Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

While this is enormous fun to go through franchise history and pick cards that should be added, it's also a little demoralizing.
At the rate SOM is giving us, at most we get 5 cards per franchise PER YEAR, and only if they generate interest among the community.
It would be wonderful if we had a legitimate mandate to build up franchises with meaningful and representative cards, but we don't. We are forced to be very selective and then campaign for what we choose.

Have not had a chance to read through everything so apologies if this has been answered.

Why with 50 new cards do we only have 10 new pitchers?

Valen wrote:Have not had a chance to read through everything so apologies if this has been answered.

Why with 50 new cards do we only have 10 new pitchers?

Hi Valen - There weren't any quota's for positions, ERAs. teams...for a reason. For the first run on this new process allowing the community to dictate the direction was important, especially with all the hard feelings that had built up over time. Now that we have that first wave of cards we can focus the future card adds in areas of need. If pitchers are identified as a place to improve then so be it.

Cheers
Rosie

Is there an ETA on the next batch?

ratioman2 wrote:While this is enormous fun to go through franchise history and pick cards that should be added, it's also a little demoralizing.
At the rate SOM is giving us, at most we get 5 cards per franchise PER YEAR, and only if they generate interest among the community.
It would be wonderful if we had a legitimate mandate to build up franchises with meaningful and representative cards, but we don't. We are forced to be very selective and then campaign for what we choose.

I think the answer to this is create an entirely new set called a franchise ATG set. That way the franchise people can control that set and everyone else can control the ATG set.

mike4169 wrote:

ratioman2 wrote:While this is enormous fun to go through franchise history and pick cards that should be added, it's also a little demoralizing.
At the rate SOM is giving us, at most we get 5 cards per franchise PER YEAR, and only if they generate interest among the community.
It would be wonderful if we had a legitimate mandate to build up franchises with meaningful and representative cards, but we don't. We are forced to be very selective and then campaign for what we choose.

I think the answer to this is create an entirely new set called a franchise ATG set. That way the franchise people can control that set and everyone else can control the ATG set.

Another option would be an ATG Teams set, where they fill up the great teams in MLB history that are almost complete now and then add others so that league play could be done

The difference between alot of these ideas and ATG seems too minimal. ATG 9 or whatsnot is what we need----repricing.

Let's add some great single seasons for underrepresented franchises: 2007 Rockies, 2003 Marlins, 1996 Indians, 2008 Rays,

Can we get the process for the next 25 card addition STARTED?

I don't understand why they can't add more players quicker, like maybe 32 a month,( 20 batters and 12 pitchers?). Or add hundreds of players four times a year.

I give them credit, ATG8 is a fabulous set, with lots of players to choose from. And I know they are a small company but it seems like it would be worth it to them to pay someone to add players like every month, at least... People would constantly be checking the new players and want to try them, it seems like a win win for them and the customers.

What am I missing that is so hard? In fact they could add tons of those 60s,70s,80s and 90s cards that they already have images of from the Mystery and other online sets.

First off, I want to give SOM a lot of credit for coming up with all of this. I just signed up last fall and it's been a lot of fun. But being a Minnesotan, I've noticed some glaring misses in the ATG8 selection. No Justin Morneau? The guy won the MVP in '06 and came in second in '08. No Torii Hunter? IMHO he will get HOF votes. Not sure he'll get in, but he was certainly no slouch. There are others I'd like, but I'll leave it at that since it sounds like getting new cards is difficult.