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The idea for WHAFL originally began as a result of a debate I had with my brother. What would be the best dream team of all time, position by position? Of course, we couldn't agree on who would be on that team. Wouldn't it be great, we thought, if we could put together teams and have seasons played out? A fun conversation, but nothing would come out of it. Too much work to be practical.
On a related note, my father is a avid APBA baseball player. He has been collecting the cards since he was young. He's got the boards memorized, which makes me curious why he consistently wins (but he's never wrong when I call him on it.) He is a teacher at West High School, here in Sioux City, and used to run a fantasy league using APBA cards. It was a club at school. He, some other teachers, and some students would meet after school and draft teams, playing out series against each other. (Rattle! Rattle! Rattle!) A great idea, only I was too young to be involved, and they hadn't done it for quite some time.
Some years ago, in 1991, he bought the computerized version of APBA baseball, mainly to use the wizard program. We piddled around with it, but not much else. The break through came with APBA baseball for windows, which I bought him for a Father's Day present. APBA Baseball for windows, now in its fifth edition with Ernie Harwell's Broadcast Blast, is an excellent and powerful program that I'd recommend to any baseball fan. The program allows the computer to handle and manage entire seasons automatically. The idea resurfaced-draft dream teams from all the history of baseball, with some limitations of course, and have the computer simulate the season. With this WHAFL was born.
The first draft consisted of eight teams. The league is named "West High" in honor of our draft host. We meet in my dad's room at school to draft, which is always the most fun of the entire league. Draft day is a blast! My dad acts as the League Commissioner; the leader of our league, and I act as the League Manager; I handle all the computer tasks. Our initial equipment consisted of an Amiga 2000 computer with a bridgeboard IBM emulator running a 25 MHz 386, a zippy little machine at the time. Since then, I updated the processor to 50MHz and eventually to an entire new system, An AcerAcros running at 100MHz. Now I am running a Tiger Systems 333MHz computer that can simulate the games in a coupla seconds or less.
The league has expanded from eight to sixteen teams to a peak of 21. People come and people go, but the league continues to entertain and provide enjoyment. Our main goal is to enjoy baseball and have a good time; a goal we have met that many times over. WHAFL will continue for as long as we enjoy it.
Now we have moved onto the web. I hope to maintain this site
for future leagues. WHAFL has enjoyed ten seasons, hopefully,
it will be able to enjoy another ten seasons.
1. Big Springs Swinging Swedes (WHAFL Champion-no
world series)
2. Sioux City Silver Sox defeat the Washta Whalers in the first
WHAFL World Series
3. Tie (no series) Big Springs Swinging Swedes and Sioux City
Silver Sox
4. Sioux City Silver Sox defeat the Elk Point Bubbas in the series
5. Iowa City Corn Wolves defeat the Elk Point Bubbas
6. Elk Point Bubbas defeat the Sioux City Silver Sox
7. Elk Point Bubbas defeat the Champaign Corkers
8. Big Springs Swinging Swedes defeat the Sioux City Silver Sox
9. Mudville Nine (wild card) defeat the Champaign Corkers
10. Champaign Corkers defeat the Knob Knoster Knockers
11. Champaign Corkers defeat Megan's Muppets
12. Mudville Nine defeat the Dyersville Dreams
For those really really interested, I have continued, but not with anything on the web,
Future History
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4. Vermillion Vermin
5. Greenville Gorillas
6. Big Springs Swinging Swedes
7. Greenville Gorillas
8. Knob Knoster Knockers
9. Sioux City Silver Sox
10. Butler Did Its
11. Butler Did Its
12. Big Springs Swinging
Swedes
The League Manager
and the Commish. What a pair!
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