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Anyone who thinks they have an absolute way of determining what Strat will or will not include in the set should check out this guy from the 2001 set. I used that card on about half my teams. I would have drafted him on every team but did not take long for the secret about how good that card was did not last long. Relative to cost and what you got out of him one of the best bargains ever for any set.

Mathews, T.J. R R2/C0 1 0 0 14.2 11 6 5 1 10 2 -1 1WR 3.07 1.35 1L .50M

Anyone who thinks they have an absolute way of determining what Strat will or will not include in the set should check out this guy from the 2001 set. I used that card on about half my teams. I would have drafted him on every team but did not take long for the secret about how good that card was did not last long. Relative to cost and what you got out of him one of the best bargains ever for any set.

Mathews, T.J. R R2/C0 1 0 0 14.2 11 6 5 1 10 2 -1 1WR 3.07 1.35 1L .50M

In fairness to Strat ( or more appropriately TSN) Valen, that was year one for the online game and they have made significant tweaks to the pricing model since then. I believe the elite closers were in the 8-9 mil range and almost no one used them and found many cards of TJ Mathews ilk amongst the RP's.

That is true regarding pricing. That card might cost more now.

But my main point was Strat is the one who made the decision which cards to include and what to exclude even when TSN was hosting. And Strat chose for whatever reason to include a card with only 14 innings. So clearly there is more that goes in to their decision than just number of innings or PAs.

T.J Mathews pitched 37 total innings that season, 23 in Oakland, 14 in St. Louis.

What is odd is that the number line is STL for innings pitched and ERA, but his WHIP is from his total (0.818 in STL, 1.696 in OAK).

T.J Mathews pitched 37 total innings that season, 23 in Oakland, 14 in St. Louis.

What is odd is that the number line is STL for innings pitched and ERA, but his WHIP is from his total (0.818 in STL, 1.696 in OAK).

Probably a misprint or an oversight for ip's then, as the online game always uses the combined card and never the individual cards of guys that swapped leagues. That also explains why it looks like someone with that few innings snuck in, when in actuality he didn't as it was the card with 37ip in the game.

ATG, but this one has always puzzled me

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/pl ... 281/425502

That also explains why it looks like someone with that few innings snuck in, when in actuality he didn't as it was the card with 37ip in the game.

Indeed it probably does. Great job guys in catching the combined innings.

Now about that Doug Bair card Steve mentioned .......