okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, September 08, 2006
Tomorrow's race
When I was a kid I used to play a table-top baseball game called Strat-O-Matic. In those days, before everyone had a computer at home, the game involved cards and dice. You roll dice to decide the outcome of each at bat.
I've given up Strat-O-Matic, but for this competition season I've been playing a web-based orienteering game that is a lot like Strat-O-Matic called Omanager. In Omanager, you've got a stable of runners with different abilities. You assign their training every few days. The runners' abilities change with training. You can buy or sell runners to other clubs. For races, like this weekend's "TioMila", you select the runners from your club and assign specific legs.
While I don't know the exact details, Omanager works a lot like Strat-O-Matic baseball. The runners perform based on their attributes (things like: running in the forest, night orienteering, stamina, form, motivation,and so on) and some random element.
I don't have the time, energy or interest to play Omanager seriously. If it had been around when I was in school, I can imagine I'd take it very seriously.
My team isn't very good. But, I'm gradually learning a bit about the game (even though I'm not really trying). Like, I've managed to train my runners too hard and get them sick. So, two of my better women aren't running this weekend because they are sick.
posted by Michael |
7:43 PM