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The Replay World of International Athletics by Sportsreplays Games
The ORIGINAL and PREMIER Athletics Simulation from Lambourne Games, now vastly updated by Sportsreplays Games ! AVAILABLE NOW !
A major replay
simulation issued in
two parts:
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ATHLETICS
& SWIMMING
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2012 Edition |
Top 20 Men and
Women in each
event
including
Heptathlon and
Decathlon
Athletes are
rated and a
formula is
supplied to
enable you to
convert any
Personal Best or
Ranking list for
any year into a
Rating yourself,
or more easily why not
simply purchase
our add-on sets which
are "ready to
run" and get
straight into
the action !
Quick-playing,
even for the
longer distance
events.
Ideal
for solo play.
Based
on an athlete's
personal best
for the season.
or for the
meeting or event
as you wish
Seven
Fitness Levels
or strict event
replay
Fitness
peaking and
injuries.
Special
Event Cards for
every event -
men and women.
The Field events use a similar system to the track events but each event has its own special Event Card. Most field events cover three aspects, for example in the Long Jump the run up, the take off, and the jump are all considered separately. A conversion formula is provided to enable you to convert any Personal Best or result to a Rating. And there are seven fitness levels.
SAMPLES OF NEW GAME
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The Replay World of International Athletics
GAME REVIEW by Jim Gordon - Editor of the Sports Gaming Digest
I spent time with International Track and Field over the last couple of weeks, running a mini-Olympics using the pre-1988 Olympic player ratings for six events: 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meter hurdles, 1500 meters, long jump, and pole vault.
The simulation system is simple and fast moving. When you first see it you might think it's too simple to be interesting. But I found a respectable level of excitement and tension in the game. The basic player ratings derive from the personal best for a given season. Each event is broken into segments. Dice are rolled and tables consulted to determine the variable results which determine the final outcome for each player.
Example: in the 100 meters, each runner rolls two dice three times, with each roll representing one-third of the race. With each player rolling three times, some numbers good and some bad, you do get a sense of the runners jockeying for position as they streak down the track. In the long jump, the player rolls four times for the runup, the takeoff, the jump, and a final minor variable. I used each player at peak performance. Here's what happened.......
The 100 meters started with surprises as Lewis and Christie barely made it through their qualifying heats. Then Christie fell out during the semi-finals, and Lewis finished fourth again! But in the finals, Lewis showed his stuff and blazed to a 9.89 gold medal, with (an apparently drug-free) Johnson taking silver (9.94), and Marsh the bronze (9.95).
Lewis followed his victory with a gold medal performance in the 200 meters. His times improved through the qualifying heat (20.12) and semifinal (20.05) before coming from behind in the final, running a 20.03 and nipping DeLoach by 0.01 seconds at the tape. Robinson took the Bronze with a 20.06.
In the 400 meter hurdles, Moses was the favorite. He blew passed the field to take first in the qualifying heat with the best overall time of the meet (47.17, winning by a full second). But Young raced to the gold in the finals at 47.54, fighting off Moses' strong finish and 47.71 time. Phillips had finished first in his qualifying and semifinal heats, but fell to third in the finals.
In the 1500 meters, Aouita took charge in the middle of the race and ran a golden time of 3:32.07, barely ahead of Cram's 3:32.67. A surprising third was Scott (3:33.24), who ran with the leaders the whole race.
The Long Jump provided the most excitement. From a field of 20 jumpers, the relative underdog Conley posted the two best jumps in the first three rounds, leading with an 8.25. Lewis' 8.17 placed him third going into the final three jumps. Then Myricks hit a jump of 8.26 and Lewis was down to third place. But Myricks faulted on his fifth try and finished with a poor final attempt. Lewis's fourth effort was a disappointing 7.81. Then he made 8.23 but still stood in third place. On his final attempt, Lewis streaked down the runway, sprung from the board, and landed with a jump of 8.76, equaling his personal best and taking home a third gold medal.
Bubka was the favorite in the pole vault. The early heights of 5.60, then 5.75 eliminated most of the contestents. The match came down to Bubka, Gataullin, and Tarpenny. Bubka needed three tries to clear 5.90 meters. Gataullin pushed his way over 5.93. Tarpenny cleared 5.90 but then missed three times at 5.93 and ended up with bronze. Bubka bettered the mark to 5.94. Gataullin missed twice at 5.95 to finish with silver. Bubka took one attempt at 6.00 meters but just grazed the bar enough to knock it off, settling for a gold medal but no record.
