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I mentioned last year that I was working on the following improvements to the player cards:
In addition to the above, I'm also making the following improvements: 1. Realistic distribution of outs among fielders. The number of putouts, assists and double plays by each position now matches real-life totals much more closely. This doesn't affect "high-level" stats like Batting Average and ERA; but it will improve the accuracy of defensive stats like Fielding Percentage and Range Factor. 2. Changes to some defensive ratings (Arm, Range and Fielding). As part of the above, I tweaked some ratings to improve the statistics produced. You might notice that Arm ratings were nudged up a bit for right fielders, and reduced a similar amount for left fielders. I don't think any rating was changed by more than 1 point. 3. Tweaks to strikeout and walk rates. The current cards are producing about 5% too many strikeouts and about 5% too few walks (primarly because I miscalculated the chance of a strikeout or walk occurring when a die roll is redirected from the pitcher card to the batter cards). 4. Tweaks to pitcher Stamina ratings to create more realistic complete game totals. 5. Removed intentional walks from pitching stats before calculating card results. (I was already doing this for all batter cards). Most pitchers are affected very little by this change. But it will improve the cards for relievers that were asked to throw a large number of IBBs:  I plan to update all seasons from 1950-2022 over the next few months. After that, I will begin work on seasons before 1950.
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"Pre-Orders" A couple people have offered to pay now for the seasons listed above, but there are problems with taking money for a product that I won't have in stock until at least April. If you'd like, you can contribute to the "order fund" by buying the PDF version. The printed seasons include the PDF files for free. So, when you order the printed season, you can send me an email (cjd at sportsmogul dot com) to request a refund for the PDF version. Yes, I'm an Actual Human Person I feel bad launching this sale without any warning — because I'm human and I know there are people who bought things this week without this coupon. You can always use the coupon code FACEBOOK to get 10% off. But 20% is bigger than 10%. So hit me up if you'd like a retroactive discount (cjd at sportsmogul dot com).
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