Re: My 2000th post: Knowing when to hang it up
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Without hijacking too much, can someone give me 3 second intro on what the hell strat-o-matic is?
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It's a tabletop baseball simulation game -- at least baseball is the most popular variant.
In the game, each 'athlete' is represented by a player card, on which are printed various ratings and result tables for dice rolls.
A player is in charge of making strategic and personnel decisions for their team, while determining the results of their decisions by cross-referencing dice rolls with a system of printed charts and tables.
The results on the player cards are determined by a combination of the respective athlete's real-life statistics for the previous year and research of scouting reports.
There are various versions of the game; the more advanced versions give more strategic options to players while taking into account additional nuances of an athlete's abilities (ie., in baseball, differences in hitting vs. left handed or right handed pitchers).
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