by maligned » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:04 pm
Just to clarify the above discussion: The cards are what they are. TSN will still price them correctly. The deviations from normal that SOM's website talks about is in relation to recreating actual MLB seasons. For example, Russell Branyan is probably getting screwed out of a couple percentage points of natural homerun chances because of the wrong homerun values in Petco being used initially. His card as it stands will be priced correctly by TSN; it's just that his card would have been created with better results if SOM would have had the correct data from the start. If he had a better card though, it would be priced slightly higher by TSN.
The "deviation" from normal is deviation from real MLB results if you replay the Padres' season. Branyan may end up averaging a few SLG. points lower than he accrued in real life. Because the TSN game is not about recreating real MLB seasons, our lives won't be affected.