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Originally Posted by knockahoma
Gambo. Are you saying you actually worked with Strat in determining ratings for their cards? I'd love to hear more about that process if so. I have a lot of respect for STRAT's methods. I once was interviewing a spring training coach for the Brewers named Sam Suplezio. We chatted for about half an hour, as I was tossing out arm strength, range, speed of various players. Finally, he shook his head and said, " You must be a HELLUVA baseball fan!" Never told him my scouting reports came from strat.
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Alot of APBA. APBA's community was actually more involved in tweaking the game than the company itself. Back in the day they had monthly magazine "APBA Journal" that broke down all the methods of how they created cards, ratings, etc for all their games. The community developed many of the functions the game eventually had. In fact people from that community are now the people essentially creating the game. During this process there was alot of looking at other games development models.
You'd be surprised to know that the "Card Creators" took a lot of what "should happen" rather than "what this causes" when developing ratings. They often tweak rating and numbers so players to avoid players seeing the issues in the results. If you broke down the numbers you'd see that stars will more often out perform their real stats while above average players would under perform in their best seasons. It evened out in the end so people wouldn't notice with the final team and league numbers but players are not actually evenly balanced against their team stats.
For APBA after 50 years they got real good at it.