What's with all the HBP injuries? You took out the fun!

[chazhain]

My favorite part of the 70's and 80's game was early injury determination. Now it seems like about 90%+ are HBPs ... boorriinngg! I don't want to have to wait until past Game 41, when I can't get 95% anymore, to have a decent idea of which card is right. I don't care if that's how the cards actually are in the board game. Make some adjustments for your online customers and change those injuries. I used to hate the lomax injury in the 80's game .. now I'd pay to see one on a 90's card.

Swing and a miss .. I'll stick with the old games.

[JONCHUCKERY]

Let me see if I'm reading this right...please do something to take away the strategy of what's called a "mystery card" game and make it more obvious what players we have so its more like a single year game...OK :roll:

[durantjerry]

I think it's good they make it tougher to determine what year a player has. Keeping track of injuries, etc. is tedium, not strategy. If anything, this requires you to make more judgements to show how good you are. You no longer automatically know what you have(or someone else is letting go) and you have to decide whether to hold them or fold them using your best analysis, judgements and strategies rather than because a batter got injured on a gb vs a lhp. You'll just have to find more clever ways to figure out what you have.

[Ragnarokpc]

Judgments don't always have much to do with how good you are. I've had guys with good years go 200-300 ABs and never live up to their cards. I've had a terrible Franco card that performed pretty well. Injury reveals are helpful. True, it's nice if they aren't your only source of info, but stats can be really off.

[voovits]

[quote:1d0d72e147="chazhain"]Make some adjustments for your online customers and change those injuries. [/quote:1d0d72e147]

TSN can't do that. The strat cards are not their property. They also really didn't have much say in the matter anyway. As per Bernie, SOM made the majority of the choices as to which cards were used for the 90s game.
SOM won't do that because they don't want to mess around with their formula, and it's really not such a big deal anyway. The cards are what they are and SOM is not going to change them just for a minority of online players. I wouldn't if I were them.

[Hakmusic]

I prefer that it be harder to have injury reveals. Make it more of a challenge to determine year. That way you won't have stud player dropping like flies in the first week.

I am excited for the 90's game.

[bernieh]

Voovits has it right (as he often does) - we didn't manipulate a single card reading.

Personally, I don't like the "injury reveal" from a pure game design standpoint, but I understand that it's become a vital mechanic that Mystery Card managers have become accustomed to. So I wouldn't explicitly tinker with it.

[Badjam]

Mystery card game aside. HBP injuries are more realistic in a game that sometimes lack realism. In real baseball what do you see more often? A guy getting hurt on a strikeout? Or by getting hit by a pitch?