Tabletop teammate plays
odds on season victories
By Joe Hudson
Hunched over a card table
in a grey folding chair. Bill
Davison concentrates on the
white cards spread before him.
It's two out in the bottom
of the ninth men on second
and third, he says. The home
team trails by a run, and the
shortstop is due to bat. He's
usually a weak hitter, but he's
had two singles tonight.
Davison ponders a moment.
"I'll pull him for a
pinch-hitter," he declares.
A few cards are rearranged,
and the dice clatter across the
board. Davison reads them,
consults a chart, draws a card
and runs his index finger down "
a column of another chart.
"All right!" he says. "A
double. The Yanks win." v
For Davison, 21, scenes like
this have been a part of his life
for 12 years. Since the age of
9, the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln marketing
major has called every play of
close to 5,000 professional
baseball, football and
basketball games right in his
own bedroom.
Davison is a self-proclaimed
addict of solitaire tabletop
sports.
These games include
performance cards for players
on each team, based on the
previous season's statistics. The
makeup of each card is
determined by the player's
actual performance, but a roll
of the dice determines where
on the card to look for the
result of the play.
In the long run,
performance on tha table top
should come dose to reality,
but the chance element of the
dice roll makes anything
possible on any given at-but or
carry of the ball.
The worst hitter in the
league can pop one out 6f the .
ball park, and the f most
supreme fielder can boot two
in a row.
"It's really pretty realistic,"
the blond-haired Davison said.
Players even get in slumps and
hot streaks, depending on how
the breaks go.
With the game board and
cards com charts and rules
that at first seem complicated
enough to discourage evert the
most optimistic novice.
(Continued on pg. 9)
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