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Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:33 am
How were price changes determined? Was there a formula? Usage or lack thereof? Case by case?
Some prices were changed based on SOM's usage data. Others were changed based on recommendations from one or more of the reviewers, including reshuffling of the salaries of most of the $200 MM LH starters, dropping the salaries of the low-budget LH starters with balance >3L, dropping the salaries of a number of the big small-ball cards, raising the salaries of most of the low-budget platooner cards, and some miscellaneous price changes for some of the notoriously out of line cards.
The intent of the price adjustments was to provide more balance among the available strategies at all salary levels. More 5-day starters, some nice small-ball 3B cards (Torriente, Wagner, King Kelly), and additional RP options at levels down to $2 million and below, including Eric Gagne's great 2003 season and Steve Ontiveros, who has a card that can only be described as Elias Sosa on steroids.
Most of my salary recommendations were based on how I evaluate cards, which makes it very easy for me to find similarities among large numbers of cards in different ballpark environments. Nowhere near all of them were accepted. I would have been disturbed if they had - I doubt that anybody has a good handle on what single number should be assigned as a salary for any given card. Indeed, one of the great fascinations of this game, to me, is that values of individual cards change (sometimes drastically) for a number of reasons.