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Sabermetrics
Sabermetrics
by (Web published) (2020)
Player Count
2

Player Ages
8+

Playing Time
20 minutes to 30 minutes
Categories
  • Dice
  • Sports
  • Math
  • Print & Play
  • Designers
  • Kevin Privalle
  • Mechanisms
  • Dice Rolling
  • Family
  • Sports: Baseball
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Contests: 1 Card PnP Design
  • Rating: 0/10 from 0 users

    Description

    Sabermetrics is a 2-player baseball game, utilizing dice-rolls and mathematics to simulate pitching and hitting, with built in events for stealing bases, picking runners off, and double- and triple-plays. Baseball is a numbers game - and so is Sabermetrics! Battle it out with your opponent over 9 innings in this race for the pennant. Still hungry for more? Why not make it a double-header!

    In Sabermetrics, player 1 starts on the mound, pitching three six-sided dice (two white, one green). Multiply the two white dice together, and then determine if you want to add the green value (for a fastball), or subtract the green value (for a change-up). That's your pitch number!

    Player 2 next rolls the three dice, and uses standard PMDAS (parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) to mathematically match the pitch number. If they can match exactly, that's a single! Calculate exactly twice the pitch number, and that's a double. Exactly three times - a triple. Within 1 - well, that's a ball (good-eye). Within 2 - that's a strike. Not even within 2?! That's an out! Not even half is a double-play, and not even a third is a triple play (assuming you have baserunners). Three outs ends the top of the first, and players switch roles (as well as rolls), to start the bottom of the inning. Roll three-of-a-kind as a pitcher, pick a runner off. Roll three-of-a-kind as a hitter, steal a base.

    After nine innings, the player with the most runs wins -- still tied? Head to extra innings! Ever winning by 10 or more at the bottom of an inning? That's a slaughter rule, take the win, hit the showers early.

    There are cubes to track the score, the pitch count, the innings, and the outs. This game can also be tracked with a standard baseball scorecard sheet as well -- but it's much more fun to use meeple baserunners!

    -description from designer

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