Roger's 1967 APBA Replay

The pre-season preparations for the upcoming 1967 BBW replay are completed, and it is (almost) time to play. My previous BBW replays (1901, 1911, 1920, 1930, 1941, 1949, and 1957) were all pre-expansion seasons, so 1967 will be my first post-expansion season. There is no division play - that won't happen for two more years - so there are no rounds of play-offs yet, and the designated hitter is still six years away.  Twenty teams instead of sixteen, but still good old-fashioned baseball.  The 1967 set is a revised set, and every player is carded (disked?), 718 total players in all. As a curiosity, 65 players have zero 31s on their cards. I have encountered this in other sets, but only in a very limited fashion. I am not saying it is wrong, I am just saying I was surprised. There are a total of sixteen players with three 31s.   The number of stolen bases and the number of stolen base attempts between 1966 and 1967 is relatively unchanged, but batting averages in both ...

I recently completed a replay arc consisting of the following seven seasons: 1901, 1911, 1920, 1930, 1941, 1949, and 1957. This arc allowed me to play a group of seasons with a kinda-sorta ten-year gap between each season. This, in turn, allowed me to traverse the first half of the 20th century and to experience the evolution of baseball over this time period. These seasons all pre-date the expansion era but do include both pre- and post-integration seasons.   Background: Each of these seasons was replayed using APBA Baseball for Windows (BBW). Each replay was preceded by 3-4 months of prep work, with 6-7 months required to complete the gameplay. Micro-Managers were not used as all games were played manually. I used the APBA Transactions Manager ( ATMgr ) to automatically load my lineups before each game, which helped to streamline my gameplay. The time allotted to complete the replay is a comfortable pace for me that allowed me to keep playing but also allowed me to take a day off...