As I’ve begun my little 21-game project between the Monday Monsters and the Tuesday Terribles, I of course wanted to keep stats. That was part of the fun, right? To establish how bad the Terribles were as opposed to the mighty Monsters. But did I really want to re-invent the…
Over at the Illowa APBA League’s web site, I uploaded an Excel spreadsheet which can be used to keep team’s stats throughout a season. I debated whether there would be interest in it over here at the APBA Blog. Walt Taylor however, thinks it will be very useful for his…
This post is may not seem APBA-related but for me, it is. It’s geared for APBA players who like me, store APBA files on their computer. Examples of these can be Excel stat files, backups of APBA BBW files, or for that matter any type of documentation of replays. This…
Now that the 2019 Major League Baseball regular season is over, many of us are looking at stats. Lots of stats. Whether we are league members, (potential) replayers or just curious APBA baseball fans, we’re interested in how the numbers stack up. I know you all have your favorite avenues…
Well, it’s been a while since I put out a Replay stats with Excel tutorial. Between Illini baseball in full swing and organizing Prairieland 2, it’s been quite busy. Never fear, here is the next segment. Why a league register? Up until now, I’ve focused on tracking stats from a…
I just uploaded another quick video on how I set up my stats for the Excel fans out there. It’s a follow-up to the first one when I created player worksheets. This video takes the data from those player worksheets from the first one and displays it all in a…
I received some good feedback on my video tour of my Excel stats setup of my 1966 National League replay so I thought I’d put together a series of videos on how I got to the point where I’m at now. Here is the first one. The best place to…
Chuck Lucas has been seeing the leaderboards I’ve been posting for my 1966 National League replay using the APBA Basic Game and he asked about how I keep my stats. I thought the best way to show him (and everyone else) is to make a video tour of my stats…
Now that the Major League Baseball season is over, some of you may want to have a copy of the stats on your computer to view, sort and filter. Most of us are fine with browsing the nicely formatted web pages at Baseball Reference, MLB.com or ESPN.com. However, if you’re…
Stat-keeping is all about paperwork. While that certainly sounds threatening, with the power of a personal computer and basic applications, the work involved in keeping your records up has been reduced considerably. To start with, here Is a list of important tools that you will need, at a minimum: The…