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Originally Posted by elutz31
Why would you not fix this then? Having a cap lower than a player's ability makes no sense. The cap for stuff should be what ever equates to 27 strikeouts per 9 innings.
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Although I agree the sliding scale for Stuff should be changed, there's no need for this kind of extreme. As is there's not enough usage on the lower end of the scale; i.e. 40 Stuff and below is very rare for pitcher cards.
Chien-Ming Wang is one of the most popular cards on the AH right now, and he has a mere 30 Stuff. The year of the card he had 3.1 K/9. Meanwhile power-pitching king Randy Johnson had a career K/9 of 10.6. So you could base the scale around something like that.
Obviously you'd have to adjust for era and for position players not being able to come in and throw 3.0 K/9 with the lowest Stuff rating. But currently there's too many cards clustered around 128 Stuff.