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Scott Bradley, a .75 catcher with an abysmal defensive rating. Looking at his card, can anyone explain why his 1987 card has a W designation against RHP but an N designation against LHP, when against RHP a roll of 7 under column 1 gives a 1-10 chance of a HR, and against LHP the same roll gives only a 1-4 chance of a HR. There are no #s to either side. And the year is balanced 1R? Just curious...

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Hecho,

The N/W designation prevents players from hitting an out of ordinary number of HR's based on getting them on the pitchers card. Therefore against Right Handed pitching the league average pitcher for that season gave up more HR's per AB than Bradley hit, so he gets a W rating and his own card is adjusted to give him the correct HR Pct.

Against LH'ers he is Normal which means he hit more HR's per AB than the average pitcher gave up that season. The HR's from the pitchers cards combined with his 1-4 against LH'ers will produce more HR's per AB over the long haul.

It is not uncommon to find someone at N power, yet only have a homer on a 1. The N/W rating is a function of the average pitcher card used in that years set.

Bbrool

Thanks - always learning around here...

Been playing Strat-o-matic for over 30 years and I never knew that about the N/W ratings...good stuff. Thanks Bbrool