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It's still fairly early on, but my sense from my first review of the card set is that SOM has tweeked up the ball park effects quite a bit. Just take a look through the Pirates pitching staff or the Cubs/Braves line-ups and there are a lot of odd cards. The Pirates staff is loaded with ball park home runs and the Cubs/Braves line-ups seems to have had a lot of their power removed. If this is the case, I may lean toward playing theme leagues that focus on original team rosters. Does this jive with what anyone else is finding?
IM Bacchus

Bacchus, I haven't seen the "original" SOM 69 cards......

but, being an 80's guy, you, yourself, should know that there were HUGE changes to the 80's pitchers with HR effects ADDED.....

Guessing that TSN did it this time BEFORE the launch, unlike the 80's game, when they did it 2-3 nites BEFORE THE SEASON started

If, they did change some cards, it is not without precedence....

Hi There Leo,
I here what you're saying. I'm not so much thinking about TSN making changes to the cards as the formula that SOM utilized for upgrading the cards to super-advanced. One of my early concerns with ATG and Back to the 80's had to do with how cards are layed out by SOM on an annual basis. If cards are layed out based on a particular seasons ballpark ratings, does it then make sense that when you start playing those cards with different sets of ballpark ratings, the results are going to be ascue. In the case of the 1969 season, this is not an issue. I am just observing a greater reliance on ballpark effects than with say the 2005 season.
IM Bacchus

I'm not seeing it, Bacchus. Hank Aaron has 6 natural HR chances vs righties and 9.6 vs lefties, plus his 8 BPHR chances on either side. That seems about right for a guy who played in a launching pad for a ballpark.

It's no different than Mays going from a 49 HR hitter to a 70 HR in ATG after adjusting for park effects.