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Originally Posted by Dogberry99
This needs to be stated again, apparently.
The issue being discussed in this thread has never been that cards are underproducing. It is that the same card is producing in a way that is impossible to predict from season to season.
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The higher variability comes because the talent ratings in most PT leagues are much more flat than a regular OOTP league. Even in PT though, you won't see Perfect Pedro or Perfect Babe having too many bad seasons, they're just too good even with the inflated talent pool. But for average to bad players, or even just good ones, a bad season is always possible both in regular OOTP and in PT.
It's no different than in regular OOTP, but the flatter talent pool and the big difference in who is a average and likely highly variable player makes things feel different and makes it hard to adjust mentally to who's that sort of player.
In regular OOTP, you wouldn't think twice if Anibal Sanchez or Mike Moustakas has a down year one year and a great year the next. Never mind actual bad players. You are not only not surprised, but expect it even.
In some PT leagues, because of the higher and flatter talent pool, Anibal Sanchez = Bob Gibson and Mike Moustakas = Brooks Robinson. That can be a hard thing to wrap your brain around, but the underlying mechanics and variance are the same in each case.