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Originally Posted by HRBaker
The basic problem of Perfect Team for those of us looking for more of a "baseball game" is one that can't be fixed. Namely, everyone has access to the same players. In the real world, There's only one of each player - so you never see what you see in Perfect Team - Tris Speaker playing CF for 25 of 30 teams in the league. This is also why you eventually see 6 versions of a player - the last of which are "superman" cards.
That said, I do have a suggestion that would make things a lot better - but I doubt the OOTP team would be willing to make such a change.
Instead of "making up" more and more powerful cards as the year progresses, resulting in a flood of 100s ranging from mediocre to gods, fix each available card to a specific player year and his associated stats for that year. No more "fictional scenarios", no more "players of the month", no more "special editions" no more "franchise heros", etc. etc. etc.
Simply a card for each player for each of the best seasons of his career - released from worst to best. THAT way, there would be more variation in rosters and lineups. One person would play Tris Speaker in 1916 with his .386/.470/502 stat line and someone else would play his 1912 card because of his 1919 card because that's the best he had.
I think the game would be a lot more challenging in the sense of mixing and matching players represented by the best years in their careers rather than competing for "superman" cards.
PS: By the way, yes, I would like to see stadium cards added to the mix.
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The main issue here is that the Special Editions, FH, and other feature cards create a good bit of the excitement through the season. The other issue is that your suggestion would just create a different set of cards that the collective determines are the optimum roster. You can have whatever labels you want on them, there will be a group of cards that are “the best” at any given time.
Regarding the stadium cards, many real stadiums are more extreme than that the game currently allows. I’m quite sure they would cause more problems than they solve. I’ve become more of a believer in the idea of manager cards.