At 7:08 PM +0000 6/30/06, jacques chabot wrote:

>Hi Gary,
>
>Thanks for the help on my first question. This is pretty neat for vintage
>list (and i needed it). Now i still have to find a link for the most recent
>ones.

If you can't find the roster you're looking for, try asking the group. :-)

>Another subject i would be curious to have the advice of any of you. Some
>weeks ago i started a 20 teams league involving two great teams from every
>decade of the XXth century. Per example for the 80's i chose the 84 Tigers
>and the 89 A's, for the 70's the 72-A's and the Reds from 1976 etc...
>
>I just want to see who will prevail...but of course this is done with normal
>Strat cards and without any normalization for the different decades ...
>
>Am i loosig my time with this?!
>
>It's kind of strange since the players have very different profiles...very
>few home runs for the ancient players but everybody seem to run fast! and
>the pitchers have wonderful eras... etc... Except for fun is there any value
>to do this, can it be realistic at least a little bit? Of course it's hard
>to know but any advice on the subject would be great.

Well, realism is inevitably going to be
sacrificed when you play teams from different
eras against each other. Should this prevent you
from playing teams from different eras against
each other? Heck no! I've been in a league in
which teams from the turn of the last century
played teams from the 1960s and '70s. It was fun
having the great teams from different times play
each other, even if a little realism was
sacrificed in the process.

For example, a young Ted Williams today *may* be
able to hit .400 or close to it, but does anyone
really believe that Wee Willie Keeler could hit
.432, or anything remotely close to it? Could
Babe Ruth hit 60 homers against today's pitching?
But trying to deal with this issue puts Strat in
a no-win dilemma. If they make the Babe's 1927
card "worse" than his 60 homers deserves, saying
he couldn't do that well in other eras, than he
won't perform realistically against his
contemporaries. In fact, this is obviously what
they did with his card from the Old-Timers set.
But if the Babe's card is geared to produce 60
homers against 1927 teams, he's going to have
monster numbers against pitching from the
gopher-ball eras. This is what happened with his
card from the 1927-season set. In the latter
case, Strat clearly decided to set up the Babe's
card to hit 60 homers against 1927 competition,
even if it means he'd hit, say, 90 against 2005
pitchers. The company made a choice, and I
personally agree with it.

>I am from Québec city, Canada. I play solitaire and i know no one interested
>in the game. So my only advice can come from people on the net other than
>that i am completly alone!!
>
>Jacques

Hey, thanks to the Internet, Strat players never have to be alone! :-)

-Gary