[Orion]

Originally Posted by stl jason

I think the best course of action with any cards (live or historical), is to evaluate them based off their individual ratings and ignore the name on the cards and the overall rating (as hard as it might be to ignore the name Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb and not expect them to be superstars, that's how you have to approach PT).

prime example: Rogers Hornsby versus Zack Wheat

100 Rogers Hornsby:
contact=90
gap=83
power=88
eye=74
avoid k=51
speed=19
steal=62
running=60

100 Zack Wheat:
contact=109
gap=97
power=91
eye=56
avoid k=95
speed=55
steal=77
running=95


Wheat's career year in real life was 1922, so it makes a super easy comparison between the two players:

Hornsby 1922:
AB=623
Runs=141
Hits=250
2B=46
3B=14
HR=42
RBI=152
SB=17
CS=12
BB=65
SO=50
BA=.401
OBP=.460
SLG=.722
OPS=1.181
OPS+=207
TB=450

Wheat 1922:
AB=600
Runs=92
Hits=201
2B=29
3B=12
HR=16
RBI=112
SB=9
CS=6
BB=45
SO=22
BA=.335
OBP=.390
SLG=.503
OPS=.891
OPS+=128
TB=302


So for a quick comparison, Hornsby should easily surpass Wheat in Contact, Gap, and Power... slightly better in Eye; and Wheat gets the edge in Avoid K; yet the Wheat card ratings are crazy inflated compared to Hornsby.... this can be explained simply by the fact Wheat was released late in the lifecycle of v20, and was thus given some ridiculous ratings to make him a coveted card... the point is, don't expect the ratings on the card to match the performance of the player in real life 100% of the time.

(and from a quick browse of the v21 historical card list, it appears some of these issues might be addressed by withholding some cards for special releases, which should make it interesting to see how/when they show up)

Mmmmm Creamy Wheat.