ATG III Team Teaser #9

[bernieh]

Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online's All-Time Greats III, coming in early August to a browser near you.

New team teaser #9!

[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYG/1921.shtml]1. 1921 New York Giants[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1978.shtml]2. 1978 New York Yankees[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLE/1906.shtml]3. 1906 Cleveland Naps[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/1982.shtml]4. 1982 Atlanta Braves[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/1966.shtml]5. 1966 Baltimore Orioles*[/url] (replaces '70 Orioles)
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PIT/1927.shtml]6. 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CAL/1979.shtml]7. 1979 California Angels[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1961.shtml]8. 1961 New York Yankees[/url]
[url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TEX/1977.shtml][color=darkred:08955bcb88][size=14:08955bcb88][b:08955bcb88]9. 1977 Texas Rangers[/b:08955bcb88][/size:08955bcb88][/color:08955bcb88][/url]

featuring Hofer Gaylord Perry, should-be HoFer Bert Blyleven, Doyle Alexander, Mike Hargrove, Toby Harrah...


* Whether a year's card set is [b:08955bcb88]Super-Advanced[/b:08955bcb88] or not was a significant factor in our team decisions. SA card sets are sets that Strat-O-Matic officially created and released for that year, which include more accurate data (such as ballpark HR and clutch tendencies) than non-SA years. The 1966 Orioles (SA) replacing the 1970 Orioles (non-SA) is an example of such a move.

Other notes:

- Please refer to [url=http://forums-beta.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=96862]this thread[/url] for where I previously announced that ATG III will feature the option to play any of a number of pre-defined subsets of the master player pool, if you don't want to play with the entire pool.

- Since the team pool is growing so large, we are somewhat relaxing our "Greatest Teams" criterion for selecting new teams, and shifting the focus a little more towards the players. It's not a dramatic shift, but I just wanted to explain why you'll be seeing some 3rd place teams making the cut for ATG III.

- Error ratings WILL BE NORMALIZED across era, so you'll no longer have to worry about guys like Honus Wagner committing 50 errors a year.

[Roosky]

Hargrove and harrah look interesting with their obp% and kurt bevacqua looks to have a very interesting card. A dramatic improvement over his previous card.

[zrot]

Just wondering which Bevaqua card we might get??

:lol:

[PJ Axelsson]

Hmmmmm..... :?

[bernieh]

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. No, we're not going to have Kurt Bevacqua's .333/.365/.604 in 96 AB on this team; he'll stay on the '84 Padres. And also on the somewhat long list of removals from this team:
- Bert Campaneris ('73 A's)
- Willie Horton ('68 Tigers)
- Claudell Washington ('82 Braves)
- Tommy Boggs ('82 Braves)
- Nelson Briles ('71 Pirates)
- Darold Knowles ('73 A's)
- Dock Ellis ('71 Pirates)

Yeesh!

[Cruiser]

Got to admit, I did not see that one coming.

[Roosky]

Oh well back to .50 for kurt. It was short lived but this was his ATG moment of greatness.

[zrot]

Apparently it took him til he was almost 40 years old before he learned to take a pitch. One of my all time favorite scrubs who played 14 seasons and only had 2200 at bats, starting with the Indians of course.

[tomwistar]

No offense . . . but yuck.

It looks like the franchises that got axed after ATG 1 are coming back from the grave . . . Rangers, Angels. Maybe Alvin Davis and Jim Beattie are next. Anybody miss them?

[msheaf1]

It seems a bit strange as a third of the teams cards aren't even going to be used (7 guys on other teams).