Dumping Statis Pro Baseballs SR, RR, and POE Pitcher Ratings When Avalon Hill (AH) bought the rights to Statis Pro baseball from Jim Baines, and first published it as 2nd Edition, they used the original Starting Rating (SR) and Relief Ratting (RR) formulas as a way to determine when a pitcher gets fatigued and should be removed from the game. In later versions of the 2nd Edition rules offered an advanced formula known as the 'Points Of Effectiveness' (POE) rules which used a different formula to determine when a pitcher became fatigued during the game.  The first system, SR and RR ratings was easy enough, but often a pitcher could get blown out in a single inning or two which was not exactly realistic, and over time I felt led to poor results. The POE system has merit, but is clunky and gets bogged down in minutiae real quick when you have to factor in points for consecutive hits and other factors. To be honest it was easier to use the SR and RR ratings, and I did for many ...

I have been an active Statis Pro baseball player since I was in high school. That is to say, I started playing this game in 1978, the first year it was produced by Avalon Hill after the rights to the game had been purchased by Jim Barnes. As produced, my best friend and I played this game for hours, but the one weakness of the game for two players was the single ‘Fast Action Card’ (FAC) deck. The FAC however was one of its greatest aspects for the single gamer, which is why I believe the game has stood the test of time and has a moderate following as a solo game. After playing for some weeks Barry also purchased a copy of the game and we began to play with two FAC decks. In this instance, the defensive manager would flip the first card to determine the PB number, the offensive manager would flip a card from his deck to determine the result of the play. Then the defensive manager would flip a card from his deck as necessary to determine if there was an error on the play. Or if there h...

Having to flip through the red, yellow, and blue out charts that came with the Statis Pro baseball was always a pain in the backside. Over the years I combined and condensed the original out charts to make them easier to manage and speed up game play. The biggest thing I wanted to do is make them easy to read and not bog the player down with lots of abbreviations as many of the condensed out charts produced by other fans seem to do. The result is that the charts are easy to read, and all the necessary information from the original charts is included with two small changes or additions. In the original charts some ‘GX#’ and ‘GA#’ results simply state that the batter is safe, and a specific base runner is thrown out. Unfortunately, the original Statis Pro rules leave no instruction on how to score the play. For Example, with no outs, and men on 1st and 2nd base, the batter hits into a ‘GX2’. The original out charts indicate: Men on 1st and 2nd GX2: Force out at 3rd, catcher to 3rd, batte...

  Are Statis Pro Base Stealing Charts Accurate? Over the years, I have heard many people inquire about the accuracy of the original SP base stealing charts. My personal opinion is that for the most part they are a good representation of the game. They are however, somewhat bare bones, which leads to fast game play, but miserably fails when it comes to taking into account the defensive players roll in the stolen base attempt. So let’s look at how the charts impact a fast or smart base stealer (SP: A) versus the slower or less savvy base stealer (SP: D or E). I think you may be surprised at the results. SP: A (Versus Catcher TA) Safe: 48% of the time. Thrown Out: 20% of the time. Advances on Error: 9% of the time. Cannot Get Jump: 20% of the time. So if you give an SP: A runner the signal to steal 2nd, he will attempt the steal approximately 80% of the time. If he does attempt to steal, there are only three outcomes. He is safe (48%), he is thrown out (20%), or he advances on an erro...

The other day, one of the guys over on the Statis Pro Facebook page was looking for a scoresheet. Many years ago I used up my last original SP scoresheet, and a made replica of the original in Google Docs. As I have seen many people requesting a source for this scoresheet, I have decided to make it available for free on Google Drive. All you have to do to get a PDF version of this scoresheet is click on the link below and download the file. Since I made my original version, I create another variation that I use with now in place of the original Statis Pro Scoresheet. You can download this scoresheet for free as well by clicking on the 'Pro-Stat d10' scoresheet link below. I hope you will enjoy whichever version you choose to use. Original Statis Pro Baseball Scoresheet Pro-Stat d10 Baseball Scoresheet