standard – Hardball Retro https://www.tuatarasoftware.com dedicated to the enrichment of casual and serious enthusiasts in all aspects of professional baseball Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:36:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-hardball_retro_icon-1-32x32.jpg standard – Hardball Retro https://www.tuatarasoftware.com 32 32 APBA Baseball for Windows – tutorial – conducting a solo draft https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/2025/03/13/apba-baseball-for-windows-tutorial-conducting-a-solo-draft/ https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/2025/03/13/apba-baseball-for-windows-tutorial-conducting-a-solo-draft/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:00:20 +0000 https://www.tuatarasoftware.com/?p=20535 Read more]]> I created a tutorial to discuss how to conduct a solo draft in APBA Baseball for Windows. You can also execute drafts with multiple human participants using these methods – I elected the solo option with the computer general manager configured to draft the remaining teams for the sake of simplicity.

Here’s a rundown of the requirements:

  • APBA Baseball for Windows (version 5.0 or higher) – Game Disk
  • optional, but recommended: APBA Baseball for Windows – Season Disk(s)
  • optional, but recommended: Baseball Wizard (Windows Edition)
  • optional, but recommended: Fanpark / Bill James Baseball Encyclopedia (Windows Edition)

APBA Baseball for Windows was developed and published by Miller Associates for the IBM PC personal computer. Several iterations were released for Windows 3.1 and subsequent editions were built to run on the Windows 95 operating system between 1993 and 1999. I’m utilizing version 5.75 in my tutorial but this feature was implemented in version 5.0.

I divided the tutorial into three sections: Advanced Draft (selecting the player pool, draft rules, conducting the draft), League Manager (setting lineups/rotations, scheduling and injury management rules, simulating a complete season) and StatMaster (reviewing the simulated season standings, league leaders and team-by-team batting and pitching results).

View the tutorial videos here:

Part 1 – Advanced Draft

Part 2 – League Manager

Part 3 – StatMaster

Season Disk Downloads:

coming soon

References:

Miller Associates 1993 catalog:

https://apbagames.com/wp-content/uploads/baseball/Miller_Assoc_1993.pdf

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