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freeman wrote:A static value for a card is an illusion. Ballpark affects of course (you can never come up with a static value that represents all ballparks)..but also positional scarcity, statistical scarcity (outlier stats) placement in the line-up, extreme splits, and-- very importantly--the ability of the card to combine with other cards to form strategies to increase the value of a card. No card is an island...entirely of itself.
Of course you have to have some way of determining the dollar value of players, but I don't think you are going to ever be able to get a final fixed number on a player and I think you are probably always to going to have a bunch of cards that are not used much.
This is where I disagree....I think I could price the entire set and for caps $60 to $140 million 60% of the set would be used 10% of the time.....a huge improvement from what we have right now.
I think there would be a fair amount of complaining at how I arrived at the pricing, but the pricing would be close enough that it would encourage a LOT more cards being used for different stadium strategies for hitting, pitching and defense.
And then, the pricing should be adjusted again each year after that to encourage usage of lesser used cards again....there are HUNDREDS of cards I would love to use, but they are all over priced anywhere from 50 cents to $1.50 and as such i will never use them.