Thanks, Chris, for referring me to that terrific article by Gary Cokins. So impressed!
Curiously, as I read the article, I was stricken by a few parallels in his and my experience, as relates to career endeavors and how mine also may have been influenced by those early gaming days. Though I never became involved with computer programming, never wrote books or did seminars, I did carve out a career in the Quality Assurance sciences, where metrics, systems, and statistics dominated my work life. I had never previously made that correlation. Also interesting is that my main baseball game collaborating friend kind of went the same way, though via an entirely different path than mine. I'm betting he never recognized that correlation either. I'll have to discuss this with him when we have our next phone chat.
It would be truly interesting to me to see how Gary's game results and player statistics compared to those of our games. But, even if Gary's results were still available to review, I discarded all of my game related materials (reams of hand-written scoresheets, box scores, statistical compilations, rulebook/instructions, etc.) nearly twenty years ago, when I relocated back to Pittsburgh. Still have the great memories, though.
Thanks, again, Chris. Really enjoyed that article and the memories it triggered.