Now playing: The 2010 Season

[bernieh]

SportingNews.com is proud to present:

[size=16:426709681a][b:426709681a]Strat-O-Matic Baseball: The 2010 Season[/b:426709681a][/size:426709681a]
http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/about/player_set_2010.html

Play ball with the latest player cards in Strat-O-Matic's catalog - over 900 players from the 2010 season! Bat [b:426709681a]Robinson Cano[/b:426709681a] in front of [b:426709681a]Albert Pujols[/b:426709681a] and watch your opponents tremble! Stack [b:426709681a]Felix Hernandez[/b:426709681a] and [b:426709681a]Cliff Lee[/b:426709681a] at the top of your rotation!

Notes:

- Here's the handy [url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/stratomatic/salaries/salaries_public_2010.xls]Excel spreadsheet[/url] with all the players with their stats and salaries.

- You can immediately use your available "universal" SOM team credits to play, and even switch an existing undrafted 2009 team to 2010 with ease. The item you want to purchase (or claim as a prize from a Finals team) is labeled "Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online: ATG, 2007-2010, 1999, 1986, Btt90s".

- Also available is the alternate "2010 season Unleashed" set, which is simply the standard 2010 set plus the 12 "Fluke" cards that were removed from it. These cards are listed on [url=http://somonline.wikia.com/wiki/2010_season]the wiki page for the 2010 set[/url], and are marked in light blue in the Excel spreadsheet above.

- Live Drafts for both the standard set and the alternate "Unleashed" set are available effective immediately!

Thanks! Go play!
Bernie H.

THIS. IS. SPARTA

[paul.czarnecki]

Thanks Bernie, you rock.

[Salty]

8-) :shock: :D :D :D

[Roscodog]

nice

[joethejet]

Let's Rock and roll!!! :D

Jet
www.angelfire.com/games5/joethejet

[The Turtle]

Why is Wilson Ramos a fluke card? 82 Abs is low, but not for a catcher and his .710 OPS isn't exactly staggering. I think he was a 9L, but how is that any different than Brian Schneider? Max Ramirez and Luis Hernandez, too? I don't get the fluke card idea here. I get Donnie Murphy and Casper Wells and maybe even Dillon Gee, but the rest make little sense. They would be like 2 million dollar cards.

[Ninersphan]

[quote:35808a6899="The Turtle"]Why is Wilson Ramos a fluke card? 82 Abs is low, but not for a catcher and his .710 OPS isn't exactly staggering. I think he was a 9L, but how is that any different than Brian Schneider? Max Ramirez and Luis Hernandez, too? I don't get the fluke card idea here. I get Donnie Murphy and Casper Wells and maybe even Dillon Gee, but the rest make little sense. They would be like 2 million dollar cards.[/quote:35808a6899]

Hmm yes a 9L, but:

70 points of OB and 99 points of TB :shock: for Ramos

vs 41.9 points of ob and 29.3 points of TB for schniender vs RHP


so not very much alike at all. YMMV

[The Turtle]

Sorry Niner, I don't have the stats at hand and frankly I don't care how good he is against lefties. He is awful against right handers, which even in a platoon he would be forced to face.

Anyone using Ramos has to platoon him and might get 150 ABs at best. Any more and he faces righties where he is futile. Ramos was worth what 2.86 in the testing?

I get excluding a card that will lead the league in homers. A severe platoon guy? Not at all.

[Ninersphan]

[quote:ffd0893c80="The Turtle"]Sorry Niner, I don't have the stats at hand and frankly I don't care how good he is against lefties. He is awful against right handers, which even in a platoon he would be forced to face.

Anyone using Ramos has to platoon him and might get 150 ABs at best. Any more and he faces righties where he is futile. Ramos was worth what 2.86 in the testing?

I get excluding a card that will lead the league in homers. A severe platoon guy? Not at all.[/quote:ffd0893c80]

Hey I think[b:ffd0893c80] all [/b:ffd0893c80]the cards should always be included and there shouldn't be to seperate sets, so you're preaching to the chior.

I'm just telling you the Schnieder and Ramos aren't even in the same ball park for comparisons, despite the 9L/9R...

His one colmun is all doubles, and the 3 column is almost all single**, I thnik rbi's was the problem, the guy would be an rbi machne against LHP. And yes I know he's only likely be in use 20% of the time, but still :shock:

[bernieh]

It's a subjective call.

Though instead of thinking of it as those 150 ABs being too impactful as a whole, the way I think of it is it's too unrealistic to have a 22-year-old catcher with 82 major league PAs on your roster with a .700 OBP card that you can stick in the leadoff spot every time you face a lefty. Yeah, there's all sorts of unrealistic strategic tendencies in SOM, but in my opinion that's crossing the (subjective) line.

Fwiw, I explain more about our philosophy about Fluke cards [url=http://somonline.wikia.com/wiki/Fluke_cards]here[/url].