Hi Gary,

Thanks for the very complete answer. So my league is pure fantasy and not
too realistic... I thought it was like that but your answer is a
confirmation of that.

In which laps of time do you consider we can match the teams with realistic
effect? If i play the 99Yanks against the 74A'S, is it ok? I guess probably
not... If we consider the baseball played in the 70's, '80s, 90's and 2000,
where do you see a shift in style with all these homeruns per example.

from 1970 to 1986 could be consider as an era
from 1986 to 2005 like another one?

What do you think of this division?

I have been living away for some years (in Europe) and lost track a little
bit during the 1988 to 2001. Since i fully live again in North America and
go abroad less often, i am also back playing board games and it's my main
hobby...but the fact that i lost track make that i am no expert since i
missed so much.

Jacques


>From: Gary Kirchherr <erie@...>
>Reply-To: stratmat@yahoogroups.com
>To: stratmat@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Stratmat] 3 questions + advice
>Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:42:13 -0400
>
>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

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