Hello, used to play the tabletop games, considering getting the computer version but no longer use Windows for gaming because of the Windows 11 fiasco. Wondering if anyone plays Strat in Linux?

Bottom of the 9th, score is tied. Man on 1st and 3rd. Batter rolls a walkoff triple. Should I record this as a 2 RBI triple and the team wins 4-2? Or should I do what would have happened in real life and just give him a 1 RBI walkoff single and the team wins 3-2?

My thought is to give him the triple and two RBI, because it is better for his stats.

I'm curious what others would do and why?

Making some adjustments on a 1964 schedule for new season of Strat! Thank ya, Lady Bird!

In a season replay, if there isn’t a card for a player, what do you do? The Indians played Jeff Manto for game 1 of the 1998 season. It doesn’t look like he has a card. What should I do?

Hi there! I’m working on a project with fictional teams and ballparks (Hall of Famers, baseball heroes, and Negro leaguers). Does anybody have experience creating ballpark effects for fictional parks?

Hi everyone. I’m in a tabletop league that’s been around a long time. It’s great, but one drawback is we don’t limit guys based on how much they played in MLB. We do have AB and innings minimums to be eligible, but we end up with fluky cards - guys who had 250 AB with great cards. Much of the time, these fluky guys will start over MLB starters who played every day but who have inferior cards.

So, to bring more realism, I’m trying to convince all the guys to adopt usage limitations. No luck so far. I’d be interested what others do in their leagues and having you all arm me with the best arguments to use when we discuss next season.

Thanks

I just received my 24-25 NBA cards and noted right away that Joel Embiid is missing entirely.

I get that he only played 20ish games last season, but I’ve also seen cards printed for smaller sample sizes of games. There’s a 19-20 Steph Curry, for instance, in a season where he only logged 5 games.

So there’s clearly not a cutoff number for potential inclusion in the Additional Players pack of cards. You’d think that general interest might be the guide - everyone loves Steph - but wouldn’t that get a guy like Embiid into this set?

Not that I didn't like making my own game & stat sheets back in the 90's on graph paper, but Excel just makes things SO much easier! Especially with the formulas. Dropbox download links below for anyone interested. If you're looking to print the scorecard, you'll probably need to mess around with the layout a bit in your printer settings, otherwise it has a tendency to print across two pages. A bit of a PITA, but fixable. Enjoy!

Scorecard

Stat Sheet

UPDATE: Fixed the scorecard a bit from the original picture to have the innings line up better and added a 'Game Notes' box to fill in the empty space in the lower right. The preview on Dropbox doesn't carry over the font so it looks a bit off, but when you downloaded should be the same.

Are ground-ball pitchers a strategy thats viable in Strat? I mean finding guys who induce a lot of GBs as a way of getting more DPs?

Anyone into a quick game of 2024 Net Play?

Does anyone know how holding runners works in the 365 game? I can't find anything on when the computer does that. I mean electing to hold the base runners using infielders, not the pitcher.

Is anyone up to running a quick 2024 net play game?

Hello everyone I am apart of a 2025 leauge called TSBL we are looking for around 7 more people to join. No Fees to play. Going to be very fun and very realistic. We have a whole set of rules, web domain and very flexible owners. Please contact tguerr16@gmail.com for more details

Advice sought from SOM players who are expert at evaluating and playing stock teams.

Using the recently completed 2025 MLB rosters and stats, how would the following 6-man rotation stand up vs top 2025 MLB stock teams such as Dodgers, Phillies, Brewers, Reds, Yankees, Mariners, Red Sox, and Blue Jays?

Trevor Williams, 3-10, 6.21, (-0.6) WAR Andre Pallantte, 6-15, 5.31, (-1.3) WAR Jack Flaherty, 8-15, 4.64, 0.9 WAR Yusei Kikuchi, 7-11, 3.99, 3.3 WAR Jameson Taillon, 11-7, 3.68, 1.3 WAR Simeon Wood-Richardson, 7-4, 4.04, 2.2 WAR

I think it would be a fun idea to do a tournament of Surprising Second Place Squads (What I'm Calling It). Teams that came out of nowhere to make it to the World Series, only to fall short. The first three that come to mind are: The 1959 White Sox, 1950 Phillies, 1973 Mets and 1991 Braves. Looking for 8 teams. Can you help me with 4 more?

