Was trying to reproduce the pitcher’s stats exactly. To the team based on endurance (how many innings he pitched), and how many Originally envisioned as rather comprehensive, a meld of his ERA and his value Pitcher’s MG Grade, probably wouldn’t really care even if they did notice. Most APBA players, if they had never seen the It’s always been that way and is just one of the quirks of the system. There’s no doubt that when you convert a Master Game Grade 5 to the Basic Game that he becomes better than a 9(W) converted. On W’sĮverybody’s reads the rants of several guys on ABTL regarding the undue influence of the (W) on the ERA of pitchers. Just ensure the M and H are offsetting and the G and L are offsetting. If you want specificity all you have to do is look at the 2B HR ratio, compute the 2B/HR ratios on the chart, and then adjust them to what you want. That system could easily be made season specific. That conversion assumes a more modern 2B to HR ratio. “M” Pitcher roll 11-34, double is changed to “L” Pitcher roll 11-22, double is changed to “G” Pitcher roll 11-26, homerun is changed to “H” Pitcher roll 11-46, homerun is changed to the highest numbered double on the board.

Think of them as Hardly Any, Good, Lots, and Mucho. On HGLM Home Run Ratings for the Basic Gameįrom best to worst it goes H, G, L and M. You’re dealing with two separate animals. It was sometime around 1990 or so when they put them on the same track, but APBA really ought to release information like that.

In this case, the MG grade would be off byĪt some point the Master Game Grade began to be computed first and then the Basic Game grade was created from the conversion. Of years, the Basic Game Grade was computed and then the MG grade was createdīy using an ERA breakdown on the Basic Game Grade.

The conversion brought the basic game into Weren’t accounting for the targeted platoon rating of roughly -1. After that, the new conversion probably needsĬonversion was changed because somebody, after 25 years or so, realized they Thinking that the grades were fine up through about 1990 or so. We knew exactly when they started creating the MG grade first, we could create Thus, the current scale remains intact acrossĭoing what you suggest, but the grades were derived differently, so the MG Original Master Game conversion guidelines from 1976ġ point for all sets printed prior to 2000 is easy and makes everything uniform Innovations that were created based on the old scheme with cards that wereĪn innovation based on the current scale, do you make adjustments when using However, they’re based on the old pitchingĬonversion scheme, i.e., 1-5 = D, instead of 1-4 = D. Chris Williams shares what information he’s collected about APBA with TAB readers!īoard sets contain a Master Game Pitching Grade Conversion Chart.

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