RE: (TFT) Ideas

[<dwtulloh61@cox.net>]

Whoops ... my bad.  It was "Cadaco All-Star Baseball"   Was sure it
was Strat-o-matic.  Never heard of Sherco ... what is it?

---- Jonathan & Laura <jlekevans@sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> Dan,
> 
> Are you sure you have Strat-o-Matic in mind, and not (I believe) Sherco?
> Strat is solely a dice and cards based game, with cards for each player
> double-sided (one side with 3 columns -- basic; the other with 6 columns).
> Playing with the advanced cards would make predictions difficult enough that
> a market emerged for books that helped players in draft leagues determine
> which players they ought to draft.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of
> Dan Tulloh
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:39 PM
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Ideas
> 
> I loved Strat-o-matic Baseball.   I had a league set up and slowly played
> out the games .. I think I had 6 or 8 teams.  One of my players, Ken Boyer,
> was actually batting .809
> 
> With enough practice, you could get pretty good at predicting where the
> spinner would end up ... which is why dice are better at those kind of
> games.
> Still, it was a great deal of fun.  I think expansion packs are still
> available
> for the baseball game - eBay would be the place to start looking.
> 
> Dan
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jonathan & Laura" <jlekevans@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <tft@brainiac.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 8:30 PM
> Subject: RE: (TFT) Ideas
> 
> 
> > All the Strat-o-matic games are good statistical replay games, and each of
> > them give you enough variety of options so that you feel like you are in
> the
> > role of a manager/coach, rather than just watching the play unfold as you
> > roll dice.
> >
> > The Football game plays best head-to-head, and I've found the
> Super-Advanced
> > (or Super-Super advanced, whatever it is) to be most enjoyable of the
> > versions for replicating the feel of a side-line coach.  For replaying an
> > entire season, I wouldn't recommend those rules, though.
> >
> > Of the three, though, I'd say the baseball game is the best, though the
> > other two are quite good.  If you've got more specific questions I'd be
> > happy to answer them.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of
> > Jay Carlisle
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:17 PM
> > To: tft@brainiac.com
> > Subject: (TFT) Ideas
> >
> > This is driving me batty but the damn thing could work...
> >
> > I was given a room FULL of games recently and it's proving to be quite
> > insprational.
> >
> > One of these games is Strat-o-matic Football.
> > (also Baseball and Hockey)
> >
> > Does anyone out there have any experince with this thing?
> >
> > Jay
> >
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