Over the course of the past 29 full season replays, I’ve constantly tweaked my method of play. As they say in the retail business, “Change it up” to keep things fresh. I’ve done that to not only keep it interesting for myself to prevent burnout but to try to find the best way to play to maximize the chances of a realistic and fun replay. In addition, I wanted to provide workarounds that I’ve used over the years to mitigate unrealistic board results, rare situations that occur to frequently, game engine issues, and techniques that improve playability to bring results more in line with actual statistics. Most importantly, I wanted to communicate a “Method of Play” which renders outstanding results and can be completed in less than 2-hours.
In addition, I wanted to remove obsolete files and post only guidance that augments or reflects my current methodology.
Current “Method of Play”
Supporting documents:
How to Properly Use Asterisk Coded Quarterback Cards
This is amazing. You could teach a semester-long master class on this game, I’m sure. Great work, Oguard, and thank you for sharing. I will make this website one of my regular stops!
Paul
Paul,
Thanks and don’t be a stranger.
Greg
Dude, you’ve really out done yourself with this blog. Nice job!!!!
Mark
Looking good, Greg. Will certainly direct our Facebook audience your way. The more football resources we have, the better!
Geoff
https://www.facebook.com/pages/APBA-Football/122368517834311
Greg and Mark: Been thinking for a while that it would be fun and highly informative to interview you regarding your history with APBA football. If you’d be interested, I can set up the conference call. I’d like to feature something on the Facebook page.
Geoff
Geoff, I wouldn’t mind at all, let me know when and if Mark is available and I’ll gladly join in…I’ll give you my phone number then. Greg
Perfect; will keep you posted.
Greg, a very nice site. Inspiration for us all.
Great site OG, thanks much!
Hi Greg, Mel Wegman put me onto your site thru the APBA Facebook group. I’ve just received my first copy of APBA football, thanks for get started guide it’ll be a great help tonight when I kick off. Living in the UK it’s difficult getting decent NFL replay games so I’m quite excited!
Jon Madge, what season are you playing first?
It was through the APBA Baseball Facebook Group
I’m getting to grips with the game rules first and playing with the teams that were in the basic set. My heroes were Bo Jackson, Marcus Allen and Montana so I guess it’ll be late 80’s
I grew up on Statis Pro Football and while I love the game I’ve been in search of that “perfect replay” game as well. I’ve tried many. Pro Football Fantasm, Strat-o-matic, Second Season. All have their strong points, but I still feel like I’m looking for that perfect system. So glad I stumbled onto this. I need to get APBA next so I can run through it solo and see if that’s what I’m looking for. Great site!!!!
great site – finishing up a 1982 replay myself – the detail put into these updates is impressive
John,
Congrats on your replay…if you need an outlet to post your results, I will gladly post them here!!!
Thanks, I’m in week 8 of 9 right now just using the basic game with pass, run. standard defense as I never could quite figure out the best way to have the D blitz, key, double, or change formations. Your site is giving me lots of ideas of motivation to use the master game next replay. I’ll most likely want to pick your brain a bit before beginning.
Outstanding work! Going to need my degree and my Masters degree to sort through all this materiel, LOL! Greg, Help! 🙂
Blown away!! Wow!! Going to start playing this game.
I just found some of your ways to play on YouTube. The excel program to play the season is that a program you install or is it created through excel? I always had a hard time playing solitaire so I kind of lost interest. You have peaked my interest again.
Thanks
Tim
Tim, the files are created in Excel.
thanks. I saw you were coming up with the different grades and all by refreshing the file each time. Is that a program? What about the Fletch67?
Greg do I just follow your PowerPoint and that will set me up on Excel?
Shoot me an email.
Hi Greg I saw the excel sheet you use and is it possible to get some advice on how to go about one for myself or possibly get me set up ? Would be greatly appreciated
Frank, just type in the work Locator in the search field and you will find a few to choose from.