Cards are up!

[Danlovaj]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/playoffs/team.html?stats=sim

Frank Thomas..loved the card. In fact, loved Minute Maid Field in 2006. The heavy favor of right handed batters was awesome. One of my best years overall. Since then, I don't think we've had a park that favors one side of the plate over the other. But in 2009, looks like Oakland Coliseum will be the next best thing. Had 100 and 101 win teams, and did not make it out of semi-finals!

[maligned]

Super relievers are getting priced as such. All the top-line S5/R3's are getting bumped up in salary from their initial listing. An S5 only projects at about 160-170 innings if they're not on a slow hook. An R3 with the right settings (i.e. Phil Hughes R3/C2) will be able to get easily over 200 innings. Hughes got a nice bump. Also R. Tejeda, D. Mathis, B. Badenhop have seemingly now gotten salaries related to their R3 ratings.

[Ninersphan]

To review


[quote:a1b602628a="palmtana"]These guys would be excluded if Bernie allows no exceptions to the above PA/salary guidelines.
We'll find out real soon who makes the cut.[/quote:a1b602628a]

Randy Ruiz - 125 - 8.51 [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Alex Avila - 71 - 7.55 [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Rusty Ryal - 65 - 6.97 [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
David Ross - 149 - 6.31 (catcher; inj 3; 1 PA from 150)[b:a1b602628a] YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Justin Maxwell - 101 - 5.62 [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Mike Carp - 62 - 5.54 [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Sam Fuld - 114 - 5.5 [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Paul Phillips - 52 - 4.51 (catcher)[b:a1b602628a] NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Carlos Delgado - 106 - 4.38 (inj 6) [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Jesus Flores - 104 - 4.33 (catcher; inj 6) [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Michael Aubrey - 95 - 4.22 (good D; L-8R though) [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Eric Patterson - 108 - 3.71 [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Jeff Larish - 89 - 3.52[b:a1b602628a] NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Ian Desmond - 87 - 3.16 (bad D) [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Chad Moeller - 96 - 3.11 (catcher; L-8R) [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Josh Thole - 57 - 2.96 (catcher ; L-6R) [b:a1b602628a]NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Brad Ausmus - 100 - 2.86 (catcher; gotta include his last card) [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]
Mike Morse - 55 - 2.83[b:a1b602628a] NO[/b:a1b602628a]
Reid Brignac - 93 - 2.55 [b:a1b602628a]YES[/b:a1b602628a]

[qksilver69]

1) Remember salary + PAs were never the [b:5fd2966a38]only[/b:5fd2966a38] criteria used on exclusion. One of the main criteria is potential to skew the game.

In an old email conversation with Bernie he defined that for me along these lines: "would lead the league in HRs, RBI, BA or other similar major stat if incuded".

2) I think the cutoff was moved down from 150 last year to 100 PAs. That would explain all the cases below except for Flores.

I agree with you Niners, no idea why he was not included, but Maxwell was, for instance. Very similar hitting stats & PAs, and Maxwell higher value. If you go by the above though, all the exclusions make total sense except for Flores.