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Live and in color [By Request Only]

Tuesday, 7. April 2009, 02:58:49

2 sets based on the wonderful, dedicated, hard scrabble research of Gary Ashwill.

One compiles many of the colored ballplayers of 1916 into a set of 6 teams playing a 60 game season.
The 2nd set compiles the results of 2 years worth of play by the Negro National League (West) and associated eastern teams, from 1921 and 1922, into a single entity, 10 team league playing a 162 game season.

These are both done as SAdv, for computer play only, and require the ownership of V 14 to authenticate.


Both sets have imported Starter Schedules playing balanced schedules, and trannies, in an attempt to better "control" for usage, and to mitigate overuse. Really, I want to see to what degree I can keep the double duty players' appearances unique. As starting pitchers:fielders, I've done so. As relief pitchers:fielders, probably less successfully.

Obviously, these are important documents for the SOM gamer. Hopefully they serve to further enhance the anticipation of the forthcoming official SOM release.








Let's take some B! Wo okashi, omoi mono

Comments

88 Luis Medina 29. February 2008, 02:49

This is above and beyond anything I could have expected! Thank You!

phillydj 29. February 2008, 03:18

Excellent, excellent, excellent! Great job, guys.

DJ

eddiestrat 29. February 2008, 03:21

This project is truly amazing. Hats off to Gary Ashwill and everybody else who made this possible. Thank you.

bearman14 29. February 2008, 08:02

Awesome.Thanks

bolee41 1. March 2008, 01:46

All I can say is WOW and Thank You.

KenP1 1. March 2008, 12:58

This is so cool. I can't wait to try this league out. Thank you so much.

Thanks,
KenP1

GarLen 2. March 2008, 15:43

Thank you guys. Great to read just how excited you are. We are too. Please let us know how you use it, and if you create a draft league with these players. We expect that would work out really well but it's something that we hadn't tried. Nor did we try any fraternization with the majors. That we make no claims for.

roadgrays 2. March 2008, 18:40

Absolutely awesome job guys, I can't begin to express the thanks for the amount of work that goes into projects like this.

moboat 2. March 2008, 22:44

More great stuff !
... as always ...my thanks

BaseballinDC 3. March 2008, 00:46

Outstanding - the hybrid concept gets around a lot of the problems we have with not enough data, games played, players moving around irregularly, etc. We just need to accept the Negro Leagues for what they were rather than imposing the same expectations as we have for the Major Leagues. I'd rather have this set with whatever flaws it might have in terms of perfect historical accuracy than pretend the league didn't exist.

Anyway, great stuff! Thanks and congratulations to all responsible.

LuiBei 4. March 2008, 02:07

Awesome... can't wait to dive into this one!

bactsr2 5. March 2008, 23:09

Thank you - I haven't upgraded from V11 yet, so I can't actually use the set at this time, but I look forward to using it when I upgrade this summer.

Brian 8. March 2008, 09:13

You guys are just simply amazing. And that's an understatement. Thanks to each and every one of you.

icefan13 11. March 2008, 01:55

Thank you for the hard work and this great set.

Jimbo 11. March 2008, 10:51

Somehow, I missed this during my last few visits. I have to start paying more attention!

I can't wait to download and try them out. Thanks so much for sharing.

Kenneth E. Fricke 12. March 2008, 01:53

I finally got back in here and found this waiting! Looks like it'll be a lot of fun. I have done a lot of reading on these guys, so should be even more enjoyable.

Ken

mapstratfan 13. March 2008, 00:48

What a remarkable labor and thank you for producing it and sharing it with us. May you each win all your leagues forever more,
Michael

Ed Williams 18. March 2008, 02:22

This is great! THANKS!

grndout 18. March 2008, 12:40

I’m new here, but so glad to have found you guys. Incredible project. I can’t even imagine all the work that went into it. Great job!

Waddell 27. March 2008, 07:49

I like playing the older teams much more than the present ones. I know this took many hours of labor. Thanks to all involved. I'm not sure when I'll get around to doing anything with it except a game here and there, tho. I have 3 leagues going already.

chrisbyrum 29. April 2008, 12:35

These are awesome, I appreciate your hard work so much.

bearman14 29. April 2008, 19:18

Great job! I know a bunch of work went into making these possible. Thank you!

bactsr2 29. April 2008, 22:04

Thank you! I've upgraded to V13, and have finally got a look at this set. Having Cool Papa Bell as a pitcher (with a #1 hitting card and a 1-10 runner) is something a bit different!

GarLen 30. April 2008, 00:36

We didn't edit the pitching cards for the pitchers' hitting ratings since we made PHC cards for everyone of them. Too much extra work to go through. If you want to do that for your set then you're quite welcome to- refer to the PHC version for the appropriate ratings.

mapstratfan 30. April 2008, 00:41

Just terrific. Perfect for one off replays. Thanks as always

KenP1 1. May 2008, 01:54

Another league to play. Very, very nice! I have already mixed in a couple of teams from the 1921/1922 season into a league I am presently playing with other major & minor leage teams. The results have been interesting. Thank you all for your dedicated work.

BaseballinDC 6. May 2008, 02:01

Amazing! Didn't realize we'd be adding another league so soon (1916) - thanks a million to all who work on these!

lonbags 9. May 2008, 03:09

Your efforts on this are much appreciated! Each of these is a treasure for Strat players, and much thanks goes to you for sharing your work.

Tug73 15. May 2008, 01:18

WOW! Amazing work. Loved 1930, can't wait to check this out.

Mike L 4. March 2009, 04:54

Thank you. Your work is appreciated.

gary3015 4. March 2009, 13:05

These look abolutely great and I am looking forward to using your great work.

Thanks Gary and thanks for making them available.

LuiBei 6. March 2009, 02:41

Amazing.. as always! Thanks!

Old Slugger 7. March 2009, 15:42

Len and Gary,
I truly appreciate your efforts here. I know this must have been a labor of love. I can't wait to give this a whirl.
Greg

talamas 8. April 2009, 08:26

One reason more, if needed, to upgrade to V14. Thanks Carlos

STEVE 14. April 2009, 15:43

I'd like to request access to this site please.

Thanks,SNAPOLI

R Jones 14. April 2009, 23:08

I would really appreciate access to these... I really enjoy playing the Negro Leagues... Thank you for all your hard work...

alex campbell 30. April 2009, 15:21

thanks for the hard work, would you please give me access to this.

thanks again.

bolee41 8. May 2009, 22:28

Great Stuff here
Thanks

bolee41 26. July 2009, 03:30

This is great stuff to see the great players that I hav never seen before.
Thanks
Brian

talamas 22. October 2009, 20:48

thanks for this new effort

Tom Nahigian 28. October 2009, 05:36

May I please have access to this Negro league set? Thank you!

Take Care,
Tom Nahigian

nelsth 18. December 2009, 03:22

May I please have access to this set? hank you.

Tom Nelson

gary3015 19. December 2009, 00:42


This is excellent work and thank you so very much.

Gary

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