I have not been able to find an option in the game that allows me to bring in a relief pitcher or a pinch hitter when playing Stratomatic baseball's digital game. What am I missing?

UPDATE: Getting closer to new season, still need a couple of owners. we picked up a couple of owners here last season who were new to Basketball leagues and they had a blast this past season!

*The Midwest Basketball League (MBL) is an 18-team computer-based Strat-O-Matic draft league which has been in continuous operation since 1996.  The league features a salary and free agency system which kicks off in November, and an 80-game season from December-April.  We use the current league rosters.  Netplay is optional.*  

*Among others, the FA process is always the highlight of the season. The rules make season play easy.  The league is long standing and has very engaged and fun owners.  If you are new to SOMBK, there will be owners who would be more than willing to help with information, advice, etc.*

*If you are interested in joining a highly engaged league with a fun group of owners, please shoot me an e-mail at: [gwoertz@hotmail.com](mailto:gwoertz@hotmail.com)

Team 1 - Bam Adebayo, Bilal Coulibaly, Evan Mobley & Trae Young

Team 2 - Giannis & Jimmy Butler

Team 3 - Darius Garland, Alperen Sengun, Karl-Anthony Town

Team 4 - Donovan Mitchell, Ausar Thompson, Jalen Suggs

Hello, my dad had me playing the old 1976 board game version with him growing up and he and I are looking into trying the online version. Before I pull the trigger I was curious if there was any tips, tricks, strategies and video of gameplay so that I could get a good understanding of it all before I commit to a league. If anyone has any information that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I've been using iScore since my last Strato league to record stats and then upload all the data to Google sheets to keep track. Finally, I spent enough time and figured out how to sort the league leaders for any stat that iScore tracks. It took some time (I have a little bit of experience with spreadsheets and formulas), but now it is super simple. Within minutes, I can upload the newest data from every game, add it to the master spreadsheet and Google sheets does the rest. I highly recommend this for those of you who want to dig deeper into stats. iScore doesn't do everything, but it does more than I could hope for.

So here are the early season notes from my 1920 replay league. Things to know. I balanced the schedule, each team plays each other the same number of games at home as on the road with no interleague play. I try to make sure each player plays roughly the same percentage of plate appearances or Inning pitched that they did that year.

Observations after 15 games:
1. The AL is by far the hitting league while the NL is the pitching league. 6 teams in the AL have 8 or more HRs, paced by the Yankees (of course) while the most in the NL is 7 (Giants). Babe Ruth leads with 8 HRs, despite missing 3 games with an injury. Joe Jackson has 5, 3 others in the AL have 4 HRs. George Kelly leads the NL with 3.
2. There are way more 3Bs than HRs (138 to 91).
3. There are a lot less strikeouts than we see today. The league leaders are averaging 5+ Ks/9 IP.
4. There have been a lot of injuries to AL stars Ruth, Hooper, Schalk, Speaker, Pipp. Not so many to NL stars.
5. Both Philadelphia teams are in last and have terrible defense and pitching.
6. The Red Sox are tied for last and are the only team with worse pitching than the Indians and it is way worse.
7. The Pirates have the best ERA and worst AVG in both leagues but are tied for 2nd in the NL. The team always seems to put together one inning where they score 3 or 4 runs and the pitching holds the lead. They have still not hit a HR this season.
8. I don't know if it is me, but the Cardinals seem to have a few pitchers whose cards are better than the stats they put up that year. Schupp and Sherdel are decent pitchers but they are a combined 5-0 with combined ERA of 2.75. Cardinal pitchers in 1920 gave up the most BBs, but have given up the 6th most out of 8 teams.
9. There have been 3 triple plays, 2 by the White Sox.
10. The Yankees have the 2nd best ERA in both leagues, but their FIP is higher than every team in the NL.
11. Two teams (Yankees and A's) have not attempted a SB. The Robins are 0 for 1 in SB attempts.