I'm looking forward to someday making the time to take on the decathlon system with Thompson, Hingsen, etc in The Combined Events part of the game.
The Replay World of International Swimming
by Sportsreplays Games
Sportsreplays Games NEW Premier Swimming Simulation, based on the original and successful Replay World of International Athletics game engine developed by Lambourne Games !
AVAILABLE NOW !
Another major replay simulation, covering all Long Course Pool Swimming events, both men and women devised and released by Sportsreplays Games !
The game is strictly non-visual - no board of any sort is supplied or required, the action being controlled by pen and paper. But the results, times, and distances will be extremely accurate, being based on each swimmers leading performances in the most recently completed season, or current or past Personal Bests, or specific event times.
Three methods of play available in one game :
- Training rules ensure that swimmers' Fitness Peaks are reached at different times, so performances will vary accordingly.
- You can strictly replay an International Race or Meeting as a pure replay simulation based on that meetings results and not use the training rules
- You can even replay a local College, High School or University or Swimming Clubs meeting if you have the results, again ignoring the training rules.
Regular season and specific meeting add on rating sets are planned to give variety and keep the game current in to the future.
CLICK HERE FOR ORDERING INFORMATION
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2012 Edition
Current top Men and Women in each event i
Swimmers are rated and a formula is supplied to enable you to convert any Personal Best or Ranking list for any year into a Rating yourself, or more easily why not simply purchase our future add-on sets which are "ready to run" and get straight into the action !
Quick-playing,
even for the
longer distance
events.
Ideal
for solo play.
Based
on an swimmers
personal best
for the season.
or for the
meeting or event
as you wish
Seven
Fitness Levels
or strict event
replay
Fitness
peaking and
injuries.
Special
Event Cards for
every event -
men and women.
A conversion formula is provided to enable you to convert any Personal Best or result to a Rating. And there are seven fitness levels.
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SAMPLES OF NEW GAME
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A brief preview of 'The Replay World of International Swimming' by Terry Goodchild of Lambourne Games
It is a similar system to 'The Replay World of International Athletics'. But both John and I agreed that the 'feel' of swimming races, especially the longer ones, is completely different to track athletics. For example, in an 800 metres track event the runners usually stay pretty bunched up until 200 or 300 yards from the bell, when the final sprint is on. Not so in swimming where 'sprinting' is not so easy, maybe a slight increase of pace towards the end but never like a final 50 metres track sprint. Long distance swimmers tend to go out hard , grab the lead and try to stay there - maybe a generalisation but much different to the tactics of a middle-distance track event. So in the 800 metres and 1500 metres swimming events Class Turns are used to simulate the differences, making them early rather than late and requiring that the Class Factors be spread as evenly as possible between the three Class Turns (800 metres) or four Class Turns (1500 metres). Maybe a small change but the result is that those events really do feel different to the track events, and much more like life in the pool events IMHO.
The shorter events are great fun to use also, its easy to imagine the swimmers in the 8 lanes battling it out up and down the pool. And with John promising to up-date the Ratings on a regular basis (definitely the mark of Sportsreplays Games!) I for one will be watching the Olympic swimming with a great deal more interest than would otherwise have been the case.
Another excellent product, go get it quick !
Terry.
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The Replay World of International Swimming
Mailed to you within 2 working days
This game package includes the 2012 Game, with all you need to play including around Top 25 Swimmers PB's for every major event in 2011 including relays, (near to 900 Swimmers rated stating when and where the PB was achieved), clear to read charts, optional training and fitness rules, plus event charts covering all the major Swimming Events ................ UK £23.99
International Swimming - Extension Sets
E-MAILED TO YOU in pdf format - normally within 24 hours of order (usually much sooner)
2012 Final Year End Ratings with Swimmers PB stating when and where the PB was achieved, Top 30 per event, Men and Women plus Relay Squads ready rated for the 2012 season as at the end of the year, all ready to use for 2012 replays or 2013 events. Nearly 1200 ratings ready to use !
............... UK £ 6.50
Pre-2012 Olympics ratings with Swimmers PB in 2012, also stating when and where the PB was achieved, usually Top 25 per event, and again near to 900 swimmers rated in 2012 including relays.
............... UK £ 5.49
FREE OPTIONAL MARATHON RULES VARIATION AND HELPER
Courtesy of Athletics Game fan John Bowness, a free download to give you some optional variant rules for running the Marathon event, along with an excel helper sheet for the event.
