Resources

Strat-o-matic On-line and Convention Resources with Special Friends
(This page will be a combination of recommended websites the participate of the convention may wish to know about as well some special documents that will help you in your play in the tournaments.  It is also our way to honor our partners and co-sponsors who make this convention possible)

Ultimate Strat Baseball Newsletter
(an on-line newsletter devoted to the Strat-o-matic Baseball game in all its flavor published every month or two month sharing interviews, articles, special column and strategy tips. To sign up for this FREE newsletter visit:
http://www.ultimatestratbaseball.com)

Star Tournaments Association
(The leadging and longest running organization dedicated to running monthly tournaments for the Strat-o-matic Baseball Game using the formulea of drafting a team to compete from the latest baseball card set. Star Tournaments offers both face-to-face and on-line tournaments featuring the very best strat gamers on the planet.   To learn more about this organization and their on-going tournaments, visit their website at:
http://www.startournaments.com)

Pure Strat
(The western division of the Star Tournaments. Each month Pure Strat offers their unique on-line baseball tournaments utilizing Skype, a free program that makes your computer function like a video telephone, to allow two gamers to play each other over the internet.  To check out Pure Strat future tournaments, both face-to-face and skype, visit them at:
http://www.purestrat.com)

Baseball Info Solutions (BIS)
(The premier baseball website by John Dewan and his team, to analyze and record every baseball statistic that one can think of. This company provides Strat-o-matic key data needed in order to create the baseball cards each season as well as works with and supports every team in Major League Baseball. They were originally known as Stats, Inc. but have evolved into a new company. To follow “John Dewan’s Stat of the week” go to: StatOfTheWeek.com or follow John on Twitter at: @FieldingBible. To learn more about BIS, feel free to visit their website at: http://www.baseballinfosolutions.com/ )

Special Strategy Documents contributed by Star Tournaments
(click on the link for the documents below, all shared in Microsoft Excel format,
to explore all documents shared by Star Tournament for our two draft tournaments
visit their website at: www.startournaments.com – chose link APS, Drafts, Eligible Players)

Average Pick Sheet – July 2013
(This spreadsheet shares the average pick number in 14 drafts for Star Tournaments through July 6, of each player to help you get an idea when players are taken in the draft, which draft pick on the average. Click on the link above to download this special strategy document.)

Average Pick Sheet by Position July2013
(This spreadsheet shares the average pick number in 14 drafts for Star Tournaments through July 6, of each player and is sorted by position so when you are ready to pick a specific position you can see which players are ranked the highest. The pick shown is the average pick from these drafts for each player shown. Click on the link above to download this special strategy document.)

Star Tournament Draft Summaries in 2013
(This spreadsheet gives you example drafts so you can study what type of teams have been drafted so far in 2013 using the 2012 cards. Sometimes the person record is also shown. For this excel spreadsheet, it only contains the drafts for the Los Angeles face-to-face tournament in March. Other Tournaments will be added to this file. Click on the link above to download this special strategy document.)

Eligible Players for Skype & Netplay Draft Tournaments
(This spreadsheet lists all the 2012 Major League Player cards that are available to be drafted in Tournament I – The Skype 2012 Draft Tournament and Tournament II – The Netplay 2012 Draft Tournament. The players are listed alphabetically by last name with a first initial. Each player shown is either a positional player (300+ PA for non-catchers, 250+ for catchers) or pitcher (starting pitchers 125+ IP or relief pitchers 40+ innings pitched).  Use this list to confirm the players you wish to draft or these tournaments are eligible to play and be drafted.)

STAR FIELDING & STRATEGY X-CHARTS
(These charts are the SOM Fielding X Charts and Strategy charts used in the Super Advance game and will be used for our tournaments. Since we are following the rules done by the Star Tournaments, these charts support the rules for our convention tournaments that will use Skype. The format of these charts is in a PDF document format of two pages. All you need to do is print them out.  Since our tournament use a few rules different then the actual game, we recommend you print out these charts for consistency. To download a copy of these charts, click on the Blue Link above.)

PITCHER HITTERS CARDS
(We have digital images of the 8 pitchers hitting cards in jpg format, if you don’t have these cards you can print out these two files:
Pitcher Hitting Cards 1-4 (JPG)   Pitcher Hitting Cards 5-8 (JPG)  — {right} click on the links to your left to save the images of the pitcher hitter cards to your computer.)

Copies of the Rule Books for each Convention Tournament
(click on the link for the documents below, all shared in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF),
to study a copy of the Rule Books for each of the three different tournaments we
are offering for the Convention.)

Rule Book for Tournament I – 2012 Skype Draft Tourney
(click on the link above to download your copy of this rule book)

Rule-Book for Tournament II – 2012 Netplay Draft Tourney
(click on the link above to download your copy of this rule book)

Rule-Book for Tournament III – 2012 Switching Teams Tourney
(click on the link above to download your copy of this rule book)