Checkers vs. Chess

The ATG game is like checkers, while the Daily Game (despite it's flaws) and the Mystery Game are chess... I have found that by far the most intelligent players play almost exclusively the Mystery and Daily Games... That's why it's ironic people think Druid and the ATG guys are the best players. They would be clubbed to death in the Mystery and Daily Leagues...

The difference is quite simple. In one game you draft a team, you set your lineups, and you are done for two months... That would NEVER fly in the Mystery and Daily Games which require daily tweaking. I submit to you, even the best ATG manager would lose, at least 100 games every time managing the same way he does in ATG.

But of course when we get old, we are resistant to change, we become set in our ways, and play the same game over and over and over again. I have tried to invite some of these so called best GMs to try the Mystery and Daily Games, but they know what would happen, which is why they never take me up on my offer. In fact, they can't even play ATG, unless it is with the exact same cap they have used hundreds of times before.

I would be more than happy to play the mystery leagues as soon as I can get the data for all the cards in play. But SOM has always treated the card numbers as double red top secret information.

No version of Strat O Matic could begin to posture itself as as remotely similar to chess or bridge in difficulty. The mystery games merely require more sustained attention to detail than ATG, but hardly more skill. I have little interest in today's baseball so no baseball daily. The attraction of ATG is being able to master a more controlled environment where the probabilities are known. The mystery games involve a great deal more luck since you have much less control over what you are getting. If I wanted to play games of chance I might haunt casinos but I don't. But Richard always seems to need to trash other people who don't share his preferences, once again demonstrated by his initiation of this inane thread.

I have to think the original poster would be awful at actual chess if he prefers to have less information and more randomness in his games. Daily tweaking isn't a sign of skill unless you are tweaking based on information and not just guesses. But to each their own.

I play both chess and checkers. Not that I am more intelligent than anyone else, but I prefer ATG over the Daily Game and you don’t have to trash people to make your point. I played 1 league in the Daily and got 87 wins. Does that mean I suck everywhere else? I would surely play it again next spring just because it’s a little different. Oh, be available for a league with me.... What’s with the Mystery Game? Ya need to take an IQ test to play it according to your standards?

I’ll be 65 this November, set in my ways, but always learning something new. Age has nothing to do with SOM. It’s just a matter of preference of what we play and enjoy and since when do I or anyone else have to prove themselves to you!

I suggest you re-read your post and lighten up on the arrogance next time.

That’s about it...

Sincerely,
Delivery Boy....

The mystery game is like poker where you're not allowed to see your hole cards.

And I find it amusing that you think that any game you are better than most at is hard and any where you're not is too simplistic. Druid might know and recommend a good therapist in your area.

If you don’t know what player you have in the Mystery Game, just match the rolls on the card with what player you have, and then you know. Having never played the Mystery Game, I would think that would be an indication. If I am wrong, WELLLL, EXCUSE MEEEEEE....

Sincerely,
Delivery Boy....

Oh, by the way, I changed my mind, stay out of my league ya dooo-ch bag...

To the best of my knowledge, they don't tell you the rolls. And you do know which players you have, you just don't know which of their 5 cards you have.

Never played the Mystery Game, don’t see the mystic in it either.

Sincerely,
Delivery Boy...

As a side note...sorta

IMO, Strat took the easy way out with the 90's "Mystery" set.
In the other Mystery sets, guys get hurt in various ways.
ie. Groundball/Flyball/HBP etc...

With the 90's set, nearly every injury is a HBP.
This is LAZY.

There is a degree of luck with the Mystery sets.
I've seen a few managers get the best seasons from guys when there is only 1 great season on their card.

Sure, there is more micromanaging with the Mystery cards.
But when guys get hurt by HBP AND your team isn't getting the rolls, it makes it difficult to determine what year you have.
In that case, it's more of a Mystery why you spent $ on a game that Strat half-assed.

visick