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Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser
In looking for players, I'm using 188|189|190|191|192 and then wond|rook|all-|recor|hero|peak, to find those guys Cy Young will approve of. Is there anything I'm missing? I wish the AI would stop pulling Young in the 9th. He's lost four shutouts already, and the PP for a shared shutout is only 20.I fear that the changeover will be a slog, as I try to stay middle of the pack with a meager 9K budget. My plan is to slowly(very slowly, it seems) begin adding in pre-1930 players next season to try to remain as competitive as possible. Of course I could sell Young, but that would defeat the purpose. I'm gonna keep as many of the current Mundys as I can in reserve, in case this does not prove to be as much fun as I hope.
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I only use the year search (and also limit the ovr range to 80 min as nothing under that will be an improvement over what I already have).... and don't bother with the wond|rook|etc.... the year only search typically returns about 7-8 pages of players (less if I check off 'cards i can afford').... edit: I also sort my AH search by 'player name', that way it groups them together so I can see with a quick glance if there are any good deals or if one offer is overpriced vs another
the only group you won't see with the year search is the all-time peak cards (for whatever reason, the year search doesn't pick them up even though they have a year attached to them for player age reasons), but that group is typically small enough that you can just query the entire bunch and scroll through to spot any players who fit the mold (and most of those are out of my price range anyway, so it's a quick browse)
I also took the spreadsheet of available cards, sorted it by year and made my own list of pre-ww2 pitchers and batters (and then sorted the batters by position), to make it easier to review their stats and plan out which ones I want to try and save for/pick up....
just a FYI... if you limit your team to players from 1929 and earlier, there are only 118 cards in the game in that range (from the original list... there have been some new additions since, but that might bump it to 125-30 or so).... 40 of those are pitchers, 3 catchers, 10 1B, 9 2B, 6 3B, 11 SS, 11 LF, 11 CF, and 17 RF.... if you extend to 1939, that improves the pool to 240.... 1949 gives you 360 total, or like my pre-ww2 group from 1945 and earlier, I have 296 cards on the original list to choose from)
edit: and just my own 2 cents on the old timey theme.... if you're just starting and ok with picking up everyone/anyone regardless of rating, you can usually build your team pretty quickly (assuming the low rated players aren't ridiculously priced as some seem to be)... but once you establish your squad and work on improvements/high rated players, the new additions will come slow as historical players (especially gold/diamond level) can start to get pricey.... so this theme is definitely one of extreme patience, as it takes me multiple seasons now to accumulate enough points to even hope to afford a single upgrade.... add to that the fact the pool of choices is very limited, and you might end up with a lot of points to spend, but no one to spend them on as they aren't being offered in the AH.... but that's part of the fun
