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Originally Posted by bailey
Let's be realistic.
1)There are 40 teams in Perfect League and 720 in Diamond League.
2) At this time, there are over 200 teams that have essentially completed all of the collections.
3) Over 200 teams have the same cards, and a few more have McGraw, Hahn, and similar.
4) It is impossible to have any differentiation at the top (that doesn't cost thousands of dollars) and therefore, you are right, PT22 is totally random at the top, but there is a reason for it.
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Surely the card set identified in 3) and 4) should itself provide considerable room for differentiation in what is fielded, considering the changes in strategy available? I'm thinking here of other collectable card games rather than anything to do with baseball, which frequently have far smaller card sets but much wider variation in the decks experienced players choose to play?
I just wonder how much of this is a remnant of the herd mentality regarding the 'best cards' visible early on? Ditto with strategies. There's a hell of a lot of difference between sabermetric and tactician or small ball, with a corresponding variety of players best suited to play them if you have the cards to choose from. They should all be at least playable, as should tweaked variations on them (within reason), otherwise why are they even there? Or, as I've never been more than a tourist in diamond, am I just being naive in this respect?