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LeeD · 07-27-2024, 11:09 PM

There's just an overall feeling of sloppiness with this year's card progression. Look at last week's new cards for a perfect example. We got Early Eras up through the 1970s? A thorough mismash of cards, the main point being to add three more 101 cards without any regard for actual eras. Mordecai Brown retired in 1916. Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in 1920. Warren Spahn was born in 1921! One of these is not like the others. Calling Warren Spahn an Early Eras player shows either lack of knowledge or complete disregard for the game's history.

How about Tournament Rewards cards like Negro Leaguer Bill Pierce, who doesn't get a chemistry bump like the other Negro League players because he's Special Edition? Gary Carter gets a mediocre perfect as a Hall of Fame Showcase player, while Joe Mauer gets a massively-overrated 101 because he just got elected. Hints: Joe Mauer never hit 30 home runs. Never drew 100 walks. Was replaced as catcher and didn't catch a single game after his age-30 season. His primary calling card is batting average, which is oh so un-Sabermetric. Nonetheless, he gets 100 Power and 115 Eye because...28 home runs and 76 walks in 606 PA?

And...no Build-a-Lineup. No live All-Star missions. Only thing we can depend on is that actual achievements (other than this quirky obsession with who hit .400 or had a bunch of home runs in one particular month) are trumped by opinions on the ceilings of prospects who haven't played an inning in the majors or are trumped by Peak over-valuations of players, assisted by the usual ratings creep.

Added to all of this is constant tinkering with how the underlying ratings play in-game, which apparently wrecks the decision-making process for a lot of early-release cards. Let's see. PT22 was all about BABIP. PT23 was all about Power. PT24 was all about PBABIP. PT25 is all about HRR. Anyone playing high-Diamond, mission-essential pitchers Jim Palmer and Bruce Hurst in league? I thought not. As one well-known Discord user posted...

"one stat to rule them all...." What will next year's "hot new rating" be?

07-27-2024, 11:09 PM	#46
LeeD All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2022 Posts: 823	There's just an overall feeling of sloppiness with this year's card progression. Look at last week's new cards for a perfect example. We got Early Eras up through the 1970s? A thorough mismash of cards, the main point being to add three more 101 cards without any regard for actual eras. Mordecai Brown retired in 1916. Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in 1920. Warren Spahn was born in 1921! One of these is not like the others. Calling Warren Spahn an Early Eras player shows either lack of knowledge or complete disregard for the game's history. How about Tournament Rewards cards like Negro Leaguer Bill Pierce, who doesn't get a chemistry bump like the other Negro League players because he's Special Edition? Gary Carter gets a mediocre perfect as a Hall of Fame Showcase player, while Joe Mauer gets a massively-overrated 101 because he just got elected. Hints: Joe Mauer never hit 30 home runs. Never drew 100 walks. Was replaced as catcher and didn't catch a single game after his age-30 season. His primary calling card is batting average, which is oh so un-Sabermetric. Nonetheless, he gets 100 Power and 115 Eye because...28 home runs and 76 walks in 606 PA? And...no Build-a-Lineup. No live All-Star missions. Only thing we can depend on is that actual achievements (other than this quirky obsession with who hit .400 or had a bunch of home runs in one particular month) are trumped by opinions on the ceilings of prospects who haven't played an inning in the majors or are trumped by Peak over-valuations of players, assisted by the usual ratings creep. Added to all of this is constant tinkering with how the underlying ratings play in-game, which apparently wrecks the decision-making process for a lot of early-release cards. Let's see. PT22 was all about BABIP. PT23 was all about Power. PT24 was all about PBABIP. PT25 is all about HRR. Anyone playing high-Diamond, mission-essential pitchers Jim Palmer and Bruce Hurst in league? I thought not. As one well-known Discord user posted... "one stat to rule them all...." What will next year's "hot new rating" be?