ATG9: 80M is gonna be a blast!
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:09 pmI have to confess that when I first looked at the changes made in ATG 9, I focused on what had happened to the higher priced cards and whether the the egregious outliers had been corrected.
More recently, I've been looking at some of the mid-to-lower priced cards, and I'm arriving at the conclusion that 80M SOM is going to be a blast to play!
During my early ATG years, I played mostly 80 & 100M. Gradually, however, I moved toward the higher caps because 80/100 had gotten rather stale, or so it seemed. There were a small set of well priced cards that everybody played, a few egregious outliers who skewed the set, and the super-reliever phenomenon cast a pall over everything. A small number of strategies dominated the game at the 80M level. Plus some of my favorite players and platoon combos from earlier versions of ATG had been repriced upward so that they were no longer viable options. I felt like the game at the 80M level was closing down. Under these circumstances, there seemed to be more fun and variety in the larger caps.
But now I'm really looking forward to playing me some 80M. Some of the pricing changes are really going to freshen things up--in part because many over-priced cards have been repriced downwards. We're going to have a lot more cards to play with, and a lot more team-building strategies to test against each other.
Just as one example, Edgar Martinez's 1992 card, which is 3e27 at 3B—and therefore playable defensively—has been repriced from 5.8M to 4.67 M. Gotta take a look at that one. Also at 3B, Brett's two cheaper cards, which used to cost 6.25/6.15M, are now 5.20/5.10M. Hmmm, tempting? Arky Vaughan's cheaper card is down from 5.25M to 4.69. Can you win with a 3e29 LHB SS at that price in 80M if he can really hit? Again, it's tempting to try it, and find out.
Also, many of my old favorites are back. For example, Kluszewski's 1955 card, highly productive at 80M, used to cost about 4.5M--a real bargain. Then it was repriced out of useful range in ATG8 at 6.07M. Everybody, including me, stopped using this once-sought-after card. Now it's priced about where it should have been all along, at 4.92M. I'm looking forward to giving it another whirl. Mike Pagliarulo, repriced out of reach in ATG8, is similarly back in play as a platoon 3B. And there are many other examples.
This are just a few of dozens of examples of appropriate re-pricing that I've noticed. I think a lot more cards are now in play at the 60/80/100M caps. I think we have a lot of new ground to explore, and old ground to reclaim, at these levels, and I, for one, am looking forward to it.
More recently, I've been looking at some of the mid-to-lower priced cards, and I'm arriving at the conclusion that 80M SOM is going to be a blast to play!
During my early ATG years, I played mostly 80 & 100M. Gradually, however, I moved toward the higher caps because 80/100 had gotten rather stale, or so it seemed. There were a small set of well priced cards that everybody played, a few egregious outliers who skewed the set, and the super-reliever phenomenon cast a pall over everything. A small number of strategies dominated the game at the 80M level. Plus some of my favorite players and platoon combos from earlier versions of ATG had been repriced upward so that they were no longer viable options. I felt like the game at the 80M level was closing down. Under these circumstances, there seemed to be more fun and variety in the larger caps.
But now I'm really looking forward to playing me some 80M. Some of the pricing changes are really going to freshen things up--in part because many over-priced cards have been repriced downwards. We're going to have a lot more cards to play with, and a lot more team-building strategies to test against each other.
Just as one example, Edgar Martinez's 1992 card, which is 3e27 at 3B—and therefore playable defensively—has been repriced from 5.8M to 4.67 M. Gotta take a look at that one. Also at 3B, Brett's two cheaper cards, which used to cost 6.25/6.15M, are now 5.20/5.10M. Hmmm, tempting? Arky Vaughan's cheaper card is down from 5.25M to 4.69. Can you win with a 3e29 LHB SS at that price in 80M if he can really hit? Again, it's tempting to try it, and find out.
Also, many of my old favorites are back. For example, Kluszewski's 1955 card, highly productive at 80M, used to cost about 4.5M--a real bargain. Then it was repriced out of useful range in ATG8 at 6.07M. Everybody, including me, stopped using this once-sought-after card. Now it's priced about where it should have been all along, at 4.92M. I'm looking forward to giving it another whirl. Mike Pagliarulo, repriced out of reach in ATG8, is similarly back in play as a platoon 3B. And there are many other examples.
This are just a few of dozens of examples of appropriate re-pricing that I've noticed. I think a lot more cards are now in play at the 60/80/100M caps. I think we have a lot of new ground to explore, and old ground to reclaim, at these levels, and I, for one, am looking forward to it.
