Down here was a place for holding epic slumber parties and watching scrambled HBO. I was introduced to Statis Pro Baseball by a good friend of mine only about 2 years ago. This was done by comparing the error range on the FAC to the error rating of the fielder. The problem was that, in order to maintain fealty to the universe you’d created, you had to pay careful attention to what you were doing.

He’s 77 now, and he’s had struggles with his health, in part, he says, because of all those years he drove his varied obsessions to their limits. It arrived with the player cards intact, with the color-coded out charts still crisp, with the scoresheets pristine and unblemished. But as I got older and the season dragged on from one summer to the next, from elementary school to junior high to high school, I hid Randy Ready on the bench. The game system is fairly simple, but still gives the manager a wide variety of options that generally result in a fun and relatively realistic game. Once a pitcher's Reduction Rating reached zero, a PB number would no longer be drawn for each hitter—instead, all at-bats would begin with a FAC Random Number draw being compared to the hitter's card. In the basement, I was in command of everything.And so these alternate universes were as much an obligation as a pleasure. At one point, his only time off during the week came on Tuesday evenings.He did not particularly enjoy his relationship with Avalon Hill, and he did not get rich for his efforts, even after For Jim Barnes, STATIS PRO was never a pathway to a legacy.

Thus, the at-bat is complete. You could play it head-to-head, but in truth, STATIS PRO was a game meant for those us who preferred to work alone.Tabletop baseball games, both official and unofficial, have existed since the advent of baseball itself. The beauty of the Fast Action Cards (FACs) is difficult for their creator to explain; as with many of his inventions, they just felt right. When they called him back, he told them he had nothing.

In 1948, an 11-year-old kid named Hal Richman took to his basement to escape an abusive father and wound up inventing Strat-o-Matic, which is often credited for helping to inspire the Sabermetric revolution.Richman grew up on Long Island, and for those of us who came of age in suburbia, the basement was as detached from the adult universe as any space in the same physical structure could ever be. What was the point of spending time with a re-creation that possessed no authenticity? The exhausting work of adolescent obsession In the summer of 1984, at the age of 11, I found a vast number of things intimidating, up to and including: mock turtlenecks, break dancing, David Bowie’s version of “China Girl,” Zola Budd, Hebrew school textbooks, and the dining room of our home on Devonshire Drive in State College, Penn. If, however, the original PB number drawn was 10, it would be "out of range" and the random number would be compared to the batter's card. Once I learned how to play I watched how painstaking the process was in order to create not only new cards for old players that were missing from various teams, but creating an entire team from some of the more recent years. Some have even created new FACs to make the Random Number and PB Number draws more truly random. Statis Pro Card Creator. This is "in range" (that is, between 2 and 9). It wasn’t that the games themselves took especially long to play, but to Well, this requires innovation, for the number 15 is going to come up several times over the course of typical summer, and the scenario that one must play out in one’s head is dependent on whether the batter in question is Reggie Jackson or, say, Paul Molitor.

If the PB number was "out of range", the resulting random number would be compared to the batter's card to determine the result. Very occasionally, a PB number of Z would be drawn. A FAC would be drawn, and the resulting Random Number would be compared to the base-stealing chart on the game board. For example, if the fielder's error rating was E2 and the error rating on the FAC was F8 to F10, then there would be no error. And deadlines are stress.”He doesn’t protect any licenses on STATIS PRO. He imagined the work it would require, and he decided, like Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, that he would prefer not to.Around the time STATIS PRO ceased to exist, around the time Jim Barnes says he stopped following baseball altogether, I came to the realization that I was going to depart for college before I finished replicating the 1983 season. - welcome to the market leader in fun, quick, and accurate Statis Pro Compatible products across the major sports. He devised graphics for a gambling program on ESPN.

A few months ago, I purchased the 1983 version of STATIS PRO BASEBALL on eBay. Because of this, it was usually advisable to remove a pitcher once his reduction hit zero (or even before). Others have created new rules in order to add further realism to the game (such as rules for foul balls, special rules for different ballparks, etc. Play was incorporated by rolling the dice to get a number between 2–12 which would determine if the play result would come from the pitchers card or the batters card. That first summer, I permitted myself some liberties, and I made Randy Ready a regular starter. That first summer I imagined I would play out a 162-game slate and then purchase the ensuing year’s version of STATIS PRO and do it all over again, but time soon eclipsed my grand notions. In the basement, it was just the opposite.