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kcstengelsr · 12-09-2021, 02:58 PM

I wanted my test of Beyer to do justice to the AAGPBL and so I spent many hours of preparation prior to the YouTube video link found below of my game at Beyer. It really is a fantastic addition to the ballparks found at the OOTP Mods.

I wanted to set up a game between Racine and Rockford set in the inaugural AAGPBL season of 1943. Txranger was kind enough to provide a link to his AAGPBL jerseys, caps, and logos and so I decided to go the whole nine yards and set up the four teams in that 1943 season based upon real player names and real player stats.

I first created a four team fantasy league in commissioner mode and had the league based around the statistics of 1908 MLB which looked about right to me comparing things like league ERA and homeruns of 1908 MLB and 1943 AAGPBL. In other words, expect the play and strategy of the ladies this season to be similar to the deadball era.

The 1943 AAGPBL rules appeared to be mixture of fast pitch softball and baseball. Baseball additions were nine players instead of ten, runners allowed to lead off from bases, and the allowed use of baseball bats. Softball holdovers in 1943 included a larger ball pitched underhanded from 40 feet with the bases 60 feet apart.

The 1943 AAGPBL had all four teams playing 108 regular season games. Racine finished with 59 regular season wins and defeated Kenosha three games to none in the playoffs. Rockford's 48 wins was last in the league. The top hitter in the league that year for batting average was Gladys Davis of the Peaches at .332 while the top home run hitter was Eleanor Dapkus Wolf of the Belles with 10.

Starting with the fictional players and ratings I manually created the proper player names and based their player ratings on actual 1943 AAGPBL statistics but all fielders except for noted stars at their position were given average ratings since I could not easily find fielding statistics for that year. If date of birth was not found I made those players 25 years old with a birthday of October 5, 1917. Except for the rare cases like Racine's Kurys, almost all heights and weights of the AAGPBL players are not available and so I arbitrarily set the unknown at the 1940 women's adult average height at 5 foot 2 and 1940 women's adult average weight at 134. All pitchers throw right-handed and all batters hit right-handed if that fact is not known.

Here is the Youtube video of my Belles facing the Peaches at asrivkin's Beyer Stadium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iQ...el=kcstengelsr

I describe it there as:

"Jerseys, caps, and logos by txranger. Sounds by kcstengelsr. Manual changes from fictional players to get correct player names and all players have manually adjusted ratings based upon real 1943 AAGPBL stats.
Note: the game does not have female player models and skirts were not possible. play-by-play refers by default to he/him/his instead of she/her/hers. the game has pitching and base distances by default at major league standard and so 1943 AAGPBL distances were not possible."

It took me a lot of time and effort to eventually produce this video but Beyer Stadium by asrivkin was worth it. I next plan of completing the rosters and ratings of Kenosha and South Bend and I may do another video featuring the other two teams of the 1943 AAGPBL.

12-09-2021, 02:58 PM	#112
kcstengelsr Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2021 Posts: 147	I wanted my test of Beyer to do justice to the AAGPBL and so I spent many hours of preparation prior to the YouTube video link found below of my game at Beyer. It really is a fantastic addition to the ballparks found at the OOTP Mods. I wanted to set up a game between Racine and Rockford set in the inaugural AAGPBL season of 1943. Txranger was kind enough to provide a link to his AAGPBL jerseys, caps, and logos and so I decided to go the whole nine yards and set up the four teams in that 1943 season based upon real player names and real player stats. I first created a four team fantasy league in commissioner mode and had the league based around the statistics of 1908 MLB which looked about right to me comparing things like league ERA and homeruns of 1908 MLB and 1943 AAGPBL. In other words, expect the play and strategy of the ladies this season to be similar to the deadball era. The 1943 AAGPBL rules appeared to be mixture of fast pitch softball and baseball. Baseball additions were nine players instead of ten, runners allowed to lead off from bases, and the allowed use of baseball bats. Softball holdovers in 1943 included a larger ball pitched underhanded from 40 feet with the bases 60 feet apart. The 1943 AAGPBL had all four teams playing 108 regular season games. Racine finished with 59 regular season wins and defeated Kenosha three games to none in the playoffs. Rockford's 48 wins was last in the league. The top hitter in the league that year for batting average was Gladys Davis of the Peaches at .332 while the top home run hitter was Eleanor Dapkus Wolf of the Belles with 10. Starting with the fictional players and ratings I manually created the proper player names and based their player ratings on actual 1943 AAGPBL statistics but all fielders except for noted stars at their position were given average ratings since I could not easily find fielding statistics for that year. If date of birth was not found I made those players 25 years old with a birthday of October 5, 1917. Except for the rare cases like Racine's Kurys, almost all heights and weights of the AAGPBL players are not available and so I arbitrarily set the unknown at the 1940 women's adult average height at 5 foot 2 and 1940 women's adult average weight at 134. All pitchers throw right-handed and all batters hit right-handed if that fact is not known. Here is the Youtube video of my Belles facing the Peaches at asrivkin's Beyer Stadium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iQ...el=kcstengelsr I describe it there as: "Jerseys, caps, and logos by txranger. Sounds by kcstengelsr. Manual changes from fictional players to get correct player names and all players have manually adjusted ratings based upon real 1943 AAGPBL stats. Note: the game does not have female player models and skirts were not possible. play-by-play refers by default to he/him/his instead of she/her/hers. the game has pitching and base distances by default at major league standard and so 1943 AAGPBL distances were not possible." It took me a lot of time and effort to eventually produce this video but Beyer Stadium by asrivkin was worth it. I next plan of completing the rosters and ratings of Kenosha and South Bend and I may do another video featuring the other two teams of the 1943 AAGPBL. Last edited by kcstengelsr; 12-13-2021 at 06:11 AM.