Roger's 1901 APBA Replay

Week 1 is completed and, well, there isn’t much really to report on yet as the NL has played only seven games and the AL doesn't actually start play until the middle of this upcoming week. I am not going to include leaders or do any sort of in-depth statistics analysis this week - there will be plenty of time for that. I have included the usual set of stats, mostly just to remind myself what I plan to do after each week 1901 Philadelphia Phillies Regardless, the ATMgr is working as expected and I feel we are off to a good start. I have noticed that with only a 140 game season that the as-played schedule often has plenty of days with a less than a full schedule of games. Once you figure in the normal weather interruptions plus the normal (for 1901) sub-standard playing facilities and less than optimal travel options then the ability to get games played is going to be a challenge for both leagues. Never fear - the games will be played, as doubleheaders will be implemented a...

Thursday, April 18, 1901 (Opening Day) (November 28, 2019) It's time for Opening Day of the 1901 season. Let's play ball! Philadelphia (NL) (H) 11 Brooklyn 2 Philadelphia started off the 1901 season by pounding last year's Champion Brooklyn Superbas for an easy 11-1 win. Jack Dunn (1-0) went all the way for the win, giving up eight hits and two walks for the day. Brooklyn's defense and starting pitcher Bill Donovan's (0-1) control both abandoned the team in only the worst of moments, opening the door for the Phillies. Catcher Ed McFarland led the Phillies offense with a 4-for-5 day that included two doubles and three RBI's as Philadelphia pounded out seventeen hits at home on opening day. Jack Dunn Friday, April 19, 1901 Philadelphia (NL) 5 Brooklyn (H) 4 (10) After yesterday's opening in Philadelphia both teams boarded a train to play a game in Brooklyn. The Phillies got off to a fast start again, this time taking a 3-0 l...

When the 1900 season ended there was relative peace in the world of baseball.  After a shaky decade financially things had started the rebound a little as the National League had shed four of their weaker franchises following the 1899 season (Cleveland, Louisville, Washington, and Baltimore). Brooklyn won their second consecutive pennant, and as the NL moved into its 25th year of existence it looked like things might have finally stabilized for baseball's only major league. 1900 National League Champion Brooklyn Superbas But Ban Johnson and the Western Association, the strongest of the minor league's organizations, had other plans. The Western Association had long established themselves with strong leadership and good players, but they felt confined by the National Agreement that laid out the basic rules and structure of professional baseball, including rules on not poaching players from other teams and establishing territorial rights. Johnson and Charles Comisk...

I didn't intend to wait this long before starting my 1901 replay, but I was interrupted by a couple of house projects and work-related issues. Most of that is behind me, plus winter is here, so I am finally ready to light the fires on this replay. Now that part one ( link ) of the replay set-up is complete it is on to step two: reviewing the player transactions and making additional card adjustments in the area of errors. Baseball-Reference.com (BBR) includes listings of major league debuts, major league finales, as well as a list of player movement that occurred before, during, and after the season. The ATMgr player transaction file comes with its own list of player transactions during the season, most of which overlap with what BBR has. The three BBR listings were dumped into a spreadsheet, their formats massaged so they could be lumped into a single file, and then additional tweaking was completed so the BBR file could be merged in with the ATMgr file. Now it was t...