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Post by malicelover on Oct 19, 2021 15:30:46 GMT -5
For me, for as long as I can remember, basketball season starts when the Red Sox season ends; and baseball season starts when the Celtics season ends. What ... no Patriots? 😮🏈 Grew up in Ohio with a father who spent his formative years in Mass. The Patriots were terrible when he was growing up, and by the time they got "good" he was living in Ohio and was a Browns fan. This made me a Browns fan, until they announced the team was moving. Within a month of the Browns announcing they were moving to Baltimore the Red Sox announced they had traded for Pedro Martinez and by the time the Browns came back I was locked into Paul Pierce as a Celtics fan and Pedro was doing Pedro things. Hence, not an NFL fan. |
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Post by Matt on Oct 19, 2021 18:12:37 GMT -5
Hopefully the hockey episode is coming up soon! Matt, I live in the "State of Hockey" and while I have been to two Minnesota Wild games, I have never gotten into hockey as much as I would like. The biggest factor is that it occurs during my wrestling coaching season. The Wild's arena (the Xcel Center in downtown St. Paul, formerly the site of AWA arena, the St. Paul Civic Center) is a nice facility. I have sat in two different spots at Wild games and both times, I had a great view. The Xcel looks better at the end of February/beginning of March when the ice is removed and wrestling mats are put down for the state high school wrestling tournament.  I got to coach on that floor in 2018 and it was a really neat feeling stepping out there. One of the many rinks I still need to get to! |
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Post by Vegas on Oct 21, 2021 0:19:40 GMT -5
I listened to this episode.
Before the Sonics left Seattle, basketball used to be my favorite sport. These days I still watch it- tonight I watched the ending of a great double-overtime game between 2 of the NBA's original 6- Celtics and Knicks- but I usually don't care who wins unless I have money on the game and I tend not to bet on basketball anymore as I follow it less now that I do not have a team. I have two NFL teams (Seahawks and Raiders) as I have lived in both areas for over 20 years but no current NBA teams. However, I think that will change in the next round of expansion which- from Adam Silver's recent comments- sounds like it is happening once the pandemic is completely over and I believe either Seattle or Las Vegas (and quite possibly both) will get an NBA expansion franchise.
One of my former students is actually in the NBA, Troy Brown Jr. of the Chicago Bulls. Troy was a student in my World History Honors class during the 2014-2015 school year and he was both an excellent student and just a great person period.
As for basketball video games, some of the games I played were Tecmo Basketball, NBA Jam, the annual NBA games from EA sports in the mid-1990s, and NBA Action for the Sega Genesis.
As far as basketball simulations, the only one I played was one I created myself. Starting with the 1989-1990 season, my 10th-grade year, I had just moved from Tacoma to Kent and had no friends at my new high school so at lunch I went to the library and, using the stats from the 1988-1989 season that I had in a magazine, I designed my own basketball game for the 1989-90 season and I played several seasons with it during the 1990s by changing the player stats each year based on the previous season. It was not anything on the level of strat or the games some of you guys played but it still played well and I really enjoyed it. Each of my player cards had stats for FG%, FT%, 3 point %, rebounding, fouls, steals, turnovers, blocks, etc and my gameplay system used mostly 2 ten-sided dice. I think the Pistons won the championship in my first season and I remember the Celtics won it one year too led by Reggie Lewis and Kevin McHale.
Looking forward to listening to the 1-year Anniversary episode later this week.
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Post by Vegas on Oct 21, 2021 0:24:41 GMT -5
I just remembered. Around 1990, from the local comic book store, I bought and played this NCAA Tournament board game:  I thought it was OK. |
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Post by Brian V on Oct 21, 2021 10:42:33 GMT -5
I was a huge Statis Pro fan in the early stages of my sports game infatuation. I had statis pro basketball, but I could never get into basketball board games. They all take so long to play and there are too many decisions to be made for me to feel like I can be partial. I felt like a wrestling booker playing a basketball game  I did play the March Madness game some and enjoyed it. I also liked a game I downloaded from Table-Top-Sports that was called 59 second basketball. With it, you could play a basketball game in less than 1 minute. There were no stats, so it was more in chasing conference or division championships than playing the game. I made an excel file that could play out an entire NCAA season in a couple minutes, but mainly used it to fill in the games while I played the March Madness game for one team and try to win a conference title. As for video basketball games, the one I remember playing the most is an Intellivision game that a friend had. I can't remember the name, but you had a set amount of money and you would have to bid on fictional players for each game. You had to decide how you wanted to build your team and spend your money wisely so you could build a balanced team. I did make my own basketball game for a computer programming class (I got an A on the assignment!) that was based on the Missouri Valley Conference, I cant remember the year, but it was the year the Drake Bulldogs won the conference and went to the NCAA tournament. It had full statistics for each player. It's another one that if I made a board version of it, would take way too long to play a whole game, though it would be quite a bit less than Statis Pro and Strat-O-Matic. |
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Post by codeman85 on Oct 28, 2021 8:23:17 GMT -5
Question about Statis-Pro from someone who has never played: Can someone explain the difference between base 8 and base 10? Which would you suggest for a newcomer?
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I got to coach on that floor in 2018 and it was a really neat feeling stepping out there. 
I did play the March Madness game some and enjoyed it. I also liked a game I downloaded from Table-Top-Sports that was called 59 second basketball. With it, you could play a basketball game in less than 1 minute. There were no stats, so it was more in chasing conference or division championships than playing the game. I made an excel file that could play out an entire NCAA season in a couple minutes, but mainly used it to fill in the games while I played the March Madness game for one team and try to win a conference title. As for video basketball games, the one I remember playing the most is an Intellivision game that a friend had. I can't remember the name, but you had a set amount of money and you would have to bid on fictional players for each game. You had to decide how you wanted to build your team and spend your money wisely so you could build a balanced team. I did make my own basketball game for a computer programming class (I got an A on the assignment!) that was based on the Missouri Valley Conference, I cant remember the year, but it was the year the Drake Bulldogs won the conference and went to the NCAA tournament. It had full statistics for each player. It's another one that if I made a board version of it, would take way too long to play a whole game, though it would be quite a bit less than Statis Pro and Strat-O-Matic.