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MaxPower wrote:If expert players were running away with rings as consistently as you describe, it would only be an indicator that there were some seriously mispriced cards in the set. A properly priced set enforces parity by its nature.
This ties into the 100-win team question as well. When is there the most value? Under the most extreme conditions. Teams that spent the season beating up on a favorable division. But extreme environments create extreme teams. If you tuned your team to destroy your extreme division, it's very easy to run into a hard counter from a different division in the postseason.
Precisely.
Plus the pricing is never going to be perfect--you have to make assumptions to determine a value.
Average park, average number of lefties/righties faced, average number games missed, etc. And of course salary cap matters. The players who understand the pricing assumptions can tease value out of situations.
Everything is about the value.
And whether there is statistical chicanery going on--maybe so. But I don't know how you could purposefully construct a system that simultaneously allows extremely successful teams but somehow torpedos them later. But is there some statistical forcing to tame extreme player card performances--sure. Is already being done. To what degree, who knows.