Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Hoping some veteran Mystery players can help me with this. I have Larry Bowa on one of my teams, and while I'm not sure yet which year I got, as I was looking at his stats I came across this:

In his 1979 season he hits 11 triples and zero homers in 539 at bats. Yet, on his 1979 card, the only place he can triple is vs. a Righty on a 2-6 roll with a split of 1. And in a year in which he hits zero homers, he not only has a slight homer chance against both Lefties and Righties, but he's listed as Normal power vs. Lefties and even has a single ballpark homer chance on a 1-2 roll. Statistically, if he played an entire season with 70% of his bats vs. Righties and 30% vs. Lefties, he's be expected to hit about 2 homers and at most 1 triple based on rolls on his own card.

I don't get this one at all. HAL must have been hitting the sauce big-time when he made this card.

Anybody else ever notice this ... or ever asked Strat about it? The way Bowa is performing for me (exactly 1 extra base hit - a double - out of 36 hits thru 39 games, it sure looks to me like I got his '79 card, which is one of his two worst seasons based on the stat line and by far his worst based on the cards.

The "Back to the 80's" Larry Bowa mystery card for 1979 is correct, it seems. The "70's Game" Larry Bowa mystery card for 1979 is not accurate for the reasons you stated.

I sent email to onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com informing them of the problem. I don't know if there is a better way to communicate software bugs to the game company.

GoDucks wrote:In [Bowa's] 1979 season he hits 11 triples and zero homers in 539 at bats. Yet, on his 1979 card, the only place he can triple is vs. a Righty on a 2-6 roll with a split of 1. And in a year in which he hits zero homers, he not only has a slight homer chance against both Lefties and Righties, but he's listed as Normal power vs. Lefties and even has a single ballpark homer chance on a 1-2 roll. Statistically, if he played an entire season with 70% of his bats vs. Righties and 30% vs. Lefties, he's be expected to hit about 2 homers and at most 1 triple based on rolls on his own card.

"You don't need to see his statistics."
"This isn't the season you're looking for."
"You can go about your business."
"Move along."

paul8210 wrote:The "Back to the 80's" Larry Bowa mystery card for 1979 is correct, it seems. The "70's Game" Larry Bowa mystery card for 1979 is not accurate for the reasons you stated.

I sent email to onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com informing them of the problem. I don't know if there is a better way to communicate software bugs to the game company.

It's been wrong forever, many people have pointed it out over the years.