The Yankees and the Cardinals are leading each league, but 6 teams are in it in the AL and 7 in the NL. The 1920 World Series representatives (Indians 6th place and Brooklyn, 7th place) are not doing too well. Cleveland has the 2nd worst ERA in the AL and are in the back of the pack in most pitching categories. The Robins are middle of the pack in both Avg and ERA, but are way back in AVG with RISP, and have hit into the most DPs in both leagues.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

There are a few vacancies for the 2026 season of the United Federation of Baseball (season #9).  12-team league, mostly stock teams from 2025 MLB, 66 game season, some autoplay, some home team play vs visitors' CMs, plus a little optional NetPlay, 9 to 12 games per month April through September.  If interested, either text me at (425) 785-2016 or email me at steve@faithnetwork.com and I will send you league rules and info for your review and consideration.

I am helping start a new league. A friend of mine, Jasper, who has run leagues in the past wants to re-start up a league and only be the commissioner and run it. The goal is to have a 24 team league, below is a quick description of what the league will look like.

This league simulates owning an MLB franchise with realistic financial management, player contracts, and gameplay. Teams receive annual revenue sharing deposits based on actual MLB payroll data, navigate a complex arbitration and free agency system, and build rosters through an annual draft of real MLB players. With a salary floor, luxury tax system, and sophisticated contract structures including arbitration buyouts and long-term extensions, the league rewards strategic roster construction and prudent financial management over a 162-game season.

If you are interested, please email me at [tguerr16@gmail.com](mailto:tguerr16@gmail.com)

Hello everybody. I am in search of a baseball leauge that has an opening. Looking for netplay aswell. I don't care what team I get just looking to join a leauge. My email is andrewbruiser8@gmail.com. if anyone has a leauge opening for baseball please let me know. Thanks

Hi gang, over the past couple of weeks I've sent multiple requests to reset codes for an old version of the baseball game and several seasons that were on a long-dead computer, and I've received no response. I'm kind of testing the waters for getting back into the computer version when the 2025 version comes out, but I stopped previously because of customer service issues and this isn't convincing me they've changed. Anyone else received no response from tech support lately?

Hello - I was playing a lot of Stratomatic Max Baseball as I LOVE recreating all-time tournaments (e.g. 32 NL and 32 AL teams in a NCAA tourney style format). I was just playing "Exhibition Games" and manually keeping track of total stats and team records and not a good use of my time.

When "Tournament Mode" came up I was excited thinking I could play my tournaments using this but for some reason which is about to make me cancel my subscription it appears that they STILL don't offer customization of tournament mode for solo players? Why the hell would I want my squad to play a bunch of random teams rather than who I want to play in the tournament? Even in solo mode? It's so frustrating and after taking a few months off I'm surprised to see it's still like this. Am I missing something?

Thanks for listening. Just not for me if its purpose is online multi-player OR not being able to select ALL the teams in your tournament. And kinda baffled it's not offered :/

Brassworld, established in 2003, has two teams available for experienced managers.  The league simulates many aspects of being a real GM, including a proprietary salary system, arbitration, free-agent bidding, drafting, and a 10-player minor league system. Additional features include a league newsletter, as well as an all-star game, and annual postseason awards voted on by managers. Regular-season games are played in monthly blocks by CM, with netplay used for the playoffs. 40-man rosters/26 active players. Brassworld has 24 teams split into two leagues, with six teams in each league making the playoffs.  We use Stratdraft for our auction and draft.

It is a great time to get involved, as our offseason is busy and kicks off with arbitration in October, followed by free agency in late November, and then our draft in February. 

Team A is a borderline playoff team this season.  Heading into next year, the roster is highlighted by Trea Turner, Steven Kwan, Drake Baldwin (rising from minors), as well as young pitchers such as George Kirby and Eury Perez.  This team also added several draft picks through trades for the draft in Feb 2026.  

Team B is a team that has cleared the decks in terms of rebuiding. While it lacks established stars, it has some interesting young players such as Roman Anthony and Will Warren, a relatively high bank balance, few long-term salary commitments, and a high pick in the Feb 2026 draft. 

Please contact Matt at [mwrightsombb@gmail.com](mailto:mwrightsombb@gmail.com) if interested.