Sports Simulators United

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For those whose minds are faster than their thumbs! A group for players of Strat-O-Matic, Action!, APBA, Diamond Mind, and other sports simulation games on computer or tabletop.

  • 11 Members
  • Established 05/06/07
  • Group Tags: APBA, Strat-O-matic, Sportsgames, PC Games, Boardgames, baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, boxing, cricket, PC
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Well, my football league has resolved itself and, like my predecessor in Pittsburgh of the Allen-Bell Football League, I have reached the playoff semi-finals. Two fourth-quarter turnovers did the trick as I scored a 45-31 win over a Dallas team led by Tony Romo.My basketball leagues are going fairly well. I'm in two retro leagues and a current-day one, all with Action! PC Basketball.  Just before the season in the retro Chuck taylor League, I traded Spencer Haywood straight-up for "Sweet" Lou Hudson, and oddly enough the result is that my Portland team, which was…
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Sometimes stumpbling around the Net looking for stuff can come in handy. In this case I was able to find, plunk down the money for, and download the 2007 edition of Action PC Basketball, one of three sports simulation titles for Windows available from Dave Koch Sports. Since I was going to have to upgrade anyway for my two leagues, I got myself a sneak peek.Action is a prototypical sta sim; players are rated in various categories based on their season performance which in turn determines the action on the court. Unlike the videogame lines you don't see players running around; you can…
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I am in an Action! PC Football leaue, and right now it's draft time.This is an extant league, so we weren't drating frm scrtach. This estabilshed league has a unique two-draft system; the first draft os for Free Agents (people who ahve "cards" but are not on temas) and the second is the Rookie Draft (for people entering the NFL this season; if they have cards they're placed on your roster next season).In my case I had a pretty solid team (I inherited a 13-3 club that had made it to the semifinals) and picked 18th our of 20 each round. We're having the FA draft first,…

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My favorite way to play sportsgames, is to play the real game ie park football, bball at the church or employee league baseball( better known as drunken league). I spend little time on PC or concole games and when I do it's blood'n guts type games.
"The Razor" 05/15/07
I'm looking forward to the planned revivial of the PC version of Face-Off Hokcey myself.
MPH in Portland 05/14/07
MPH liked the blog. I disagree Bull riding is a sport I did it for 6 years. It's like being a RB that has to keep from getting tackled for 8 seconds every time! 8 seconds is about the time your average run takes! Consider it a fringe sport like golf lol!
"The Razor" 05/14/07

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