That leaves less than 10 minutes to complete your game in 15 minutes or less.īy using a duplicate pair of dice and rolling them with your initial pair, you can reduce your dice rolling down by at least half. For some nine-inning games it’s likely closer to 5 ½ minutes of dice rolling. With at least 52 batters coming up during a nine-inning game, that’s at least 4 minutes spent just rolling dice.
Here are 4 ways you can use immediately to pick up the pace of your tabletop baseball board game play.ĭice rolls typically take around 4-5 seconds each roll. However there are plenty of baseball games on the market, like our own Baseball Classics that are designed to finish in less than 30 minutes. Naturally, those are not for the gamer who is looking to shortcut their playing time. Some go pitch-by-pitch, or require moving the fielders to where the ball is hit in the field of play. Now there are some games that are meant to take a good hour or more to play a nine-inning game. However this article will cover playing without any electrical type of device, just the game parts, paper, and pencil or pen.
The prior post covers a very fast way to play Baseball Classics using your mobile device such as the iPad. Are your games taking too long to complete in 9 innings? And if you are keeping score along the way, how much longer is that taking you? If the answer to either of those questions is longer than 15 minutes, then this article is for you.
