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Originally Posted by Scoman
I'm having a hard time with this..Users can buy all the gold and diamond cards as they want..makes no sense not to rate historical players correctly based on that reason IMO...Its like you want the Current players to be the ones predominately used because of the MLB license. ..
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It's funny because the idea with the lower overall ratings of a handful of historical players is exactly the opposite of what you seem to think it is.
It's born out of a love for the historical guys and a desire on our part to see plenty of them in PT, not just to have it dominated by current guys at the lower levels and only have the historical guys at the highest levels, where their cards might not be seen nearly as often.
This way sets more historical guys into play at the lower levels, rather than just as high value cards that people will rarely see (there are still plenty of those for historical players as well). Plus, since the historical guys are "underrated" in some cases compared to current players (only per overall, which isn't really even a rating at all but intentionally just a very rough guide), it spotlights some lesser known historical players and makes their cards more interesting and valuable to the community than current players at the same overall level.
Thus, those historical guys are far more likely to be used and bought than similarly ranked current guys and provides an opportunity for people find out about to take a look at the careers of some historical guys they might not otherwise have known.
So far from some sort of byzantine conspiracy in favor of current players and against historical guys, it's literally the exact opposite.