RE: (TFT) Ideas

["Jonathan & Laura" <jlekevans@sbcglobal.net>]

John (and all),

Dan and I figured it out off-list.  Cadaco used the spinner, Strat like
Sherco uses dice and cards, though Sherco has the added bonus of the playing
board (that you mentioned) allows players to position their fielders.  It's
the only baseball board game I know of, besides 4SS Baseball, that offers a
nice "tactical" feel.  

Jonathan 

-----Original Message-----
From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of
John J Hyland
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:51 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: RE: (TFT) Ideas

Oh, man, I loved Sherco as a kid.  I could never beat my big brother though.
I loved that you get to position your feilders, and they have to move to
balls
put into play.  Good Times.
Sherco was just dice, though.  I am pretty sure strat was the spinner.

John

-- "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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