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Cadillac seasons only exist for seasons where SOM has L-R splits, etc. available. Generating this information for seasons before the rise of Stats, Inc. is difficult. You can see for yourself that even bbref has some years where the only "splits" available are hitter splits for games against LHSP and RHSP. See this link: http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/coverage.shtml. And bbref has a large number of researchers contributing; SOM just has Hal. Personally, I think it's a miracle that the 1911 season is "cadillac." He had to find a scoresheet for every game, and then transcribe the data accurately.
There flat-out aren't many seasons left that would impact the $200 MM plus games. Ignoring, of course, the fact that most Ruth seasons could play in them, and some other seasons for many of the high-end cards.
As to "changing" the strategy, that can't really be done without running the risk of ruining the game. The idea was to level the playing field for different strategies so that many strategies can succeed at the mid-caps. The first steps were halting, so as to not create complete chaos among the user group. I lobbied hard to have Kirby Higbe, for example, bumped up to about $4.75 MM but they (wisely, I think) decided to go slower.
Besides, there is no single action they could have taken that would have satisfied everybody. So all of the outrage I see here is in and of itself, in my opinion, outrageous.
There flat-out aren't many seasons left that would impact the $200 MM plus games. Ignoring, of course, the fact that most Ruth seasons could play in them, and some other seasons for many of the high-end cards.
As to "changing" the strategy, that can't really be done without running the risk of ruining the game. The idea was to level the playing field for different strategies so that many strategies can succeed at the mid-caps. The first steps were halting, so as to not create complete chaos among the user group. I lobbied hard to have Kirby Higbe, for example, bumped up to about $4.75 MM but they (wisely, I think) decided to go slower.
Besides, there is no single action they could have taken that would have satisfied everybody. So all of the outrage I see here is in and of itself, in my opinion, outrageous.