No Garcia's blog today?

Throwing in my 1 cent. Think Steve F is correct on what the changed charts will reflect.

From Garcia's blog:

"Previously any reading with a ballpark chance was just ignored. This was causing some players to show on-base and power numbers to be extremely low compared to their actual value.

Now, the bar charts will count the reading that will be replaced by the ballpark chance. For example, on Mickey Mantle's 1956 card (shown here), 2-8 and 2-10 vs LHP will now count as HR 1-8. This adds 3.2 more HR chances to that side of the card."

The key words to me are "Previously any reading with a ballpark chance was just ignored." Then later "Now, the bar charts will count the reading that will be replaced by the ballpark chance."

Previously the ballpark chances were not used at all. Now where a ballpark chance is shown, they are using the numbers shown on the card to calculate the chances (of a home run in the Mantle example.) If Mantle 61 was used as an example,
a 2-10 against LHP would include the chances of a home run based on a subsequent 1-17 "roll."

Will leave the analyses of what the change means in playing the game to the many knowledgeable Strat experts here.

Steve hit it right--now the chart shows the card with the values as if the BP effects weren't being used--for some reason I didn't see that.

It makes no sense to me to show the bar charts as if BP effects weren't being used--unless you could create a league without them being used.

This is sure to confuse new guys more, and makes the charts harder to use for those of us who count cards--as I have to subtract the added in SI (2 on most cards) and HR that aren't used and then add BP effects---even worse with pitchers.

I'd rather they have included HBP and showed GBA's

I agree. Wavygravy wrote a greasemonkey script to use with Firefox that would calculate all of the card chances - OBP, gbA's, everything. But, I can no longer get that script to run on any of my Firefox installations (plus I mainly use Chrome now).