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To wahoo and Andy Cummings
Yeah we do need another 10M Koufax card. Strat made ballpark homerun effectsthat are unrealistic, even in the parks that they were designed to replicate. Just look up Seaver's 1971 lefty right splits re homeruns including park effect splits in baseball reference. Then for hitters, look up Gehrig's two seasons that we have. There are so many further examples of cards whose ballpark effects don't reflect actual seasonal performance that they are a bad joke. Much like the bogus clutch hitting stuff that Strat uses.
Koufax's two current cards don't play well in parks with high ballpark #'s. His '64 card will. Koufax in real life, pitched superbly anywhere from 1963 until he retired. So we desperately need the '64 Koufax card, but only because Strat created a out of control monster with their poorly implemented ballpark homerun effects that grossly distort Koufax's actual performance in SOM.
Andy- you seem like the one issue voter who turns a blind eye to those with different needs. Not everyone lives or dies here by franchise leagues. As someone who plays both I appreciate the need for more franchise friendly choices but for the vast majority of owners, Koufax will be so worth it. The real issue is why SOM doesn't just upgrade to ATG 9 and stop teasing -and messing with -the customer base.