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Originally Posted by Mizzery
Opening a pack earned in a recent mission, and out pops a 60 Phil Garner. Wait a second, I say to myself, haven't already seen this card before?
Actually, no. This 60 rated Phil Garner is an Unsung Hero 3B card from 1983. My other 60 Garner is an All-Star 2B from 1976, and both of those cards are distinct from the 73 rated snapshot card from 1979.
There is the 59 and 56 rated versions of Billy Hatcher, and the 58 and 56 rated versions of Edgar Renteria. Tom Brookens has two Iron cards. Orlando Merced, Ken Singleton, Rick Dempsey, Roger Maris, Rollie Fingers and Mule Haas all have two cards with 5 or less rating points between them. Mariano Duncan has 3 cards, two of them are a 68 and a 71. Does the game need three versions of Denis Menke or Tom Burgmeier?
Many of these extra cards are not part of collections, and most are not playable, even in tournaments for that level. One of the issues in 21 is the inflation in cards, with 1500 more cards in the universe in 21 vs. 20, but these aren't even the mega, overpowered cards everyone complains about. What am I missing here?
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"Card Bloat". Roughly speaking, there's been about 100,000 baseball players at the major league level over the past 120 years - about 25,000 of them considered "1st string". (PS: Nothing scientific about this estimate - just a quick calculation).
That means you could have 100,000 players in PT (peak stats value) and never have a duplicate - yet - some players in PT (as you've noticed) have 3 cards or more. Instead, we have multiple cards of the same players, ALL of which are basically not playable after the first 4 months or so.
Yep, plugging my idea AGAIN for only two cards per player; a "career card" and a "peak season card". Maybe even a rookie card for the hell of it.
And PLEASE get rid of the cards that represent players that never existed. I simply don't see how the OOTP team could have missed the fact that the "super cards" would eventually make up the rosters of the top of the pyramid - and they aren't even real for the most part.
Ok, off my soap box. No one is likely listening anyway.