What's Up?
The baseball game I played in the 60's. I would play this game and keep all the stats for the players. Didn't have calculators so I had to divide out long hand the batting averages. Needless to say I didn't calculate often but I did. Guessing 4th/5th grade and was an early indication of my interests in descriptive statistics. Ended up being a Math/Science/Programming Teacher working on the program that started it all.
Background
The baseball program - something I wish to complete. I started writing this on a texas Instruments TI/99-4A computer in the 1980's.
The code was saved to a cassette tape! I learned BASIC (with line numbers) by looking at code examples. I spent the whole summer working and learning only to reach an error - "Out of Memory" when I tried to run the program. I don't know how long I stared at that error! 64K of RAM and at a time when you couldn't upgrade memory! It was OVER! I had help from two people (which I will acknowledge after I look them up) finding images of the game. I only had a few pieces of the game.
Project Documentation and Source Code.
I started playing this dice game when I was around 9 years old. Here is how the game is played on paper.
1. Make up lineups for both teams. You need batter and pitcher ratings. I created a spreadsheet to calculate these from real statistics from baseball-reference.com.
1. Roll two dice. WALK and S.O. ends the batters appearance. |
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If Corners was rolled, One chart is used for all batters regardless of batting factors.. If Overs was rolled, Use the chart associated with the batter's Batting Factor. |
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| Both the Corners and Overs Charts will have a place the ball is fielded. Roll one die for the outcome of the appearance. |  |
Additional Charts Bunt |
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The 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, ..., are Batter ratings.
How rating are currently evaluated.
Player stats are copied from baseball-reference.com into an Excel spreadsheet I created. The spreadsheet is a work in progress.
