Payoff Pitch Baseball FAC version randomness

Wanted to show how great the FAC cards are and how well they stack up to dice. I also wanted to show how I alter my game experience slightly using old baseball card album plastic sheets.

[@wi54725]

The biggest advantages to dice versus FAC are:
1. Once you play a card, the next time you draw a card, the percentages are slightly off. Even shuffling every inning, the FAC never replicates the dice after the first card is played.
2. Card edges can become bent or frayed, lost, or in my case begin to have the ink wear off due to oils on the skin of your fingers. Once a card is different from another card, it basically becomes like a marked deck, or when you shuffle, the different card or cards will not randomly settle in the pack.
You can always buy new dice if you lose them, and they last much longer than paper.
POP would be the best game on the market if the pitchers had Lefty/Righty split stats. POP cannot represent a LOOGY with just one set of stats.

[@BaseballDemos]

Jerry,
The beauty of Payoff Pitch is you can play using either FAC cards or dice. Sometimes I use both in sort of a hybrid.

[@harrisjessop1679]

I know this is an older video, this is a great video on all points. I have used the baseball card sleeves for almost all my sports games involving info coming of player cards such as APBA Soccer, 4th Street Baseball and Hockey, Pay of Pitch Baseball and Softball and so on..... As far as the FAC's go for Pay of Pitch, i have multiple decks of cards in play. Without counting the cards i think i have 3 decks, at 1 point when i was using 1 deck shuffled after every inning to keep all cards in play. But now that that i use multiple decks it's every 3 innings. Thank you for the video, even with it being 4 years old it's still great info!

[@Milcom34]

Good Video Baseball Demos. Great idea on using the 9 Pocket Baseball Card Pages for the Game Cards that was Cool. Thanks. I Still think that Rolling The Dice is Table Top Baseball Board Game Heaven.... Until Next Time.

[@Saboda53]

I like all the thought you’ve put into how to better play POP. That said, your sleeve system wouldn’t work for me. I like my tabletop baseball games to more closely “feel” like the real thing, and in a real game, players come up to bat one at a time, with the rest out of sight in the dugout. So, for me, having just the batter “up” feels more like baseball. Also, I love the dice! Like you, I use the FACs in lieu of the charts. But for the main pitcher/batter results, it’s dice all the way. Why? There just seems to be an inherent “drama,” if you will, in shaking up the dice and then rolling ‘em; it feels analogous to the pitcher winding up and then throwing the ball; it’s dramatic. Turning over a card lacks that little bit of theater, at least for me.

[@JohnnyFinnQB5]

I just discovered this game and ordered it with 2018 cards but I want 1982 as well. That was my first SOM season. Earl Weaver Baltimore team! Gulliver the walking on base machine haha.

[@kevinsobiski5212]

Since there are 216 possibilities for the 2d10, what 16 numbers are there 3 of?

[@johnnysmoke612]

Depending on when you shuffle the random FAC cards are random without replacement until shuffled. The dice are fully random due to the result used is replaced for each new roll.

[@DiceBaseballDigest]

I tried those card holders. All it accomplished was confusing me. Too many cards all spread out. It just wasn’t for me. Thanks for the video

[@brentehlers9501]

Keep up the videos

[@bobbicatalano]

Good info👍