Happy Opening Day! Atlanta Tops Oakland In Strat-O-Matic 2021 Baseball Simulation

Top Seeded Dodgers (106 wins), Yankees (102) Fail To Reach LCS; Alvarez & Machado Win MVPs, Cole & Urias Earn Cy Youngs; Strat-O-Matic Also Simulates DH in NL Season

GLEN HEAD, N.Y., April 1, 2021—Atlanta and Oakland meet in the World Series, with the Braves earning their first title in 26 years, in Strat-O-Matic’s simulation of the 2021 baseball season, announced today prior to the first pitch in games across the country. According to the full 162-game slate and playoffs run by Strat-O-Matic, the market leader in sports simulation, Houston’s Yordan Alvarez and San Diego’s Manny Machado earned MVP honors, while New York’s Gerrit Cole and the Dodgers’ Julio Urias claim the league Cy Young Awards.

In the National League simulation, third seeded Atlanta tops Central Division winner Milwaukee, three games to two, then sweeps wild card San Diego, which had upended the 106-win Dodgers in the NLDS, in four straight to win the NLCS. In the American League, New York (102 wins) takes the top seed, but falls to wild card Oakland in the ALDS. The A’s go on to defeat Minnesota in the ALCS before falling to Atlanta in seven games.

Juan Soto leads both circuits in batting at .354. Alvarez’s 48 home runs and 137 RBI paces both leagues.

Strat-O-Matic also ran an alternative season simulation in which the National League adopts the DH. In that simulation, the Dodgers win 98 games but still have the best overall mark in the N.L. Four of the five playoff teams (L.A., Atlanta, San Diego and St. Louis) remain the same in the DH simulation, with the Phillies (East champion) replacing Milwaukee (non-DH Central winner) as the other post season qualifier.

“Opening Day is an exciting time for baseball fans, and Strat-O-Matic is proud to contribute our simulation to get everyone ready for the season,” said Adam Richman, Strat-O-Matic President. “We also thought it would be fun to see what might happen if the N.L. had added the D.H. this year. And the Strat-O-Matic simulation World Series of Atlanta vs. Oakland is the kind of surprise that the year sometimes provides on the field.”

About Strat-O-Matic
Strat-O-Matic was invented by 11-year-old Hal Richman in his bedroom in Great Neck, N.Y. in 1948 as a result of his frustration with the statistical randomness of other baseball board games. He discovered that the statistical predictability of dice would give his game the realism he craved. Over the next decade, he perfected the game at summer camp and then as a student at Bucknell University. After producing All-Star sets in 1961 and ‘62, he parlayed a $5,000 loan from his father (and made a deal that if it didn’t work out he would work for his father’s insurance company) into the original 1962 Strat-O-Matic Baseball season game. Needless to say, Hal never had to take a job with his father.

Strat-O-Matic, based in Glen Head, NY and on the Internet at www.strat-o-matic.com, manufactures the top selling sports board games and realism/stats sports digital games. The Company publishes baseball, football, basketball and hockey games to play both on and off your computer and mobile screens. “Strat-O” games are known throughout the sports community for their statistical realism and accuracy. The Company has the world’s greatest sports game stat libraries with top-of-the-line seasons dating back to the early 1900’s. At the start of the 2016 MLB season, Strat-O-Matic introduced Baseball Daily, its first product featuring digital player cards that update every day to reflect real life current player performance as the season progresses.

The Company has a loyal celebrity following including a bevy of sports broadcasters such as Bob Costas, Jon Miller and Dan Shulman, former MLB’ers Keith Hernandez, Doug Glanville and Cal Ripken Jr., and sports super fans including Drew Carey, Ben Bernanke, Bryant Gumbel, Spike Lee and Tim Robbins. More information is available at: www.strat-o-matic.com.

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