With the Illowa APBA League’s rookie draft and opening day less than a month away, we’re smack dab in the middle of our trading season. This is evident by the list of trades that our league has made. I’ve stayed out of the trading fray so far but once we get together in person, it [...]
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With the closing of the Geocities web hosting service, YABL has had to relocate their fine website. You can now find them at http://webspace.webring.com/people/fb/burgda/. Important not only to find out about their league but for another reason. League member and webmaster Doug Burg maintains the APBA Baseball Card 12 List and [...]
This Saturday will be the last series of the year for my Twin Cities Thunderchickens. No, I won’t be duking it out for a playoff spot. We’ve got last place pretty much sewed up, thank you. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a little tension when I play the Green Rock Bombers this [...]
In time for the new year, Rotoprofessor has just come out with their 2010 MLB rankings by position.
I believe I directed you their rankings last year. When it comes to trading and drafting within our leagues, I find rankings helpful. and I think they do as good of a job as any. As I [...]
The APBA Blog gets an email regarding replay schedules:
Dear APBA Blog, I have been playing APBA Baseball since I was probably 7 years old. My dad passed it along to me and I have never grown bored or tired of the basic game and love just tossing the [...]
Hallelujah! Just in time for Christmas, Steve Guthrie has once again come out with APBA cards for the NCAA. Above you see secondbaseman Josh Parr who plays for my beloved Illini.
You can go to Steve’s web site to download the cards in excel file format. Once downloaded, you can print them out to use. [...]
Advanced Fantasy Baseball has “Ten Fantasy Baseball Trade Secrets”. It was posted last May and admittedly is geared toward fantasy baseball not APBA. However, most of the tips still apply.
Like #9:
Concern yourself with the end result more than the price. You may think giving up a certain keeper for a collection of players you [...]
Francis Rose is selling the APBA Journal.
Citing lack of time to devote to it, entrepreneur Francis Rose is attempting to unload the periodical dedicated the game of APBA. AJ, which has been around since I was kid, was a great resource for those who played in leagues as well as solitaire replays.
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For those who will be entering draft time sometime soon, here is a list (in pdf form) of the 2009 rookies that our commissioner put together.
For the players, it includes playing time including games at secondary positions. For pitchers, it includes playing time as well as W-L record and ERA.
One warning: the list [...]
I want to run an idea past everyone and see if there is any interest in it.
1. Would you find it helpful/useful/interesting to have an online database or spreadsheet that had the pitchers’ APBA grades and ratings for every season that the company issued? Would you use such a site?
2. Additionally, if a [...]
