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Respect your opinion about normalizing the Deadball era, but in the same breath I disagree and wholeheartedly disagree about Speaker. Speaker played well into the 20s when Ruth and others started knocking the socks off the ball. But Speaker's top HR years? 17, 12, and 11 HRs. Harry Heilman hit more HRs and his best card has like 73 power. (Then there are guys like Ken Williams who destroyed the ball in 22 and 23, and OOTP makes a card for his 1926 performance? Ugh.) Point is, Speaker should not be >100 power period. He never proved he could hit that well for the 9 years he played in the live ball era. I'm okay with some normalization (Ty Cobb shouldn't be a 200 contact even if his stats show he probably should be) but not to the level that has been done for Speaker.
Another thought - It's great to love a game. It's also great to hear critical opinions of that game, because it can lead to improving the game. It's usually not so great to love the game so much that you try to explain-away and shut down the critical opinions of others. Why do we have to wait for an "end game" version of the cards? For 8 months of this game we've endured top cards like Gary LaVelle, Robin Roberts, Ted Simmons - I think the devs need to hear critical suggestions that these players are boring. Where's Nolan Ryan? Where's Ty Cobb? Where is Yastrzemski? Why is Musial's near triple-crown season card pretty much unplayable in Diamond?
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