RuthODay @olliethewobbly @AlexanderRaine7 @APBAreplay @tabletopmania @cwgrody @YakyuNightOwl @oldladyplays @Eilistraee @WolfofWords

Hi. Many of you remember that some months ago, I was posting about my simulated #baseball league, the #NABA . And then I stopped. It wasn't because I didn't like it, or that I didn't like you, or because summer came and the #Orioles have been limping along in the AL East (and we're currently losing to the Mariners at the Yards, ffs). It's because I was dealing with some stressful family drama. It's a long freakin' story, and it isn't yet quite resolved, but that's a topic for another time. I want to get back to doing things that are fun and having a life.

(Just an aside to say that on the upside, I may be getting another client venue for my main job, so while that also may affect my free time, things are looking up somewhat. Follow @atomictrivia for more details.)

So at some point in the near future, I'm going to fire up the sim again, dust it off, and get it restarted - probably advancing it to the playoffs and then getting to the 2026 season.

Suggestions are always welcome. Offers of money and/or sexual favors are probably even more welcome.

#NorthAmericanBaseballAssociation #BaseballSimulation #SimBaseball #FakeBaseball #worldbuilding #weirdness

@RuthODay @olliethewobbly @AlexanderRaine7 @APBAreplay @tabletopmania @cwgrody @YakyuNightOwl @oldladyplays @Eilistraee @WolfofWords

Okay, after a period of seven shows in nine days, we got a nice bit of down time enforced by a bunch of snow and ice, so I'm back to the league. (And need to get going with this thing, since in game time, we're on May 16 of last year.)

I have finally figured out how to adjust the expected stats, and now have a better idea of how to tune the league. This is dangerous, of course, because you can be damn sure I will keep twiddling until it's just right. The idea was to crank the hits way down - the league was hitting .283 - and the triples and home runs up a little, as I'm not a fan of the swing-from-the-heels-at-every-damn-thing approach that is common today...but 1.63 HR/game is probably too low. (I think current day is something like 2.2 HR/G.)

This fine tuning did cause us to drop two in a row to gaddamned Ottawa of all teams, so I was somewhat chagrined at getting it right. The Orioles are still coming back to Earth after a torrid hitting spree in the first 20 games or so, so things are still going to take a while overall to balance out. And we're still in second place. So it'll mean that I will need to actually manage games a bit rather than sit back in the dugout and occasionally shout out "Attaway to hit, boys," and walk away with a win.

#NABA #NorthAmericanBaseballAssociation #BaseballSim #BaseballIsBetterThanSnow

@RuthODay @olliethewobbly @AlexanderRaine7 @APBAreplay @tabletopmania @cwgrody @YakyuNightOwl @oldladyplays @Eilistraee @WolfofWords

#NABA #NorthAmericanBaseballAssociation

Today's Match of the Day takes us to Three Rivers Park in Pittsburgh (corporate naming deals are banned in the NABA) with Sidney Zweibel pitching for the Pirates and Dantavius Bishop taking the mound for the visiting Hartford Whalers.

The Pirates opened by plating two in the 1st: Rocky Colavito's wild throw from right brought in Ron Hunt on a Chip Hinton single, followed by Roberto Clemente batting in Nick Markakis with a single past Lenn Sakata - but Roger Repoz guns down Hinton from center to stop the bleeding there. The Whales' Tails claw one back in the 2nd as Bishop helps his own cause, bringing in Colavito with a two-out single.

Zweibel runs out of gas in the 5th, but Kaneda Sato provides a lack of relief, walking Rip Kirby with the bases loaded before striking out catcher Sterling Scargill. In the bottom of the inning, Jett Indigo greets Bishop with a solo shot to break the tie, but at the top of the 6th, Casey Candaele triples with Colavito aboard to re-tie. Somehow Sato gets out of it with no further damage, enticing Sakata and Serafin Moya into pop-up outs.

Sato gets chased in the top of the 7th with two more runs from the Whalers, but Markakis blasts a two-run dinger in the bottom of that frame to knot it again at 5. No scoring in the 8th or 9th, and that means some free baseball for the fans.

Rikelven Meadows comes in and gets two quick outs in the 10th. The 1-2 pitch to Kirby, and - "My God, that ball had a family!!" Rip Kirby puts it out of reach on a rope, 431 to dead center!

Pablo Cerezo, the Venezuelan marvel leading the league with 8 saves thus far, comes in to attempt to notch a ninth for the Whalers. But Markakis greets him with his fifth hit of the day, a double down the left field line. No matter: Hinton is retired on a routine fly and Clemente strikes out, bringing up Panamanian lefty Denys Galvez. And it's a line drive into the right-center gap and we're off to the races! Markakis scores and the not-too-speedy Galvez nonetheless beats Colavito's throw to third! Bringing up...Sicnarf Loopstok? Yes, the backup catcher who entered in the 9th on a double substitution. (NOTE: I swear on all that is holy that I did not make up that name - nor did I tinker with his stats...he's a rank scrub.)

Loopstok works it to 3-1 on Cerezo, and line drive base hit to left! Galvez trots home, and that's the game! Pirates 7, Whalers 6 in 10!

Eastern League scores:
Baltimore 6, Philadelphia 3
Montreal 5, Brooklyn 3
Toronto 6, Ottawa 3
Boston 8, New York 7 (11)

Western League scores:
Hollywood 12, Vancouver 8
Portland 8, San Francisco 3
San Diego 5, Oakland 3
Los Angeles 8, Sacramento 6
Seattle 9, Honolulu 3

In other news, I was intrigued enough by something @oldladyplays said that I'm now looking into the possibility of streaming a game or two on YouTube. This will of course reveal my secret identity, but in the words of William Shatner, "I'm willing!To...take! That! Risk!"

#BaseballSim #OOTP #IfTheNHLIsntUsingTheWhalersICan