You still need the original game system to play this.
DOWNLOAD LINK (Right click and save as)
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The Replay World of International Athletics
Mailed to you within 2 working days
This game package includes the 2012 fully Updated Game, complete with added Walking Events and Relay rules, 2011 Top 20 PB's for all events, revised sprint false start numbers, clearer charts, tables and rules, now covering ALL Track and Field Events ........This pack has a lot of content hence ......UK £29.99
SELECT DROP DOWN REGIONAL DESTINATION INC. SHIPPING Note item is Heavy for shipping due to volume of content
The Combined Events (with Book)
Shipped to you within 2 working days (subject to stock of IAAF Scoring Tables which we have to order in)
This printed and mailed package includes the latest IAAF Scoring Tables Book for the Decathlon and Heptathlon plus all you need to stage these exciting events. It comes complete with 2011 ratings and also includes a small set of Top Men's All-Time-Greats and Top Women's All-Time-Greats at these events..........UK £18.99
REGRET TO ADVISE BOOK NOW OUT OF STOCK UNTIL A 2013 RE-PRINT BY THE IAAF - Please see alternative Option below
The Combined Events (WITHOUT Book)
E-Mailed to you within 2 working days
This PDF package includes all you need to stage these exciting events EXCEPT the Scoring Table Book ( see reason above). On purchase I will send you a link to download the Full Scoring Tables Publication yourself so you will have all you need OR, at your choice, advise you of an IPhone / IPad App. that will do the work for you ! Let me know your choice when ordering. The PDF e-mailed package comes complete with rules, charts, 2011 ratings and also includes a small set of Top Men's All-Time-Greats and Top Women's All-Time-Greats at these events..........UK £10.00
International Track & Field- Extension Sets
E-MAILED TO YOU in pdf format - usually within 24 hours of order (initial orders for some MAY be a little slower while these are scanned to first order)
NO SHIPPING COSTS !!
2012
Final Top
Athletes Ratings.
Top 30 PB's Men
and Women plus
Relay Squads
ready rated for
the 2012 season
as at the end of
the year, all
ready to use for
2012 replays or
2013 events.
Over 1300 rated
Athletes !! This set includes
the Combined
events Top 30 PB's results
event by event
for men and
women at year
end ready for
you to rate per
the Combined
Events Games
instructions for
whichever top
Athletes you
wish.
We have
not issued a seperate
rated Combined
Events set
this year
2012 PB SET £ 6.50
Pre-2012 Olympics Top Athlete Ratings. Top 30 PB in many events, a few less, rated during 2012 season leading up to the Olympics (see also Combined events set not included here) - £ 4.25
2011 Update Top 20 PB's - £ 3.49
1986 Season - £ 4.99
Pre-1988 Olympics Ratings - £4.99
1997 Grand Prix Season - £ 4.99
1998 Grand Prix Season - £ 4.99
1999 Grand Prix Season - £ 4.99
World Cup 1998 (Johannesburg) - £ 2.99
Sevilla '99 World Championships - £ 2.99
Paris 2003 World Championships - £ 4.99
Countdown to Athens (2003 Season) - £ 5.99
Great Middle Distance Runners - £ 3.99
Great Long Distance Runners and Steeplechasers - £ 3.99
The Combined Events - Extension Sets
(Needs COMBINED EVENTS Basic Set - Above
)E-MAILED TO YOU in pdf format - usually within 24 hours of order (initial order for some MAY be a little slower while these are scanned to first order)
NO SHIPPING COSTS
2012 Final Top Athletes Ratings. Top 30 PB's Men and Women plus Relay Squads ready rated for the 2012 season as at the end of the year, all ready to use for 2012 replays or 2013 events.
The set includes the Combined events Top 30 PB's results event by event for men and women at year end ready for you to rate per the Combined Events Games instructions for whichever top Athletes you wish.
We have not issued a seperate rated Combined Events set this year2012 PB SET £ 6.25
Pre-2012 Olympics Top 30 Ratings Set
Probably the largest single set ever issued for the Combined Events, 30 men and 30 women - a few hours research and conversion work ! - £2.49
Combined Events 2011 PB's Top 20's £ 1.99
Combined Events 1996 and ATG Updates - £ 2.99
Combined Events 1998 and 1999 Ratings - £ 2.99