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I personally think the overall pricing of the 80s is much better than other sets (note I did not say more accurate!). As bigdinkent said, owning Bonds in the 90s or Mays in the 60s, or even Morgan in the 70s is just not worth it as it kills your spending for the rest of the team.
At least you can own Brett or Clemens in the 80s and still field a reasonable team behind them.
Yes, there are a bunch of underpriced players and some overpriced players in the 80s (Anyone actually ever use Mitch Williams in the 80s? Ever?), so I would not object to some minor re-pricing and definitely some new player infusion, but I would hate to suddenly find Brett, Schmidt, Clemens and Hershiser all over 10 million.

The big difference with 80's is that you can use the superstars without totally compromising the rest of your team. It's just made for an 80m cap and an 80m cap only, which may bug some people.

One change I would like to see: a left-leaning stadium should be added, one which boosts both singles and HR's for a lefty batter. That would make any number of cards much more useful. There'd finally be a place to use Mark Langston, Matt Young, and several of the other LH pitchers who get lefties out and are fairly useless in the game right now. Sure, Ron Darling, Eric King, Eric Plunk, et al., could use a re-price-- the Erics might actually get used if they were $1-$2m less-- but I hope the game is never completely over-hauled.

The 1980s is the one that most interests me because I was a big fan growing up in the 80s, but I heard the 1980s game is old and lacks some of the newer strategy decisions that the other games have...

All of the games are priced for the 80M salary cap. The other games are more realistic because on a real team you won't have a lineup of all superstars. You need a mixture of stars, decent and low end guys to be a realistic team. That is why the 80s need a pricing overhaul IMO.

If the 80s have lineup depth chart and pitching preferences like the other games do I must have missed it. I guess I've been away from the 80s for too long then.

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a475/voovits/80spitcherprefs.jpg

http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a475/voovits/80sdepthchart.jpg

I dont actually use the depth chart, but the option is there as you can see.

The only issue with the 80s game (and 70s I believe) is that the first round of the playoffs is still a 5 game series instead of 7 games. For some reason that seems to be the only update the game did not officially receive.

Thanks for the help, I am excited for this league to start.

Far and away the most desirable option for me would be not only to create a 50's decade, but the ability to (if desired, optional) tic 50s / 60s or 60's / 70s or 70s / 80s or 80s / 90s, etc. - double the available players with adjoining decades.

I have been waiting two weeks for a 1970s league to fill. So far one other person has joined and there are TEN empty spots. I may have to change my team to a 1980s team, though I really wanted to try the 1970s. On-line SOM does not appear to be doing to well, which worries me. Maybe we should complain less, because we are going to miss SOM when they are gone. And maybe they should try to take care of our concerns a little better because they are missing the people (who for whatever reasons) do not play anymore.

Howdy,

I'm partial to the 70s because I grew up in that era. Objectively the 80s offer more in terms of position players, but I'll take the 70s most of the time.

Gotta say, so far I'm rather taken with the 60s set! Tons of great platoon options, pitching salary "sweet-spots" up and down, reveal-friendly injury rolls on most cards, even lots of position depth and flexibility. The only positions that seem to be a little dry are RP-only pitchers and maybe good cheap bench options. I love seeing all the different strategies that managers are employing in the leagues I'm in so far. The set really seems to give you a lot of great options.