If so, post your results.Įssentially, yes- APBA built in the “upgrade” system to allow pitchers with lower grades to pitch deeper into games if they don’t allow any runs to simulate a pitcher “hitting his stride”. Has anyone test driven this Starting Pitching Fatigue System out? I’m curious how it’s worked for you. I haven’t had a chance to test this one out yet though. In concept, I like the idea of a pitchers’ fatigue system especially for replays. Note that if your pitcher hasn’t given up an earned run, he is still subject to the grade advancements as per usual APBA rules, UNTIL he gives up a run. There are additional rules regarding whether or not he retires the following batters which may quicken his demise.Īs a point of information (because I was confused by this), the numbers in the parenthesis are to be subtracted from the BF Rating.

That gives you an idea how many batters the pitcher can face before his grade is affected. How does it work? To put it VERY simply, two dice are rolled and added before the game. Though it could be used with the Master Game, that game has its own fatigue system with the Q rating.

As far as I can tell, this fatigue rating chart is meant to be used as an advanced feature for the Basic Game. This fatigue rating is to be used with APBA Starting Pitching Fatigue Chart which is found on APBA’s web site here. See the highlighted fatigue rating on Jake Odorizzi’s APBA card. The fatigue rating appears as a number right after the strikeout and control ratings on the same line as the pitcher’s grade. Those of you who received new cards may have noticed a new rating with the pitchers’ grade. The best way to find out what all the symbols mean would be to purchase the physical card and dice game and read through the instructions/play book.The APBA Company quietly rolled out the Starting Pitching Fatigue Chart with the new season. An example of this with a play result number (red numbers on the card) of 30: fly out: PO:LF (K-SO PO-C), here the pitchers K rating trumps the fly out. Again this is something you would see in the card and dice game and where APBA GO does it for you automatically. k, x, y add more strike outs, z and zz limit walks, w adds walks and passed balls, r turns a strike-out into a flyout or groundout. The x,y,z, zz, k, r, and w are strike-out and control ratings that go above the normal pitching grades A, B, C, D. This is something you have to do while playing cards and dice, APBA GO does this for you automatically. Pitchers are either a 1 or 2, C 5-9, 1B 2-6, 2B 4-9, 3B 3-5, SS 5-10, OF 1-3…you add up the total fielding and it gives you the fielding rating for the team (35 or less is fielding 3, 36-40 fielding 2, 41 and up fielding 1).

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