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You can get as basic or as complex as you want to playing the game." "The advanced game just adds more lefty-right splits to it. The basic game is as simple as it was when you played it in the '60s," Garcia said. You throw the dice and you get the result of the at-bat.įor a reporter who played Strat-O-Matic in his teenage years, the game has adjusted to the changes in baseball and the use of more analytics in determining player skills. "The lineup, the starting pitcher, the order. You make all of the decisions the manager would make," the APBA owner said of his game. "A game will take 15-20 minutes, playing our basic game. The basic Strat-O-Matic game features all the teams from 2019, with 27 players per team.

So if you were an Astros fan, you could play a World Series and see if the Astros could beat the Nats. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros and New York Yankees of 2019. The base APBA game has the Washington Nationals, St. The game is played based on results of a particular season, and the numbers on players' cards relate to their success, or lack of same, on the baseball field in that particular year. You create lineups and starting pitcher, and roll out a baseball game," Strat-O-Matic's John Garcia said. "For the board game, every player gets his own card. That's been running for the past six days now."īoth games are the same, but are also very, very different. The new users coming to that, what we used to get in a month, we're getting daily now. "I haven't seen them for the last two days. "Our active daily users have doubled since the 12th," Herson said on Monday. The message from APBA's Herson is much the same as the one heard from Strat-O-Matic. What's going on right now, people are nesting at home, and it's a great time for Strat-O-Matic, whether it's the board game, the Windows game or on line."

"We had our biggest year ever last year," Richman said, "so our business is growing. The two games are much different when it comes to exactly how the games are played. "Anything you might be having withdrawals from, come and check us out," Herson said.īoth card/dice games are similar, in that players throw dice to determine what the players in their lineups do at bat, on the mound and in the field. Strat-O-Matic came to be on Long Island, founded by Hal Richman. It happened very quickly and it's a substantial uptick for both our brick and mortar products and also on the digital side."ĪPBA was founded in 1951, in Lancaster, Pa., by J. "Absolutely," said Strat's Adam Richman, "both on the board game and on the digital side. Our active daily users have doubled daily since the 12th." Then we have an internet version 'APBA Go,'" said John Herson, owner of the APBA Games Co., "and that's up dramatically. We have a Windows PC version and sales of that are up. We have the board games with cards and dice, that's up.